Spittin’ Watermelon Seeds

If you remember your bringin’ up in the South, one thing you learned was how to spit watermelon seeds while still enjoying the red, delicious, ice cold melon. It is Watermelon Eating Time.

Oh, there are many ways to eat watermelon, but the most satisfying is when you come of age and learn how to dissect the seeds from the watermelon meat in your mouth. Spitting the seeds is a learned thing. Maybe the threat from the semi-adults who claim if you swallow the seeds you’ll grow a watermelon in your stomach, edges you toward learning the skill of spittin’.

Many think seedless watermelons are good, mainly, because they don’t have any seeds or maybe some little seeds. Many like the yellow melons. There are refrigerator size melons called Sugar Babies, super-sized, striped melons called Stars and Stripes that can weigh up to 30 pounds. Watermelons are loved world-wide. While in China, I enjoyed their watermelons.

National Watermelon Day is Friday, August 3. Guinness Book of World Records says the heaviest watermelon was grown in Tennessee and weighed in at 350.5 pounds, a Texan holds the record for farthest seed spit at 75 feet and 2 inches, and what a headache this must have caused, a German holds the record of splitting 43 melons with his head in one minute. Ouch!

Whatever your pleasure, now is the time to get that watermelon. Every Saturday on the Square, there are a couple of vendors and in between you can pick one up at Ingles