[net.cooks] Pomegranate eating

jeremy (12/16/82)

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uiucdcs!jeremy    Dec 15 20:00:00 1982

Does anyone know of an easy way to eat a pomegranate, while sitting
at one's office desk?

deryl (12/20/82)

	There are two schools on eating pomegranates. First let me discribe
the anatomy.  A pomegranate is made up of a large number of red, juicy seeds
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( Dumb terminal ) surrounded by uneatable, cream-white "rind".  
	The first technique is to rip open the pomegranates and pick out the 
seeds for eating.  This is slow and messy.  Pomegranate juice is a perminate
natural dye.
	The second method is to carefully juice the pomegranate whole.  You
can do this by either rolling it on a hard surface until the whole pomegranate
is squishy, or you can kneed it by hand.  In either case do so carefully so
as to not puncture the outer skin.  When you have the pomegranate as juiced
as you can then puncture the skin by either a toothpick or taking a small 
bite out of the skin.  Which ever method you choose be warned that the juice
likes to come shooting out.  Once you have punctured the pomegranate, keep
kneeding it gentily and sucking the juice out.
					deryl@cca-unix

mark (12/28/82)

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zinfandel!mark    Dec 20 09:18:00 1982

yes - messily.