Häagen-Dazs having a carob honey flavor was the yuppie side of the US "hippie health food" rise of carob in the '70s - early '80s. There were other products like this such as Gilbert Brockmeyer's carob milk and carob ice cream. You could buy these products in supermarkets, not just health food stores.

I wish I had graphics to post with this, but newspaper archives are all behind paywalls and enshittified websearch is making all the old newspaper ads for these hard to find.

#Carob #Food

I may get more scattershot with the #carob facts, not necessarily stringing all the related ones close to one another...

62. Häagen-Dazs used to make a carob honey flavored ice cream. (I wish they still did...it was delectable!) They were making it as late as the early '80s when I was slingin' ice cream in their busiest store location in the world.

https://people.com/archive/reuben-mattus-scooped-the-competition-with-his-pricey-and-nonsense-named-haagen-dazs-vol-16-no-7/

#Carob #Food #Botany

61. Agar that comes from seaweed is used in lab media for, among other things, plant tissue culture. At various times, agar has grown more scarce/expensive due to conditions (including climate change-induced rise in temperature in the marine environment). LBG might actually be helpful in some of this lab media, which would take some of the pressure off agar.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scienta.2005.03.003 #Carob #History #EconomicBotany #Botany #PlantScience #Horticulture

@brunogirin You're welcome!

You should be able to find some somewhere in Valencia, I'd think. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=30032&taxon_id=82742 #Carob