http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018166851Oh my.
grasswire (34,490 posts)
where do the best-eating WATERMELONS come from?
Our local crop of Hermiston Oregon is just in, and they are (wait for it) LEGENDARY.
I realize that the potential for copycats and smart-alecky answers for this thread is high. But I really would like to know about the varieties in other parts of the country.
Do you get those kind of watermelons that are three feet long with lots of seeds?
Or does your market only carry the little personal size ones?
MindMover (2,345 posts)
1. Hope watermelons from central Arkansas are the best in the world ...
Viva_La_Revolution (25,765 posts)
2. Brophy Watermellons from Colorado were the bomb
don't know about now, but I do know I can't find many seeded melons here in Portland, the seedless are all just bland
grasswire (34,490 posts)
12. Hermiston melons have just come in.
They are the best of Oregon's watermelons.
Safeway has them for $2.98 whole this week. Fred Meyer has them for $5.98.
Viva_La_Revolution (25,765 posts)
13. Thank you! I usually just go to Winco
If they don't have them tomorrow, I'll stop at SW. Know any body that wants 3/4 of a bland seedless watermelon that's been sitting in my fridge for 3 days?
grasswire (34,490 posts)
15. well, the Hermiston melon will be mostly seedless, too...
....but it will be sweet and good. Did you see in Tuesday's Oregonian Food Day section the how-to of picking a good one?
Maybe you could use up that other melon in smoothies.
Viva_La_Revolution (25,765 posts)
16. bah! seedless are always bland compared to seeded
Who told these growers that we all wanted 'convenience' over taste
MoreGOPoop (72 posts)
3. Hot, sandy bottomlands, especially around the Boot Heel of Missouri. Made even better when plugged.
Lochloosa (7,470 posts)
4. My backyard....
HopeHoops (36,972 posts)
6. I don't dedicate that much space to watermellons or pumpkins anymore.
We're overloaded with vegetable plants as it is. The 16x16 foot pool area is filled with potted spill over right now. We're going to have to crack open the canner in a few weeks.
HopeHoops (36,972 posts)
5. The local farmers' market.
liberaltrucker (7,298 posts)
7. Fayette County, Alabama
Huge, juicy and oh, so sweet!
Full disclosure: I grew up one county north (Walker).
sharp_stick (7,812 posts)
8. I sure haven't found them here but I've only been grabbing the ones at Stop & Shop or Price Chopper and they blow pretty badly. At least so far, no real flavor, even the kids aren't that happy this year.
Phentex (6,776 posts)
9. Albany, GA. I can't believe you have to ask!
And we call it All-Binny.
LWolf (34,324 posts)
10. On the other side of the mountains, big seeded watermelons are infrequent and much more $$ than they used to be.
Most that I see are seedless, in the "refrigerator" size category.
Not that I can't find a way to get the 3-footer in there long enough to get it cold.
I like mine seeded, and I actually eat the seeds instead of spit them.
surrealAmerican (6,210 posts)
11. It's been a few years since I've seen the "seeded" variety.
None of the markets near me seem to carry them. That's too bad, because the seedless melons just don't taste as good.
MissB (10,275 posts)
14. Hermiston, of course.
Just bought one today at Fred Meyers.
rurallib (28,976 posts)
17. muscatine striped melons - Muscatine, Iowa right next to the mighty Mississip
MineralMan (45,727 posts)
18. The best ones I ever ate were in Turkey.
They were small, about the size of a cantaloupe, but absolutely stunningly good. The open air market in Samsun, on the Black Sea had them for a short time every summer.
TuxedoKat (2,108 posts)
19. I miss seeded watermelons
I can never find them anymore. Greatly prefer them to the seedless variety. Maybe farmer's markets would have them.
LiberalAndProud (8,637 posts)
20. I found real watermelons (with seeds) in a local grocery today.
Everything is right about it. Everything. I don't understand why they are so difficult to find these days. There were 6 left in the bin. The personal melon balls overwhelmed the nearby shelves. It seems I'm not the only one who craves real melons.
grasswire (34,490 posts)
21. yeah, growers have deprived us of beautiful seeded watermelons.
How's a kid going to learn to spit melon seeds these days??
Oh, I dunno.
franksolich likes watermelon just as much as the next guy--elongated or global, seedful or seedless.
They're all vegetables with a green skin and a red interior.
Being someone acutely aware that there's so many brown, black, and yellow people in the world who are starving, franksolich finds it silly of the "socially conscious" primitives who "care about others," to boast about, or whine about, this type of watermelon or this other type. It's all watermelon.
Being someone acutely aware that there's so many brown, black, and yellow people in the world who are starving, franksolich is careful to not waste what he has been given, and dines on the watermelon from its deepest red interior clear to the edge of the white stuff--the edge touching the green skin, not the edge where the red ends. Unlike the "socially conscious" primitives who "care," who probably just eat the reddest part and throw the other 90% of the watermelon away.
A watermelon is a watermelon is a watermelon is a watermelon.
note to decent and civilized people reading this, who are not included in the criticism above; decent and civilized people are utterly free to prefer, and dine upon, watermelons as they wish, as decent and civilized people don't wear their "virtue" on their sleeve.
