Pomegranate Pop Culture
A pomegranate tree grew in the front garden of my childhood home. It was therefore normal to us kids, but I don’t recall ever having seen one anywhere else until I was an adult. Just the other day “pomegranates from Joe’s farm” were on sale in my local (and completely adorbs) corner store, and it got me thinking about how common they have been, especially in Australia, over the last few decades, so I decided to find out a little more. I began my research the way all good research should begin, and called my mum for a chat. She had grown up in the same house, and I was curious to know how much she remembered of the pomegranate tree in the garden. It wasn’t there when she was a child, but it was there when she and my father bought the house from my grandfather and moved in when I was a baby. So how did it get there? Pomegranates are not a very 'Anglo’ fruit, so would, I thought, have been a little unusual in suburban Adelaide back in the day. According to mum*, the plant was pop...