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The thread discusses a purported correlation between a country’s chocolate consumption and its Nobel Prizes, with one participant pointing to Sweden as being favored by the Nobel committee and questioning how Switzerland became known for chocolate given it can’t grow cocoa there. The post references explanations for Swiss chocolate’s origins (including Switzerland’s historical role in chocolate innovation) as context. Overall sentiment is lightly skeptical and curiosity-driven, focusing on the logic and evidence behind the chocolate–Nobel link.
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A new study in The New England Journal of Medicine shows that a country's Link Removed with the number of Nobel Prizes its citizens win. According to the author’s calculations, Switzerland consumes the most chocolate and ranks second behind Sweden in laureates per capita. (The author accuses the Sweden-based Nobel committee of favoritism.) Switzerland doesn’t have the climate to grow cocoa. How did it become known for chocolate?

Because the great chocolate innovators were Swiss
Switzerland Is the Last Place on Earth Where You’d Grow Cocoa. So Why Do the Swiss Eat So Much Chocolate?
 

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