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[Alan]

Who remembers being given half a pomegranite and a pin to pick out the little seed cells? They were the closest thing to exotic fruit in those days of post-war austerity before bananas had started to arrive again. What a waste of time and energy for so little taste and nourishment!

[splus]

You can buy trays of the seed cells now Alan. Much more return for very little effort.

[lyghthouse]

Alan, on Sep 16 2007, 10:25 AM, said:

Who remembers being given half a pomegranite and a pin to pick out the little seed cells? They were the closest thing to exotic fruit in those days of post-war austerity before bananas had started to arrive again. What a waste of time and energy for so little taste and nourishment!

We were given a cocktail stick to eat it with and then used to make a sail out of paper and spear it with the cocktail stick stuck into the remaining skin. Cheap boat for floating in the bath!

[Griffin]

Some scholars believe that the fruit which the serpent used to tempt Eve, and which we take to be an apple (the text does not specify this) was, in fact, a pomegranate. Because of the colour inside, it has been associated with forbidden desire since ancient times. It occurs in the Song of Solomon, where references to it are decidedly ambiguous. Ooer, missus! Now, it has been discovered that it has beneficial properties for the heart, and can slow down the growth of malignancy in some cases.

[Alan]

lyghthouse, on Sep 16 2007, 07:40 PM, said:

We were given a cocktail stick to eat it with and then used to make a sail out of paper and spear it with the cocktail stick stuck into the remaining skin. Cheap boat for floating in the bath!

I never knew what a cocktail stick was until I was twenty

[splus]

You were common then like me. We were given a pin to eat ours with.

[eddiedunc]

lyghthouse, on Sep 16 2007, 07:40 PM, said:

We were given a cocktail stick to eat it with and then used to make a sail out of paper and spear it with the cocktail stick stuck into the remaining skin. Cheap boat for floating in the bath!

Cocktail stick? I 'll bet you didn't go to Parish Church, Windle, Holy Cross or Lowe House school.

[splus]

Cocktail sticks are so pretentious..... and so '70s.

[Stiffknee]

It was a giant safety pin for me at my grandparents house. In case I poked my eye out with the end not picking out the seeds. There's no easy way to eat one. Takes forever with a pin and all messy if you rip them. Delicious though, but the pith is disgusting. Hasn't it got arsenic in it or was that my grandad pulling my leg again? Like swallowing a pip would make a tree grow out of your ears! I still think they're a treat and they always remind me of grandma's, and the worry over where that pin had come from. Suspect it was the button box with the fluff in it.

Edited by Stiffknee, 17 September 2007 - 12:46 AM.

[Alan]

splus, on Sep 16 2007, 10:46 PM, said:

Cocktail sticks are so pretentious..... and so '70s.

I bet they had a Hostess Trolley and door chimes

[Griffin]

I'm slightly disappointed that nobody has suggested pomegranite as a suitable material for Australian memorial masons to fashion tombstones for British expats. So I have.

Stiffknee, on Sep 17 2007, 01:45 AM, said:

Suspect it was the button box with the fluff in it.

When I was small, I used to love to play with the button box. It contained all sorts of things, from the lethal (hatpins - it was a large box) to the curious (receipts for the Rediffusion wired radio service, which apparently cost 3d per week in the fifties). Just another aspect, I suppose, of post-war frugality. A bit like having a tin box full of hairy string, and another with neatly-folded brown paper.

[lyghthouse]

Alan, on Sep 16 2007, 08:08 PM, said:

I never knew what a cocktail stick was until I was twenty

Being a child of the 70s cocktail sticks were all the rage for kids parties...cheese and pineapple on sticks along with sausages on sticks...oh and for eating pomegranites with.

[Alan]

We had to make do with match-sticks

[lyghthouse]

We couldn't afford matches we spent all our money on cocktail sticks. If we needed to light anything we just set fire to a piece of rolled up St Helens star from the gas stove

[jill]

Just seen pomegranates growing in the garden of a restaurant in Carcassone, which seemed strange. I only thought of them in a box wrapped in paper, especially near *********. We always ate them with a pin, now I have pomegranate juicewhy has **** been bleeped?why has "the winter religious" holiday been bleeped?