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Watermelon Survey
- Room temperature or cold from the fridge?
- Salt and/or pepper or plain? - Spit the seeds into your hand (or on your plate) or try to take an eye out of anyone nearby? -- -Jeff B. zoomie at fastmail fm |
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"Yeff" > wrote in message ... >- Room temperature or cold from the fridge? > > - Salt and/or pepper or plain? > > - Spit the seeds into your hand (or on your plate) or try > to take an eye out of anyone nearby? > > -- > > -Jeff B.zoomie at fastmail fm Like cool but will eat it any way I can find it, i.e. fresh from market is great. Salt was my fav earlier in life but now usually eat it plain. Never tried pepper. seeds on plate or grass! P |
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"Yeff" > wrote in message ... >- Room temperature or cold from the fridge? 10 minutes out of the fridge on a day like today (80º) > > - Salt and/or pepper or plain? IMO Plain; we've already had all our salt and pepper for the day. > > - Spit the seeds into your hand (or on your plate) or try > to take an eye out of anyone nearby? Spit on the ground, it's watermelon, dammit. Jack Seedy |
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Yeff wrote: > - Room temperature or cold from the fridge? > If I'm at home, cold from the fridge. If I'm at the market, room temperature. > - Salt and/or pepper or plain? Again, if I'm at home, salt and pepper. At the market, plain. > > - Spit the seeds into your hand (or on your plate) or try > to take an eye out of anyone nearby? On the plate except while walking around at the outdoor market, then in the vacant lot. Sandi |
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Jack Schidt=AE wrote: > "Yeff" > wrote in message > ... > >- Room temperature or cold from the fridge? > > 10 minutes out of the fridge on a day like today (80=BA) > > > > - Salt and/or pepper or plain? > > IMO Plain; we've already had all our salt and pepper for the day. > > > > > - Spit the seeds into your hand (or on your plate) or try > > to take an eye out of anyone nearby? > > Spit on the ground, it's watermelon, dammit. > > Jack Seedy Hot summer day, ice cold... never eat watermelon on other but hot summer days. I'm an extremely systematic watermelon consumer and eat from a plate... slice 1" thk quarters, pick off as many seeds as possible with pointy paring knife, slice off mouth sized chunks... poke with knife and feed face... pick off any exposed seeds created by slicing each sucessive chunk and keep stuffing face until ready for next quarter slab. Very few seeds escape my pointy knife and need spitting. Sheldon |
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Yeff wrote:
> - Room temperature or cold from the fridge? > Fresh and warm > - Salt and/or pepper or plain? Plain > - Spit the seeds into your hand (or on your plate) or try > to take an eye out of anyone nearby? Watermelon is to be eaten out doors and you should go for distance. |
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Yeff > wrote:
: - Room temperature or cold from the fridge? cold, cold, very cold : - Salt and/or pepper or plain? plain : - Spit the seeds into your hand (or on your plate) or try : to take an eye out of anyone nearby? both ways. The scary thing is that I'm seeing fewer and fewer watermelons w/ seeds in them at all. I don't get it: seeds are part of the necessary ritual; I'm old enough to remember when the seeds were twice as big as the itty bitty ones we see today. --thelma : -- : -Jeff B. : zoomie at fastmail fm |
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On Mon 04 Jul 2005 04:33:02p, Yeff wrote in rec.food.cooking:
> - Room temperature or cold from the fridge? Either, really. Ice cold is nice if you're eating it outside and it's hot out. > - Salt and/or pepper or plain? Part of it plain and part of it salted. Pepper only if served as part of a meal. > - Spit the seeds into your hand (or on your plate) or try > to take an eye out of anyone nearby? If I'm inside, then back into my spoon and onto the plate. If I'm outside, as far as I can spit them! :-) -- Wayne Boatwright *¿* ____________________________________________ Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day. Sam Goldwyn, 1882-1974 --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 0527-0, 07/04/2005 Tested on: 7/4/2005 5:40:44 PM avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2005 ALWIL Software. http://www.avast.com |
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In article >, Yeff
