One fine afternoon, GBee had yet to return home from school. KBee was busy watching his favourite Blippi in YouTube and I was surfing through the phone, doing my daily dose of mobile-cart shopping!
Gone are the days of window shopping, of hanging out with a bunch of friends in the shops and malls. The latest fad is to do the same in Virtual reality, dropping the goods in the cart, online, when in doubt, just wishlisting them, then forgetting all about it!
While I was stalking the online shelves of Myntra, KBee informed me that he was, indeed, very hungry.
I decided to feed him a Pomegranate.
The hungry baby
That day, three fourth of the fruit was red and a quarter of the pomegranate seeds were white and tiny. ( I think the pomegranate was a little Anemic!)
I didn’t want the kiddo to find fault with the fruit, so I told him that the pomegranate was still a baby and the white seeds were baby seeds! The fruit was in no way spoiled, it just had some colourless seeds.
Extra gyaan to the baby
After telling the kid the pomegranate as good to eat, I went into the kitchen to make myself a hot cuppa tea of apple cranberry flavour.
A little over 10 minutes of time had elapsed. I walked into the hall, with tea in my hand.
I saw KBee standing over the doormat and busy watering it!
KBee told me that he didn’t like the taste of the white pomegranate seeds. Since I told him they were still babies, he decided to plant them and water them.
What better place to plant them, than the turf – look – alike doormat, which resembles freshly mowed grass?
That is what he was doing.
He put all the white seeds on the doormat and began watering them with such enthusiasm.
I was left wondering about how he got the idea, that plants can grow on doormats!
P.S :
1. I have not come across many white pomegranate seeds. It is an acquired taste, astringent!
2. I am not an expert in nutrition but pomegranate without red pigment looks like it is anaemic.
