The Costco Produce That Easily Doubles As Holiday Table Decoration

When a new holiday comes around, you find yourself once again encumbered with the difficult task of decorating your home. While the standard plastic trinkets are easy to store in your basement and throw up when the time is right, why not put a little extra effort in this season, and craft your holiday ornaments out of fresh produce?

Fruit is the perfect decoration. In fact, that's the principle behind Edible Arrangements, a company that will send you a beautiful bouquet of fresh fruit. Of course, everyone's familiar with Halloween's classic carved fruit, the jack-o'-lantern, which has been haunting American stoops since at least the 1800s (per National Geographic). One TikTok user takes fruit decor a step further and demonstrates how you could make an adorable watermelon stroller, which could be used to accessorize a baby shower, or a gender reveal party.

With the holiday season fast encroaching, you should consider decorating your party with nature's ornaments. If you happen to be shopping at Costco, you can purchase a certain exotic fruit that will make the perfect table topper.

Culinary judge Meredith Ochs, writing for Insider, suggests that Costco's Pom Wonderful brand pomegranates can serve as an excellent (and delicious) holiday decoration. She notes their spherical shape, which is reminiscent of a Christmas ornament. Pomegranates also have a bluish husk. According to Time, blue is one of the colors most often associated with Hanukkah.

Ochs' Insider article also highlights the bright red nubbins that make up the edible interior of the pomegranate, which are called arils. Per NPR, red is one of the core Christmas colors. This is seemingly an homage to Santa's red robes, though it's possible that the color of his clothes was influenced heavily by a 1930's Coca-Cola marketing campaign.

It's easy to imagine the arils themselves being arranged around a candle, where the reflected flame would make them look like twinkling Christmas lights. Stripping a pomegranate can be a difficult task, unless you use this hack.

As long as you haven't left your arils exposed to the elements for too long, you could use your decorative fruit to whip up a pomegranate topped cheesecake just in time for dessert.