I Pit Watermelon

Whatever you do, don’t eat a lot of watermelon after having had beef jerky. I recall that had unpleasant results for an acquaintance. Something about the water content of the watermelon causing the jerky to expand. :eek:

You say that like eating people is a bad thing :wink:

I was waiting for that! Good one!

I actually started to write a song along these lines when I was a teenager:
“Casaba sure Walter Mellon canteloupe the way my honeydew…”
But, you know, where do you go from there?

The best popsicle I EVER had was a fresh watermelon-juice popsicle!

Ah, you must have missed the part where I said

Or maybe I just wasn’t clear that what I meant was that when I eat a watermelon per day, that’s all I eat all day long. That would be one of those big spherical watermelons, a little bigger than a basketball. Other posters have hinted at the possibility of certain digestive difficulties when doing something like this, but for me, the only noticeable effect is the same as when I drink a lot of water.

I read this thread while eating fruit salad. I made it with a whole Sugar Baby watermelon, a canteloupe, a pineapple, a pound of green grapes and a pound of strawberries. And DAMN was it good. Good thing, because holy crap did I make a lot of it.

I tried making watermelon juice in a juicer one time. It extracted a good amount of pulp-free juice, but the container that usually catches the pulp was full of a thick, deep red liquid the consistency of applesauce. I wasn’t sure what to do with this stuff, so I tried sending it through the juicer again, which accomplished nothing. I tried drinking it, but the texture was off-putting, almost gelatinous and slimy. I concluded watermelon was one of the fruits that did not improve by running it through a juicer. Oh, and it was a pain to clean the machine after my little experiment.

I pit myself because there was watermelon at the grocery store this morning but I didn’t buy any because I thought it was ‘too early’. It’s been just like summer here the last few days. Watermelon would have been the final touch to a perfect Saturday. :frowning: I shall console myself with a popsicle now.

I don’t pit watermelon; I heartily endorse watermelon. But, yeah… it’s a lot of water, and not much else. I can see where once you pee, you’re going to be hungry again.

My husband has acquired for me, on his way home, a watermelon. :slight_smile: It’s all good now.

Blech. You all crazy.
Where’s that damn puke smiley again?

And that day - breakfast will be all you remember.

Yeah, Fear Itself, I had a similar experience.

Think blender, not juicer. As you say the juicer extracts too much and the result is off putting.

You’ll be delighted with the results should you try a blender though, I promise!