Posted on 12/08/2020 8:58:09 AM PST by mylife
“Anything Water Can Do, Coconut Water Can Do Better”
Anything Water Can Do, Jim Beam Can Do Better
There, fixed it
I drink 1 or 2 a year - haven’t noticed any improvements...
Dang, now my tongue is stuck in my cheek.
“You put de lime in de coconut and drink em both up”
Wonderful article and story! Thanks for posting this.
Growing up in upstate New York, dad would occasionally buy a coconut, punch out the eyes, drain the liquid and crack it open for us kids. We thought it was a wonderful treat. Little did we know how desiccated and awful that coconut was.
About 15 years later (mid 70s), I worked in the Philippines at a remote nickel mine on Nonoc Island. One weekend, we took an excursion in colorful outrigger canoes to a remote cove on the island which had the most spectacular coral reef. A woman and her ten year old son son lived there in a small grass hut and, for a dime, the boy would shinny up a coconut tree with his machete, hack off a coconut, come back down and WHACK it open with his blade. The fresh, just-off-the-tree pulp was amazing and so different from what Dad has served us years earlier in New York. I never again had coconut like that one on Nonoc Island. The memory of fresh mangoes in the Philippines is just like that memory of the coconut.
Mango tree’s are way easier to climb..
...and don’t require a 10 year old boy with machete.
[[at a remote nickel mine on Nonoc Island]]
If only I had a Nickle every time someone said they worked in a Nickle min3
I often cringe when watching the folks on Survivor hacking away at the coconuts and other hard shell items.
It’s a disaster waiting to happen as they sling those machetes around
I’m glad you like coconut whatever. You can have my share too.
Not only that, Nickel in Nonoc!
Another way to support Trump: purchase Goya coconut soda.
Si es Goya, tiene que ser bueno.
Oh, I am NOT freezing coconut water into ice cubes and using them to chill my Vesper martinis!
EWWWWWWW!!!!
;-)
(ok, I may try it once)
Here kid—you can have your nickel back.
Might give it a try.
I like to marinate my fish in coconut milk, grated ginger, coriander seed and hot chili
Not if you don’t want extra carbs and sugar in your wAter.
With that said,when you make rice always use coco water. It’s so much better you won’t believe it. But for quantity drinking,still use real water.
I drink coconut water because it has very good levels of potassium. It has raised my potassium levels to normal (in doctor ordered blood tests). Coconut water has fewer calories than bananas, and much more potassium. Coconut water had the highest level of potassium per serving of any food I found in researching the topic. Potassium works with hemoglobin and is essential to feeling well.
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