I'm late coming around today because I've been doing all the things I should have done before today hahaha. I start back to work tomorrow and I totally wasn't ready. Anyway... today is Melon Day and that made me remember that I need to pick up some cantaloupe for lunches/snacks. They are my favorite. I know a lot of people love watermelon, but I am not really a fan. Do you have a favorite melon?
Dad would get muskmelon at a farmstand, when they were still around. Mom would cut up in cubes, and add cubes of watermelon, in a sterilite rectangle container for andy and me , the watermelon guess kept to melon aroma less. They were sure fragrant when laying on bench in garage while finishing rippening
We call cantaloupes rockmelon in Aust & I just finished cutting up some for DS's lunchbox. It's not really in season here because it's winter, but we were in the shops at some point in June or July & he commented he missed them and because they're $$ out of season, I was like 'well when you get a job, I'll buy you a rockmelon', like y'know instead of a celebration cake as a congrats. He applied for one place since then & came out of an interview a few weeks back and we asked how he thought it went & his first words were 'easy rockmelon!' PS. He's had a few (fast food ) shifts & then got COVID last week and had to drop a week's worth-hopefully they put him back on the roster!
Cantaloupe for me. Mom would get one and cut it in half when I was a kid. Dad got half of it and Mom and I split the other half. We only ever had watermelons at the summer family volleyball games. These days I will buy a container of pre-cut cubes of it at the grocery. At times I will buy the container that has cantaloupe, watermelon, honeydew and grapes for the variety. But my preferred melon is cantaloupe.
I like cantaloupe and watermelon (when ripe and sweet) pretty much equally. I can never pick a ripe honeydew, so I stopped buying them years ago. My mom used to cut up a cantaloupe into wedges and serve the wedges with a scoop of vanilla ice cream on top ... yum!!!
I'd say I like the orange cantaloupe and watermelon about the same... especially if someone else cuts it up for me!
I used to do way more shopping at farmstands and produce markets than I do now. I know that fragrance! These days, I'm more likely to pick some up already cut at the grocery store even though they are not as good. Haha I love "easy rockmelon"! My DS works at Walmart and thought he had Covid a couple of weeks ago and when he told work, they told him he had to come in anyway :/. We tested and he didn't, but they really didn't care at all. Fruits are my favorite thing! I like those containers with the different melons, but I tend to eat all the cataloupe and leave most of the rest haha. Oooh the cantelouope and ice cream sounds amazing!! Yep, I'm all for having it already cut!!
I really love all varieties of cantaloupe and watermelon - and I used to think I hated honeydew, but then I had one that was good and boy it was really good. But when they aren't... meh. Is it worth cutting and paying for?!
