SC - Re: Wierd but Cool Kitchen Gadgets

[Peters, Rise J.]

Olwen the Odd wrote:
> 
> >Hmmm, i've drunk coconut water (what it's called in Indonesia)
> >without untoward gastric effects.
> >
> >Anahita
> 
> I'm with you on that.  We used to drink lots of coconut water when we would
> be out in the rough mud-sliding or surfing or other mischief.  No one back
> then ever thought of taking along a canteen or cooler.  We just knocked
> fruit out of trees or collected the windfalls and ate and drank.  I don't
> recall anyone ever having any side effects.

Umm... perhaps I mis-typed, but I don't think so. The coconut _water_ is
fine. Fresh coconut _milk_, the real stuff *squeezed* straight out of
the coconut, is what will give you the trots. There is a difference.

'Lainie