Fascinating

The watermelon, according to Australian chemist James Kennedy, may just possibly be the most unnatural fruit in the world. What Kennedy means is that the watermelon, in the hands of humans, has been changed so significantly that it’s now nothing like the original fruit.

Fans of the British sci-fi comedy Red Dwarf may remember the ship’s cat, who evolved over three million years into a narcissistic humanoid with an obsession with fashion. You’d never take it for a cat. And frankly, that’s pretty much the same with the watermelon.

The ancestral watermelon was native to Africa, and it was a bitter little fruit about two inches in diameter.

http://theplate.nationalgeogra...yet-delicious-fruit/

Fascinating

The watermelon, according to Australian chemist James Kennedy, may just possibly be the most unnatural fruit in the world. What Kennedy means is that the watermelon, in the hands of humans, has been changed so significantly that it’s now nothing like the original fruit.

Fans of the British sci-fi comedy Red Dwarf may remember the ship’s cat, who evolved over three million years into a narcissistic humanoid with an obsession with fashion. You’d never take it for a cat. And frankly, that’s pretty much the same with the watermelon.

The ancestral watermelon was native to Africa, and it was a bitter little fruit about two inches in diameter.

http://theplate.nationalgeogra...yet-delicious-fruit/

 Well I  suppose it's like all members of the grasses ,.Wheat ,grains rice etc,man has bred them to be more productive to us,whether that's good or bad who knows.I noticed in the news for us up here (Scotland) the SNP govt has banned GM crops.

Love watermelon!
When we lived in Cyprus they were sold along side the roads...was so easy to just drop it to the floor & yomp on the pieces 
Won't buy it in this country though as it always looks so dry!

Dropping & yomping sounds like the best way to eat a watermelon. You've made me want some now.

I like Galia, cantaloupe and honeydew melon but I don't like the texture of watermelons, nor picking through all those seeds.

I just eat the seeds. 

I just eat the seeds. 

My Dad used to tell me if I ate seeds out of fruit I would grow a tree of that fruit out of my ears. He also told me that if I ate all of my cabbage I would grow hairs on my chest. At 44 years old I am now regretting eating all of my cabbage.

I was told the very same, but now I realise the acids in the stomach allow for very little to survive. 

EC....you not watching the Benefit programme ??

What about the hairs EC? WHAT ABOUT THE HAIRS? 

I forgot. 

just turned it on and it seems somewhat uplifting. 

I'm covered in them