> wrote: > - Room temperature or cold from the fridge? > > - Salt and/or pepper or plain? > > - Spit the seeds into your hand (or on your plate) or try > to take an eye out of anyone nearby? Cold. Plain. Shoot for distance, not for accuracy. -- -Barb, <http://www.jamlady.eboard.com> 7/01/05 Sam I Am! |
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In article >, Thelma Lubkin
> wrote: I'm old enough to remember when > the seeds were twice as big as the itty bitty ones we see today. > --thelma Heee-e-e-ey-y-y-y-y, now that you mention it. . . . -- -Barb, <http://www.jamlady.eboard.com> 7/01/05 Sam I Am! |
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Melba's Jammin' wrote: > Thelma Lubkin wrote: > I'm old enough to remember when > > the seeds were twice as big as the itty bitty ones we see today. > > --thelma > > Heee-e-e-ey-y-y-y-y, now that you mention it. . . . Don't the size of the seeds have to do with the size of your melons? Sheldon |
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"Yeff" > wrote in message >- Room temperature or cold from the fridge? Cold > - Salt and/or pepper or plain? Plain > > - Spit the seeds into your hand (or on your plate) or try > to take an eye out of anyone nearby? watermelon is eaten on the lawn or at least hanging over the rail of the deck. Spit for distance, none of this hand stuff. Harder and harder to find a seeded melon though. Better taste than the new varieties. -- Ed http://pages.cthome.net/edhome/ |
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On Mon, 04 Jul 2005 23:33:02 GMT, Yeff > wrote:
>- Room temperature or cold from the fridge? cold >- Salt and/or pepper or plain? Plain >- Spit the seeds into your hand (or on your plate) or try > to take an eye out of anyone nearby? Take an eye out Koko A Yuman being on the net (posting from San Diego) |
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"Yeff" > wrote in message ... >- Room temperature or cold from the fridge? > > - Salt and/or pepper or plain? > > - Spit the seeds into your hand (or on your plate) or try > to take an eye out of anyone nearby? > Get seedless Cut a plug in it Pour in a bottle of vocka Put plug back in Refrigerate Enjoy... hic... -- I made magic once. Now, the sofa is gone... http://www.dwacon.com --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 0527-0, 07/04/2005 Tested on: 7/4/2005 11:30:05 PM avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2005 ALWIL Software. http://www.avast.com |
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Yeff wrote:
> - Room temperature or cold from the fridge? > > - Salt and/or pepper or plain? > > - Spit the seeds into your hand (or on your plate) or try > to take an eye out of anyone nearby? > on the rare occasions that i do eat watermelon, its usually cold, straight up, spitting the seeds as far as i can. sometimes i add a little salt and pepper. -- saerah "It's not a gimmick, it's an incentive."- asterbark, afca aware of the manifold possibilities of the future "I think there's a clause in the Shaman's and Jujumen's Local #57 Union contract that they have to have reciprocity for each other's shop rules." -König Prüß |
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Yeff > said:
> - Room temperature or cold from the fridge? Ice cold! > - Salt and/or pepper or plain? Plain for me, held over the ground with two hands, juice dripping off the elbows. > - Spit the seeds into your hand (or on your plate) or try > to take an eye out of anyone nearby? We had a "seedless" watermelon for our picnic today. It was packed with seeds, but they were all white, and easily ignored. I suspect we'll all have little plants sprouting in our bellies sometime this week. ;-) Carol -- Coming at you live, from beautiful Lake Woebegon |
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"Yeff" > wrote in message ... >- Room temperature or cold from the fridge? > > - Salt and/or pepper or plain? > > - Spit the seeds into your hand (or on your plate) or try > to take an eye out of anyone nearby? okay, I'll throw something into the pot, I haven't tasted a "good & sweet" watermelon since the only ones available, that I've seen, in either the super markets, whole foods, trader joe, or the independent markets here in SoCal are seedless, and to me, there is no taste. I can deal with the seeds easily enough, but the 'melon must taste like 'melon. Harriet |
