I picked up this Stevia chocolate bar for 50c on clearance for my diabetic husband. It has a real coconut flavour. He says it's ok, of course he much prefers a real chocolate bar. Maybe he is not fond of dark chocolate.
Adam posted an interesting fact on Alexander Fleming the other day. Fleming, a biologist, discovered penicillin accidentally in 1927. I went to Wikipedia to learn more about this. It seems Fleming was studying bacteria and returned from vacation to find that one of his cultures had become contaminated with a fungus. He noticed the bacteria around it had been destroyed. He published his discovery in a scientific journal in 1929. However subsequent clinical trials proved inconclusive. The problem may have been that it was initially used as a surface antiseptic. Fleming kept trying but gave up in 1940 just at the time some chemists (Chain, Florey, Heatley) from Oxford started to research it for mass production using government grants. They devised the correct structure of penicillin and were then able mass produce it. The drug was used to treat wounded allies after Pearl Harbour in 1944. This led to mass production and distribution in 1945.
It was interesting to me that this miracle drug was 18 years in the making! It certainly required a lot of teamwork.
