For the first time, I bought, prepared, and ate a pomegranate.  It’s actually very tasty!

Preparing a pomegranate is a problem not intuitively solved.  This guy provides some screenshots on his blog as to how he did it:

How he prepared it can be found here:

http://emptyage.honan.net/mth/2007/10/how-to-eat-a-po.html

After I did this, my next question was do you eat the seeds?  I think the majority of pomegranate eaters do, in fact, eat the seeds.  This blog has a survey, and about 60% said yes, they do eat the seeds:

http://www.yumsugar.com/2453244

The seeds are not harmful; they’re just a little crunchy.  They also appear to have fiber in them:

http://pediatrics.about.com/od/weeklyquestion/a/04_pomegranates.htm

This is from http://zfacts.com/p/318.html

And this is from http://www.cedarcomm.com/~stevelm1/usdebt.htm

Hmmm . . . makes you wonder what people mean when they talk about “tax-and-spend liberals.”  Maybe they mean “tax-and-save liberals.”