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From: hwt@bwdlh490.BNR.CA (Henry Troup)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: Love, chocolate and caffeine
Keywords: phenylethylamine
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Date: 28 Jan 91 21:20:35 GMT
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In article <1203@ai.cs.utexas.edu>, throop@cs.utexas.edu (David Throop) writes:

|>  But chocolate doesn't contain caffeine, does it?  I've repeatedly
|>seen claims that it does, but I think that all that it actually
|>contains is theobromine, (a compound which, contrary to it's name,
|>contains neither bromine nor God.)  Theobromine is somewhat similar to

It's name after chocolate, or specifically the cocoa plant: Theobroma cocoa.
Theobroma means "Food of the Gods", BTW

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