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Nope. Tastes like mint!! Seriously, if you think about the difference between spearmint and peppermint... They're both minty, but very different. Chocolate mint is yet another flavor. Sure is pretty growing though. I also grow Pineapple Mint. Doesn't taste like pineapple to me either. It is lighter and fruitier (for lack of a better description). Let me know if you want some chocolate mint starts....Yes, it'll make it through the mail. I don't think you can kill it. As sally2 said, plant it in a pot or it'll take over the world! Both of my varieties are in 15-20 gallon pots and I just noticed a few days ago that there's pineapple in my chocolate pot. I have NO idea how that happened. One stray root I suppose... Deanna

I recently made a new recipe for buckeyes. The recipe just called for melting chocolate chips . I really feel like I made them before adding a bit of butter. Mine took overnight to set, so maybe you just need time?

Floral, I definitely see the growing problem with the EU's overreach and excessive regulations, it's getting to the point where it feels like almost everything is being banned. I also care about healthier food, which is why I try to grow as much of my own as possible, so I understand your concerns. That said, new issues are emerging, there's now a growing black market in the EU for illegal pesticides that were banned decades ago, many of which are also banned in the U.S. because they've been proven harmful. That’s not a good direction either. The EU’s new Green Deal is shaping up to be a train wreck for the agricultural sector, I’m sure you’ve seen the farmers protesting in the news. They’re being pushed into a corner with no real way out, which will ultimately mean fewer farmers, higher food prices, and increased reliance on imports. Take potatoes, for example. When the EU banned the last effective pesticide against wireworms in 2022, (still used in the USA and other countries) many farmers started losing between 10% to 50% of their harvest. That led to a surge in potato imports in 2024, and it’s only going to get worse. I’ve seen it firsthand. Here’s damage from wireworms in my own garden this year. Crop rotation doesn’t help much since wireworms can survive in the soil for up to five years. I do rotate potatoes in a field to reduce worm populations but still ended up losing 80% of the crop. I moved my potatoes to a new field five years ago, and must find a clean field for next year with low wireworm populations. This is what wireworms do from my own garden this year with no pesticides. This isn't the 1700's when the EU population was a quarter of what is is now where 80% of the people were farmers. Now it's only 4% and they are feeding 4 times as many people. The EU is putting excessive pressure on these farmers to produce and trying to take agriculture back to the 1700's. At some point the train wreck will crash with negative consequences with the EU's new green deal and more food will require more imported food from who knows where.