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Watermelon

Imaoldhippie — Thu, 25 Jul 2019 10:52:01 GMT

I bought a quarter of a watermelon at Walmart Grocery yesterday. It was nice and red, juicy looking.

When I cut it last night for hubby and I I could hardly get the knife through the rind.

When we ate it the fleshy part was tough. Never have I had a tough watermelon until last night. It was hard to get a bite cut with a fork.

Weird.

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ECBG — Thu, 25 Jul 2019 11:24:43 GMT

That is weird!

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IMW — Thu, 25 Jul 2019 13:17:06 GMT

We also bought a 1/2 of a juicy red watermelon 🍉-

absolutely no taste, even with salt on it.

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dex — Thu, 25 Jul 2019 13:20:27 GMT

We haven’t had a great watermelon this year either.I wonder if the weather has something to do with it.I have forced myself to eat a couple of duds and haven’t purchased any since.The cantaloupes have been good though.

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Pook — Thu, 25 Jul 2019 13:24:23 GMT

I love watermelon and practically live on it in the summer but the last 2 years it has been awful for them. This year I have found some that were good but can find no seedless ones. About 6 years ago I never got a bad one. I went through 2 - 3 a week just by myself.

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proudlyfromNJ — Thu, 25 Jul 2019 13:36:12 GMT

We stayed at a B&B in the Berkshires a few weeks ago. They served a lot of fruit for breakfast. I’m not a big fan of watermelon, but had some. It was so delicious I couldn’t believe it. If I remember correctly it was seedless. It was tender and sweet.

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SharkE — Thu, 25 Jul 2019 13:39:17 GMT

I quit buying either too ripe or under ripe and cramps my stomach any more

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godi — Thu, 25 Jul 2019 15:59:06 GMT

I worked in a supermarket and they only cut the older melons and ones that were bruised or blemished.

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mom2four0418 — Thu, 25 Jul 2019 18:16:59 GMT

@godi wrote:
I worked in a supermarket and they only cut the older melons and ones that were bruised or blemished.

Maybe in yours, but not in mine!

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Nightowlz — Thu, 25 Jul 2019 18:43:14 GMT

The watermelon I have picked up from Wal-Mart are not quite ripe.

I have been buying them at Aldi with no problems.

Just picked up 2 seedless watermleons yesterday. YUM!!! I eat it every day.

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jannabelle1 — Thu, 25 Jul 2019 22:34:43 GMT

I've been buying watermelon slices from my favorite local grocer. They sell local produce in the summer, and the watermelon has been good. I may be wrong but it seems like the produce from Walmart is most likely picked too early and of course none of it is grown locally in my area. I generally avoid buying much of anything from their produce department.

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Grade1Teach — Fri, 26 Jul 2019 00:22:52 GMT

The same exact thing happened to us last week! It was very strange and extremely disappointing.

We had purchased a whole seedless watermelon from Costco only a few days before. I have been buying Costco watermelons for years now. They are always tastier than what I buy at the supermarket. Not this time though. A total disappointment.

I have never had that happen with a watermelon either. It's hard to explain how odd the texture was. It's like it wasn't ripe, but it was. It smelled right and looked right, but was very hard. Terrible!

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Bridgegal — Fri, 26 Jul 2019 05:11:02 GMT

I love watermelon. I prefer ones with seeds. I think the seedless ones have less flavor.

But my favorite is a yellow watermelon. I stumbled across a quarter of one in early June and it was so good. Today they had a big box of them, whole, outside the door. I was excited and expected to see some cuts inside but they didn't have any; only big whole ones. Boo.

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SharkE — Fri, 26 Jul 2019 17:27:40 GMT

Too much rind to get rid of. Have to put in garbage can and give to garbage man

In my younger days when I had 20 acres to myself up in Ind I'd just throw out the back door and sometimes the seeds would turn into small melons.

Now days I'd be afraid to pitch anything out . Ants and critters around at night.

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eddyandme — Fri, 26 Jul 2019 19:18:31 GMT

Wow! After picking up a watermelon wedge today and reading this thread, I decided not to wait for our 'tea time' when me and my furbaby have an afternoon snack. You all were right!! This melon was soft, but tasteless! I've never had one like this. Glad I only purchased a small wedge.

On a positive note, Eddy enjoyed the watermelon with vanilla ice cream - he even ate mine! So, it won't go to waste. Guess we'll be doing everything but watermelons.....

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Carmie — Fri, 26 Jul 2019 19:30:56 GMT

I bought a whole watermelon, cherry plums and bi-color corn at Walmart this past week. Everything was super delicious.

I bought a whole pineapple from Costco. When I bought it, it was firm and nice, when I cut into it, the next day, it was soft, mushy and overripe..smelled like vodka . I had to throw it out.

You just can never tell with fruit until you Get it home and bite into it.

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threecees — Fri, 26 Jul 2019 20:54:30 GMT

Love watermelon. I have bought 3 so far and all were good.

I eat it with bananas and it hard to put away.I have bought 2 from

grocery stores and the other from a produce shop. Here in PA they

are sweet and delicious.

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yellowrose — Sat, 27 Jul 2019 00:39:30 GMT

Grapeland, TX. Their watermelon has never disappointed. Use to be a 30 mile

trip for me to pick one up, which I didn't mind, but now they bring in a truck to sell closer to me.

I'm a very good customer.

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J Town Girl — Sat, 27 Jul 2019 17:18:42 GMT

Seeing this post was so timely because just last evening I cut open a watermelon and was shocked at how bad it was. My husband and I love watermelon and have always purchased them throughout the summer months. This year we have purchased 6 or more and out of all of them, only two were decent.

I had just commented to him I wonder if we are just getting bad ones or if others are finding them as bad in different areas of the country.

It's so frustrating to spend the money and be anticipating a dish of delicious watermelon and then cutting it to find a substandard product.

I'm just assuming the weather is playing a big part in the quality of them this year.

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GrailSeeker — Sat, 03 Aug 2019 01:58:10 GMT

Hear, hear! Happened to me to, on the 12th of last month, my son's 21 birthday.

I was going to try the watermelon, cucumber, and mint salad mentioned on another thread, to take to a birthday dinner.

I got the watermelon at Walmart and it is the first time I've ever had any problem.

The color was light pink, flavorless, and mushy in the center. It was called "All Heart", seedless.

The salad was horrible. The watermelon was horrible.

I explained to the hostess what had happened, and it was funny, because there was a painting of a pale pink watermelon in the dining room.