“The huge fruit [watermelon]
is cut into half a dozen sections, of about a foot long, and then, dripping as
it is with water, applied to the mouth, from either side of which pour copious
streams of the fluid, while, ever and anon, a mouthful of the hard black seeds
are shot out in all directions, to the great annoyance of all within reach.”—English
novelist and travel writer Frances Trollope (1779-1863), Domestic Manners of the Americans (1832)
To her infinite horror,
Mrs. Trollope first came across this fruit (one I love, BTW) while visiting
Cincinnati in 1830. I’m afraid that her bad opinion wouldn’t be improved by the
image accompanying this post: Juliette Lewis in the 1993 film, What’s Eating
Gilbert Grape.
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