Pomegranates -- currently high on the list of wonder foods. Tauted as a source of anti-oxidants and vitamins. Could be, but has anyone calculated the time it takes to pry those little berries from their comb. Plus you have to eat a lot of them to feel satisfied. I'm not sure it's worth it.
Compare it to crab. The shell cracking. The separation of the meat from the innards. Unbelievably messy. Time consuming. But what a payoff!
But let's not blame the innocent pomegranate. We've all fallen for the hype that accompanies the cult of omega-3s, fiber, lo-fat, non-fat and whatever is the diet du jour. One of the TV docs recommends the fruit -- et voila -- pomegranate jam, juice, ice cream, chips are available at your corner grocer.
I admit to falling -- hard. My latest sortie into the world of pomegranates was a total impulse. The siren song of dark chocolate covered pomegranate seeds wafted to check-out lane number 7 where I waited to unload my shopping cart.
Chocolate -- ah, food of the gods! I'll eat almost anything covered with it. Here before me, in one small package, was the promise of chocolate and nutrition -- a combination made in heaven. The very idea of chocolate made me weak. If I were a captured government agent, all the enemy would have to do is give me chocolate and I'd blab atomic formulas in a New York minute.
I caved. The noshing began on my way to the car. Nearly half the package was gone before I got home -- and I don't live that far from the market. I never did read the label to find out the nutritional benefits. Nutrition be damned! Chocolate made my world go 'round.
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I had pomegranete yogurt and it was awful. For me chocolate is it. I carry the Lindt chocolate balls in my purse at all times for emergencies (red lights, slow traffic, yellow lights, pulling in the driveway....stuff like that)
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