"Sheldon" > wrote in message
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>
> Dave Smith wrote:
> > Bob wrote:
> >
> > > Sheldon wrote:
> > >
> > > > There's no such thing as "coconut juice", unless you mean
> 'coconut water',
> > > > the liquid found inside fresh coconuts, but that is not used for
> mixed
> > > > drinks.
> > >
> > > I agree that coconut CREAM is probably what the OP wanted, but
> coconut water
> > > certainly *is* used for mixed drinks. I recently had a drink which
> > > consisted of coconut water, vanilla schnapps, and mango-flavored
> rum. Sounds
> > > like once again you deny the existence of something simply because
> you have
> > > never encountered it.
> >
> > Never mind the Nancyboy. He seems to think that anything he has not
> personally
> > experience, or more likely been unable to find on a web search does
> not exist.
> > While I have never vacationed in the Caribbean myself, I know several
> people who
> > went there back in the early 70s and came back raving about the
> coconut drinks
> > they had down there. Holes were drilled into fresh coconuts and they
> were
> > injected with rum and sipped through a straw.
>
> No one in the Caribean would waste rum like that... and even is some
> imbecile tourist tried it they would be so drunk after one coconut full
> they wouldn't be able to walk (they would need about a cup of rum to
> top off each coconut),

See my earlier post - they sound like what some call 'jellynuts' to me (very
young coconuts), in which case, they are quite full indeed, and are often
served with rum inside like that. First time I had one, it was served at an
African drum camp (with real, genuine, temporarily imported Africans, no
less!), second time, a Carribean music, rhythm and dance camp (again, run by
genuine imports LOL!_).

> not to mention ruining their entire vacation
> desparate to find toilets, coconut water is a great laxative...

It has NEVER had that effect on me, my family, nor any of my friends, and
we've been using the stuff since we were kids. It *has* however been
reported to have been used during wartime as an emergency plasma infusion.

> no one
> there drinks it except for medicinal purposes, typically it's
> discarded, a few natives use it to make wine but tshat wine is
> tasteless... the best is made from cashew fruit. You either made that
> up too or if they're your friends they're smarmy liars also. And no
> one drills holes in coconuts in the Caribbean, it's very difficult to
> make small holes with a machette.

In young green coconuts? Use a pointy stick, and knock it through, or as I
had them served, with the top sliced deftly off with said machette, the rum
poured in, stirred then handed over.


HTH!


Shaun aRe