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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsDaily Holidays - June 27
Industrial Workers of The World Day![](/emoticons/hattip.gif)
Sunglasses Day
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Pineapple Day
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pinboy3niner
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Sherman A1
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Recursion
(56,582 posts)The fresh pineapples here you don't even have to core. Take the skin off and you can eat the whole thing.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)They all tend to be better on our foreign sojourns.
On visits to Vietnam there were streetcart vendors with sugar cane presses that would squeeze out the juice, which would be served in a glass. That was one of my favorites.
Recursion
(56,582 posts)Rhiannon12866
(202,961 posts)Or sometimes we'd get a whole coconut - or a pomegranate. We thought it was fun - guess we learned by that to not be afraid of trying new foods.
Sherman A1
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Rhiannon12866
(202,961 posts)I have since bought a pomegranate myself, but I don't remember how they handled coconuts. I think that job was left up to my Dad...
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)A slice, served on a lettuce leaf, with a scoop of cottage cheese on top. That was dessert.
Rhiannon12866
(202,961 posts)When I was really little, I had a lot of Golden Books. My aunt used to get me one every week when we went grocery shopping. I remember one that was a kind of cookbook for kids, featured the Campbell's Soup kids, I think, LOL. The only "recipe" I remember was something like that - a pineapple ring with half a banana placed in the pineapple hole and a cherry on top. Not exactly "cooking," but I thought it was...
bigwillq
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femmocrat
(28,394 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)I marched with the Wobblies in a Wal-Mart protest.
malthaussen
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