Thread: Watermelon

So growing up in small town Kansas, watermelon was pretty much a given in summer. We had our own patch when I was a kid, and we grew 15 pound monsters. My dad had a special knife just for them--almost two feet long, curved like a scimitar. He taught me to pick the ripest by thumping, the hollow thunk that revealed the perfect ripeness...

Nothing brings back memories of childhood summer like the taste of a sweet, red cored watermelon.

Japan has taken watermelon and made it a luxury, as it does so many things. They have the $100 cube melons, and the occasional $6000 densuke, but of course the garden grown variety are the kings of sweetness and juiciness. Our neighbor from our last apartment brought us half a big one, at least three kilos worth, the other day and it was HEAVEN. It made summer complete for me, and man did I eat too much of it.

Gotta be some more melonheads around...

For some strange reason my sister and I never liked watermelon. It used to drive our parents crazy when we were kids and wouldn't eat the stuff. They figured we were just being stuborn. Every normal kid in the world seemed to love them. I remember when I was about seven my mom told me that watermelon was a miracle food and would cure any number of diseases. I believed her totally, but I still wasn't gonna touch the stuff.

I'm on board!

It's great anytime, but is perfect in the summer when you're thirsty and a little hungry at the same time, and you don't want anything heavy.

Watermelon was something special provided by my grandfather. The great thing that he taught us was to sprinkle salt on the watermelon. This brings out the sweetness...you should try it some time.

Originally Posted by IsaacRN

Watermelon was something special provided by my grandfather. The great thing that he taught us was to sprinkle salt on the watermelon. This brings out the sweetness...you should try it some time.

That's pretty funny, because...I was just about to post the exact same thing. My grandfather loved salt of his watermelon and I even ate it that way from time to time.

Watermelon with seeds in it is getting harder and harder to find.

I did score one a couple weeks back, and the flavor, juiceyness, and overall awesomeness was far and away better than all of the seedless varieties they hawk nowadays.



JimR- I have always been bemused by the melon section of Japanese grocery stores. Each melon or cantaloupe carefully wrapped, and damn expensive too!

Originally Posted by matt321

For some strange reason my sister and I never liked watermelon. It used to drive our parents crazy when we were kids and wouldn't eat the stuff. They figured we were just being stuborn. Every normal kid in the world seemed to love them. I remember when I was about seven my mom told me that watermelon was a miracle food and would cure any number of diseases. I believed her totally, but I still wasn't gonna touch the stuff.

Same here. I love watermelon flavored candy, but I never could stand the fruit itself. Living in the south and not liking watermelon is a terrible thing for a child

I know, of course, that all things are a matter of taste. But a child not liking watermelon? Inconceivable! It's the very definition of sweetness...

My wife is eating watermelon as I write. In Summer she eats it DAILY. In her native country Morocco, its the summer fruit and lunch is always concluded in her home with eating watermelon.Moroccans are big on etiquette but when my in laws lay into watermelon the seeds fly, nothing subtle about there method of eating it. Here in CA. the fridge always has to have a watermelon in it, if not my wife really feels something is wrong.

my girlfriend has been making me jealous eating watermelon on our nightly video chat for the last few days. So ridiculously good out of the fridge...