JACK: Oh, chocolate, why do you taste so good?
Where did you come from?
Did you just fall out of the sky one day
and land in my hands and my heart?
What are your secrets?
If only I had the knowledge of some sort of, I don't know, kooky man
who works in a factory that makes chocolate.
Wait a second!
Hey, Jack, can I have some of that chocolate?
Jack? Jack?
Yoo-hoo. It's me Billy Wonka.
Bonkers, bonker, Billy bonka of Billy Bonka's Chocolate Factory.
Look, I'm a big deal in Europe, alright?
And I just so happen to know a thing or two about chocolate.
OK, but do you have any actual chocolate?
(LAUGHS)
(CONTINUES LAUGHING)
No. Oh.
But I do know a group of people who might be able to help.
Let's go back 5,300 years to Central America
where the ancient Aztec and Mayan civilisations
first discovered cacao beans, which came from the cacao tree.
They loved these beans so much
they used them in religious ceremonies
and as offerings to the gods.
Lucky gods.
And they even used the beans as a form of money.
Although I don't think they looked like these chocolate coins.
They also ground roasted cacao beans with water
to make a bitter tasting drink called xocolatl.
In the 1500s, a Spanish explorer
brought the bitter drink back to Spain.
At first, they used it to treat upset stomachs.
But after mixing it with honey, sugar or something else sweet,
they soon discovered it made a very delicious drink.
And about 100 years later,
the rich people of Europe were drinking it
in places called chocolate houses - fancy.
Urgh. You were right about it being bitter.
Hey, Billy, have you got any of that block stuff?
We're getting there.
That block stuff was made thanks to an invention
by Dutch chemist and chocolate maker Coenraad Johannes van Houten.
He invented something called the chocolate press in 1828.
It was a machine that could separate cacao beans
into fat, or cocoa butter, and a powder.
Van Houten discovered that when you mixed the powder
back with the cocoa butter,
you got the solid chocolate we know today.
It was not long after that a Swiss chocolatier
named Daniel Peter added powdered milk to the mixture,
giving us milk chocolate.
Today, chocolate factories just like this one...
# Anything you want, you'll do it. #
OK, maybe not like this one.
That's better.
Today, chocolate factories like this one use a similar process.
Although they have bigger machines
that can make all sorts of different chocolate treats for us to enjoy.
OK, OK, but can I please have some of those treats now?
Amelia, I'm not actually Billy Bonka.
I don't own a chocolate factory.
It's me, Jack, this is just a wig.
Yes, I know.
But you were eating chocolate before, can I please have some?
No, I wasn't.