"Jean B." > wrote in message
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> 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.

I don't know. Perhaps if it sits with the rind on after being cut into then
whatever the bad stuff is sticks in the rind? All I know is that every
source I looked at about cutting it up for serving said that they now
recommend that the rind be removed.

I ate plenty of half cantaloupes in my lifetime. Way back when I used to
occasionally eat fruit I would just cut it in half, take the seeds out and
eat it. Sometimes I will fill it with cottage cheese or sherbet and maybe
some berries. My family used to eat it that way. But I think they got
spoiled after I bought the cut up fruit for them and now they just want
that.