Chocolate? … yes please! Grenadian Chocolate? … Oh go on then :)
Photo of the week – Grenadian Chocolate
So for my photo this week I pick a picture of something that most people probably wouldn’t recognise at first glance, but I assure you, this is what your twirl, flake, dairy milk, ripple, aero, galaxy, yorkie, milky bar etc looks like when its first picked off the tree and cut open. This my friends is what you know as chocolate, i kid you not.
To learn more on how the below is eventually changed into the good stuff, read my blog on Grenada’s Belmont Estate, the home of Grenadian Chocolate.
I wonder how it tastes (my guess is that it doesn’t taste even close to what we know as chocolate bar).
@Bama You can suck the juice off the beans. I was told it should taste sweet, but I thought it was quite sour.
I think we should have ‘How to Make Chocolate with Neil’ coming!
@Ed Not sure if I could grow any over here mate. I havent got the land and we dont quite have the weather.
I could however do ‘How to eat Chocolate with Neil’.
Why do I only see really, really bad macaroni in that photo? Bleargh.
I’d be glad to make a guest appearance on “How to Eat Chocolate with Neil”, however.
You can watch me eating the chocolate, no sharing though haha.
That does NOT look appetizing lol.
@hogga It didnt taste great to be honest. I was told it was sweet, alas it was not. It was pretty sour and horrible.
I love this photo – I saw it before in your full post. I won’t lie – as soon as I found out it was what made my chocolate I started to salivate. If you told me it was dung, I’d recoil. haha so doesn’t matter WHAT it looks like – I know in the end it will make my mouth water – I’m a happy camper. I love the redy-orange casing.
So that’s how a delicious bar of milky chocolate starts out? Haha, not the most appetizing.
@Audrey – They let us suck the juices off of the beans … it was an acquired taste.
Neil, that’s nuts! I had no idea. Now that I see it here, I realize I’ve never questioned where chocolate comes from and you know what? I’m fascinated.
Great shot, btw.
@Maria – It looks horrible doesnt it … but in the end we all love it.
That fruit is from a cacao tree. We have that in our little farm. It is sweet when ripe (sometimes sour) but not much to eat because it has big seeds. The processed seeds is where chocolate came from. I like the smell of it, really.