Tom: "Mum, on our allotment, can we plant coca?"Mum: "I beg your pardon!"
Tom: "Coca, can we plant coca?"
Mum: "Well I suppose we could quickly raise some money to buy a smallholding that way, but I think it needs a higher altitude than we have here in North Cheshire. So no, not really. Why do you ask?"
Tom: "So we can make our own chocolate"
Mum (relieved): "Oh, you mean cacao."
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I'm with Tom - I didn't know the difference either, but then I'm not a coffee or chocolate fan so feel I should be forgiven :-D
Why do adults always think they know better than their kids? If Tom wants coca then go with it. It's better for you than chocolate. It's non-fattening.
Erm, coca isn't coffee, it's cocaine.
I wonder, is there an "Illegal Drug Expert" by Dr D.G.Hessayon, with tips on growing coca, cannabis, magic mushrooms and opium poppies?
Coca may be difficult, but you can probably scrape the poppy seeds off fo a bun and plant them (I would think that the heat would sterilize them, but I understand that it has been done). Or, you can buy the raw seeds at your favorite spice store.
You want locally grown, right? Lemon might be difficult, but poppy seeds can be grown.
By the way, we're under a few inches of snow here. The closest we come to gardening is by looking in the seed catalogs that come right after Christmas. The chickens are giving us cackel berries, though. We are down to five or so a day, though.
Melanie. I'd love to add you to my blog list but I have lost the instructions on how to do it. I managed it when I started but have forgotten how.
I have looked at your blog regularly for some time now though.
See! Cooffe, Chocolate & Charlie - I must just have a blind spot for things beginning with C. Except Cabbage. And Carol Vorderman.
Out of the mouths of babes - wonderful
And there was me thinking 'Gosh, what a young entrepreneur!' :).
Just managed it .....! You're listed!
You are now listed on my blog Mel...Only reason I didn't have you on Dig For Victory before was that I was then only featuring 100% dedicated allotment links...(and Lottie of course!)
Ritual and Magical Uses of Herbs, by Scott Cunningham. Banned in the US, out of print for years, and utterly compelling. Not that I partake - it's just interesting.
Never mind "Erm, coca Isn't coffee...." I have read the odd book, newspaper, magazine; seen the odd play,film, tv prog.; been around a while. I know the difference. Heavens, children, sucking eggs, etc.
Let him grow it, if peak oil hits hard I'll be growing coca tabacco and tea I'll be rich. lol
well done on reaching 10000 visitors Mel
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