In Spain, it is common to say that you got a “cucumber-y” watermelon when it is not sweet.
Can’t you make pickles from watermelon rind?
Fun fact: cucumbers and watermelons are actually part of the same family: the cucurbitaceae.
Watermelons are vegetables…
…tomatoes are fruit…Your mom is a peach
Vegetables don’t exist. It’s a culinary word which does not exist in botany. It describes an enormous umbrella of fruits, roots, leaves, stems, flowers, and seeds.
Fruit don’t exist. It is a botanical word describing seed bearing structures of flowering plants.
What ? I’ve study botany and the term fruit is used extensively.
A fruit is the heterozygotic offspring of the parent plant. A seed is the male zygote, with the female zygote being pollen. So “seed” oils are made from fruit, just like olive oil.
A tuber (potato) or rhyzome (ginger) is a homozygotic offspring. A vegetable is a part of the plant that is not the offspring, like the leaves, stem or root.
I’ve study botany and the term fruit is used extensively.
…Yes?
you should probably read my comment again
Exactly. Botanically cucumbers are berries, just like bananas which makes much more sense.
No. Technically, both watermelons and cucumbers are berries.
and all berries are fruit.
I will do you one better. Why gamora?
gawhat now?
Its a reference from avengers movie.
Makes sense. The watermelon is like a playdoh ball then you just flatten it to a snake to get the cucumber
That was actually God’s process when he created them 6000 years ago.
It should be mentioned that Americans and Europeans seldom talk about the exact same thing when talking about cucumbers. The most common cucumber type in the US is a spiky bitter thing with a thick rind, while the most common in Europe is softer with a smooth rind, more watery and often much sweeter in taste (the type which Americans for some reason call the English cucumber).
Then the OP makes sense. Because the white part of a watermelon tastes nothing like cucumber.
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Holy shit. First time seeing someone who also thinks this. 😮
That’s why I don’t like cucumber but I love pickles. What if I pickled the rhind of a watermelon… 🤔
Go one step further: pickle the whole watermelon like Hungarians do.
That’s actually a thing
Yep, I have a friend who pickles watermelon rind. It’s delicious. I mean, it tastes like pickles and the texture is similar to cucumbers.
Right? I do like cucumbers though because I’m committing to that flavor and it’s still watery and refreshing. But when it happens at the end of enjoying a sweet juicy watermelon, it’s not great.
My family pickles watermelons, for generations. They are delicious.
I love cucumber, and I enjoy chewing on watermelon rind
