pomegranates

Mighty Girl Linked to a site demonstrating a neat (clean) way to open a pomegranate. I sent her an email suggesting an alternative. The message bounced. So here it is for all to benefit from.

My wife showed me this after the old Persian man who worked at her rug shop showed it to her. This is, I'm told, the Persian way of eating a pomegranate. (Pardon my overuse of the words squeeze and suck. It's unavoidable in this case.)

1. Roll the fruit between your hands, smashing up the insides with your thumbs. Give it a real workout, but don't break the skin. You're breaking open all the little pods inside, releasing the juice.
2. Bite a little hole in one side. Suck a bit of juice out to keep it neat.
3. Hold it to your sweetie's mouth and squeeze it while they suck the juice out.
4. Switch off, sweetie holding it for you, and repeat.
5. Knead it with your thumbs again and repeat until it's dry, then break it open and devour any remaining good bits.
6. Yum.