Our friend/tour guide/driver Bamis hipped mom and me during a Jamaican vacation. He showed us the pods and cut one off a tree. He cut it lengthwise, and all of us chewed the white flesh from the seeds. The flesh is tasty, but it doesn’t taste anything like chocolate. He explained that the neighbors’ kids all come to help the farmers harvest the ripe pods, chew off the flesh, then arrange and dry the seeds on cloths in the sunshine. The dried seeds are eventually ground into cocoa powder.