# Do you salt your watermelon? Why? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 29, 2004, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-salt-your-watermelon-why/266618 "2004-09-29T04:22:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2004, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-salt-your-watermelon-why/266618/61 "2004-09-30T22:31:29Z")
> [@TellMeI'mNotCrazy](#): > > I salt my watermelon. For the reasons already given. > > But if we’re gonna knock Foods from the South[Sup]TM[/Sup] then I have to nominate the horrendous “Banana and Mayonnaise Sandwich.” I love mayonnaise, and will sometimes eat things just for their mayonnaise content (tuna salad, etc.) but good grief this is horrendous. OOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHH!!! **TellMeI’mNotCrazy** has besmirched the good name of the 'nanner sammich. I am afraid I must tell you, my dear, you are indeed **CRAZY!!!** Yea, you are a veritable **LOON!** **TellMeI’mNotCrazy** please report to the nearest padded room. **NOW!** 😃 ---
**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2004, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-salt-your-watermelon-why/266618/62 "2004-10-01T04:03:48Z")
> [@AHunter3](#): > > Tomatoes are best when covered with a big scoop of cottage cheese or a couple strips of bacon. Salted and peppered. Almost perfect. Except you accidentally inserted “or a couple strips of bacon”. It should obviously read “and”. Oh… salting things… I’ve never tried salt and watermelon… but… **\>eval(canteloupe+salt);** ``` delicious ``` ---
**Author:** ![Tentacle\_Monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba9def/32.png) [@Tentacle\_Monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tentacle_Monster)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2004, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-salt-your-watermelon-why/266618/63 "2004-10-01T16:11:15Z")
Thanks for the answers, y’all. I understand how just a little salt will improve just about any flavor. It’s the reason that the cocoa powder box mentions salt on the recipe for hot chocolate (and I _know_ how much that improves it.) Now, then, gravy on rice. I’d never even heard of such a thing before I enlisted, and now every time I get rice at the chow hall, whoever’s serving almost invariably asks me “Gravy on your rice?” ---
**Author:** ![tremorviolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47774/32.png) [@tremorviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tremorviolet)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2004, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-salt-your-watermelon-why/266618/64 "2004-10-01T16:27:13Z")
> [@Tentacle Monster](#): > > Now, then, gravy on rice. I’d never even heard of such a thing before I enlisted, and now every time I get rice at the chow hall, whoever’s serving almost invariably asks me “Gravy on your rice?” What? You eat your rice _plain_?? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2004, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-salt-your-watermelon-why/266618/65 "2004-10-01T18:13:23Z")
they ask you if you want it because gravy and rice is yummy. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2004, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-salt-your-watermelon-why/266618/66 "2004-10-01T18:21:14Z")
Well **of course** gravy on rice! Let me explain this to ya. See, the reason rice, potatoes and dressing (stuffing to all you yankees) exist is so we can have something to put gravy on. Really folks, this is all food 101 stuff. Y’all should have gotten this by now. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![audiobottle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc8723/32.png) [@audiobottle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/audiobottle)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2004, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-salt-your-watermelon-why/266618/67 "2004-10-01T18:22:56Z")
Gravy on your rice? Next you’ll tell me you just pour some soy sauce on it and eat it that way. Defilers of all that is pure! Your culinary sins will not be held against you if you repent immediately. ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2004, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-salt-your-watermelon-why/266618/68 "2004-10-01T18:23:04Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > Well **of course** gravy on rice! Let me explain this to ya. See, the reason rice, potatoes and dressing (stuffing to all you yankees) exist is so we can have something to put gravy on. > > Really folks, this is all food 101 stuff. Y’all should have gotten this by now. :dubious: So much for the rumor that gay men have good taste 😛 ---
**Author:** ![tremorviolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47774/32.png) [@tremorviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tremorviolet)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2004, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-salt-your-watermelon-why/266618/69 "2004-10-01T18:42:45Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > Well **of course** gravy on rice! Let me explain this to ya. See, the reason rice, potatoes and dressing (stuffing to all you yankees) exist is so we can have something to put gravy on. > > Really folks, this is all food 101 stuff. Y’all should have gotten this by now. :dubious: Mmmm, now that is one thing I really miss as a vegetarian, gravy n’mashed taters. Veggie gravy just isn’t the same. The other thing is good ham. Mmmmmm, ham… ---
**Author:** ![Tentacle\_Monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba9def/32.png) [@Tentacle\_Monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tentacle_Monster)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2004, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-salt-your-watermelon-why/266618/70 "2004-10-01T20:35:41Z")
> [@tremorviolet](#): > > What? You eat your rice plain?? Yep. But most oten with something on top of it, like the shrimp creole or the beef & broccoli that the chow hall occaisonally serves. Which I suppose is gravy-like. According to a couple of people around here I asked, gravy on rice is a common Southern thing. I’d never encountered it, mostly because my mom rarely made rice and my stepmonster is Thai and wouldn’t countenance a thing like gravy on rice. Nowhere else in Missouri could I find a place that serves rice with gravy. I suppose Missouri isn’t Southern enough for a thing like that. At least you can still get sweet tea there. Which reminds me of another odd thing: the tea nozzle on the soda fountains at Keesler AFB, Mississippi dispense sweet tea, but here in Idaho it dispenses unsweetened tea. So, I guess that sweet tea is _more_ Southern than gravy on rice; and Missouri isn’t quite Southern enough for common gravy-on-rice, but is Southern enough for common sweet-tea. I can only conclude that on some level, sweet tea is _better_ than gravy on rice. Discuss. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-salt-your-watermelon-why/266618.md?page=3)