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Yeff wrote: > - Room temperature or cold from the fridge? COLD. DH likes warm - yuk! > > - Salt and/or pepper or plain? PLAIN > > - Spit the seeds into your hand (or on your plate) or try > to take an eye out of anyone nearby? NO SEEDS -L. |
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"Damsel" > wrote in message ... > Yeff > said: > >> - Room temperature or cold from the fridge? > > Ice cold! > >> - Salt and/or pepper or plain? > > Plain for me, held over the ground with two hands, juice dripping off the > elbows. > >> - Spit the seeds into your hand (or on your plate) or try >> to take an eye out of anyone nearby? > > We had a "seedless" watermelon for our picnic today. It was packed with > seeds, but they were all white, and easily ignored. I suspect we'll all > have little plants sprouting in our bellies sometime this week. ;-) > > Carol > > -- > Coming at you live, from beautiful Lake Woebegon |
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"Damsel" > wrote in message ... > Yeff > said: > >> - Room temperature or cold from the fridge? > > Ice cold! > >> - Salt and/or pepper or plain? > > Plain for me, held over the ground with two hands, juice dripping off the > elbows. > >> - Spit the seeds into your hand (or on your plate) or try >> to take an eye out of anyone nearby? > > We had a "seedless" watermelon for our picnic today. It was packed with > seeds, but they were all white, and easily ignored. I suspect we'll all > have little plants sprouting in our bellies sometime this week. ;-) > > Carol I knew that I would be brought to telling this. My first remembrance of watermelon (I'm sure I had it much sooner) was when a family visiting and ours were outside eating & spitting seeds. A woman had a huge stomach and I suddenly saw it and inquired. My grandma said that she had swallowed a watermelon seed and was going to have a baby and everyone hollered with laughter. I said, "but I thought a stork brought them." which brought them to their knees with laughter. Dee Dee |
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"Sheryl Rosen" > wrote in message ... > Melba's Jammin' at wrote on 7/4/05 9:19 PM: > >> In article >, Yeff >> > wrote: >> >>> - Room temperature or cold from the fridge? >>> >>> - Salt and/or pepper or plain? >>> >>> - Spit the seeds into your hand (or on your plate) or try >>> to take an eye out of anyone nearby? >> >> Cold. >> Plain. >> Shoot for distance, not for accuracy. > > Icy Cold. > Neither salt nor pepper (although pepper is not unpleasant, it's just > gilding the lily, I'd prefer it plain) > Seedless....whatever little ones are there get pushed aside. > > I was never allowed to spit growing up and I find it repulsive and > low-class > when I see people spit today. I don't even like it when baseball players > spit out sunflower seed hulls. Yuck. Let's not even go into tobacco juice. > Gross. When one is outside, one spits. However, I'm not talking about in nice suburban manicured lawns, I don't know how they do it, perhaps onto paper plates? One of my hillbilly in-laws carries around a tin can and sits it on the table when he visits for his tobacco juice, spittin' and jawin'. What a sight! Dee Dee |
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On Mon, 04 Jul 2005 23:33:02 GMT, Yeff > wrote:
>- Room temperature or cold from the fridge? > >- Salt and/or pepper or plain? > >- Spit the seeds into your hand (or on your plate) or try > to take an eye out of anyone nearby? Am I the only person who loves to crunch the seeds? they're really good. And no watermelon vine has grown in my belly yet!! Hope |
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In article >, Sheryl Rosen
> wrote: (snippage) > > Icy Cold. > Neither salt nor pepper (although pepper is not unpleasant, it's just > gilding the lily, I'd prefer it plain) > Seedless....whatever little ones are there get pushed aside. > I was never allowed to spit growing up A misspent youth. "-) Ptooey! (I launch the little guys from thumb andf forefinger). "Incoming!!" -- -Barb, <http://www.jamlady.eboard.com> 7/01/05 Sam I Am! |
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"Sheldon" > wrote: > Melba's Jammin' wrote: > > Thelma Lubkin wrote: > > I'm old enough to remember when > > > the seeds were twice as big as the itty bitty ones we see > > > today. > > > --thelma > > > > Heee-e-e-ey-y-y-y-y, now that you mention it. . . . > > Don't the size of the seeds have to do with the size of your melons? > > Sheldon <sigh> <Slaps him silly and stomps him on the ground> -- -Barb, <http://www.jamlady.eboard.com> 7/01/05 Sam I Am! |
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hw wrote:
