Get your Coconut water,
Good for your daughter,
Make you strong like a lion,
Give you plenty of iron !!!!
.............
Irving Burgie , 1950's
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to see the action
Only a dollar or two, and for this the fellow climbs the tree, cuts down
the nuts, piles them into a van, brings them to your favourite beach or street
corner and, at your request, slices off the tops with the illusion of a magician.
The coconut bouncing in his left hand turns a full
circle timed to the swing of the machete in the right; whack, whack, whack,
and zap; three wedges angle off the top before the blade smooths off the pointed
end and it is ready to drink. 
So you sip or gulp the delicious
refreshing cool coconut water, tasting a little like melon with a hint of nut.
And then, whoosh, the machete handled with the speed and agility of a marksman
smacks the coconut in two for the soft white jelly to be spooned out and eaten.
If that's not the best deal in town, then I don't know what is.
(c) Ian Clayton, 1996
More about Coconuts... SEE MARATHON MAN (also contains facts about helthy properties of the coconut)
