# Another spit or swallow question

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-spit-or-swallow-question/25260>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 12, 2000, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-spit-or-swallow-question/25260 "2000-07-12T02:05:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2000, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-spit-or-swallow-question/25260/1 "2000-07-12T02:05:55Z")

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How is one supposed to eat a pomagranit?  
Suck the juice out of the fruit,and spit out those hard little whatchamacallits?  
Or chew the fruit, swallowing the pits and all?

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**Author:** ![tcburnett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@tcburnett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tcburnett)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2000, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-spit-or-swallow-question/25260/2 "2000-07-12T02:12:36Z")

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I have always had a problem with that, too. If you try to take the seeds out first, you get juice all over you and it is darn near indelible. I don’t know of anyone who ever got sick by eating the seeds, but my personal choice is to spit them.

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**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2000, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-spit-or-swallow-question/25260/3 "2000-07-12T02:39:02Z")

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Damn, I hate that indelible juice. You keep trying to erase it and it never goes away!

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**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2000, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-spit-or-swallow-question/25260/4 "2000-07-12T03:09:31Z")

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I dunno. I think “indelible” and “poma-granit” are a match. (Poma-granit **e** would have been better though.)

I love typos when they turn out to be sort of appropriate. Like malapropisms. Or Freudian slips.

Thanks for the chuckle, and **NO** , I would never be guilty of such a thing myself. (Ha!)

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**Author:** ![even\_sven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dfb087/32.png) [@even\_sven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/even_sven)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2000, 9:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-spit-or-swallow-question/25260/5 "2000-07-12T09:37:07Z")

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I always just ate it seeds and all, a habit I assume that I picked up from my mother, until I took a pomagranite to school for lunch. i shared it with my friends and they all went to great lengths to spit out the hard parts.  
So, I guess either way will work.

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**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2000, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-spit-or-swallow-question/25260/6 "2000-07-12T15:14:10Z")

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Slice in half, juice them, drink the juice.