Nobody knew why, until our museum acquired the vase pictured below. It has as you can see a tube on the side, but also a pouring lip. Hence the conclusion that the tube is not there to pour, but to blow. Blow air into the cocoa drink to create foam, which was the part most liked by the Mayans.

 The "chocolateros"

Why did local Indians call the pots unearthed by the archaeologist in the nineteen hundreds "chocolateros" ?This mystery linked to cocoa has been resolved thanks to Choco-Story, the chocolate museum in Bruges.Since the beginning of the eighteen hundreds, archaeologists were discovering on certain Central American sites ceramic vases with a tube on the side, which local Indians called "chocolateros".

Nobody knew why, until our museum acquired the vase pictured below. It has as you can see a tube on the side, but also a pouring lip. Hence the conclusion that the tube is not there to pour, but to blow. Blow air into the cocoa drink to create foam, which was the part most liked by the Mayans. The mystery of the "chocolateros" was resolved.But what is still not, is why these vases were used in the beginning and that at a later stage Mayans used to pour from one vessel into another to create foam. Scientists believe the first cacao beverages were sipped from vessels like this one, which was found in northern Honduras.