Archaeologists have found a whisk known as molinillo in a plastic container inside the storerooms at St. Augustines Government House in the US, which suggests that chocolate may have been made and eaten in St. Augustine in the 1500s. According to a report in the St. Augustine Record, the whisk is a slender wooden stick with a carved knob on one end. It shows a probable connection to Mexico or Central America that St. Augustine had, said City Archaeologist Carl Halbirt. Its evidence for the presence of the chocolate drink (in St. Augustine), he added. The cacao bean, the basis for chocolate, was originally grown from rainforest trees and used in Central America and Mexico as currency. For thousands of years, chocolate was known as a drink rather than as candy. Archaeologists found the molinillo in a well during a dig on the south side of St. Augustine. Halbirt said that the finding of the molinillo as well as pits of oyster, clam shells and animal bone shows the area may be associated with street vendors or a feasting place. That well and the water in it are the reason the wooden stirrer survived. [...]