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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from In the South Seas by Robert Louis Stevenson: the artificial gardens. The crab is good eating; possibly so is
the rat; I have not tried. Pandanus fruit is made, in the
Gilberts, into an agreeable sweetmeat, such as a man may trifle
with at the end of a long dinner; for a substantial meal I have no
use for it. The rest of the food-supply, in a destitute atoll such
as Fakarava, can be summed up in the favourite jest of the
archipelago - cocoa-nut beefsteak. Cocoa-nut green, cocoa-nut
ripe, cocoa-nut germinated; cocoa-nut to eat and cocoa-nut to
drink; cocoa-nut raw and cooked, cocoa-nut hot and cold - such is
the bill of fare. And some of the entrees are no doubt delicious.
The germinated nut, cooked in the shell and eaten with a spoon,
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