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[–] 54 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (35 children)

I wonder how many people think that this;

is what a coconut actually looks like.

EDIT:

Coconut as it looks on the palm tree

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    To be honest, I've noticed that with lots of foods. I know what the thing looks like in stores, but I have no idea what it's like in nature.

    Cashews were another recent one, where I never would have guessed what they look like:

    Yellow cashew apple hanging on a tree. It looks almost like a bell pepper. There's a green bit at the end, which contains the cashew nut.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)
  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I guess I assumed 'sprout' meant directly out of the ground instead of a "Brussels tree".

    I don't recognize a few of the other ones.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    They occasionally sell the Brussels sprouts on the stalk like that at the farmers market. I feel like some kind of vegetable wizard walking around with it.

    Brussels sprouts, pineapple, asparagus, rice, peanuts, chocolate.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    If that's not a coconut, what the fuck have I been eating?

    Edit: Ok. The edit makes it make sense lol.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    I lived in the US Virgin Islands as a kid. Our back yard had a seemingly endless supply of mangoes, bananas, avocado, lime, oranges (the real stuff, not the engineered shit we eat in the mainland), grapefruit, bread fruit, acerola, plantains, and pigeon peas. It wasn't even that big a yard. Shit just grows.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    They exist in FL and I've climbed trees to get em. I like em when they're yellow. Delicious coconut water and basically a coconut "jelly" lining. I also lived in the Caribbean my early life (2-7) so had a lot down there too, plus fresh sugarcane, guava, mangoes, and a thing we called a plum but was a small tree fruit that I also loved yellow ripeness. After a quick Google evidently called a June Plum or a hog plum. Used to eat em straight from the tree.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    On related news, the salmon fish is not salmon color... And beef comes in larger packages on nature.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Maybe we just disagree on what color "salmon" is, but the meat is what I would call that color. They're like flamingos in that they take on pigment from their diet. For this reason, farmed salmon will not be "salmon" color unless their diet has been supplemented with the pigment.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    that looks underripe to me

    (from researchgate), Maturity stages of coconut: a) young; b) early ripening; c) ripe

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    Processed by extracting the liquid from the pulp of the coconut...

    Am I just too tired to get the joke?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    This is not an equivalent process to extracting juice...

    It literally is the same process. 🤦‍♂️

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  • [+] -4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)
  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Seriously you bucket of derps, the answer to this is the simplest of internet searches away

    You're right, it is. And guess what it says?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coconut_milk

    coconut milk is a plant milk extracted from the grated pulp of mature coconuts.

    dry and juiceless

    Have you ever had a fresh coconut? They have water in them.

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  • [+] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I'm so sorry that you have chosen to argue with people who have little knowledge but have decided they do.

    Coconut milk and coconut water are distinct products. Coconut water is just the liquid from the center of a (usually green) coconut, its unprocessed. Coconut milk is more an analogue to to soy milk than fruit juice, it is heavily processed by blending the pulp of the fruit with coconut water and added ingredients.

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