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Midge – The Chocolate Fly

Weird is an understatement, I tell ya. I believe anyone would agree if I said the idea of flies and chocolate being in the same sentence is rather repulsive. However, I gotta do what I gotta do.

Chocolate is derived from cacao tree (Theobroma cacao) which is abundant in South America's tropical rain forest. Such trees have flowers, why of course. And these flowers grow directly from the trunk, instead of the branches. When these white cacao flowers are pollinated, they produce the prized seed pods.
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