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🗓️ 14 February 2022
⏱️ 17 minutes
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0:00.0 | Imagine a world where children have never tasted brownies, where trail mix is just nuts |
0:09.7 | and raisins, where you open up a box of chocolates and just find emptiness. |
0:18.7 | This is the apocalypse. |
0:22.4 | Well, it's the chocolate apocalypse. |
0:26.2 | But the stakes are still very high, it's chocolate, so... |
0:29.8 | Very high, I know, I, yeah! |
0:34.4 | I'm Dylan Thoris and this is Atlas Obscura, a celebration of the world's strange, incredible |
0:40.0 | and wondrous places. |
0:42.3 | And today we're joined by Nikki Twilly, the co-host of the Gastropod podcast, who's |
0:47.3 | taking us to suburban London, where, inside a thousand square meter greenhouse, is all |
0:54.3 | that's standing between us and the chocolate apocalypse. |
0:59.0 | That is after this. |
1:18.4 | It's humid, it's warm, and everything is plant all around you. |
1:24.3 | Nikki Twilly writes about the intersection of food, science, and history. |
1:30.0 | And a couple of years ago, she found herself inside a very unusual building. |
1:35.7 | The International Coco quarantine center. |
1:39.1 | Everything is cacao plants and they're all quite small, and the reason they're quite |
1:43.0 | small is because they're young, and so they look, it's sort of, it's got like a cacao |
1:49.3 | plant nursery vibe, I guess. |
1:51.9 | How is the plant that we use to make cocoa, which gets turned into chocolate? |
1:57.8 | And the reason all these baby cacao plants are gathered and tended to inside of this |
2:02.5 | greenhouse, is that cacao is a very sensitive, very delicate plant. |
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