On Eating Pomegranate Fruit

It's a special month again (although, yes, we're part way through already 😔). This month is Dad's month & there's lots of reasons to be remembering him. I got to the bottom of how to enjoy a pomegranate recently (& I've been eating a lot of them too!). This made me think of Dad who'd happily manage his way through a few a few pomegranates each year to share with his wife & kids.

Memories topped of it being a messy process. One where, even as an adult, wearing painting clothes, if any, seemed most practical as the fruit's juice seemed to squirt anywhere as soon as a knife passed through the fruit's skin.

Alas, video tutorials & more now exist in order to walk the fruit lover through how to cut into the top of the fruit (I'd describe it similar to how one cuts into the top of a pumpkin) & also into the bottom of it as well (in just the same fashion as how the top's been sliced). Running the knife along the fruit's seams might be the most complicated since finding the seams from the top and/or bottom of the [now "open"] fruit can be difficult. (Essentially disregard how the fruit's been cut in the image link for best results. 😂) Minor squirting can occur here, though I've found that if I make minimal cuts, especially if the fruit is rather ripe, simple pulls at the fruit's skin & bending within the fruit's interior, "opening" the fruit works out well enough.

I told Dad about this (though I didn't get around to mentioning just how many pomegranates I've eaten since they became the "in season" fruit in the produce section) when we recently chatted. Really, I asked about eating the fruit when we were kids. He offered that we'd only end up with three or four pomegranates a year because of the effort they'd become.

He didn't say it, though it was understood between us that the "effort" was the mess as well as the time consumption & everyone waiting on him to finish prepping the fruit so we could eat it, which he did enjoy doing. He did not see it as a chore; instead, rather, he saw it as "family time" as well as pleasant & enjoyable.

We hung up the phone line with him telling me he hoped I would have a great day. That was "Dad talk" for "thanks for the fruit cutting instructions". And probably the reminiscing too. 😊

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In chatting with others about pomegranates I found myself unsure of what is the actual fruit. Thanks to Wikipedia, from this link I learned that the fruit is what resembles, well, depending on who's looking at it, possibly a Christmas ornament, possibly an over-sized red onion, possibly something altogether different. 😁😏 It's the edible portion which is considered to be a berry. So, there you have it. 😋😂

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Dad's always enjoyed fruit. Mom's thought coconut's to be his most favorite. He's never affirmed or denied this, which is only typical of his style. He's had plenty of fruit growing in his yard throughout his adult life, including most every berry: strawberries, blueberries, definitely gooseberries, cherries (so they aren't really berries, although close 😏 ... click here & here for more information on their differences), & I believe raspberries too ... No pomegranate 😂, nor any coconut. 😁 Here would be a means if he'd want to get started.

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It's always been a funny thing to me, how our family's birthdays happened into the calendar in a nearly equidistant-apart-from-one-another fashion. I note this because it's Dad's birthday which is "out of sync", yet he's the oldest member of the house in which we grew up. 😂 So technically it's the rest of us that are all a month late. If his birthday only fell in November, rather than in October ... 😜 It's just been one of those weird quirks of the family & it's just as well as it is.



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