Frederick the Great discussion post 12

[cahn]

Every time I am amazed and enchanted that this is still going on! Truly DW is the Earthly Paradise!

All the good stuff continues to be archived at rheinsberg :)

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Re: Chocolate

[mildred_of_midgard]

Should add for cahn that we know Fritz did like drinking chocolate; he wrote in 1760 that his dinner consisted of just a cup of chocolate. (Whether or not skipping the food part of dinner lasted very long, we know he lost substantial weight after the Seven Years' War started, and to my knowledge never regained it.) Regardless, what this definitely tells us is that he did drink chocolate on at least a somewhat regular basis! I also have an unsourced statement that dinner in his old age was fruit and a cup of chocolate.