> markets here in SoCal are seedless, and to me, there is no taste. Here in my corner of Texas, the seedless watermelons have been sweet. Last week I was in Miami, the watermelon I bought there was sweet, too. From what I hear, if they get too much rain, they lose their sweetness. Maybe some melon handlers can let us know. Becca |
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Edwin Pawlowski wrote: > "Yeff" wrote in message > > >- Room temperature or cold from the fridge? > > Cold > > > - Salt and/or pepper or plain? > > Plain > > > > > - Spit the seeds into your hand (or on your plate) or try > > to take an eye out of anyone nearby? > > watermelon is eaten on the lawn or at least hanging over the rail of the > deck. Spit for distance, none of this hand stuff. > > Harder and harder to find a seeded melon though. Better taste than the new > varieties. The old fahioned watermelons mostly have better texture, firmer crisper flesh, juicier and sweeter too... the new fangled seedless pocketsized ones are sorta mushy and tastless. And I really dispise those with tons of those tiny white seeds... can never make up my mind whether to spit or swallow... now I know what conniptions women go through. hehe Sheldon |
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Yeff > writes:
> - Room temperature or cold from the fridge? > > - Salt and/or pepper or plain? > > - Spit the seeds into your hand (or on your plate) or try > to take an eye out of anyone nearby? None of the above. To me, watermelon (indeed, most melons) just tastes like soap[1] with a cucumber aftertaste. It's one of those odd things that makes it clear that with some items people taste something radically different than I do. [1] But unlike cilantro, which also tastes like soap, but in a way that is oddly appealling. -- Richard W Kaszeta http://www.kaszeta.org/rich |
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Becca wrote: > hw wrote: > > > markets here in SoCal are seedless, and to me, there is no taste. > > Here in my corner of Texas, the seedless watermelons have been sweet. > Last week I was in Miami, the watermelon I bought there was sweet, too. > From what I hear, if they get too much rain, they lose their sweetness. > > Maybe some melon handlers can let us know. Actually the more they're rained on the sweeter. Sheldon |
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Richard Kaszeta wrote: > Yeff > writes: > > - Room temperature or cold from the fridge? > > > > - Salt and/or pepper or plain? > > > > - Spit the seeds into your hand (or on your plate) or try > > to take an eye out of anyone nearby? > > None of the above. To me, watermelon (indeed, most melons) just > tastes like soap[1] with a cucumber aftertaste. Um, you're supposed to choose young nubile melons... not those massive mammoths grown too near those cool cukes with the prickles that all they wanna do is bump, grind, and pickle their rinds. Sheldon |
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On Tue 05 Jul 2005 05:19:18a, Richard Kaszeta wrote in rec.food.cooking:
> Yeff > writes: >> - Room temperature or cold from the fridge? >> >> - Salt and/or pepper or plain? >> >> - Spit the seeds into your hand (or on your plate) or try to take an >> eye out of anyone nearby? > > None of the above. To me, watermelon (indeed, most melons) just > tastes like soap[1] with a cucumber aftertaste. It's one of those odd > things that makes it clear that with some items people taste something > radically different than I do. > > [1] But unlike cilantro, which also tastes like soap, but in a way > that is oddly appealling. > Sort of like being color blind. :-) -- Wayne Boatwright *¿* ____________________________________________ Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day. Sam Goldwyn, 1882-1974 --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 0527-0, 07/04/2005 Tested on: 7/5/2005 5:54:42 AM avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2005 ALWIL Software. http://www.avast.com |
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Wayne Boatwright > writes:
> On Tue 05 Jul 2005 05:19:18a, Richard Kaszeta wrote in rec.food.cooking: > > None of the above. To me, watermelon (indeed, most melons) just > > tastes like soap[1] with a cucumber aftertaste. It's one of those odd > > things that makes it clear that with some items people taste something > > radically different than I do. > > > > [1] But unlike cilantro, which also tastes like soap, but in a way > > that is oddly appealling. > > Sort of like being color blind. :-) Funny you mention that, since I am also red/green colorblind...  -- Richard W Kaszeta http://www.kaszeta.org/rich |
