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Saw an ad for large water melon at Lucky
yoshmyster
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I hope it's the old school oblong water melon from yester year. Haven't had a water melon in a few years. Looking forward to this later today when the shop opens. It'll be fun spitting seeds like when I was a kid. Also water melon juice and vodka will be excellent.
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The round seedless ones aren't as sweet as the oblong seeded ones
Those were Texas melons, long with stripes.
More than 70 years ago, my parents raised peonies and watermelons on our farm. The melons ripened later than the flowers and provided income for those months. There were no seedless varieties back then, but I remember seeing both large, dark green round ones and long green and yellow striped ones. Both heavy to carry to the truck and stack so that they wouldn't bruise on the way to market. The ones we kept to eat were usually the round ones. Put in a large tank of cool well water for a few hours to take away the heat from the sun. Wonderful treat for July 4th every year.
I remember a watermelon and a bottle of everclear when I was younger.
The melons sold commercially today are by and large flavorless. They were developed to ripen evenly and hold up well to shipping . Find a farmers market or neighborhood fruit stand that raises their own locally
Charleston grey ,Congo and Rattlesnke are three of the best .
My Texas Grampa taught me how to thump watermelons... I'm rarely wrong. I wonder how much they are charging for Yoshs melon?
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Want a good tasting watermelon ?……..steal one from someones patch….😀
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I recall......from my younger days......."The best watermelon......is STOLE watermelon!!"😋😇
…"The best watermelon......is STOLE watermelon!!"…years ago a friend and I were coming back late night from a Bass Tourney on Milwood Lake in Arkansas…lizards needed to be drained so we found a Kelechi rock road we went down a ways…to leave we had to back the trailer thru a cattle guard gate to turn around to head back to the Hwy…the trailer lights lit up lots of watermelons…hmmm🙄….a watermelon patch(!)…well…we loaded up 10-12 watermelons into the boat, went to leave and… stuck in the sand, miles from anywhere….then we saw head lights coming down the road…old East Texas farmer stopped and ask us if we needed help…he towed us up on the Kelichi road…of course he wouldn't take any money so feeling benevolent, I ask if he wanted any watermelons, and I added "this whole field is full of 'em"…he ask us to pick him out a couple of nice ones, so we did…we ask him if he knew who's field it was, he smiled and said "its mine"..😮…at that moment I'd rather have paid $100 apiece for those melons…super nice guy, we all laughed about it…I never took anything else from a field…but….there was one time when I passed a corn field one night, stalks covered in corn…….
There was an older guy about 5 miles from our place who grew watermelons and cantaloupe for sale. Dad would buy 5 melons each time figuring there would be one really good, 3 pretty much OK, and one not worth hauling home. Came out pretty much correct.
The on sale water melon was round-ish and next to it was the oblong ones for $10.99 I thought better and spent more for the oblong beauty. Got busy over the weekend with the eye exam by the office that's going to do the job.
Then I was talking to a friend who has the dog that likes me has a tear or cancer (the vet didn't wanna "guess") so I went and saw her. She is panting even though it wasn't all that warm. 10 year old brindle cane corso. I may go take her a bag of Mexican pork rind (the ones that come in a sheet the size of a hand towel). I better take a bag of carrots for the donkey or maybe some apples?