Under the terms of the definitive agreement, Bi-Lo will acquire all of the outstanding shares of Winn-Dixie stock in the merger.
The origins of chocolate, which is derived from  the Theobroma cacao tree, stretch back at least 4000  years.The plant is believed to have originated in the Amazon or  Orin â¦ oco basins in South America and was regarded by the Aztecs as  being of divine origin ('Theobroma' means 'food of the  gods').
Nutella originally comes form Italy and was developed for Italyâs postwar era as a desperate affordable substitute for the chocolate that everyone wanted, but no one could afford to buy. In 1946 an Italian pastry maker by the name of Pietro Ferrero, needed to find a way to stretch his postwar ration of cocoa. Having hazelnuts over flowing in the piedmont area, he mixed the cocoa he had with ground hazelnuts, cocoa butter and vegetable oil and created âpasta giandujaâ or as we know it, gianduja.