Pluggers by Rick McKee for July 03, 2014

Yup. Put them in ice because there wasn’t enough room in the refrigerator.

Smaller households, smaller Watermellons.

(Just a matter of the market responding to changing conditions.)

I’ve once heard of Japanese square watermelons.

TEMPLO, they didn’t catch on.

They had to be bigger then because they came with seeds .

Actually, the square watermelons did catch on in Japan. Granted, the square gourds are much pricier than the regular sized (about $82 vs. $15-20), but they are still being sold. But you don’t have to go to Japan to get one, you can grow your own and it’s very easy, The web is filled with instructional sites complete with photos to show you how it’s done.

Dear Maurice: You’re a plugger if you still identify your state using more than two letters! ;-)

In Colo, the produce store filled hugh cattle water tanks with water and blocks of ice and the melons floated in the cold, cold water.

It’s too small to be a watermelon. It wont hold a quart of vodka.

These days, they’re called “personal” watermelons which brings up images of strange little catalogs. (so I hear)

I’m the one responsible for using the old state abbreviations rather than the postal service two letter designations. I think they look better than “AL, AS, AR, WI”, etc. And in some cases, if the town and state are both short, I’ll spell ’em both out.

Its marketing at work again. Price of manufacture goes up, so rather than raise the price on a packaged item, let’s just make the package smaller. The consumer will never know the difference.Unless you are a plugger, that is…

I am the only one eating watermelon in my household, so I like them a lot—-esp. the ones whose seeds you eat. My dogs clean up the rinds for me. Work on them like not-very-challenging bones!

Just be sure to note, the mini melons are not Sugar Babies.Them things are Gooooodddd!

You get the big ones of the side of the road being sold off the back of a truck.

We used to give the rinds to the horses – they love them!