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["Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com>]

Same thing happened in Davis, CA.  No one knew what to do with carob and few of the pods were edible - they tended to sour very quickly.
-Lon Rombough
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On Feb 3, 2010, at 8:01 AM, Jim Fruth wrote:

The city fathers of Los Banos, California, thought that too when they 
planted Carob Trees along the streets.  If any of the pods are used, it 
can't be very many of them because there comes a huge mess of pods at 
ripening time that the city has to clean up.