On Feb 11, 4:22 pm, wrote:
> Cortes reported that Montezuma drank 50 goblets of (non-sweetened)
> cocoa beverage before entering his harem.
>
> a goblet of cocoa was expensive to make in pre-mechanized society.
> Even if the laborers were nominally slaves, they had to be fed,
> clothed, housed, etc. In fact, the houseservants of a sovereign are
> normally well kept.
>
> Is it possible to estimate an equivelant 2007 value of a goblet of
> Monteuma's cocoa drink?

The cocoa would have contained a high proportion of cocaine.

Apart from being soporific, it would have caused erectile dysfunction.

He should have slept in the spare room.

Cormac