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[Anonymous No.5580761]

How do I choose a good watermelon? The only thing I learned is never to buy a watermelon from Mexico

[Anonymous No.5580766]

>>5580761
yellow only on the bottom, brown not green stem and heavy for its size, ignore all the thump it bullshit that is about to be posted.

[Anonymous No.5580768]

>>5580761
would you know a good one from a bad one if you tasted it? If not you have your answer.

[Anonymous No.5580781]

>>5580761
1. LOOK – Your watermelon should be firm, symmetrical and free of major bruises or scars. Some minor scratches are okay, however. After all, the purpose of that thick rind is to protect the delicious contents inside. Ripe watermelons should also be dark green in color.

2. LIFT – The ripest watermelons have the most water. And since watermelons are 92 percent water, your watermelon should be relatively heavy for its size.

3. TURN – Turn your watermelon over and check out its bottom, which should have a creamy yellow spot (also called “the ground spot”). This is where the watermelon sat on the ground while it soaked up the sun at the farm. If this spot is white or greenish, your watermelon may have been picked too soon and might not be as ripe as it should be.

[Anonymous No.5580789]

>>5580761
Daniel Egel, a pest management specialist at the Southwest-Purdue Agricultural Center, said a watermelon's appearance and feel are better gauges than the time-honored practice of tapping on the outer skin. Egel formerly worked for a watermelon seed company as a plant pathologist.

"There are some things I look for when I go to the supermarket or roadside stand," Egel said. "With me, I downplay 'thumping' the watermelon. In the field they don't stop to thump the watermelons, they just look at them."

The watermelon rind often provides clues to its ripeness, Egel said.

"A watermelon that is ripe will be faded on the top. If the watermelon has stripes, look at the area between the stripes. This area should be a light green," he said.

"Turn the watermelon over and look at the place where the fruit stood on the ground. If the watermelon is ripe, the 'belly spot' will be white or yellow. If you can see the stripes through the belly spot, it may not be ripe."

A smooth rind usually indicates a good fruit. "You might try to avoid melons that are over-lumpy," Egel said. "Sometimes that may mean the rind on the inside is discolored, which is unappealing to some people."

Watermelons at the peak of ripeness are normally filled out and blunt on the ends. Melons with pointy ends may still be maturing and not as delicious, Egel said.

[Anonymous No.5581398]

>>5580789

um pretty sure the greater the difference in colored stripes the less ripe the melon. the stripes should be the least difference in color possible to be ripe.

[Anonymous No.5581416]

>>5580761
THUMP IT

[Anonymous No.5581419]

>>5580761

drill a hole and stick your dick in it

[Anonymous No.5581434]

sniff & ask nearest black person to verify, they have x-ray vision on these

[Anonymous No.5581450]

>>5580781
>>5580789
>the belly/ground spot
willfollowadvice/10

[Anonymous No.5581579]

>>5581419
go back to b. ahole.
thump or knock it.should most sound hollow.stores markets or stands will have one cut open if they dont or wont move on.as faras boysfucking watermelons.nothings beyound posibility and some guys would screw a snake but watermelon?desperate horny and lonely waste of watermelon. cantaloupe maybe...

[Anonymous No.5581615]

>>5581579
Tumblr pls go.

[Anonymous No.5581975]

>>5581398
Depends on the variety

[Anonymous No.5581990]

>>5580761