Watermelons
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wingriderz
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I like watermelons too it really about only fruit I will eat
OLDNAVYMCPO
US Veteran, Absent Comrade
When my Father got activated for the Korean war, they lived in squad bay tents erected over a concrete slab. This was in Camp Stewart, GA while undergoing training. My Dad loved watermelon. The weather was the typical Georgia, hot and humid. Dad bought a large watermelon from a roadside vendor with plans to share it with his tent mates. Nobody had a knife with which to cut it. One of his mates grabbed that melon and said," I'll show you how us Alabama boys do it" and slammed that large melon onto the concrete floor. It burst into a thousand pieces.
Your location reminded me of that incident. Thanks.
Your location reminded me of that incident. Thanks.
rburg
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Back in 1995 we were in Utah. I wanted to see the area above and west of Green River (the town). So we got a trail ride together. One of our group wanted to stop at a roadside stand and buy some ice. One watermelon and a lot of ice. I didn't pay much attention. So we set out and had a really great day of it. Stopped under I70 at a really tall bridge. Out came the melon. It was early August and hot as always in Utah. Bad time to discover the owner of the melon didn't have a knife. Not even a pocket knife.
So into my jeep I started looking. Turned up a very nice Randall. It wasn't a stainless one but it did have a long blade. So we cut up the melon and it was about the best one I'd ever tasted. I just wiped the blade off and stuck it back in the jeep. A few months later I found the knife. It had a brown tint, like an early flintlock. Actually kind of nice looking, but I used Flitz to remove it.
These days I'm older and I've discovered the Yellow watermelons. The last 2 years they were better than any red ones. Last Wednesday I went to the flea market where the guy sets up. He said even the red ones aren't ripe yet. He figures 3 weeks at least for the yellow ones. I can wait.
So into my jeep I started looking. Turned up a very nice Randall. It wasn't a stainless one but it did have a long blade. So we cut up the melon and it was about the best one I'd ever tasted. I just wiped the blade off and stuck it back in the jeep. A few months later I found the knife. It had a brown tint, like an early flintlock. Actually kind of nice looking, but I used Flitz to remove it.
These days I'm older and I've discovered the Yellow watermelons. The last 2 years they were better than any red ones. Last Wednesday I went to the flea market where the guy sets up. He said even the red ones aren't ripe yet. He figures 3 weeks at least for the yellow ones. I can wait.
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kthom
Member
Watermelons today just don't taste as good as the ones I ate as a boy. We didn't make a crop of them every year due to them being planted in the sand on the south end of our dry land farm. But when the rain and planting times were right, boy were they good! They just had more flavor than any I eat today. But when they made, we had to fight the coyotes to get any of 'em. They liked 'em too!
I enjoy them now and again:
Anybody ever grill a slice?
Ivan the Butcher
Member
We raised small "Ice Box" watermelons in out garden. The central Ohio season isn't long enough for full sized watermelon! When these were mature that were the size of large grapefruit. The kids would be playing in the yard and I would walk up with 4 to 8 of the small melons and the would just stare at me to cut them up. I refused, this is a teaching moment (kids usually don't like these). I walked over to a steel fence post and cracked is open like an egg. It is a little messy, but this is living!
Ivan
Ivan
When I was ten or twelve years old I decided I wanted grow watermelons. My parents gave me a small plot to grow some next to their vegetable garden. I watered those melons pretty much every day. Had so many melons I didn't know what to do with them all.
We ate some. We gave some away. Even sold a few.
Then I discovered something that took care of the surplus watermelon supply quite handily. Horses love watermelons. At least ours did. I don't know if they were good for their health, but it didn't seem to do them any harm.
Strangely, I've never been terribly fond of watermelons myself. Cantaloupe . . . now that's another story.
We ate some. We gave some away. Even sold a few.
Then I discovered something that took care of the surplus watermelon supply quite handily. Horses love watermelons. At least ours did. I don't know if they were good for their health, but it didn't seem to do them any harm.
Strangely, I've never been terribly fond of watermelons myself. Cantaloupe . . . now that's another story.
Bozz10mm
US Veteran
When I was a youngster, at Grandpa and Grandma's house, we would cut a watermelon in half and scoop the fruit out. When we were done eating we'd throw the shells to the chickens and let them clean 'em out. Then we could take them down to the cattle tank and sail them like toy boats.
We didn't have many toys in those days, lol.
We didn't have many toys in those days, lol.
What is the proper name for the dark green round ones in 2nd picture?
Black Diamond more than likely.
kthom
Member
TX-Dennia wrote, "Strangely, I've never been terribly fond of watermelons myself. Cantaloupe . . . now that's another story."
Dennis, I would not trade one good cantaloupe for a semi truck load of any watermelons if I could sell them all for 2 bucks apiece!! A good cantaloupe is, in my estimation, as good as it gets! (Unless you fill half a fresh cut cantaloupe with good home made vanilla ice cream and eat the whole thing!)
Dennis, I would not trade one good cantaloupe for a semi truck load of any watermelons if I could sell them all for 2 bucks apiece!! A good cantaloupe is, in my estimation, as good as it gets! (Unless you fill half a fresh cut cantaloupe with good home made vanilla ice cream and eat the whole thing!)
Too watermelon things I want and have yet to try, grilled, and rind pickles!!
Anyone tried them grilled, or had pickles made from the rinds?? If so, please tell me how it was!!
I've never had it grilled but when I was a kid we lived near Abilene, TX and our neighbor's wife used to pickle watermelon rinds. I recall they were almost like eating candy.
fat tom
Absent Comrade
Too watermelon things I want and have yet to try, grilled, and rind pickles!!
Anyone tried them grilled, or had pickles made from the rinds?? If so, please tell me how it was!!
As the previous poster stated,they are SWEET! I like them combined with SHARP cheddar cheese. Don't knock it 'til you try it.
f.t.
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