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That's because you think it's chocolate. It isn't. Approach is that way and it's pretty awesome.

Counterpoint-- it was heavily marketed as a chocolate substitute starting back in the 70's IIRC, so it's unsurprising consumers think it's like chocolate. And chocolate never needed a substitute anyway, IMO. Dark chocolate's a perfectly healthy treat, after all.

Regardless, what would you use carob in?

Candy. It is a substitute in that you'd use it in most of the places you'd use chocolate. I wouldn't even attempt carob milk though.

My cousin got bad acne outbreaks when she ate chocolate, so she ate carob instead. The only time I had it was when she had a carob cake for her birthday. I almost barfed.

Yeah this.

Also there's better ways of describing a strange taste. I once saw a whole sketch describing the smell of teatree oil without resorting to human excretion humor.

Animal feed, I've picked carobs that got ground up and mixed with bran to feed the animales

I always thought it tasted pretty much exactly like Hershey chocolate, personally. 🤷‍♂️

Stuff for dogs and suchlike, who chocolate would kill!

-- Frost

Carob made me cry as a child.

My mama went on a hippie health food phase back in the day, it almost destroyed the whole family lol.

It was my mother's 'healthy' friends. Mother hissed at me to be polite even though she agreed later the cookies sucked.

Here where it's native, a few companies make various products, like flavored cookies, crackers, rusks, teas, "carob honey" (viscous extract, like sweeter, less sour, but slightly tart balsamic), and sometimes just dried carob itself, as a snack.

Most of these are kind of a novelty, mostly appealing to tourists as something new and weird, but some of them can be very tasty, and have extremely rich flavors.

Mmmm. Vegetable oil and wax.

Fascinating.

Excellent reply, thank you!

Haha, here too. Write a song about it. Actually, there must already be one.

I love carob, it's so creamy when a chocolate bar is made of it properly. I also prefer making "chocolate" cakes with carob

Maybe I've only ever had good carob, but the carob cookies I made were delicious IMHO. The carob chips I used tasted like a cross between chocolate and raisins.

Well, I, don't know