Thanks to this blog, I can say that it was around 15 years ago when I started eating frozen pomegranate seeds, which I found at Trader Joe's, though I don't seem to have written about the (inevitable with TJs) tragedy of when they stopped carrying them. Earlier this year, though, when I started making smoothies, I was checking on the frozen fruit options at Walmart and look what they had!
So I got a bag, and found that they were just as delicious and refreshing as I remembered them being.
The next time I looked, Walmart was out of them. And then again. Oh nooooo.
When they were back, I bought three bags, because yeah, one wasn't cutting it for long. And as the third bag was dipped into this week, I looked at Walmart again today, and this happened.
It may have been all they had, but certainly it was all I could reach: they're on the top shelf. But that will hold me for a bit.
(When I started drafting this post on Friday, I titled it "Pomegranate Seeds, the Literal and the Metaphorical"--but the joke's on me tonight, as I don't remember what metaphor I was thinking of. Perhaps it will come to me.)
I have never tried frozen pomegranate seeds! However, I do like the frozen strawberries and mangoes from Costco (or Walmart or wherever), and I just like to eat them out of a bowl with a fork after letting them thaw just a teensy bit. It is one of my favorite snacks (especially the mangoes)!
ReplyDeleteI've never heard of them but they do sound refreshing!
ReplyDeleteI'm chuckling. I gave a neighbor two pomegranates from my tree when it was new. The next year, after dealing with getting the arils out, one pom was plenty, thanks.
ReplyDeleteThen a new neighbor moved in from overseas and had never heard of nor tried one. So now she gets some every year and she's thrilled. Her kids can play toss to loosen those seeds right up if they want.