Watermelon Survey

"Yeff" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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- Room temperature or cold from the fridge?

- Salt and/or pepper or plain?

- Spit the seeds into your hand (or on your plate) or try
to take an eye out of anyone nearby?

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-Jeff B.zoomie at fastmail fm

Like cool but will eat it any way I can find it, i.e. fresh from market is
great. Salt was my fav earlier in life but now usually eat it plain. Never
tried pepper.
seeds on plate or grass! P

"Yeff" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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- Room temperature or cold from the fridge?

10 minutes out of the fridge on a day like today (80º)

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- Salt and/or pepper or plain?

IMO Plain; we've already had all our salt and pepper for the day.

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- Spit the seeds into your hand (or on your plate) or try
to take an eye out of anyone nearby?

Spit on the ground, it's watermelon, dammit.

Jack Seedy

Yeff said:

- Room temperature or cold from the fridge?

If I'm at home, cold from the fridge. If I'm at the market, room
temperature.

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- Salt and/or pepper or plain?

Again, if I'm at home, salt and pepper. At the market, plain.

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- Spit the seeds into your hand (or on your plate) or try
to take an eye out of anyone nearby?

On the plate except while walking around at the outdoor market, then in
the vacant lot.

Sandi

Jack Schidt® said:

"Yeff" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

- Room temperature or cold from the fridge?

10 minutes out of the fridge on a day like today (80º)

Quoted message said:

- Salt and/or pepper or plain?

IMO Plain; we've already had all our salt and pepper for the day.

Quoted message said:

- Spit the seeds into your hand (or on your plate) or try
to take an eye out of anyone nearby?

Spit on the ground, it's watermelon, dammit.

Jack Seedy

Hot summer day, ice cold... never eat watermelon on other but hot
summer days.

I'm an extremely systematic watermelon consumer and eat from a plate...
slice 1" thk quarters, pick off as many seeds as possible with pointy
paring knife, slice off mouth sized chunks... poke with knife and feed
face... pick off any exposed seeds created by slicing each sucessive
chunk and keep stuffing face until ready for next quarter slab. Very
few seeds escape my pointy knife and need spitting.

Sheldon

Yeff said:

- Room temperature or cold from the fridge?

Fresh and warm

Quoted message said:

- Salt and/or pepper or plain?

Plain

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- Spit the seeds into your hand (or on your plate) or try
to take an eye out of anyone nearby?

Watermelon is to be eaten out doors and you should go for
distance.

Yeff <[email hidden]> wrote:
: - Room temperature or cold from the fridge?

cold, cold, very cold

: - Salt and/or pepper or plain?

plain

: - Spit the seeds into your hand (or on your plate) or try
: to take an eye out of anyone nearby?

both ways. The scary thing is that I'm seeing fewer and
fewer watermelons w/ seeds in them at all. I don't get it: seeds are
part of the necessary ritual; I'm old enough to remember when
the seeds were twice as big as the itty bitty ones we see today.
--thelma
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On Mon 04 Jul 2005 04:33:02p, Yeff wrote in rec.food.cooking:

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- Room temperature or cold from the fridge?

Either, really. Ice cold is nice if you're eating it outside and it's hot
out.

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- Salt and/or pepper or plain?

Part of it plain and part of it salted. Pepper only if served as part of a
meal.

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- Spit the seeds into your hand (or on your plate) or try
to take an eye out of anyone nearby?

If I'm inside, then back into my spoon and onto the plate. If I'm outside,
as far as I can spit them! :-)

--
Wayne Boatwright *¿*
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In article <[email hidden]>, Yeff

Quoted message said:

- Room temperature or cold from the fridge?

- Salt and/or pepper or plain?

- Spit the seeds into your hand (or on your plate) or try
to take an eye out of anyone nearby?

Cold.
Plain.
Shoot for distance, not for accuracy.
--
-Barb, <http://www.jamlady.eboard.com> 7/01/05 Sam I Am!

In article <[email hidden]>, Thelma Lubkin
<[email hidden]> wrote:
I'm old enough to remember when

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the seeds were twice as big as the itty bitty ones we see today.
--thelma

Heee-e-e-ey-y-y-y-y, now that you mention it. . . .
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-Barb, <http://www.jamlady.eboard.com> 7/01/05 Sam I Am!

Melba's Jammin said:

Thelma Lubkin wrote:
I'm old enough to remember when

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the seeds were twice as big as the itty bitty ones we see today.
--thelma

Heee-e-e-ey-y-y-y-y, now that you mention it. . . .

Don't the size of the seeds have to do with the size of your melons?

Sheldon

"Yeff" <[email hidden]> wrote in message

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- Room temperature or cold from the fridge?

Cold

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- Salt and/or pepper or plain?

