Time to retire the pomegranate

Are some fruits just not worth the trouble? I believe that the time has come for us a society to agree to retire pomegranates — which started popping up at grocery stores over the past two weeks.

The fruit, typically in season from October to January, will be the subject of cocktail recipes and lauded for its antioxidant properties, but the act of removing the seeds makes you understand what life was like with Hades.