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Why YSK: These tips may help you pick a more ripe, juicier, sweeter watermelon.
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This is all good info except for the gender thing. The round/long difference is just a growth habit. Watermelon plants (and other cucurbits like squash, zucchini, cantaloupe, etc) produce male and female flowers. Only the female flowers produce fruit and must be pollinated by a male flower to do so.
Was about to post this. There is a fact check here: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2022/04/26/fact-check-false-claim-male-and-female-watermelons/7366708001/ No such thing as male or female watermelons.
So if I’m getting the info correct: the uglier the melon, the better it will taste
Probably because beautiful melons had it easy, while the ugly melons had to work on their personality and talent to make up for the shunning they got from the melon community. Big Melon always presents attractive melons on media, making it harder for ugly melons.
#UglyMelonsTasteBetter
its whats inside that matters… you dont eat the rind
well… you dont
Finally some solid Science ! The Psychology of Melons on death-row are not getting enough attention. Thank you Sir !
Finally, Lemmy has reached peak Reddit quality shitposting.
I salute you, person.
Awesome, thank you for the info! Always learn something new on lemmy.
Also the webbing would vary between varieties.
Also I doubt there’s much variation in “ground spot” color.
yeah but some varieties should be naturally sweeter than others.
Great, now I wont have to be sexist against the watermelons
This was bullshit the first 2000 times it was posted to reddit and it’s still bullshit here.
I just roll my eyes at it now.
FYI there is no reliable way to tell if a watermelon is ripe after it is harvested. The most reliable indicator is the tendril on the node the peduncle is attached to. When it is fully dry, the fruit is ready.
Show us on the watermelon where the internet hurt you
<shows pale, tasteless spot>
I bet it was a pumpkin
Even on lemmy people still aren’t bothering to fact check things. Disappointing.
Okay how can I tell which watermelon 🍉 is best for insertion ???
Tender to touch but not full of maggots
The markets where I buy are confident enough in their product that they cut the one you want to taste before you buy. I’ve never found a more reliable method than that.
sir this is a wal-mart
Sir, this is the Planet of the Grapes wine store.
Trick question! They’re all perfect for this 🥰
You see a female water melon has ovaries while the male melons have spikes
Nah, I’m just going to continue doing what I’ve always done: tapping the watermelon to hear the sound and pretend that I know what I’m doing.
I’ll just remember “pick the most fucked up looking melon with patchy orange spots and ugly crisscross webbing”. It’s probably not going to make the photo reel but it’ll taste good.
The ugly ones usually taste better, just check that the ugliness isn’t caused by molds
in general I find this to be true with most fruits, the uglier the better. Those pretty shiny apples are shit.
The ones with worms are sweeter cause worms can choose better than humans.
Yep. Extra protein too
Oddly, I can tell exactly how an apple will taste just by touching it. Shiny smooth apples are usually soft/mushy and have no taste. You want a rough texture with a little grip.
Ugliness is correlated with age, and ripeness is correlated with age, so ugliness and ripeness would at the very least be spuriously correlated.
Where’s the part where you slap it?
That’s between you and the watermelon, leave me out of your racy play.
I guess it depends if it’s male or female?
Fruit don’t have “genders,” this is complete bullshit
I believe that’s why it’s in quotations… this post is going to start a war, lol.
Plants absolutely do, though.
And you can also have bisexual flowers.😎
Most plants are hermaphrodites actually.
The fuck is a “male” plant ovary?
When I see nonsense like this, I then distrust the entire YSK.
Yaaa the whole gendered fruit thing I will never understand
I dont know about watermelons but there are a plethora of plants that can not produce fruit without being pollinated by another plant. Also if you ever self pollinate a plant you’ll have to recognize the 2 different parts. Is it just the calling them male/female that bothers you? Edit: I guess I should say plants/flowers can have a sex, fruits I don’t think would. They are just seed dispersers I believe.
Hmm I’m no plant expert, so maybe I’m wrong about this but I thought fruit always grows after pollen moves to an egg like part of the flower/plant, so the ‘sex’ of the fruit is always a combined pollen+egg like cell. This cell develops into a seed while the surrounding plant grows the fruit for various reasons. Maybe there is a heterozygous genetic trait in some plants where we could label the individual as sex A or B, but I thought self pollinating plants were basically both sexes at the same time??? Idk… Maybe I should do some googling but heck the fediverse needs content :P
Testicles(!)
In my family we just slap the watermelons
Idk man you do you, but I prefer eating them
What did they do to your family?
That is non of our business do what you like
Good sound, good taste. - a Chinese proverb
Don’t be melon dramatic
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Hey aren’t you the guy that didn’t shit? Are you still full of shit or did you manage to get it out
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This is horse shit
now do a honeydew
The outside of the honeydew should also be tacky, like you can pick it up with one hand. If it’s smooth and slippery, it’s not ripe.
Awesome to know, thanks. All of this talk got me hungry for melons…
I’m upset at the fact that this fruit does not contain dew
Never eat them, horrible watery bullshit and more effort than they’re worth.
However, a very much appreciated post because my wife loves them and if this is true, I can become the Watermelon Wizard
Thanks, possibly:)
Watermelons are the closest thing to biblical mana in these times of extreme temperatures. I too aspire to become a watermelon wizard, but for my own benefit.
There’s some tools take them easy to prep. I have a tool that’s just a metal loop and it’s amazing. Basically you just slice the watermelon in half then scoop out in either sphere shapes or long strips.
If you do become the Watermelon Wizard, will you be getting a cape? Or what do wizard wear… a mantle?
I was thinking about just painting my balls green tbh
Make sure to put a large, orange blotch on them to indicate they’re delicious!
Congrats you are now a wizard
She’s going to love it.
You get two massive melons on your chest
I’m not sure what the effort you’re taking about is. Don’t you must cut off a hunk and then cut it into chunks? Seems like one of the easier kinds of produce to prepare.
There’s nothing better and more comforting than sitting down with a cold watermelon in the middle of summer.
Conversely, there’s nothing worse than sitting down with an unsweetened, tasteless garbage ball of a watermelon.
Saving this to increase my odds!
Honestly, I actually prefer the bigger, firmer, less sweet watermelons over the smaller, softer, sweeter ones. I don’t like how the small sweet ones sometimes have a slightly mealy texture, and prefer a lot of cold watermelon texture with a bit of the sweet melon flavor over a smaller amount of melon with a flavor that can be a bit more intense than I’d like it.
Tasteless watermelon is a crime against humanity.
I agree, but it’s nothing a good sprinkle of tajin can’t solve
Mmm, tajin. Solution to most of life’s problems.
Fun fact: Tajín goes well with tasteless watermelons because they’re actually sweet giant watery cucumbers.
Learning something new every day.
