Thursday, April 8, 2010

The Pleasures Of The Flesh


The assistant at the tender coconut stall on the pavement looked bemused, and then amused, when I asked him to hold this and pose for a photo. In the many seconds that it took to convince him I was no nut, another customer came by so he became unavailable and this had to go back to the pavement, where the owner thoughtfully swatted the flies while I took my picture.

4 comments:

  1. And no one eats the tender flesh at your end ?

    BongMom

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  2. No, we do, of course. For me that's the best part, more than the water. It's scooped out with a piece of the husk, you can see it against the coconut - but I ate it with my fingers because it went on to the pavement!

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  3. You have no idea how envious of you this picture has made me. How I wish I can have tender coconut now!

    Mamatha

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  4. Such a lovely misleading title :)

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