I envy your abundance of pomegranates! One thing I don't get at all about Japan is how when I lived out in the countryside, I would see all these pomegranate trees in people's yards, and I would see all these pomegranate fruits on the ground or sometimes dried out and used as autumnal decorations, but I never saw anyone actually eating them, and at the supermarket the only pomegranates they ever had for sale (for maybe two weeks tops) were all imported from the U.S and going for like three hundred yen a piece. When I asked my neighbors why Japanese farmers didn't just sell their own, they were like, "oh, I think those supermarket pomegranates are a different kind from ours, I don't think anyone would want to buy or eat this kind." Me! I would want to eat them!