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Here in St. Lucia, coconuts are literally everywhere. But indulging in their refreshing liquid content requires two hands and I have yet to find a car with cupholders big enough for a coconut.
A coconut holder would need to be at least 8 inches wide, with screws in the side that would hold your
tropical produce in place and help to balance it to prevent tipping. The whole apparatus would mount on a base suitable for use in a regular cupholder with stabilizers if you want to put it on the table at home. Extra long bendy straws not included.
Cocos Nucifera
http://upload.wikim...f/Coconut_drink.jpg
(for those of you that live in cold places) [DIYMatt, Aug 10 2010]
Vitacoco
http://www.vitacoco.com/
in plastic; easier to fit in holder. [bungston, Aug 11 2010]
[link]
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what 21 said of course! yay - +1 |
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can we have this in the bathroom as a TP holder extra? |
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[+] Coconut water is one of the most refreshing things in the
world. |
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Green coconut water would be heaven on a hot day like this. I haven't had a fresh one in five years now. |
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Damn you for reminding me. |
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Tired, head-achey bunners. I could really use a coconut. But instead I'll add my tardy croissant. Sorry. |
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Just in case anybody is confused, most Americans have only seen mature coconuts (in stores) that have hard, brown, hairy shells, with thick, hard dry white meat inside, and a dribble of thin liquid inside that tastes like cardboard. |
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A green (immature) coconut is completely full of cellular fluid that is the best hot-weather drink ever. The shell is soft, but still covered with the floatation fiber coat that has a green skin, while the meat is just starting to jell inside the shell, and can be scraped out with a spoon. |
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A cold green coconut to drink from is heaven. Why in hell tourist places pour rum into them I do not know, but that's what you see in movies and brochures, a green coconut. |
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Five years ago I sat at a roadside table, in the shade of the palm trees, buying fresh-picked green coconuts for my best friend and for my favorite driver, looking out at the ocean and knowing I'd never be back there again. |
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Twenty cents bought a green coconut then--all the money I now have could not get me another fresh green coconut. |
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You never know, I walked into a hippie cafe in the middle of North Carolina recently and found a fresh coconut. Yes, it was 12 times the price of one here in St. Lucia, but delicious still. |
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Do you think coconut shells could hold pressure? Because if
they can, I'm thinking that carbonated coconuts would be a
great idea. |
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Only ever had it once. Nectar. |
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An in-car coconut holder would have to have gimbals. In general, more things should have gimbals. |
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+ Yay, I love coconuts!! (I've been to the tropics!) |
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never been, never had one, sounds divine. + |
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A biologist told me that green coconut water is practically the same as the stuff inside cells ... but in a good way. Some folks transfuse it as blood plasma, even. It is what you need. |
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Notice that it is almost always called "water" in the local language. The liquid you find inside a mature coconut may be called "milk" in America, but the "milk" you find in cans in the Thia food section of your grocer's is actually creamed mature-coconut meat and liquid. |
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Thanks for the Vitacoco link, [bungston]. Now I have to find a store whilst not getting my hopes up too high. |
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I picked up a tetrapak of Vitacoco at a Whole Foods a couple
months ago. It was good, and they seemed to have a lot of it
in stock. |
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How about three little pegs? |
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