# Have you ever eaten anything larger than your head\[read qualifiers)

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 3, 2012, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-eaten-anything-larger-than-your-head-read-qualifiers/608271 "2012-01-03T17:25:06Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 3, 2012, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-eaten-anything-larger-than-your-head-read-qualifiers/608271/21 "2012-01-03T20:14:45Z")

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> [@obfusciatrist](#):
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> 12 pounds of watermelon is about 11 pounds of water, so about a gallon and a third.
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> That’s a lot of water. Would it fall afoul of liquid and semi-liguid being excluded? Does jello count since it is also water suspended in a solid matrix?

I’m gonna say anything you have to chew qualifies - so watermelon=yes, jello, probably not.

And weight is the key factor here folks. I should have said ‘heavier than your head’ really, but it doesn’t sound as good.

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**Post date:** [January 3, 2012, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-eaten-anything-larger-than-your-head-read-qualifiers/608271/22 "2012-01-03T21:35:35Z")

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> [@RealityChuck](#):
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> I stick with B. Kliban’s advice on this matter.

[+1](http://i.pbase.com/v3/89/475089/1/47513555.NeverEatAnythingBiggerThanYourHead.jpg)

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**Post date:** [January 4, 2012, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-eaten-anything-larger-than-your-head-read-qualifiers/608271/23 "2012-01-04T00:45:40Z")

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Cantaloupe, I’ve seen some nearly the size of a human head. I can easily eat a whole one in six hours.

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**Post date:** [January 4, 2012, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-eaten-anything-larger-than-your-head-read-qualifiers/608271/24 "2012-01-04T00:58:34Z")

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Absolutely: watermelon. When I was pregnant with my son, it was one of my cravings.

Not long after, I rapidly deposited said watermelon all over the parking lot of a nearby gas station.

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**Post date:** [January 4, 2012, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-eaten-anything-larger-than-your-head-read-qualifiers/608271/25 "2012-01-04T00:59:43Z")

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I have (many times) eaten a very large melon in one sitting (taking way less than 6 hours). I have a massive weakness for melon (watermelon, honeydew, cantaloup) and my boyfriend detests it so when I buy one, I tend to eat the entire thing myself in one sitting.

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**Post date:** [January 5, 2012, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-eaten-anything-larger-than-your-head-read-qualifiers/608271/26 "2012-01-05T09:55:12Z")

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This made me laugh and reminded me of a Zit comic strip:

A kid and his mother are sitting at the kitchen table having a heart-to- heart.

He askes her, "What’s the biggest bug you’ve ever eaten _on purpose?_

She’s thinking, “If I’d had a girl we’d be talking about prom dresses.”

A cantalope. A really big cantalope. And I ate it all.

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