someone who didn’t grow up in pacific island culture probably won’t understand why moana’s dad said ‘coconut is all you need’ and make fun of that one line (just check the youtube comment)
but get this. every part of coconut is usable. every. single. part of it. the leaf, the fruit, the fiber, the shell, the husk, the wood. you can weave the leaf into daily things like baskets, sleeping mats, heck even the walls to your house. the coconut shells can be used for eating utensils and even fuel to fire. the milk from its meat is a very integral ingredient to most of our cooking.
when i was a kid, i would get seafood allergy or just seafood poisoning because sometimes when you cook fish wrong it’ll give you bad rashes or stomach ache. my mom would go outside and get one of those young coconuts from a tree in our garden, split it open, pour the water into a big glass, and tell me to drink all of it and my rashes or stomach ache would go away.
like, literally… you would be impressed by the things any part of coconut can be used. there’s a whole website for that, actually.
just… ugh, i love the little things from my culture that are shown in this movie…