2007-12-23 04:19:14 · 11 answers · asked by Kelly 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Christmas
Chocolate easily wins this as Christmas didn't appear on a calendar until 1582.
See: Pope Gregory XIII whom also changed our Calendar from the Julian Calendar. Many countries didn't accept this 'new' calendar until the early 1900's. Another piece of trivia is that computer programs that used the Julian Calendar for financial dates didn't crash in the Y2K crisis. Only programs that used the Gregorian Calendar.
Christmas is a very new idea. Chocolate is a plant from the Mother Earth of far older vintage.
2007-12-23 04:39:33 · answer #1 · answered by Jair D 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
This isn't a chicken and the egg thing here. The cacoa has been cultivated for three millennia. The earlist documented use is around 1100 BC, which is clearyl before the birth of Christ. Also as other people noted Christmas did not become a holiday until much later. On another note 12/25 is not the real birthday of Jesus but a day church leaders chose to celebrate Christmas to compete with the pagan holiday Yule
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chocolate
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas
2007-12-23 12:53:15 · answer #2 · answered by Reba 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Chocolate clearly came first. Jesus being born didn't change plants that grew on the earth (cocoa beans). Also Christmas didn't start being celebrated until later, it was just Jesus' birthday.
2007-12-23 12:29:22 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Christmas, the ultimate gift of Jesus Christ, and then God bless us with other gifts like chocolate :)
Merry Christmas!
2007-12-23 13:58:32 · answer #4 · answered by guy?needshelp 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Chocolate. clearly. it's an Aztec invention from long before 0AD, and even longer before anyone started celebrating Christmas.
Although there were suspiciously similar religious festivals around before Christmas... maybe even before chocolate.
2007-12-23 12:24:59 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Chocolate (cocao beans) grew before celebrating the birth of Christ.
2007-12-23 12:34:36 · answer #6 · answered by ? 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Christmas- The birth of our savior Jesus!
Duh
~Merry Christmas o<=D
2007-12-23 12:22:49 · answer #7 · answered by anetaa. 3 · 2⤊ 4⤋
Christmas!!!
Chocolate was invented for easter!!
2007-12-23 12:31:08 · answer #8 · answered by ollieoops 3 · 1⤊ 3⤋
I guess CHRISTMAS becuase thats when JESUS was born so things kind of started properly then.
2007-12-23 12:30:03 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
christmas birth of jesus
2007-12-23 13:05:39 · answer #10 · answered by kathyluzbobjr 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