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I have used carob at times over the years but would never give up real cocoa - I don't use it often but treat myself to it just once in a long while.

It is a real gift from our Maker. A beautiful tree to grow too and wow opening up the cocoa pods and finding the beans inside that are covered in this outer fruity flesh which has an incredible flavour like a cross between vanilla and pineapple. INCREDIBLE - so delicious. Then when you get through sucking that fruity delight off the beans , then peel the outer pithy skin of the bean off and find the dark brown cocoa bean within! WOW Its a heavenly experience from start to finish. Have you done this?
I hope you get to grow some one day .