So it's finally late summer and American grown watermelons are hitting our local stores replacing the Mexican grown melons that dominate the early season.juicy or half as sweet....but you don't have to spit seeds all over either. But sitting around with your siblings and friends burying your face in giant a half slice of a 3 foot long 16 inch diameter monster spitting seeds at each other in the back yard
Having grown up near Muscatine Iowa, the watermelon capital of the world, I can tell what a decent watermelon tastes like. Now I know the seedless ones that have replaced the old giant green striped monsters that we had as kids have never been quite as
Anyway, these little seedless things somewhere in size between a basketball and a beach ball could never measure up to a good old Muscatine melon. But they're better than no watermelon at all. Until now in the era of Joe Biden. The US melons I've hadthis year are shit. No sweetness at all with a hint of Raid flavor. The Mexican melons were actually pretty good and far better than the US ones. The last US one we just cut up...took a few bites threw the whole thing in the trash.
Thanks Joe....you've really done it now.
ScottW
So it's finally late summer and American grown watermelons are
hitting our local stores replacing the Mexican grown melons that
dominate the early season.
Having grown up near Muscatine Iowa, the watermelon capital of the
world, I can tell what a decent watermelon tastes like. Now I know
the seedless ones that have replaced the old giant green striped
monsters that we had as kids have never been quite as juicy or half
as sweet....but you don't have to spit seeds all over either. But
sitting around with your siblings and friends burying your face in
giant a half slice of a 3 foot long 16 inch diameter monster spitting
seeds at each other in the back yard was part of the joy.
Anyway, these little seedless things somewhere in size between a
basketball and a beach ball could never measure up to a good old
Muscatine melon. But they're better than no watermelon at all.
Until now in the era of Joe Biden. The US melons I've had this year
are shit. No sweetness at all with a hint of Raid flavor. The Mexican
melons were actually pretty good and far better than the US ones. The
last US one we just cut up...took a few bites threw the whole thing
in the trash.
Thanks Joe....you've really done it now.
On Saturday, September 2, 2023 at 6:10:21 PM UTC-4, ScottW wrote:
Thanks Joe....you've really done it now.
background
https://www.leopold.iastate.edu/files/pubs-and-papers/2004-10-muscatine-melon-case-study-place-based-food-iowa.pdf
On 9/2/23 11:02 PM, Art Sackman wrote:
On Saturday, September 2, 2023 at 6:10:21 PM UTC-4, ScottW wrote:
Thanks Joe....you've really done it now.background
https://www.leopold.iastate.edu/files/pubs-and-papers/2004-10-muscatine-melon-case-study-place-based-food-iowa.pdf
Looks like the Muscatine melon is special and one shouldn't expect to duplicate the experience with other melons.
Sysop: | Keyop |
---|---|
Location: | Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, UK |
Users: | 300 |
Nodes: | 16 (2 / 14) |
Uptime: | 29:12:06 |
Calls: | 6,707 |
Files: | 12,239 |
Messages: | 5,352,922 |