Well then it’s not chocolate. The exact same thing was said about synthetic vanilla as well and guess what. Vanilla, and specifically real, organic vanilla, I more popular than ever.
It’ll just end up like wasabi. You’ll have the real stuff which you’ll get sparingly and then you’ll get the stuff that tastes like it but it really just horseradish.
And since I have to repeat myself, that’s what they did with wasabi and it worked. So now we have two anecdotal pieces of information, funny how that works.
I can’t even think about growing it in NW Florida.
South Florida’s warm subtropical environment is very marginal for cocoa growing, and plants may be damaged or killed during prolonged cool or brief freezing temperatures.
Well then it’s not chocolate. The exact same thing was said about synthetic vanilla as well and guess what. Vanilla, and specifically real, organic vanilla, I more popular than ever.
It’s a great time to be planting cacao.
There are also plenty of ethicaly sourced chocolate that really aren’t much more expensive than the brands that do use slave labor
https://www.slavefreechocolate.org/ethical-chocolate-companies/
Edit: typo, lol
Ethnically? 😆
It’ll just end up like wasabi. You’ll have the real stuff which you’ll get sparingly and then you’ll get the stuff that tastes like it but it really just horseradish.
Because apparently I have to repeat myself, that is what they said about vanilla and they were wrong.
And since I have to repeat myself, that’s what they did with wasabi and it worked. So now we have two anecdotal pieces of information, funny how that works.
The solution is clearly to mash them into one superfood: wasabanilla
I can’t even think about growing it in NW Florida.