Last week the "personal watermelons" were on sale at my grocery store, so I decided to see what all the fuss was about. The personal watermelon is a seedless watermelon that is about the size of a cantaloupe. I live alone, so the size is perfect for me. I also like that they don't require a major commitment of refrigerator space. In terms of taste, I couldn't detect any difference - it tasted like watermelon to me. The seeds are quite small (they're called seedless, but there are many small soft white seeds) so you can eat them, I think, without fear of watermelons growing out of your ears.
They're very attractive too. In fact, I think cut in half and scooped out, they would make fantastic bowls for serving fruit salad.
4 comments:
Hi Cathy,
We have those watermelons here too. They are known as Thai watermelons. Don't ask me why though.... In terms of taste, I don't find them as sweet as the others. Or maybe it's because I don't know how to choose them carefully enough!
Oh, those are super cute! I love your idea to use it as a bowl for fruit salad. The grapes really give me a perspective as to its size.
Alice
Reid - I first heard of these just a couple of weeks ago when I read about them in the paper, but I've only seen them in the store that one time. Sounds like maybe you've been seeing them for a while - maybe we'll see more of them here next summer.
Alice - They are cute, aren't they? I confess I just jammed some fruit into the melon "bowl" for the picture - it was late and I didn't feel like making a real fruit salad!
we dont have those things here
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