2024 World Chocolate Day Celebration
Sunday 7 July 2024 is the day dedicated to celebrating all things chocolate!
What a way to the enjoy weekend with these delicious sweet treats.
Whether you’re indulging yourself, or want to spoil someone special, celebrate World Chocolate Day 2024 with Camberwell Florist.
Why do we celebrate World Chocolate Day?
We’ve been enjoying chocolate since 2000 BC, when the first chocolate plants were found in Mesoamerica (present day Mexico) by the Olmecs. The Aztec people made a beverage from the cocoa bean. They called it “xocoatl” which means “bitter water”. Because of its powers to intoxicate, xocoatl was only consumed by nobility and soldiers. The name for the chocolate plant is Theobroma cacao, which means “food of the gods.”
Chocolate is celebrated on 7 July because, it is believed, this is the date in the year 1550 when cocoa was first brought to Europe in vast quantities where it was enjoyed by the aristocracy.
Today everyone can enjoy chocolate – whether is cupping your hands around a warm mug of lusciously smooth drinking chocolate, nibbling on a chocolate block or a warm, straight out of the oven moist chocolate cake.
Interestingly, the citizens of Switzerland are the biggest consumers of chocolate. However not too far off is Germany, coming in as the second top consumer of chocolate products. Ireland, United Kingdom and Sweden make the top 5 consumers of all things chocolate.
World Chocolate Day is a chance to explore the world of chocolate. There are so many different flavours – salted caramel, chilli, champagne truffle to name a few. Why not have date night – nestle in and watch Willie Wonker and the Chocolate Factory with a box of Ferrero Rocher with someone special. Camberwell Florist has a small selection of quality chocolates for you to choose from. If the chocolates we’ve selected for our online store don’t suit the occasion, feel free to contact us to order the chocolates you would like to send. We will do our best to source the box of chocolates you want to send to celebrate a special occasion. If you want to make your gift extra special, may we suggest you add a fresh flower bouquet and a bottle of French Champagne. We will hand make the bouquet especially for you using the freshest seasonal flowers available. We can even make the flower bouquet in your favourite colour, because all the flower bouquets are made once you have placed your order. That’s right – the bouquets are custom made, not pre-made, so you can be assured that we will choose the freshest flowers. The French Champagne that you will find on our online store have been carefully selected for their quality. We have Bollinger and Moet & Chandon French Champagne. When you choose a flowers, chocolates and Champagne gift package all the gifts are beautifully gift-wrapped with paper and ribbon. The gift is truly beautiful to behold and will impress.
What ever you decide to do, we wish you a fantastic World Chocolate Day!
