Right on Freddy. I and my entire family are very fond of tender coconuts and coconut water. Every weekend I go to the local Chinese mega fish and grocery store and buy half a dozen tender coconuts at a dollar and a half apiece. I then take them home, and with a chopper neatly de-husk them. Then with a sharp pointed knife I poke the eye and let the water into a glass. We get 9 glasses of water from those 6 coconuts.
I then neatly crack them in half, scoop the flesh and we all have a hearty Saturday mid-morning snack. What is left I do ditto on a Sunday morning and thus fortified, I get ready to fall asleep at the pastor's or priest's service or mass (like a true liberal I alternate between an evangelical church and a catholic one. The tender coconuts one gets here are much better than the ones you get in Goa, even compared to those in my aunt's coconut plantations in Benaulim which I am told are much sought after in that part of Goa for their unblemished taste. In Bombay selling tender coconuts has been a Keralite monopoly for as long as I can remember. However unlike the ones I buy in Toronto which have much water as well as good meat, in Bombay you are asked "malai ya paani?" (flesh or water). Opt for one and you get none of the other. The last time I was there in Sept 2007, I paid 15 rupees for one. When I left Bombay in '76, it was 50 paise. No too much of an inflationary adjustment for for the intervening 32 years. That I suppose is due to the coconut tree hybrids that made their appearance and lowered the price. Now tell me Freddy, is the flesh of the coconut as nutritious as the water or is it bad for health as my wife is constantly telling me. Regards, Roland. On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 7:23 AM, Freddy Fernandes <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Goanetters, > Came across this article and thought of sharing it with you all, Mother Nature > in all it's goodness has given us this wonder drink, let us all drink it to > health, Cheers !
