"Jean B." wrote:
>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.
Do you know how you can tell you're at a *** black folk's picnic,
dem's be eatin' cantylupe! LOL
Any restaurant I've ever patronized, from 5 Star to greazy spoon,
serves cantaloupe halves in their rind... it's totally left to the
diner to filet them as they will. Most folks, at least those of the
elevated classes, scoop and eat with a spoon... lesser classes tend to
slice into wedges and dive in face first, same as they eat huge wedges
of wartymelon! hehe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVGWIsvcL6s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWJIvBlBIAY
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