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A Carob Reminisce
5 years ago
I'm presently tied up with work, and will be for the next few weeks, but I thought I'd stop in and bump the last journal of mine from the top with this memory from way back when...
Once upon a time I used to actually listen to the radio to hear music. One of our local stations also used to air a comedy serial called "Chickenman" starring the very funny Dick Orkin. I would tune in Chickenman every day. On this particular station, the show was sponsored by Zerbo's Health Food Store in Livonia, Michigan. Well, I had to go check out Zerbo's because they sponsored Chickenman. Unfortunately, they were a for real health food store, with little to appeal to my naturally poor eating habits.
But then, something caught my eye. It was a candy bar. Well, not exactly a candy bar, but a health food candy bar, and it had a drawing of Bullwinkle Moose on the label! So I gleefully purchased it, and took it home.
Later, when I took off the wrapper, I could see it was covered with something that sort of looked like chocolate, but wasn't. Reading the ingredient statement, I found out it was something called "carob."
I took a bite of the bar, and it tasted awful.
But I had to eat it because not only had I paid for it, but it was a Bullwinkle bar! Eventually, I managed to eat the whole thing...
...And every week after that, I went back to Zerbo's to buy another one.
Once upon a time I used to actually listen to the radio to hear music. One of our local stations also used to air a comedy serial called "Chickenman" starring the very funny Dick Orkin. I would tune in Chickenman every day. On this particular station, the show was sponsored by Zerbo's Health Food Store in Livonia, Michigan. Well, I had to go check out Zerbo's because they sponsored Chickenman. Unfortunately, they were a for real health food store, with little to appeal to my naturally poor eating habits.
But then, something caught my eye. It was a candy bar. Well, not exactly a candy bar, but a health food candy bar, and it had a drawing of Bullwinkle Moose on the label! So I gleefully purchased it, and took it home.
Later, when I took off the wrapper, I could see it was covered with something that sort of looked like chocolate, but wasn't. Reading the ingredient statement, I found out it was something called "carob."
I took a bite of the bar, and it tasted awful.
But I had to eat it because not only had I paid for it, but it was a Bullwinkle bar! Eventually, I managed to eat the whole thing...
...And every week after that, I went back to Zerbo's to buy another one.
Have you noticed there are baby cars, baby boats, baby busses, baby planes, baby construction equipment, but no baby trains in the CARS universe? Do you know why that is?
My Dad was, as I am, a synesthete. We agreed that carob tasted like the color khaki.
https://youtu.be/XDrBH_OekU8
Had carob as well from the local health food shop when I was a teenager as well. It wasn't bad. Haven't tried it for ages though since I discovered dark high-cocoa chocolate!
V.