Julie Bove wrote:
> "Judy Haffner" > wrote in message
> ...
>> Julie Bove wrote:
>>
>>> That would be not at all. I don't like fruit.
>> Honestly, is there ANYTHING you DO like...other than beans?! You really
>> have a funky unhealthy diet, it seems, from the posts I've read on here.
>
>
> I like quite a lot of vegetables. Not going to list them all here. Mostly
> that is what I like and mostly that is what I eat. Nothing at all unhealthy
> about that. Due to various medical problems and food intolerances there is
> no point in my listing anything I might like that I can not have.
>
>> I agree with Cheri, if your family likes their melon a certain way, they
>> can darn well fix it to suit their fancy, or...go without. I was never a
>> "slave" to my family or always there at every beck 'n' call either.
>> People have to learn to be efficient and do for themselves.
>
> Okay. If that's what works for you. I don't work outside the home. So I
> do the food. Among other things. I was pretty much raised to do my own
> cooking from the age of 12 on. Actually I was cooking earlier than that.
> My mom hates to cook as does my daughter. I happen to like it. I don't
> really like cutting sticky things up though. But then that's not cooking.
> Is it?
>> I've never had trouble preparing melon, but I've never tried to remove
>> it from the rind. If it's a honeydew, or cantaloupe, I cut it in half,
>> scoop out the seeds, eat & enjoy. If it's a watermelon, we buy them
>> seedless and just cut the round slices off, and stick 'em on a plate and
>> enjoy. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to prepare a melon of any
>> kind.
>
> But as I have posted several times here they are no longer recommending that
> you do that. That's a great way to get food poisoning. They now say to
> scrub the outside well and discard the rind.
>
>
How is scrubbing the rind, cutting into it (which one must do),
and eating a wedge or a half any worse than cutting into it and
then taking the innards out? That's very odd.

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Jean B.