Have you ever drank straight from a coconut before?
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Back in the Philippines (when I used to live there, before moving-out in 2001), I would see vendors around the street with sacks of coconuts & machetes. For a small fee, they'd spit a coconut their customers could enjoy.
Now (as of my last visit in 2013-2014), though bottled coco-water is becoming popular, with vendors emptying the coconut into bottles (with the option of scraping the coco-meat & juice to be blended together before bottling).
Either way, coconut is time-sensitive. I had coconut at the very beginning of the day as the 1st customer, even witnessing the vendor's purchase of a day's sack of coconuts. Then, I timed myself such that I was the last & final customer of the same day. There was a noticeable difference in the flavor. (But then again, the coconuts were just in an air-conditioned environment of a mall, not in a refrigerator or freezer.) Coconuts are best fresh and enjoyed from picking as early as possible.
All the time. I buy green/young coconuts (usually sourced from Thailand) and cut them open with a machete like they do on the street in South East Asia, where I first tried it. I don't know why people would buy processed coconut water in manmade packaging when the natural packaging is so good.
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