Coconuts

[Ascended Mermaid]

Who's got a lovely bunch of coconuts? Eh, abeit Monty Python inspired. Who likes coconuts?! I don't, I think they're nasty. They taste so dry and... I dunno. They don't even taste like fruit!

I do, however, like melons! I LOVE melons! Cantalopes and honey dews are my favorites. I don't care for watermelon -- it's a bit tasteless, as the name implies. It's as flavorless as store-bought tomatoes!

[FM-77AV]

Coconuts are super disgusting! I don't like anything about them. I especially dislike coconut milk! That's so terrible! Most food from that island region of Indonesia and stuff, uses it. Gross.

[Falcom Director of Fanservice]

Mr Seldane is correct. Coconut anything is nasty.

[clement]

Well I drank some coconut juice a few months ago...thats about it ^^. It's not so bad.

[Red Hairdo]

I'm a "die-hard" consumer of coconut milk. My blood is of coconut milk!
Did you know we actually call it "Coconut Water" in portuguese? Just sayin'.

Anyway, I love lovelove love love love that stuff.

As for the coconut itself... I used to dislike it, but now I kinda like it.
And it really dislike anything that has coconut in it somehow. I only like the real thing, once again.

[Justin]

Bounty bars are yummers.... Going to buy me one tonight.

[rocket]

a fun thing to do with a Coconut:

1. wait for a summer day
2. put on lite tee shirt and pair of shorts
3. dont put on shoes
4. aquire one hand crank drill (usually from the turn of the 20th century)
5. aquire one certified real coconut!!! yummy.
6. aquire one plastic cup and container
7. go outside and sit on cement slab.
8. put coconut between both feet on the ground.
9. apply hand crank drill to part of coconut and drill whole (be smart dont press to hard on the drill and have it slip and hurt your foot)
10. drill drill drill (ha ha ha just wanted to use that quote. that is actually a reference to oil drilling)
11. when hole is complete remove drill
12. take plastic cup and try to pour coconut milk into the cup (yes in some areas of the world it is called coconut milk)
13. if milk doesnt pour out your drill was too small either get a bigger drill or drill a second vent hole.
14 after you have the milk in the cup, look for the fracture point.
15 use your fracture point to smash the coconut in 1 or more blows using the cement.
16 wash off coconut fragments.
16.5 put clean fragments in container
17 ok this is your call if you are a chef use the milk and coconuts in fun recipes. pancakes with bananas can be tasty
18 a mix with malibu rum is always tasty. throw in chunks of the coconut and milk with the malibu... yummy.
19. You are done. Wasnt that fun reliving an experence that was common before there were power tools?

[Majuunun]

I used to hate coconuts, but then I had one that was properly ripened. I do like young coconut now. Rather than getting that sour sludge for milk inside, there's sweet refreshing juice.

HOLY COW what a difference that makes! I guess coconuts can stay edible longer past the "best by" date whereas other fruits would start rotting or growing mold.

Coconut "milk" that you get in most store-bought coconuts has had its sugar broken down to feed the flesh inside. That makes it taste like dirt.

Oddly enough, canned coconut milk tends to be better since it's got that cream(the soft part of the flesh) mixed in plus they can let the coconut ripen on the tree since the trip to the canning plant is short. Kind of like how frozen fruits and vegetables can be better tasting than "fresh" produce that's out of season.

[Musa-Revived]

Coconuts are good, especially when they are chilled and you drink the milk straight from the husk and scrap out the flesh to eat. Very refreshing and cool. The carton ones are crap and they give coconuts a bad name.

[clement]

mmm. I don't really enjoy eating coconuts much either. Drinking the water directly from one is pretty good though. It's not something so great I would go out of my way for but if someone offers some I won't refuse.

[Red Hairdo]

Oct 14, 2008 17:48:10 GMT -5 @adoru said:

This thread inspired me to try this out:

www.onenaturalexperience.com/

Coconut Water from young green coconuts.

It was good. TOTALLY different taste than what you guys are describing (and the usual coconut flavor). I can see how Red would like it. Extremely light and refreshing, not a heavy flavor at all. Doesn't taste like anything I've had.

I always have one of these in my refrigerator.
the truth is, the taste depends on which company made it. Here in Brazil, I buy the ones from "Kero-Coco" (Kero is supposed to be "quero", which means "(I) want" in portuguese). They're are the best; and the others simply... suck. They add more things other than coconut milk/water.

But no matter how good it is, for me the original, straight-from-coconut, is always the best.


But seriously, this drink is extremely healthy. I wouldn't have survived as a sportsman (when I was one) without these. Really, I'd have been dead by now without them.

[Falcom Director of Fanservice]

Red are you a robot powered by coconut pee?

[Red Hairdo]

By the milk/water. xD

[Falcom Director of Fanservice]

To-may-toes, tah-maht-ohs.

A rose by any other name is still coconut pee.

[Red Hairdo]

Oh DAMN!!!!!

I got confused by one serious thing!

I never knew there was two kinds of coconuts!! I thought all of them had coconut water inside, even though people were calling it milk.

Now I know why.

All my love for coconuts were regarding this:




And not their hairy counterpart:




I knew something was fishy. Cocnut water simply is impossible not to be adored.

[Incog Neato]

COCOA~

[Falcom Director of Fanservice]

Ryed's style of coconut looks like something that a tree would drop to try and kill vermin; kinda like how hedge apple trees work up 'round here.

[Red Hairdo]

xD

Funny of you to say that, as many huge coconut trees like these are grown in our beaches, and the annual number of people who are hit by a falling coconut is surprising. XD

These things are really hard and heavy.

[Wanderer From Ys]

I didn't realize there was a whole thread for coconuts. Anway as I pointed out in the other thread both of those coconuts are the same thing. Coconuts, like most fruits and vegetables start out green before riping, to their natural color. However it's one of few that is eaten in it's unripen state.

I personally love coconuts, Pina Colada's are easily my favorite drink. But the thing about coconuts is that they aren't that good on their own. The shredded coconut that you usually buy is sweetened. If you can find the all natural kinda it's pretty bland. Coconut milk is made from the natural coconut, which is why it's disgusting. But of course it's meant to be used in recipes not as a drink.

[Red Hairdo]

Yeah, apparently my father knew these coconuts were the same... I was surprised, because I never saw hairy EVER, and I live in a country full of beaches and coconuts. xD

From what I also heard, the hairy coconut still has coconut water, but only VERY LITTLE. Although it's said to be undescribably sweet and good.
I also heard you won't find coconut milk in the coconuts: the so-said "milk" is the eatable, white, internal part of the coconut, but somehow liquified, perhaps with the addition of some (actual) water too.

Anyway, coconut water for life. \o/