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Mike Lyle wrote:

Carob, aka Carob beans. They can be used to produce a chocolate
substitute which some people like (try a wholefood shop) and which,
it has been argued, is less guilt-ridden than real chocolate. Also
known as "locust beans", they, not an invasive insect, were what John
the Baptist is said to have eaten in the bush ("locusts and wild
honey").

Though locusts were and are eaten, too. In my view, carob 'chocolate'
would taste delicious only after you have starved in the desert for
some considerable time, and had run out of real locusts.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.