Nature Girl vs the Pomegranate

I have failed myself today.

Well, If I'm honest, I failed myself a few days ago, when I tried to open a pomegranate in a white shirt.
I got this beautiful pomegranate and I thought, "these can't be that hard to eat" and I started to peel and pick at tiny bright red seeds, feeling very like Persephone.  And then I remembered the end of that myth.  The stained fingers, the six seeds, and I looked down at my nice white shirt that now looked like a murder scene...yep, fail.

It has taken me a few days, a google search and a conversation with my friend, and her daughter (my niece), to figure out how to peel one of these stubborn not-so-little fruits.  Conclusion...how on earth do you eat it?  Is this like a passion fruit, where you don't really "eat" it per se, you just use the juice?  I have all these little pods, with great color and flavor, and yet one POP! and there is a seed.  Do you eat the seed??

I think I am going to continue to enjoy pomegranates in their whole form, in decorations; their tangy yet rich flavors in juices, that others go to the trouble of producing (though if I put this on a roast...or duck...yipes). And in Arbonne's Mandarin Pomegranate line which is just sumptuous.  I also hear rumors that there is a really good pomegranate chocolate out there.  My exploration continues...

...Nature Girl