Video: How to Eat Watermelon at Business Lunches
When deal-making at very important business lunches, it's typically encouraged not to order watermelon. But, if you find yourself in this situation, fear not. All you will need is one cupped hand (a seed-spitting receptacle) to survive this problematic scenario. The video, after the jump.
How to Eat Watermelon at Business Lunches
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14 Comments:
incorrect! pits/seeds should be removed using the same manner they were taken in. I.E. if you eat an olive with your fingers, you remove the pit with your fingers. If you eat an olive with fork and knife, place the pit from your mouth onto the fork. Etiquette 101!
mcswain27 at 1:16PM on 06/25/09
Have our manners become such a past memory that we really need a video to instruct us about the proper way to eat??? Don't answer that -- it's a rhetorical question ....
yentamary at 1:26PM on 06/25/09
@mcswain27 seriously? try to fish a pit out of your mouth with a fork? I hope you're joking...
rheogs at 1:45PM on 06/25/09
Better yet- don't eat watermelon during a business lunch.
Just don't.
CJ McD at 3:11PM on 06/25/09
But what kind of place would give you just a slice of watermelon on a plate? If they expect you to eat it with utensils, wouldn't it arrive to you pre-cut? Or this that just in Japan?
mikaque at 3:33PM on 06/25/09
i like to use a melon baller on watermelon for easy consumption (at least when i'm preparing it) otherwise, i'm with CJ McD-why order that at all? kinda like spaghetti or ribs...no a good idea for a business lunch OR a date.
gastronomeg at 3:56PM on 06/25/09
Ehh. Just beg off and claim an allergy. It works for me. Could be because I AM allergic to watermelon tho. :-(
toad3000 at 4:10PM on 06/25/09
My favorite part of this video is the brief history lesson descriving how people ate thousands of years ago: ALONE. While wielding clubs.
And then..zoom thousands of years into the future to some dudes talking on the phone. You can hear the fear in that second dude's voice: He may be saying, "Uh. lunch would be fine" but he's really saying, "OMG I DUNNO HOW TO EAT WATERMELON FFUHUUHGG"
Yes.
roboppy at 4:25PM on 06/25/09
No, no, don't worry -- you don't dig around for the pits; you place the side of the tines against your lips, and gracefully (ha!) remove (a.k.a.: not quite spit) the pits from your mouth and place them onto the fork. Or you could have enough sense to pick the seeds out before placing the watermelon tidbits into your mouth. Or leave it on the plate. But really, watermelon (and spaghetti, for that matter) shouldn't be issues in public. Ribs, I grant you, are difficult because you never know how tender they'll be, how meaty they'll be, and then there's the sauce issue ....
yentamary at 6:37PM on 06/25/09
Just swaller the seeds. I thought you were supposed to change hands and wield your fork with your right hand after cutting with your right hand.
the_o at 7:53PM on 06/25/09
AGREED. Just swallow the d@mn seeds. They won't hurt you. I've been doing that for years. If I'm outside I might spit a couple out. But generally, I just swallow 'em. Seedless watermelons are a joke!
grith at 12:59AM on 06/26/09
@rheogs... I'm sure mcswain meant to spit it out onto the fork. I learned that somewhere too. Martha Stewart? ...for bones, pits, etc.
chinolam at 12:10PM on 06/26/09
This bears way too much similarity to the episode of seinfeld where george ate the candy bar with a knife and a fork.
jboylan at 10:34PM on 06/27/09
Is this a spoof/riff on the classic Petey Greene "How to Eat a Watermelon" segment? (Greene was a shock jock turned TV host in Washington, DC - Howard Stern cites him as an influence, and the Watermelon segment was one of his most famous.)
Here's the video on You Tube: http://tinyurl.com/lcoyv8
dogloverdc at 10:03PM on 07/08/09