#14 Chocolate is still used as currency- think: Valentine's Day.

Chocolate is still used to pave roads - think: Hershey highway.

I think American chocolate can't even be considered chocolate anymore. Every year it tastes worse and there are YT videos of Europeans not even being able to identify a Hershey bar in a blind taste test. It's probably all just corn starch and dye at this point. You want real chocolate, go for local companies. The big candy companies here are garbage.