Coconut

I can't believe I never noticed before.

It started with a trip to the grocery store, where I chanced upon an obscure pile of brown nuts wrapped in saran wrap between a pile of lemons and apples. I picked it up and read the label: coconut. Hmm.

A quick google image search of coconut pulled this up:




That is not really a coconut. This is a real coconut:


The former is a picture of a coconut the pakcik at the kedai runcit around the corner of the apartment blocks has a huge pile of so he can make big bags of santan by shaving of the isi kelapa so we can buy it from him to make delicious curries. It is an old coconut. The latter is a picture of a coconut which you buy (from the roadside and not a grocery store unless you're a huge sucker or an American [not necessarily the same thing! haha!]).

I can't imagine people drinking from that brown thing.