• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    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.

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      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.

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          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.

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      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.