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Default Least messy way to prep a melon?

Julie Bove wrote:
> "LeonLeonard" > wrote in message
> ...
>> On 7/15/2012 2:13 PM, merryb wrote:
>>> On Jul 15, 10:50 am, Andy > wrote:
>>>> (Judy Haffner) wrote:
>>>>> love cantaloupe and also yogurt, but don't think I'd care for both
>>>>> together. The only "salmonella issue" I've ever heard with cantaloupe
>>>>> was when a person cut it and didn't refrigerate it, but left it out at

>> Scrub the porous skin thoroughly before cuttings to reduce that problem.
>> Last I read, it's not the flesh..... but what may have been, the
>> contaminated
>> soil that it was grown in, stuck in the pours.
>>

>
> Yes but the instructions for cutting that I read in the last few days all
> said you must remove the rind for safety's sake.
>
>

That makes no sense to me.

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