Characters and their Cups
This post asks the question, why don’t Dr. Frankenstein or Count Dracula drink chocolate? Let’s get this out of the way: Franken Berry and Count Chocula hit the shelves in 1971. While Chocula may have inspired this inquiry, he does not figure into our story. First, an inventory of the drink's dramatis personae before the 19th century: The early eighteenth-century Republic of Letters* dripped with chocolate. Jonathan Swift’s correspondence brims with cups of it and the fashion