Brooklyn1 wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 21:26:08 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> > wrote:
>
>> "Jean B." > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> Julie Bove wrote:
>>>> "ViLco" > wrote in message
>>>> ...
>>>>> Julie Bove wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>> Same thing I thougth when I first heard of this method, but it's
>>>>>>> perfectly clean.
>>>>>>> BTW you can also break them on a table
>>>>>> That hardly sounds less messy and the rind would still need to be
>>>>>> removed. And the seeds!
>>>>> Do you really remove the rind and the seeds everytime? I understand why
>>>>> you have these issues
>>>> Of course! Who wants to pick around the seeds? And as I said, it is no
>>>> longer advised to serve it with the rind on if it is a bumpy rind. I
>>>> used to just cut in half, scoop out the seeds and serve. But my family
>>>> doesn't like to eat it this way. They prefer it cut up and no rind.
>>> What is the point of not serving in the rind, given that you still need to
>>> cut through that rind to get to the interior? Put a cut piece on a plate,
>>> eat the melon, don't lick the plate or the rind, and wash your hands well
>>> afterwards, if you're concerned.
>> They just won't eat it that way.
>
> Wonderful, I'd eat it for them, more for me! LOL
>
> Actually I don't enjoy my melon served all hacked into chunks, the
> least obvious handling the better I like it... I abhor those fruit
> salads with everything all hacked up unless I prepare it myself... I
> especially don't want anyone hulling and slicing my strawberries...
> I'm a big boy, I know how to use a knife. So who cuts your steak?
>
The prehacked fruits end up losing much of their individual
character, don't they? I agree on that. I also was brought up
eating a wedge or a half a cantaloupe, so cutting it up further
seemed unnecessary to me.

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Jean B.