Herman by Jim Unger for September 24, 2023

Sugar free please

I’ve got a lovely bunch of coconuts.

Shouldn’t they be brown?

One coconut Zero please.

How about a coconut cream pie. Where’s Mary Ann when you need her?

He learned that on an online cooking show

I was blessed to spend some time in Manaus, Brazil. There were street vendors who had cocoanuts in ice water baths. For about $2.00/or 10 Br. Real, you could get one and the vendor would chop the top of the thing off with a machete and hand it, a straw and a plastic fork to you. After drinking that sweet fresh cocoanut milk you could then go back to the vendor who’d cut it lengthwise so you could get to the meat. Oh my gosh was it good!

And he takes all major credit cards.

You can’t get far from civilization anymore, that’s for sure.

Certified vegan or gluten free?

Do you have any lime?

Are they free-range?

Civilization has more than one definition, depending on the user.

I keep remembering one time in the Charles de Gaulle airport when weather grounded all flights. I heard a fellow nearby say, "Stuck in Paris "

Another agreed, “Yeah. It’s not like it’s a civilized place.”

I know Parisians tend to consider themselves the very center of civilization but folks from lower Alabama did not concur.

Civilization got there before they did.