Coconut Roundup

Coconut street-side vendors are unhappy in East Malaysia. A new fast-food store is hurting their business.

Meanwhile, in Brunei, twin coconut palms have grown to maturity out of a single coconut. The owner plants coconut trees each time a child is born in his family. Nice tradition. Can you imagine a world where a tree was planted by each family celebrating Christmas, instead of a tree being slaughtered, decorated, and eventually thrown away like trash each year?

Sacks of coconuts weren't enough to hide £100M of cocaine in a London market. The perps were caught.

In Barbados, a coconut tree invaded Deborah Wharton's kitchen. Narrowly missed the washing machine, it did.

China uses coconut husks for erosion control, and they're buying husks in bulk from a firm in the Phillippines.

Posted by brian at December 15, 2004 08:09 AM