Pineapple or watermelon?
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BooMan
Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
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7 year old Seabe: watermelon
Adult Seabe: pineapple
Only if it’s fresh pineapple, though.
Watermelon flavored things > pineapple flavored things, though.
Is there a pineapple Jolly Rancher?
Sorta. There’s like tropical flavored ones that are mixes. Raspberry-Pineapple, Banana-Pineapple.
Is this another CG-Booman argument like peaches vs. pears?
No. CG and I are not fighting on this issue. I suspect that she is in the watermelon camp, but I am not sure about that.
It depends in part on who is cutting said pineapple or watermelon up…but yeah, watermelon.
Then there’s like pineapple alcoholic drinks, or those shaved ice things.
Watermelon beats ’em both.
Watermelon.
I like pineapple. I don’t like pineapple juice.
Pineapple.
Pineapple. Definitely.
You can grill it.
Yes, hard to cook with watermelon. Still, watermelon tastes very good.
Grilled anything is always better than anything.
You cant grill watermelon
End of argument.
Grilled tuna surprise? Seriously?
Stu Rothenberg is so sad.
Pineapple. Hands down. Not even close. Now I want some.
Oh dear. These questions make me so nervous. Is this one of those questions where your answer correlates with your IQ? Or with your sexuality? It has to be one or the other.
I’ll take watermelon.
Pineapple.
fresh pineapple, but too much hurts my mouth; too acidic.
Canary melon.
I once grew a hybrid from Burpee seeds that when they got ripe you could smell them across the yard. I took some to work and people walked by my car and asked what I had that smelled so good. Burpee never offered them again.
It’s been ten years and my coworkers still talk about those melons.
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Dude!
http://www.burpee.com/melon-canary-spanish-sun-hybrid-prod002720.html
Wow, very close. It was not ‘spanish’ before.
I think I will try it. Thank you.
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Watermelon, definitely. If you can find one that actually tastes like a watermelon. Like so many other varieties of produce, today’s melons have had all the taste hybrided out of ’em.
Agree that watermelon is far superior to pineapple, though the latter is far more versatile in recipes than the former. But not fresh pineapple, the canned varieties. My daughter as a teen loved the fresh pineapple but had to give it up;it made her skin break out.
Living where I do, getting good and tasty watermelon is never a problem in season. I don’t buy them in supermarkets and don’t buy them out of season.
I would venture to say that most people have never tasted a freshly picked watermelon, taken at the very peak of it’s ripeness. It is truly heaven.
Good point. I live in Colorado now and the melons I find in stores don’t hold a candle to the ones that were sold at roadside stands in Alabama and Georgia. (Back in the 60s, I remember seeing melons selling 10 for a dollar at the peak of harvest. No, not 10 pound. Ten melons.)
This summer, I’ll have to hunt up a local Rocky Ford watermelon. Colorado cantaloupes from Rocky Ford are awesome. Maybe the watermelons are equally good.
Watermelon everyday during local harvest season, infrequent fresh pineapple consumption only, Maybe that would be reversed if I lived where they grew pineapples locally and watermelons a thousand miles way!
Watermelon.
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Is this an Obama joke?
love them both with hot chile powder sprinkled all over.