On what planet is a cocoa pod “the size of a pumpkin?”
Picture at link:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocoa_bean
They are briefly the color of a pumpkin, but they are probably 1/10 - 1/15 the size of a pumpkin.
I’ve bought and used cocoa beans, stripping them from their pod, and roasting their white, translucent flesh until getting cocoa pieces (nibs).
The BBC reporter and editors are stupid.
Sorry, I ate the fleshy white part and roasted the seed, within.