On 07/08/2014 07:08 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> On 7/8/2014 5:12 PM, Nellie wrote:
>> Is there any happier food that watermelon? Just looking at one makes
>> me smile.
>>
>> We always have one that we are working on : ) and one back up just
>> chilling in the back of the fridge waiting its turn.
>>
>> Sometimes I just slice it, more often I cube it. We eat it plain,
>> except my 15 year old niece introduced me to the combination of feta
>> cheese on watermelon, but that is about as far as we venture from
>> plain ol' plain ol'
>>
>> So, what do you all do with it? Do you think there is a difference in
>> taste, texture, sweetness between the seedless and seeded?
>>
>> Nellie
>>
>
> Seeded, of course, if I can find one. The seedless don't have the taste
> and texture of a good seeded melon. Most are picked before ripening too.

I prefer the seeded type for reasons others have already given.
Unfortunately, someone in the food supply chain has taken that choice
away from me. The seeded type are unavailable anywhere around here,
except maybe at an expensive farmers' market.

When I was a kid, they used to sell watermelons floating in a tank of
water with big blocks of ice to keep them cold.