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【4e-Parabotany】p.41-43 酒、饮料和巧克力

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风魔乱闪:
边栏：巧克力的重生

发帖人：Pistons

巧克力曾遇到了不少麻烦，而这些麻烦让我们之中的许多很是难受。这些麻烦最早可以追溯到这个世纪之初，当时丛枝病、白色念珠菌和疫霉菌正大量的杀死可可植株。疫情的严重程度最终导致了很多农场放弃了他们植株的百分之四十。国际可可豆，巧克力与其他糖果管理局（IOCCSC）为此不得不于1999年召集会议以确保可可供应充足。

另外一个重大打击来自于VITAS导致的非洲大规模暴乱——全世界70%的可可都产自非洲。可可的价格瞬间疯涨，但这仅仅是个开始：2020年代初剧烈的的植被分布变化，企业的圈地运动和安尼尔，阿萨满多以及亚马逊尼亚等几个国家的建国战争结合在一起，最终导致了人工驯化过的可可于2040年彻底灭绝。

2042年，IOCCSC为了重新建立可可豆的供应链而出资发起了一次寻找野生可可的探险行动，结果好坏参半——探险队找到了野生植株，但它们的生长环境不是过于危险就是污染过于严重，都无法建立起稳定的种植社区。

作为文化传承复苏行动的一部分，自然口味（Nature-Taste）公司和农业生产（Productos Cultivatos，两者皆为阿兹特科子公司）公司合力制造出了一种新的杂交可可亚植株，能够在水培环境下生长并结出含有大量黄烷醇的果实。终于，在2055年，“可可胡特”重生了。使用巧克力香精的大豆产品依然占领着市场的主流，但是“可可胡特”靠着更加真实的口味正变得日益流行。当下最流行的可可胡特产品是所谓的“狂奔者棒”，一种形状类似信用棒的能量棒，每盒包含三根不同的口味：黑檀（百分之三十可可胡特），白金（百分之六十可可胡特，外包糖霜）和黄金（百分之四十可可胡特，焦糖夹心）。

剧透 -   : Posted by: Pistons
Chocolate has had its troubles, which is quite distressing to some of us. These troubles date to the early part of the century, when diseases such as witches’ broom, monilia, and phytophthora were decimating the cocoa plant. The diseases were so devastating that some farms lost forty percent of the crop. The International Office of Cocoa, Chocolate, and Sugar Confectionery (IOCCSC) met in 1999 to find ways to assure adequate cocoa supplies. Another blow came when VITAS destabilized most of Africa, which is where seventy percent of the world’s cocoa comes from. Cocoa prices skyrocketed. Then, somehow, things got even worse. Radical transformation of the vegetation in the early 2020s, corporate land grabs, and the wars to establish the Anyl, Amazonia, Asamando, and several other nations all but eliminated the cocoa plant in its domesticated form by 2040.
In 2042 IOCCSC funded an expedition to recover wild surviving Cocoa plants in an
attempt to reestablish cocoa supplies. Results were mixed—surviving plants were found, but the environments were too dangerous or hazardous to build stable cocoa farming communities.
As part of the reclamation of cultural heritage, Nature-Taste and Productos Cultivatos created a chocolate hybrid of the cacao plant that can produce fruit with high yielding flavanols within a hydroponic environment. By 2055, “cacahuatl” was reborn. Chocolate flavored soy still dominates the market, but cacahuatl has grown in popularity thanks to its more authentic flavor. The most popular cacahuatl product is the Three Shadow Runner bars, which are energy bars shaped like credsticks. They come in packs of three—the ebony bar (thirty percent cacahuatl), the platinum bar (sixty percent cacahuatl with powdered sugar coating) and the gold bar (forty percent cacahuatl layered with caramel).

>之所以管它叫狂奔者棒很大程度上是一种营销策略，为了蹭《赤花翠辉（Suki Redflower）》和《战斗法师卡尔（Karl Kombatmage）》这类流行特动影片的热度。能量棒本身味道不错，而且我也很喜欢他们那些广告，里面约翰逊先生用巧克力棒支付狂奔者们。
>Dr.Spin

>阿兹特科把他们的种植园看的很严，毕竟可可亚树就是下巧克力蛋的鹅。施托尔维克和雀巢已经在找能渗透进去的人了。
>黑曼巴（Black Mamba）


剧透 -   : > The Three Shadow Runner product is a marketing ploy playing off the popular trids like Suki Redflower and Karl Kombatmage. They’re good, and I like the commercials where Mr. Johnson pays off the runners in candy bars.
> Dr. Spin

> Aztechnology is keeping tight security on their plant farms. Cocoa plants are the goose that laid the chocolate egg. Stollwerck and Nestlé are already setting up jobs to probe Aztechnology’s security.
> Black Mamba

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