"I slice the watermelon crosswise into circles about 1 1/4" thick, no wedging here. I eat with a spoon and twirl it as I go to make something akin to quenelles. I'm surprised how many are confessing to salting their watermelon; it's liberating..! I, too, salt mine and endure the scorn of those in attendance. My rationale is that I learned it at my father's knee. He grew up in Texas working an outside trade and used salted melon as a way to rebuild his electrolytes although he would have never used that term ;~)"
—czken, on "Poll: How Do You Eat Your Watermelon?"
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A juicy wedge of watermelon: it's the quintessential summer fruit, but it sure presents a technique dilemma. Seed spitting contests aside, what's your handle on what to do with the seeds? Or do you just avoid the situation altogether?
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Just when you think it can't get any cuter than a fluffy cat eating a watermelon wedge, in comes puppies! Oh dear. Watch the video after the jump....
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[Photograph: Weird Asia News] If the square watermelon concept still kind of blows your mind, this will straight explode it. A Japanese farmer and his wife have cultivated a heart-shaped watermelon. "It was an act of love for the couple where they wanted the fruit of their labor to symbolize their feelings for each other," according to Weird Asia News. Each fruit, which took three years to perfect, is going for 15,750 yen ($160). Related Photo of the Day: Cute Teeth Eating Watermelon Pickled watermelon [Talk] Watermelon, Feta, and Arugula Salad...
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Lardee and Ickle are two milk teeth (baby teeth) that adventure around on the blog My Milk Toof. Like most pudgy, anthropomorphic (and adorable!) teeth, they don't always know when to stop eating watermelon. They also don't have hands or their own set of teeth, which could have made this whole binging process difficult. But they are small enough to nap on the ravaged rind after, which sure looks pleasant. Related Video: Guinea Pigs Eating Watermelon Too much watermelon!! [Talk] Photo of the Day: Talking Watermelon Heads...
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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....
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Is your watermelon not utilitarian enough? Give it purpose—turn it into a watermelon keg! All you have to do is fill it with spiked watermelon juice and attach a faucet to it. [via Metafilter]...
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Photograph by Jonathan Jacobs Is nature trying to tell me something through this atypical crevice formation? That maybe I shouldn't sink my teeth into the flesh of something that is happily squinting and grinning? Or is the watermelon somehow elated to receive its fate of swimming in my stomach's digestive juices? I'll go with the latter....
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While walking around Cartagena de Indias in Colombia, Lo M came across this beautifully haphazard fleet of watermelon slices. If only I could find the same thing here....
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Oklahoma legislators recently declared watermelon their new official state vegetable—state fruit was already spoken for by the strawberry. State Senator Don Barrington, one of the bill's sponsors, says "Oklahoma Department of Agriculture officials had advised anyone to answer "yes" to the question of whether watermelon is a vegetable or a fruit." [via GirlHacker]...
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