"Jean B." > wrote in message
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> Brooklyn1 wrote:
>> "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/
>
> I've never seen that "diving" in person. There sure are enough old
> depictions of that stereotype though, one of which is on the top of a
> stack of booklets on my table. For that matter, a lot of Victorian trade
> cards had those stereotypical images.
>
> I haven;t been going to restaurants much, alas, and tend to go to ethnic
> ones when I do go, so I don't run into much melon of any kind.

My grandparents always served watermelon at family picnics even though they
hated the stuff. In those days it was not the seedless and they could be
huge. Their only rule was that it had to be eaten outside. I was with them
in my dislike for the stuff but my mom just loves it and always insisted
that I try it again and again. I just never developed a like for the
texture although the flavor is fine. We have old home movies where the kids
were eating straight from the wedge. They would then spit the seeds on the
ground. When my dad would show the movies, he would always play them
backwards so it looked like the kids were sucking the seeds up off of the
ground and depositing the melon back onto the rind with their lips.

I never understood why people let their kids eat in a messy fashion like
that. Sure when they are really young and just learning to use a fork and
spoon or even their fingers, things will be messy. But after that? I see
no excuse. I didn't let my daughter have ice cream often unless we were at
home she could only have it in a dish and I would fill the spoon for her
until she learned how much to put in there. If she had it in a cone at
home, I only put a tiny amount in the cone. I hate it when parents give
their kids huge cones of ice cream and then let them get it all over their
faces and drip down their hands.