Why YSK: These tips may help you pick a more ripe, juicier, sweeter watermelon.

  • Furbag@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’ll just remember “pick the most fucked up looking melon with patchy orange spots and ugly crisscross webbing”. It’s probably not going to make the photo reel but it’ll taste good.

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        1 year ago

        in general I find this to be true with most fruits, the uglier the better. Those pretty shiny apples are shit.

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          1 year ago

          Ugliness is correlated with age, and ripeness is correlated with age, so ugliness and ripeness would at the very least be spuriously correlated.

        • elxeno
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          1 year ago

          The ones with worms are sweeter cause worms can choose better than humans.

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          1 year ago

          Oddly, I can tell exactly how an apple will taste just by touching it. Shiny smooth apples are usually soft/mushy and have no taste. You want a rough texture with a little grip.