One of my most favorite fruits is coconut. Not just any coconut, but a sweet one—the kind that tastes even better than sugar. Lol.
My brother recently traveled home, and when returning, my mother and other siblings, who know that I love coconut so much, added six coconuts with hard shells into the bag he came with. Ever since he returned, coconut has been my lunch, which I mostly use to make a bread-and-coconut combo—what I believe to be the best combination for coconut so far.
Yesterday, I reached out for the last one in the bag, a small one. I hit the shell with a piece of wood to break it, expecting the flesh to split along with the shell as it always does. But no, that did not happen. I kept hitting the shell, and instead of the flesh breaking with it, the shell kept pulling away from the flesh on its own. This coconut was not the usual type that separates that way; it was a strong one that clings tightly to the shell.
After peeling off the shell, I discovered something interesting. While they were peeling the outer shell back home, the cutlass had hit it, penetrating inside and causing the water to rush out. This explained why it was waterless when I was removing the hard shell and also why the flesh was pulling away on its own when I hit it with the wood.
I really enjoyed it! I ate it with bread and felt like I was in heaven, just as I always do whenever I eat sweet coconut.
I have rarely seen this type of coconut pulling off on its own, so I was surprised and had to take a photo of it.
I hope you're a coconut lover as me?
Thanks for reading!