Coco for Coconuts

At many restaurants around here you can get coconuts that a guy with a cleaver will chop open, insert a straw, and serve up ready to drink/eat.  Today Craig asked about that innocently enough and when it was learned he hadn't tried one "No," was not an answer to be taken.

So home he came with four delicious, sliced and ready to open coconuts.  Absent a machete or cleaver in our house, we tried a big butcher knife.  Which is not quite adequate.

We did get it open, though.  Here is a look at the tasty interior.  This stuff will keep you alive on an island, just ask Tom Hanks and his volleyball.
Here is Caleb faking a sip.  He wouldn't try it but Bethany did.  She votes thumbs down.
Dad had to take a few good swigs.  The thing about these is after you drink them you can take the chopped off lid and shave off the meat inside and eat it.  Pretty interesting and it has almost nothing in common with the dried, shredded variety you buy at the grocery store.