Chocolate Day 2024: Here are some unique ways to celebrate the day

Chocolate Day is the third day of Valentine’s Week and is celebrated on February 9. The day transcends borders, cultures, and taste buds, and is dedicated to exchanging chocolates and other treats with your special ones.

People around the world celebrate the occasion by gifting chocolates to their loved ones to express their feelings.

In the entire Valentine’s Week, Chocolate Day is the sole celebration related to the tastebuds as it is widely accepted that chocolates have a profoundly positive effect on making a person happy.

One of the main components of chocolate — cocoa beans — is also well-known for its health advantages.

Chocolates are said to be loved by everybody, irrespective of age and gender. Hence, it is believed that gifting a bar of chocolate to your loved ones can easily make them happy.

Chocolate Day: History

Chocolate Day is believed to have originated as a Christian feast day honouring Saint Valentine and other saints, who are called the Valentines. Though it is not considered as a public holiday in any country, it is acknowledged as an important cultural day in many of them.

Since the Victorian era, chocolates have been a major component of gifts given by men and women in love.

As per the official website of the Smithsonian Institution in the US, a British family during the 19th century was looking for a way to use their cocoa butter, extracted from a process which was invented by Richard Cadbury to make more palatable drinking chocolate.

His response to this was ‘eating chocolates,’ which he gave to them in a lovely self-designed box.

‘A marketing genius, Cadbury began putting the Cupids and rosebuds on heart-shaped boxes in 1861: even when the chocolates had been eaten, people could use the beautiful boxes to save such mementoes as love letters,’ the website stated.