Quote Originally Posted by Bugbear View Post
Carobs or grasshoppers? Asks the long haired, misanthropic, Neo-Curmudgeonly hermit of the desert.
I think Bugbear and I need to get Forum Botanist titles as we always seem to get side tracked at the merest hint of a botany break.

Many have wondered why John the Baptist went about eating locusts in the desert. Carob is also known as St.John's Bread, and the tree the fruits come from is closely related to the locust tree of the Bean family.