chocolate was the sacred drink of the aztecs. when the spaniard hernán cortés arrived in maxico in 1519 the aztecs gave him chocolate because they thought he was a god the aztec empero, montezuma, used to drink 50 cups of chocolate a day out of a gold cup the spanish introduced chocolate to europe. however, it was only intge nineteenth centurythat henry nestlé, in switzerland, created the first bar of chocolate nowadays, very few people can resist the sweet food once only for the gods.