Plain

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- Spit the seeds into your hand (or on your plate) or try
to take an eye out of anyone nearby?

watermelon is eaten on the lawn or at least hanging over the rail of the
deck. Spit for distance, none of this hand stuff.

Harder and harder to find a seeded melon though. Better taste than the new
varieties.
--
Ed
http://pages.cthome.net/edhome/

Yeff said:

- Room temperature or cold from the fridge?

cold

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- Salt and/or pepper or plain?

Plain

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- Spit the seeds into your hand (or on your plate) or try
to take an eye out of anyone nearby?

Take an eye out

Koko
A Yuman being on the net
(posting from San Diego)

"Yeff" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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- Room temperature or cold from the fridge?

- Salt and/or pepper or plain?

- Spit the seeds into your hand (or on your plate) or try
to take an eye out of anyone nearby?

Get seedless
Cut a plug in it
Pour in a bottle of vocka
Put plug back in
Refrigerate
Enjoy... hic...

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Yeff said:

- Room temperature or cold from the fridge?

- Salt and/or pepper or plain?

- Spit the seeds into your hand (or on your plate) or try
to take an eye out of anyone nearby?

on the rare occasions that i do eat watermelon, its usually cold,
straight up, spitting the seeds as far as i can. sometimes i add a
little salt and pepper.

--

saerah

"It's not a gimmick, it's an incentive."- asterbark, afca

aware of the manifold possibilities of the future

"I think there's a clause in the Shaman's and Jujumen's Local #57 Union
contract that they have to have reciprocity for each other's shop rules."
-König Prüß

Melba's Jammin' at [email hidden] wrote on 7/4/05 9:19 PM:

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In article <[email hidden]>, Yeff

Quoted message said:

- Room temperature or cold from the fridge?

- Salt and/or pepper or plain?

- Spit the seeds into your hand (or on your plate) or try
to take an eye out of anyone nearby?

Cold.
Plain.
Shoot for distance, not for accuracy.

Icy Cold.
Neither salt nor pepper (although pepper is not unpleasant, it's just
gilding the lily, I'd prefer it plain)
Seedless....whatever little ones are there get pushed aside.

I was never allowed to spit growing up and I find it repulsive and low-class
when I see people spit today. I don't even like it when baseball players
spit out sunflower seed hulls. Yuck. Let's not even go into tobacco juice.
Gross.

Yeff said:

- Room temperature or cold from the fridge?

Ice cold!

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- Salt and/or pepper or plain?

Plain for me, held over the ground with two hands, juice dripping off the
elbows.

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- Spit the seeds into your hand (or on your plate) or try
to take an eye out of anyone nearby?

We had a "seedless" watermelon for our picnic today. It was packed with
seeds, but they were all white, and easily ignored. I suspect we'll all
have little plants sprouting in our bellies sometime this week. ;-)

Carol

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Coming at you live, from beautiful Lake Woebegon

On Mon 04 Jul 2005 10:06:08p, Sheryl Rosen wrote in rec.food.cooking:

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Melba's Jammin' at [email hidden] wrote on 7/4/05 9:19 PM:

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In article <[email hidden]>, Yeff

Quoted message said:

- Room temperature or cold from the fridge?

- Salt and/or pepper or plain?

- Spit the seeds into your hand (or on your plate) or try to take an
eye out of anyone nearby?

Cold.
Plain.
Shoot for distance, not for accuracy.

Icy Cold.
Neither salt nor pepper (although pepper is not unpleasant, it's just
gilding the lily, I'd prefer it plain)
Seedless....whatever little ones are there get pushed aside.

I was never allowed to spit growing up and I find it repulsive and
low-class when I see people spit today. I don't even like it when
baseball players spit out sunflower seed hulls. Yuck. Let's not even go
into tobacco juice. Gross.

LOL! Reminds me of a childhood friend whose grandmother lived in the
country. She "dipped snuff" and carried around an old Prince Albert can to
spit in. Even as a child, it seemed crude and rude to me.

--
Wayne Boatwright *¿*
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"Yeff" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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- Room temperature or cold from the fridge?

- Salt and/or pepper or plain?

- Spit the seeds into your hand (or on your plate) or try
to take an eye out of anyone nearby?

okay, I'll throw something into the pot, I haven't tasted a "good & sweet"
watermelon since the only ones available, that I've seen, in either the
super markets, whole foods, trader joe, or the independent markets here in
SoCal are seedless, and to me, there is no taste. I can deal with the seeds
easily enough, but the 'melon must taste like 'melon.

Harriet

Yeff said:

- Room temperature or cold from the fridge?

COLD. DH likes warm - yuk!

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- Salt and/or pepper or plain?

PLAIN

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- Spit the seeds into your hand (or on your plate) or try
to take an eye out of anyone nearby?

NO SEEDS

-L.