Why YSK: These tips may help you pick a more ripe, juicier, sweeter watermelon.
On oranges, damage to the fruit (insect bites, cuts, etc) often cause the fruit to be sweeter in the area of the damage. So ugly fruit is often tastier.
Americans especially are sold shiny pretty consistent fruit. Ripe fruit is browning, wrinkled, lots of flaws. After a while you’ll see some of those “flaws” as signs of tasty fruit.
I’m a produce manager for a grocery chain in the SE US. I tell people ALL of the time to pick out the ugliest cantaloupe/honeydew because it’s typically going to be the sweetest/most ripe.
You’ll have people shaking, rolling, knocking on melons trying to find “the good ones”. It’s pretty funny to watch people make their selections.
Sharing this with my dad rn
Hey aren’t you the guy that didn’t shit? Are you still full of shit or did you manage to get it out
I’m using Summit for Lemmy (see my latest post) for a day so i can’t go to my profile but you can find an update on the comment section for that post
Round and brown. Got it.
Just what i needed, thanks OP!
Finally now I know my melons gender, now I won’t get in trouble on twitter
Stop misgendering melons!
you won’t get in trouble on twitter anyways, now
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This infographic brought to you by someone selling gnarly watermelons.
Man, coulda used this a few days ago when I got a watermelon for the fam - I remembered the color of the spot part, but had forgotten the other things to look for 🤦🏽♀️🤷🏻♀️ the one we got was decent, but coulda been more flavorful imo
I worked at a grocery store and the old timer who trained me in the produce section said that all you needed to find the best watermelon was learn how to give it a slap and if it sounds like a basketball that’s a good watermelon. Learning the slap takes some practice but when you do it right, you’ll know.
I can attest to the importance of the slap!
There’s nothing better and more comforting than sitting down with a cold watermelon in the middle of summer.
Conversely, there’s nothing worse than sitting down with an unsweetened, tasteless garbage ball of a watermelon.
Saving this to increase my odds!
Honestly, I actually prefer the bigger, firmer, less sweet watermelons over the smaller, softer, sweeter ones. I don’t like how the small sweet ones sometimes have a slightly mealy texture, and prefer a lot of cold watermelon texture with a bit of the sweet melon flavor over a smaller amount of melon with a flavor that can be a bit more intense than I’d like it.
Tasteless watermelon is a crime against humanity.
I agree, but it’s nothing a good sprinkle of tajin can’t solve
Mmm, tajin. Solution to most of life’s problems.
Fun fact: Tajín goes well with tasteless watermelons because they’re actually sweet giant watery cucumbers.
Learning something new every day.
This was bullshit the first 2000 times it was posted to reddit and it’s still bullshit here.
I just roll my eyes at it now.
FYI there is no reliable way to tell if a watermelon is ripe after it is harvested. The most reliable indicator is the tendril on the node the peduncle is attached to. When it is fully dry, the fruit is ready.
Show us on the watermelon where the internet hurt you
<shows pale, tasteless spot>
I bet it was a pumpkin
Where’s the part where you slap it?
I guess it depends if it’s male or female?
That’s between you and the watermelon, leave me out of your racy play.
I did not think I was going to be bookmarking a post about picking watermelon today.
Anyone know where I can find those sweet and juicy webbed females?
Bradford Watermelons was always my favorite. We’d get all sorts from them, but the watermelons would make it to the tasting menu.
https://bradfordwatermelons.com/
They also sold green runner peanuts before the pandemic.
Um… Florida?
I will never remember this but I will think about it sometimes
I’m convinced I have undiagnosed adhd
Hey man, talk to your doctor and get that shit checked out. If you do have it, there are options for treatment which could vastly improve your quality of life
I started to get help. There’s a screening process and a questionnaire that I have to do but I know it will be worth the effort to get treatment. Imma do it!!
Morgan Freeman taught me to flick melons to determine the ripeness in Unleashed, and I have honed the skill to a masterful level. Get weird looks from strangers sometimes tho…
Sounds like a great way to get sick or spread sickness.
Maybe if you’re Immuno-compromised, have bad hand hygiene practices, or go around people when you’re sick.
going around licking public display foods is bad hygiene practices tbh.
Good thing no one is advocating that.
You should maybe go back and read the post again you’re complaining about…
ah shit, I didn’t see the f on my small laptop monitor with border buffers for anonymity when I made that comments- whoops >.>
That’s actually pretty funny.
