We Were Given A Coconut
Jul. 15th, 2023 07:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphilo We were given a coconut.
It's ages since I last tackled one. How do you split them without smashing them to bits? I don't think that's a thing I've ever managed.
Wendy looked it up online. The circumference is the weakest part so you tap round it with the back of the blade of a big kitchen knife. That didn't work so we moved onto a hammer. Tap, tap, tap. That wasn't working either so ... bang! bang! bang! And it split- not neatly- but at least we ended up with two halves and not lots of little bits. All the kIng's horses and all the king's men wouldn't have found reassembling it that much of a challenge.
(By the way, II've always thought of Humpty Dumpty as an egg, but the other day I read an article that explained him as an English Civil War cannon that got blown up. A Royalist cannon presumably. I'm not wholly persuaded but the details fit. Cannoneers have always given their engines affectionate nicknames. There's Mons Meg in Edinburgh and Dulle Griet in Ghent. And of course the Germans in WWI had Big Bertha who was fricking enormous.)
Anyway, we had coconut to eat. I chewed a strip- and it had apparently fermented- and tasted funky and acidic. Cheesy in fact. So that's why vegan "cheesemakers" use the stuff.
I put the rest of it out for the birds.
It's ages since I last tackled one. How do you split them without smashing them to bits? I don't think that's a thing I've ever managed.
Wendy looked it up online. The circumference is the weakest part so you tap round it with the back of the blade of a big kitchen knife. That didn't work so we moved onto a hammer. Tap, tap, tap. That wasn't working either so ... bang! bang! bang! And it split- not neatly- but at least we ended up with two halves and not lots of little bits. All the kIng's horses and all the king's men wouldn't have found reassembling it that much of a challenge.
(By the way, II've always thought of Humpty Dumpty as an egg, but the other day I read an article that explained him as an English Civil War cannon that got blown up. A Royalist cannon presumably. I'm not wholly persuaded but the details fit. Cannoneers have always given their engines affectionate nicknames. There's Mons Meg in Edinburgh and Dulle Griet in Ghent. And of course the Germans in WWI had Big Bertha who was fricking enormous.)
Anyway, we had coconut to eat. I chewed a strip- and it had apparently fermented- and tasted funky and acidic. Cheesy in fact. So that's why vegan "cheesemakers" use the stuff.
I put the rest of it out for the birds.
