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It smells like a bad case of the runs!

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I think the most unusual that I eat cos I like it is the old Cypriot favourite (or otherwise) derachia (carob). You either love it or hate it.

Carobs are lovely, but have you had 'Gonnara'/Gondara'. I am not sure the GCs use the same name. Its not Turkish. Its on bushes, they are dried berries, about a cm and a hahlf (13mm) in diameter. When fresh they are green, but go brown in the heat of summer. We would collect them around our vineyards in Anglissidhes. But also in the sand dunes near the ruins of Salamis . The flavour was chocolaty/ cocoa like.

Any Botanists around. Oracle ?(the nearest with an ----ology)