On Sun, 21 Jul 2013 17:47:29 -0600, Janet Bostwick
> wrote:

>from what I recall, your watermelon should have a 'yellow belly'
>before you pick it.
I learned that trick from an episode of Alton Brown's 'Good Eats".
It's surprising how many people *don't* know it--and dismaying that
*I* didn't know it until watching that episode.

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Bob
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