"Brooklyn1" <Gravesend1> wrote in message
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> "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
> http://abagond.wordpress.com/2011/03...on-stereotype/

Here it is cut up, rind removed.