[HPFGU-OTChatter] Help wanted!

[Jennifer Boggess Ramon]

At 2:18 AM +0000 6/2/02, triner2001 wrote:
>
>Earlier today, in what can only be described in a Moment of Insanity,
>I bought a coconut.  I read the directions "to prepare coconut" and
>followed through.  Or rather, I *attempted* to follow through.  I
>knocked a hole in the eye and drained the milk with no problem.  It
>was with the step "Tap shell sharply on groove with hammer, revealing
>white flesh within" that I had problems.  I tapped sharply. Nothing. 
>I banged the hell out of it. Nothing happened, outside of a lot of
>noise and frightening the cats.

The way our primate ancestors opened the darned things was to fling 
them at hard surfaces.  This is, in fact, the easiest way to do it 
IME.  I lay out a couple sheets of newspaper over the sidewalk, tap 
the coconut with a hammer all over to loosen the meat from the shell, 
then fling it from the top of the front steps straight down onto the 
newspaper.  Really stubborn cases only crack on the first fling and 
have to be hurled again to break all the way open, but this is rare.

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  - Boggles, aka J. C. B. Ramon			boggles at earthlink.net
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