Cacao

“Oh, man. How good is that? That is so good. It's like... Somebody asked me, do we have cacao in our formulas? I think it was Joanne or someone. There it is right there. That's organic cacao. Dude, you could have this at the end of a meal as a dessert. A dessert. Exactly.”

“which is the expression of a fruit, or extracts. That's what I taste. Vanilla cacao. It literally tasted like a package of chocolate honey. Yeah. It was so good. That's because that's cacao. Wow. Yeah, that was legit. Now I lost my whole train of thought.”

“Like, what a dumb thing. This is such a scam. Yeah, that's pretty tough. They're like that. Do you ever see the cacao ceremonies people do? They like drink hot chocolate and they're like, whoa, I'm tripping. There's a real thing. It's called cacao ceremony. I haven't seen that. They like drink a lot of hot chocolate and they're like, oh my God, my pineal gland's opening up.”

“You don't send a car to be exercised and going to Brazil to be exercised. It's insane to me. I think into the little, but the cacao thing, I've seen them in like Cuya, that hot and cold place that's here. They do these cacao things. I do look at it and sometimes think that's just like a Horlicks or like a Nesquick.”

“Like, what are we doing? Yeah, it's a thing, man. That's a cacao. It's like that's like the super light psychedelic people go for. They go, I'll do the cacao ceremony if you don't want to do it. Yeah, I feel like I would do that. I wouldn't do the psychedelic, but I'd do the cacao ceremony. Yeah, I might do one this afternoon.”

“We should all be awesome. That would be awesome. Go rock and roll. Get some cacao and some set our fucking health. That's weird, though. The alcohol thing, like I know people that when they get, when they drink, they get they're crying in the corner about I know some other dude's gonna fight everybody, someone else is laughing, someone else gets super social.”

“sent me to the Amazon on this like crazy hunt to like with this German guy. It was basically Apocalypse Now with chocolate. This German guy was going upriver into the Amazon to try to find this wild cacao like to work with some of the indigenous groups to harvest wild cacao and make like the world's first wild chocolate So I went with him crazy crazy”

“What is the benefits of cacao, like health wise? It's right there with coffee. You know, tons of polyphenols, little bit of caffeine. It seems to, you know, be anti-inflammatory. Gives you a little boost.”

“A lot more like aromatics and less bitterness. Like basically what happened with cacao is when it became a global product, the Europeans selected varieties that were high yielding.”

“And then you have one of those bullshit McDonald's tomatoes that looks like a piece of paper. Yeah. Is that cacao? That's what it looks like? Yeah. So it's these pods and you open up the pod. It's kind of like the size of like a little Nerf football or something. Oh, wow. Yeah.”

“I mean, you know, same thing that can come out of ritual where do anything else. Like you're focusing, you know, and some mindfulness. You get a little, you know, you get a little boost from the cacao, but- Not much. Yeah. It's more about the ritual. Or- What? Why is cacao, what is a cacao ceremony?”