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On Tue 05 Jul 2005 06:02:42a, Richard Kaszeta wrote in rec.food.cooking:
> Wayne Boatwright > writes: >> On Tue 05 Jul 2005 05:19:18a, Richard Kaszeta wrote in rec.food.cooking: >> > None of the above. To me, watermelon (indeed, most melons) just >> > tastes like soap[1] with a cucumber aftertaste. It's one of those odd >> > things that makes it clear that with some items people taste something >> > radically different than I do. >> > >> > [1] But unlike cilantro, which also tastes like soap, but in a way >> > that is oddly appealling. >> >> Sort of like being color blind. :-) > > Funny you mention that, since I am also red/green colorblind... > Now that makes me wonder if taste perception and colorblindness are ever related. Hmm... -- Wayne Boatwright *¿* ____________________________________________ Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day. Sam Goldwyn, 1882-1974 --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 0527-0, 07/04/2005 Tested on: 7/5/2005 6:36:24 AM avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2005 ALWIL Software. http://www.avast.com |
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DUH'Wayne Dopewright wrote: >Richard Kaszeta wrote in rec.food.cooking: > > > > Funny you mention that, since I am also red/green colorblind... > > > > Now that makes me wonder if taste perception and colorblindness are ever > related. Hmm... Nope. Not even in the sense that your mouth and your ass are related, which of course they are, intimately. Only someone whose taste buds are truly in their ass and has his smeller shoved up as many buttholes as possible whould even venture such a question. http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/8833/coloreye.html Sheldon |
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Try chilled with feta cheese, basil and little olive oil
yAro |
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Cold, plain, usually get seedless.
Bob M. |
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"Yeff" > wrote in message ... >- Room temperature or cold from the fridge? Cold, definitely. Very refreshing! > > - Salt and/or pepper or plain? Nothing on it, ever. > > - Spit the seeds into your hand (or on your plate) or try > to take an eye out of anyone nearby? Depends on where I am when I eat it!! :-) kimberly |
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Sheldon wrote: > > Now that makes me wonder if taste perception and colorblindness are ever > > related. Hmm... > > Nope. Not even in the sense that your mouth and your ass are related, > which of course they are, intimately. Only someone whose taste buds > are truly in their ass and has his smeller shoved up as many buttholes > as possible whould even venture such a question. > sheldon, i've noticed over the years that you seem to have strange fetish with mouths, noses and assholes and spend considerable thought on ways to get them to interact. are we gonna have to start calling you sheldon scats? |
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A.C. wrote: > Sheldon wrote: > > > > Now that makes me wonder if taste perception and colorblindness are ever > > > related. Hmm... > > > > Nope. Not even in the sense that your mouth and your ass are related, > > which of course they are, intimately. Only someone whose taste buds > > are truly in their ass and has his smeller shoved up as many buttholes > > as possible whould even venture such a question. > > > > sheldon, i've noticed over the years that you seem to have strange fetish with > mouths, noses and assholes and spend considerable thought on ways to get them to > interact. are we gonna have to start calling you sheldon scats? A.C.,I've noticed you have a particularly powerful affinity for inventorying such, do you print out each and every of my posts and have them bound in fine foreskin for your family's perusal... you seem to have overlooked mentioning my fetish for pointing out the dirty douche bags, YOU, a cowardly, nameless, low IQ piece of scat... I mean shit. And so it should never be said that I don't ascribe to the fine points of hospitality by exhibiting timely and fair reciprosity, may the gods of terminal illness visit upon you are yours... may y'all relish yoose torturously slow and exquisitely painful demise. Have a nice day. Sheldon |
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