Remember the carob craze?

All the housewives were selling carob penis lollipops at the baby showers back in the day,

i assume this was a late 70s or 80's thing as I recall carob from my childhood (I'm Gen X). Yes, it was nasty.

No worse than Hershey’s. That shit is nasty.

God that stuff was disgusting. So overtly sweet, and WRONG-flavored.

Thank God my parents, hippies that they were, also did not enjoy carob either, so this was not foisted upon us.

Those Tiger's Milk bars were made with them too. Disgusting as hell.

It wasn’t low cal OR low carb. Why fucking bother! Tasted like crap.

I don’t remember the carob was sweet. That’s one of the things that made it useless.

What are our thoughts on marzipan?

I went to a birthday party as a kid in the 70s and the frosting on the cake was carob. I remember thinking I couldn’t really be friends with that kid and wanted to go home.

ROLF r8

You made a good choice.

I really liked it as a kid but what exactly was the point? Did it have less of anything besides flavor?

We had paper bags of carob chips from a food co-op, and we made Toll House pan cookies with them. They had a weird chalky flavor. But we were kids and always hungry, so we ate them . I remember we also had dried pineapple rings and these tasted a bit like crystallized ginger. And boxes of stone ground wheat crackers like the brand Red Oval in Canada. We also had a wheel of Swiss cheese that was softer and deeper yellow than I see in slices today.

But yes, carob was gross.

Better than chocolate ex-lax? Better than Ayds?

Marzipan is delicious and you either like it or you don't. It doesn't equate to carob, it's a confection that has been in existence for centuries.

Ayds were tastier than carob.

Carob was supposed to be healthier than chocolate, in part because it was less processed. But if you are having dark chocolate without the crappy powdered milk, or vanillin, then you may as well have the natural chocolate version

I still never tried carob. Does it have any redeeming qualities?

R1 Carob penis? Damn

r16 No. Unless you like the taste of the Devil's taint.

In the 1970s Haagen-Dazs had few flavors but one of the was carob. I remember it well, it was good!

Carob has an Earthier but subtler flavor than chocolate. There was a vegan bakery in Greenwich Village that used to make pretty good carob cake, but few people know how to properly enhanced or complement that flavor in a baked good.

r19 it probably had a tbsp of the stuff in it, just so they could call it that.

^ Why do you say that? It had a very distinct taste and color that I can still remember.

Not as bad as the Kava craze.

Yes, it was part of the health food craze of the 70s. I remember it being sold in bite-sized blocks mixed with coconut or something. In hindsight, I wonder whether it had any real advantage over chocolate.