Watermelon (2004-06-27)
It is watermelon season. As I have said before, Japanese-grown fruits are superb, watermelon is no exception. I have not eaten one that's not sweet and juicy. In our neighborhood supermarket, they have added a sugar content indicator on each cut and whole watermelon this year. No more guess work (not that there was much needed before) on which melon to buy. I like sickly sweet fruits, so I always pick the one with the highest number on the indicator.
I admire the ingenious way Japanese people tie a watermelon with two
strands of nylon string and turn them into a case with handles strong
enough to carry the heavy fruit without using a bag. That is a
pretty smart trick of trade.
An activity children like to do on the beach in summer is to
blindfold a kid, hand him/her a wooden stick and place a watermelon
near him. The other children will then give the blindfolded kid
precise direction where to bring down the stick and bash the living
daylight of the unfortunate fruit, treating it like a pinata. The
object of the game is to open up the watermelon so that everyone can
enjoy a bite of fruity refreshment. Perhaps the conventional way
of
cutting a watermelon with a knife is too dangerous. You never
know what a kid can do with a sharp knife in his/her possession.
A wooden club on the other hand will be harmless. Uh-huh.
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