Chocolate Chocolate(tchocoatl in the Aztec language) was the sacred drink of the Aztecs. When the Spaniard Hernancorté arrived in Mexico in 1519, the Aztecs gave him chocolate becau they thought he was a god. The Aztec emperor, Montezuma, us to drink 50 cups of chocolate a day out of a gold cup. The Spani roduced chocolate to Europe. However, it was only in the ninete century that Henry Nestlé, in Switzerland, created the first bar C chocolate. Nowadays, very few people can resist the sweet food once only for the gods.