My favorite fruit, and I have to wait almost a goddamn year before I can eat one.
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
And don’t tell me I can just go buy pomegranate juice. It’s not the same!
Is there a place where I can purchase frozen seeds? I’ve read that they can be kept for over a year. This would tide me over until I can get fresh fruit. If there are just a few hundred other people like me out there, someone could make good money selling frozen seeds.
Damn it! Damn it! Damn it!
No grocery stores where you are?
They’re out of season.
I think I’ve seen frozen pips for sale somewhere. TJs, maybe. Of course if you don’t have a TJs, I dunno what to tell you, except wait until Fall.
Would you go to hell and back for one?
If I can find some here in Colo, want me to ship you some?? 
I do believe our Safeway had some the last time I was at the store which was about 2 weeks ago. Just thought I’d ask, I’d be willing to ship if you give me $$$ 
I’ve seen them available as recently as this morning.
Apparently once you freeze the seeds you can only use them to make juice anyhow.
Pomegranates are in season from October to January in the northern hemisphere, and from March to May in the southern hemisphere.
I’ve purchased pomegranates as late as February before (when I could find them), and the results have been variable. Some were definitely past their ‘best sell by’ condition. Others weren’t bad.
Saw pomegranates tonight at the grocery store. They didn’t look fabulous, though.
I specifically looked for some at a produce-rich grocery tonight and found none. I love 'em too.
I tried one. Lots of pith and lots of bitter seeds. What are they supposed to be like?
The question is not would you kill, but WHO would you kill. Personally, I hate pomegranates. Fucking seeds…
I too would kill for a pomegranate. My bird and I share them; he moans in silly ecstasy as he sits on my shoulder and covers me with red juice.
Well, they’re almost all “seeds” (put in quotes because that’s what people call them. They’re “arils”, botanically speaking.) They shouldn’t be bitter though, but sweet and tart, with enough tannins to make your mouth just barely dry after each nibble. The white membrane which separates the sections of “seeds” is pretty bitter, though, and shouldn’t be eaten.
The walls should be fairly thin and also aren’t usually eaten - and are bitter if you get a taste by accident. Pithy walls usually indicate an immature fruit, although there’s some varietal variety, of course. The best way to eat the arils is to score the peel and set the whole shebang in ice water for 5 minutes, then break it apart and pluck out the arils while underwater - the bitter stuff will float to the top, where you can skim it off, while the sweetart arils sink to the bottom. Eat the arils seeds and all.
How much do you want? Is there some way of shipping them so they won’t spoil? If there is, I’m in.
Come to Brisbane. I saw some for the first time just a couple of days ago, they were from the US, so they might even be the same as what you normally have.
I may even try one now. How do you tell good fruit? Just hope your luck’s good?
Like most fruit, you want to find one that seems heavy for its size (which means it has a lot of water, aka juice) and without soft spots, gouges or other gross blemishes. Poms naturally have some brown flecking in them, but the overall color should still be deep red - brown overall indicates overripe and drying out.
Refrigerated, they’ll last up to two months, so September is really the only time you simply can’t find them anywhere. But the closest growing season is the best time to get good ones, of course.
Mmmm… deciduous shrubs. drools
I just had some peanut butter toast with pomegranate jelly on it. Tres yummy breakfast.