Ok, what I want to know is who thinks carob actually tastes like chocolate? My taste buds want to have nothing to do with carob powder. Blech. I hope y'all are liken it better than I am.

:-/

Sonora

I prefer chocolate too (not dairy chocolate).

I like carob better actually.

carob is evil! :evil: it tastes like roasted dirt.

I'll eat carob but chocolate is just stimulating.

I recently read a very good article about chocolate on the John Robbins sight which made the claim that carob actually generally contains more sugar than chocolate. Besides, chocolate does have quite a few hidden health benifits (if you eat the non-dairy kind anyway, which I do...telling myself as I eat it about all the health benefits I'm taking advantage of ;))

Chocolate!!! Hands down, chocolate over carob. I did eat some carob squares once that were pretty tasty but is was all the other stuff in there I suspect. Best, most exciting thing I discovered when going vegan??? was that chocolate don't need no stinkin' dairy to be delish!

And I love to hear all the health benefits of chocolate too - just another reason to eat it.

BUT I only recently learned that chocolate is largely a slave industry in Africa and so now I have to be very conscious of where I purchase it from - and make sure the companies know where they get it from. If its not one thing its another. Geesh, Wipe brow. when will the world learn?

Carob doesn't taste exactly like chocolate, but I think it is good in its own right. Depends on what you do with it/what it's in, too, I guess. I got these yummy raw carob treats for Christmas, they were really good. http://www.pangeaveg.com/cgi-bin/miva?Merchant2/merchant.mv+Screen=PROD&Store_Code=Pangea&Product_Code=796&Category_Code=health (Despite the name, they are nothing like brownies OR macaroons - more like truffles. :lick:)

OMG, when I was a kid they tried to feed us carob and tell us it was "just like chocolate." We were like, yeah right. :rolleyes:

Carob is good in cookies.

A few years ago I thought Carob was made from Carrots...
It would kinda make sense!!

But I don't really remember how it tastes!

Carob is good in cookies.

he's right.

For everything else: gimme the real stuff :lick:

I can't stand carob! I think some people associate all carob as being vegan or something cause 2 different people have brought me carob made with dairy since I turned vegan :spew:

Yeahhhh I thought it had no milk in it! But last year at Easter I saw some Carob easter eggs thats were cheap... So I was excited... But then I read the ingrediants and they had milk solids in them... So I got no easter eggs last year :|

I got some carob peanut butter cups from www.veganessentials.com They were really good!

I can't stand carob! I think some people associate all carob as being vegan or something cause 2 different people have brought me carob made with dairy since I turned vegan :spew:

That's because (most) chocolate contains sugar, what a lot of vegans seem to avoid for health or vegan reasons.

That, and a lot of chocolate I see, even the dark, pure ones have milk particles in it. :(

That's because (most) chocolate contains sugar, what a lot of vegans seem to avoid for health or vegan reasons.

That, and a lot of chocolate I see, even the dark, pure ones have milk particles in it. :(

not to mention not all sugar is vegan! hey i'm gonna split that into a different thread :hump:

i prefer chocolate (dairyfree) if eating it strait but if i dont want to eat it all at once i buy carob so it doesn't go as fast!

chocolate over carob any day for me.. but I admit, I am not vegan, and I dont drink milk. However, I dont fuss over milk in my candy ;)

I like carob, but only when I'm baking. I find that it has a sweeter taste but I couldn't sit and eat a "carob bar".

carob is evil! :evil: it tastes like roasted dirt.

I find its Roasted Dirt with a tinge of Maple syrup

raindrop- Could you please post a little more info about chocolate being a slave product or give me some sources I can go look at? I am interested in finding out more about that.
thanks!
lovenlight,
linz

I like carob!
(but I don't think it tastes anything like chocolate.......)

I remember at hebrew school they used to try to give us carob chips and told us they were chocolate chips - they were disgusting. I remember I then took them home and gave them to my brother telling him they were chocolate. The look on his face when he tasted them was hilarious.

Carob beans are the origin of the term 'carat', unit of weight for gemstones (due to an odd quirk of all carob beans being the same size).

And, having tired it, that's all it's good for, in my opinion. I have a bar of carob, with two squares eaten. I had one, passed one off on my brother. His face was worth the cost of the bar, but never again.

Chocolate all the way.

raindrop- Could you please post a little more info about chocolate being a slave product or give me some sources I can go look at? I am interested in finding out more about that.


http://www.antislavery.org/index.htm
http://www.antislavery.org/homepage/news/coop261102.htm

http://intranet.hackney-lea.org.uk/highwire/fair%20trade/fair%20trade%20sta/sta%20menu.html

http://www.fairtrade.org.uk/food_chocolate.htm
http://www.fairtrade.org.uk/index.htm

http://www.globalmarch.org/fairchocolate/uk.php3

http://www.globalfootprints.org/pdf/fairtradenum34.PDF

http://www.hub-uk.com/interesting/chocaid.htm

http://intranet.hackney-lea.org.uk/highwire/fair%20trade/fair%20trade%20sta/web%20pages/chocolatefactory.html

That should keep you busy for a while.

*note: I am not responsible if this changes your feelings towards chocolate.