So...I bought a couple of coconuts...

As a child, I loved the shredded coconut that my mother put on cakes.

FranktheTank wrote: Every coconut I've gotten from the store had gone rancid. May be why I've only bought 1.... Lol

Mine always taste rancid too…maybe it’s because I get the half priced ones with a hole drilled in them.

After you drink the liquid, which tastes weird and not great (but is actually nature's sports drink), then you break it open and eat the "jam" on the inside that actually tastes pretty good.

BTW did you get the "brown hairy nut" and just out of curiosity do you think that's how they look on the tree?

Woody wrote:

friedgreencorrado wrote: Give it to the locals to take back to your home base? http://www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Viewer/Ey5l6Vagyk2dwA6BTctDZg.aspx

That's pretty damn cool, right there.

If I had survived something like that, I would have kept it, too.

We buy coconuts as dog toys. They're a bit too big for her to get her mouth around, so they hold up pretty good. They're one of the few things she can't destroy easily.

Woody wrote: Yesterday, as I was standing in line at the deli, I noticed that I was next to a table of coconuts. They were two for three bucks, so I bought a couple of them. I took them home, drilled a hole and drained the milk, tasted it (yuck) and then broke it open and tried a few bites. Now, what the hell do I do with the rest of this stuff?

You drank the 'water'. Coconut 'milk' is extracted by pressing the fluid out of shredded coconut meat.

Get out your grater

T

FranktheTank wrote: Every coconut I've gotten from the store had gone rancid. May be why I've only bought 1.... Lol

Yep.

The first time I had a fresh coconut, somewhere down south on the planet, I didn't even know what it was.

I've never had, nor seen, a truly fresh coconut here in the continental US. I'm sure they do exist somewhere, but they're obscure.

BTW, if Tom Hanks had lived off coconuts like in that stupid movie, he might have had a problem. ("Excessive drinking coconut water can cause diarrhea")

Grate the firm flesh with a cheese grater and add to desserts. Keep the grated stuff in the freezer so that it will last a long time.

One of the easiest ways to separate a coconut into two halves is to orient the coconut in your hand like the eyes are the North Pole, and firmly tap around the equator with the blunt edge of a large knife. I repeat, the blunt edge! After a few rotations, it shoulf crack neatly in half.

In reply to foxtrapper:

Pretty much. I thought fresh coconut from the tree was pretty terrific.

I like coconut bikinis.

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:) this thread makes me smile... I spent 6 years as a kid down in Panama... nothing like taking a freshly fallen coconut and getting into it by throwing it over and over and over at the curb...

went back a few years ago and spent a few weeks on an Island (solar power and rain water provided all our water)... one of the local Indigenous that worked for the people where I was staying would cut open coconuts for my kids on a daily basis... the owners made my kids ware helmets while running around in parts of the land because of how often the coconuts were falling off the trees.

good memories... that being said... I was never a big fan of the coconuts... give me the pre-shredded kind from the store and i'm happy ;-)

My first involved a hey-joe early one morning. He flipped this big green thing up into the air, while whacking it with a machette. Then he handed it to me with a sliver shaped like a scoop. Showed me that I was to drink the liquid inside, and scoop off the thin and soft tissue inside.

He laughed when I finally asked him what it was. Remember him telling me I was eating the real thing. That they sold the bad ones to the US.

I feel your pain, Woody. Our kids wanted coconuts from Costco. My wife bought them (of course in typical Costco bulk quantity). I spent about an hour drilling, cracking, peeling, and cleaning about 4-5 coconuts. We drained the juice, the kids had a little bit of it and walked away. They had one bite of the coconut each. And then the thrill was over. That's 45 minutes I'll never get back...