Pomegranate Guacamole

In my California youth, pomegranate trees were as common in backyards as loquats, apricots, and oranges. Spanish conquistadors brought the pomegranate to the Americas and it thrived in climates as hot and dry as its home in the Middle East. But in my childhood pomegranates posed a problem. While the juice of their purply red seeds, popped against the palate, was delicious, to pick each seed from its matting inside the rind was tedious work best relegated to children younger than oneself. If