watermelon

     

Trivia about watermelon

  • Known botanically as "citrullus lanatus", this huge fruit grows on vines as long as 15 ft.
  • Its seeds can be roasted, salted & eaten as snacks, & have been spit for a Guinness record
  • Trim the green skin & pink flesh from this melon's rind before pickling it
  • Depictions of this fruit date back 4,000 years in the artwork of early Egyptians
  • Redball seedless & sugar baby are types of this fruit
  • Pardeeville, Wisconsin hosts a yearly competition for the eating & seed-spitting of this fruit
  • Galaga is an arcade game; Gallagher smashes this fruit, Citrullus lanatus, with the Sledge-O-Matic
  • One food book says, "There are those who wouldn't trade a slice of" this "on a hot summer day for anything"
  • Your Juicy Couture parfum makes you smell like this huge juicy melon, with a little caramel creme brulee
  • Thomson, Georgia's festival celebrating this green gourd includes a seed-spitting contest
  • You don't have to be in spitting distance to know that N.C. has 3 official festivals; 2 of them honor this fruit
  • Perfect for a picnic is the picnic or ice-box variety of this fruit
  • This melon made it big--really big--as Oklahoma's state vegetable (yep, vegetable--they already had a state fruit)
  • Jim Reeves was top-"seeded" after he chomped 13 pounds of this gourd in 15 minutes