{"id":1708,"date":"2013-09-10T03:04:16","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T10:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.greetingcarduniverse.com\/?p=1708"},"modified":"2025-02-03T15:54:53","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T22:54:53","slug":"international-chocolate-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greetingcarduniverse.com\/blog\/international-chocolate-day\/","title":{"rendered":"International Chocolate Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greetingcarduniverse.com\/sister-in-law-birthday-cards\/general\/happy-birthday-sister-in-law-chocolate-644639?gcu=41261014753\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"\/images\/csphoto\/1107\/00\/00\/14\/09\/83\/644639_3d.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"465\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSeptember 13 is International Chocolate Day, an unofficial holiday celebrating the world&#8217;s favorite confection: chocolate.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Americans consume 10-12 pounds of chocolate annually (hopefully not at the same time!)<\/li>\n<li>Over half the world&#8217;s market in cocoa beans is imported into Europe (not surprising since the Swiss, for example, consume 21 pounds of chocolate a year!)<\/li>\n<li>The health benefits of eating 1 ounce of dark chocolate daily include helping the body fight cancer, boosting brain activity, reducing the chance of developing blood clots, increased libido, and mood elevation (in other words, sweets make you sweeter!)<\/li>\n<li>Hershey&#8217;s Kisses are named after the &#8220;smooching&#8221; sound made by the industrial machine that forms their unique shape (eating them point down or bottom up is a personal choice)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Greeting Card Universe offers <strong>N<a href=\"https:\/\/www.greetingcarduniverse.com\/collections\/national-and-international-days\/national-chocolate-day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ational Chocolate Day cards<\/a><\/strong> and many other chocolate themed cards for a variety of occasions including birthdays for choco-holics of any age!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">SPECIAL: <\/span><\/strong>Order 5+ cards, get <strong>FREE shipping in the US and 10% off!<\/strong> Use code 2013SEP10<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greetingcarduniverse.com\/help\/in_store_pickup.asp?hdr=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1710\" title=\"target logo for blog\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.greetingcarduniverse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/target-logo-for-blog.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"544\" height=\"28\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.greetingcarduniverse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/target-logo-for-blog.jpg 544w, https:\/\/www.greetingcarduniverse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/target-logo-for-blog-300x15.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 544px) 100vw, 544px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greetingcarduniverse.com\/collections\/national-and-international-days\/national-chocolate-day\/holidays-national-chocolate-day-828438?gcu=41261014753\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"\/images\/csphoto\/1107\/00\/00\/13\/77\/47\/828438_TN_shadow.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greetingcarduniverse.com\/25th-birthday-cards\/holy-moly-its-your-931604?gcu=41261014753\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"\/images\/csphoto\/1107\/00\/00\/14\/14\/08\/\/931604_TN_shadow.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greetingcarduniverse.com\/humor-birthday-cards\/Raisin-Cookies-Trust-Issues-Birthday-Card-1089974?gcu=41261014753\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"\/images\/csphoto\/1107\/00\/00\/19\/67\/14\/1089974_TN_shadow.png\" alt=\"\" \/> <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greetingcarduniverse.com\/get-well-feel-better-cards\/other-get-well-feel-better\/hemorrhoid-surgery-poem-508460?gcu=41261014753\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"\/images\/csphoto\/1107\/00\/00\/13\/53\/75\/508460_TN_shadow.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>What Are Happy Shoppers \u00a0Saying About Greeting Card Universe?<\/strong><br \/>\n<em> &#8220;I am thrilled to have found your site. 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