Fishy Fishy behaviour solves Swedish coconut mystery

The residents of a small village in South Western village have finally solved a mystery that has puzzled them for years. They were baffled by the regular appearance of coconuts in a river fence, but the answer lies in the country’s growing multi cultural society, as Malcolm Brabant reports..

This is the Swedish version of I’ve got a lovely bunch of coconuts, and for years, clusters have been trapped in an underwater fence in the river at Asarp, a small village east of Gothenburg. The residents were mystified because the nearest palm tree is in the South of France. But the riddle has been solved by a farmer called Bengt Ivarsson,who saw two men standing at a bridge and looking, as the Muppet’s Swedish chef used to say, fishy fishy. He thought they were dropping garbage in the water, but it turns out they were Hindus performing a ritual. In Hinduism, the outer shell of the coconut is regarded as a persons ego, containing all the negativity, whereas the inner layer is deemed pure. By breaking the coconut, a worshipper promises to change for the better. One of the farmworkers who recovered the coconuts from the water, told a local newspaper it was good to get an explanation, or as they say in Swedish..........

This is the name of the Swedish song.

Far jag kan inte få upp min kokosnöt