Have you ever eaten a coconut?  I don’t mean pre- sliced, diced, baked, shredded or in anyway already prepared for you.  I mean, have you ever taken a full, whole, real coconut and had to open it to eat it?  OMG!  One of the most difficult things I’ve ever had to do!  Well, difficult as far as it goes to JUST GET A MORSEL of something!

I guess that makes me quite a wuss.  It’s not like I had to go out and HUNT for days for coconut and then climb a tree with my barefeet.  Or follow the herd for weeks and chase them with my bow and arrow, then skin it, and cook it.  We’re just talking one little coconut here.  And all I had to do to get it was push my cart through Whole Foods.

But that was the only easy part about it.  Trying to open it?  No way. Couldn’t do it.  Instructions are to bang it on concrete.  BANG IT ON CONCRETE.  Which is great if I’m out in the wild and I could throw it against trees until it opened.  But, really?  This is the best solution?

I could do some serious damage to my kitchen trying to get this open.  I thought about taking my machete from the garage to it.  Or my big meat cleaver.  But the strength I had to use to actually break through – I could take my whole countertop down with it.

There are three dark, soft indentations on a coconut.  Hey!  Just like a bowling ball.  So that’s where they got the idea for a bowling ball design!  =)   And one way to get the coconut water/milk out is to take a nail and hammer to it.  But that’s if all you want is the water/milk inside.

If you want to eat the meat of the coconut?  You have to break it open. Joe ended up getting the power drill out and finding a solution. And it was yummy.  But not THAT yummy.  I love the IDEA of eating a whole, raw, natural coconut.  It just wasn’t that great or worth that much trouble. And cutting the meat off the outer shell once it was open was not easy either. Especially since I can just buy coconut in a million other ways. And none of them require power tools.

I suggest listening to music about coconuts instead.  It’s much more enjoyable.  And no one will get hurt.