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WATERMELON

Sweet Caroline 1 — Sun, 15 Apr 2018 18:52:29 GMT

I am watching and waiting for watermelon to ripen and re-enter my life! How I love that sweet, wonderful, perfect nectar of life. Hurry watermelon, come to me, I'm waiting....

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Catiele — Sun, 15 Apr 2018 19:03:01 GMT

Me too! I have always loved it. Sometimes I eat too much!

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sissel — Sun, 15 Apr 2018 19:34:52 GMT

Could you please tell me how to pick a ripe one? I usually think the heaviest one is the juicy one but last week got a mini one & it was awful. Also maybe because it was the 1st of the season.

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Kachina624 — Sun, 15 Apr 2018 19:35:23 GMT

Seems like the stores pretty much have them year around nowadays.

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Zhills — Sun, 15 Apr 2018 20:18:43 GMT

We would put salt on watermelon if it was not really sweet. Never tried pepper but it is supposed to enhance the flavor!

We have watermelon available in the Produce dept. I get the bowls of already cut melon since it is just me.

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meallen616 — Sun, 15 Apr 2018 20:49:07 GMT

Love it! I can eat it anytime of day,

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Carmie — Sun, 15 Apr 2018 20:56:30 GMT

I bought a mini watermelon last week. Our local ones aren’t even planted yet, so it will be about July before I can get those.

The one I bought was very good...small and seedless. I like the yellow seedless ones that I buy from a local farmer best. They really are sweet and I have never had a bad one.

My mother used to put salt on watermelon and pepper on cantaloupe. I do neither.

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Tigriss — Sun, 15 Apr 2018 21:17:51 GMT

Remember, it isn't watermelon season yet, so any you buy in the shops have come from a far distance and picked underripe then shipped and maybe chemically ripened. To tell if it is ripe, the watermelon should have a hollow sound when tapped or thumped. The belly of the melon, where it was on the ground, should be yellowish in color versus white. Yellowish is ripe. Weight is an indicator of size and water content, but not always ripe. You could also let it sit for a day or two and watch it to ripen, but the best are bought in season as with any fruit or veg. I find the ones this time of year or in the boxes underripe and need of salt to sweeten.

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123SuzyQ123 — Sun, 15 Apr 2018 22:02:16 GMT

I was sooooo anxious for that sweet, satisfying taste that I bought one of the small (personal size) ones at my Kroger last week. They had them for 68 cents each. Then I found out why. Not good at all, I threw it away after the 2nd bite. I should have known it was too early in the season, but like the OP mentioned, I was so excited for that highlight fruit of the upcoming season!!

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Sooner — Sun, 15 Apr 2018 22:21:18 GMT

I am pretty sure watermelons do not ripen after they are harvested.

The freshest melons will have a green stem on them. The longer they are picked the more brown and hard the stem becomes and the higher chance the melon will become mushy.

You want one with a yellow belly, not green or white. Put your hands on both sides of the melon and pat gently with one hand. On the other hand you will feel the vibrations as they travel through the melon. If it is too green, it will be hard to feel the vibrations; too ripe and you feel them too much. Just right and it will be somewhere in the middle. Pat a few and you'll be able to tell the differences!

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walkingal — Sun, 15 Apr 2018 22:21:26 GMT

@Kachina624 wrote:
Seems like the stores pretty much have them year around nowadays.

All of the grocery stores in my area have them all year round. And they're good too. I just read in a magazine that said there are three places now that grow watermelon all year, and this is why they're so available now. The three places were either California or Florida, Mexico, and somewhere in South America.

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LeoGrl — Sun, 15 Apr 2018 22:36:32 GMT

I love watermelon too! If you can't wait till your watermelon ripens, you HAVE to try Watermelon water OMG, it is delicious! It's just the actual watermelon juice that is cold pressed and only lemon juice is added to it. I found out about it in one of my Women's World issues. It's a little hard to find and a bottle is a little pricey but is defintiely worth the money. I get mine at either Whole Foods or Wegmans. My sister has seen it at Target also. It comes in a bottle that actually looks like a watermelon rind and you'll find it in the healthier drink sections. I have some in my fridge right now and yesterday we had some unusual summer-like weather and I could not stop drinking it. So good!

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Kachina624 — Sun, 15 Apr 2018 23:01:07 GMT

We discovered an interesting variation by putting the watermelon in an ice chest with a chunk of dry ice. Much to our surprise, we got sparkling watermelon. The whole thing was carbonated and very good. If you have access to dry ice, try it. I think ours sat about 24 hours.