recently a japanese person cooked his penis and balls and served them to people paying top-dollar in a trendy art gallery. this might be a possible accompanying beverage.

"Salty Watermelon" is capitalising on a bizarre trend in Japan where people are known to sprinkle salt on watermelon to bring out the taste.

I've been doing that for 20 years. And I'm a white American. And it's awesome, I highly recommend it.

Don't know if I'd want it in corn syrup form though.

a bizarre trend in Japan where people are known to sprinkle salt on watermelon to bring out the taste.

This person has a low threshold for bizarre Japanese trends.

I thought the Salty Watermelon was like a Angry Pirate but with more twisting at the end. no?

Since when is salting watermelon a Japanese thing? My family has been doing that forever.

HotWingConspiracy: "Salty Watermelon" is capitalising on a bizarre trend in Japan where people are known to sprinkle salt on watermelon to bring out the taste.

I've been doing that for 20 years. And I'm a white American. And it's awesome, I highly recommend it.

Don't know if I'd want it in corn syrup form though.

Seconded. I wish I had something to add, but I came here to say this, leaving happy.

Written by someone who has never been to a Southern cookout in the US.

In other news nuclear bombing can smack the taste out your mouth and the out the mouths of your descendants.

Salt on watermelon?

Angry Drunk Bureaucrat: LoneDoggie: I thought the Salty Watermelon was like a Angry Pirate but with more twisting at the end. no?

No, a salty watermelon is when you bang a hippie chick (or any commie-environmentalist), spooge on her, suck up your own spooge, and (just when she thinks it's over) spit it back at her.

/Or something.



No! That ones called a Dick Cheney.

Yep. Growing up in the Deep South we always put salt on watermelon. I don't do it now because I'm watching my sodium, but as a kid we each got our own quarter or eighth of the melon (sliced lengthwise) and one of those little plastic Morton's salt shakers. We set up the big folding table in the back yard and covered it with newspapers, split open the melons and had a midsummer's feast while watching the lightning bugs come out in the evening.

It's the perfect drink for washing down wasabi Kit Kats.

That doesn't sound like that bad of a flavor. Then again I just picked up some watermelon beer yesterday.

Hack Patooey: proteus_b: recently a japanese person cooked his penis and balls and served them to people paying top-dollar in a trendy art gallery. this might be a possible accompanying beverage.

HotWingConspiracy:

I've been doing that for 20 years. And I'm a white American. And it's awesome, I highly recommend it.


These two posts needed to be combined.

I'm happy with what nature gave me, but I doubt it's large enough to eat for 20 years.

I wouldn't drink that stuff.... but

I'd bet that more Americans put salt on watermelon than have ever done it in Japan.

I always thought that was one of my white trash traditions, along with Miracle Whip on Wonder Bread sandwiches and green bean casserole with french fried onions on top.


/goes off looking for his grilled cheese and Campbell's tomato soup. Mmm, Mmmm, good.

If someone could come up with a realistic watermelon flavored drink, I'd drink it.

Down here in South Central Texas....we put salt and pepper on our watermelons.

At last, a worse idea than Crystal Pepsi!

TFAuthor writes like a Brit, what the fark does he know about "flavour".

lol @ salt on watermelon being a `bizarre' Japanese trend. Been doing that forever and applies to anything in the melon family.

/yes, even these melons.

DrupyDrawrs: pepp

Came to say this. I was at a cookout this weekend where a girl was putting salt on her watermelon. I looked at her kinda funny, and she said if there was pepper anywhere around, she'd put it on there, too.

An unfamiliar combination of artificial flavors and food coloring, how shocking.

Huh. Learn something new every day.
Never realized my old, black, Jewish, grandmother was Japanese.
But there she was, back in the day, salting her waddymelon.

The only thing I have to say is that watermelon is delicious.

Does your wife "salt her watermelon", know what I mean, know what I mean?

"When one has tasted watermelon he knows what the angels eat" ~ Mark Twain

Let me just leave this here .....

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I never understood putting salt on watermelon. Do people put salt on ice cream too?

PYROY: If someone could come up with a realistic watermelon flavored drink, I'd drink it.

This is interesting, actually. They have yet to come up with a convincing substitute for watermelon flavoring, so the reason you won't see that anytime soon is because it is not cost-effective to make it from actual watermelons (you need like 1800 full watermelons for an ounce of concentrate or something). Clearly I'm exaggerating, but it's all in the economics, baby.

There was a pho restaurant in NoVa that would serve "salty plum soda". It tasted as described, and highlighted by the big, pickled plum sitting at the bottom. I loved it!

styckx: lol @ salt on watermelon being a `bizarre' Japanese trend. Been doing that forever and applies to anything in the melon family.

/yes, even these melons.

Watermelons are not melons, they're berries.


Degenerate Monkey: The only thing I have to say is that watermelon is delicious.

Yes, it is. Very delicious.

PsyLord: As others have already commented, I also salt my watermelon. So this begs the question, is the article writer even American? Also, I would be willing to try wasabi Kit Kat.

FTA: Pepsi Japan are known for their strange ideas. In the past they've released Pepsi White, which was infused with yoghurt, Pepsi Pink, which had a strawberry milk flavour and a rather disgustingly self-explanatory "Ice Cucumber" variation.

What about lime/cucumber gatorade?

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/bought one from the local Publix
//haven't tried it yet

Cucumber drinks are refreshing. This author is an unadventurous douche.

MollyMalone74: Since when is salting watermelon a Japanese thing? My family has been doing that forever.

I was exposed to it in the 50s by my great grandfather. It's the only way to have watermelon.

Putting salt on watermelon is sick? Subby must be white and from a gated suburb completely isolated from anything non-white.

Keigh: My family has always taught me to salt watermelon. I imagine my southern grandma and great grandma have been doing it for over 80 years. Hey article, not *everything* that is "weird" comes from japan.

Did it in Illinois back in the '50s.

Skyfrog: I never understood putting salt on watermelon. Do people put salt on ice cream too?

Yes.

Skyfrog: I never understood putting salt on watermelon. Do people put salt on ice cream too?

Actually ice cream already has salt in it. However, if you don't understand putting salt on watermelon you should maybe try it? Chances are you will do it again...and again...and again. Personally I like watermelon both ways. If it is super sweet I like it without salt, but if it is mildly sweet I like it with salt. Either way, it has to be ICE COLD..just like my beer. LOL

HotWingConspiracy: "Salty Watermelon" is capitalising on a bizarre trend in Japan where people are known to sprinkle salt on watermelon to bring out the taste.

I've been doing that for 20 years. And I'm a white American. And it's awesome, I highly recommend it.

Don't know if I'd want it in corn syrup form though.

I salted watermelon when I was a kid. Wife thought I was crazy when I reached for the salt shaker after we cut up some watermelon. It's pretty good, don't knock it until you've tried it.

I'd definitely try it, although I'm guessing it would be a letdown. I've also always salted my watermelon. Salt on a tart apple is pretty tasty too.

Terrydatroll: Skyfrog: I never understood putting salt on watermelon. Do people put salt on ice cream too?

Actually ice cream already has salt in it. However, if you don't understand putting salt on watermelon you should maybe try it? Chances are you will do it again...and again...and again. Personally I like watermelon both ways. If it is super sweet I like it without salt, but if it is mildly sweet I like it with salt. Either way, it has to be ICE COLD..just like my beer. LOL

I've tried it and it was disgusting. Watermelon is good because it's sweet, why cover up the flavor with brine?

"Nothing like coming in on a hot day and drinking a nice refreshing glass of salt water."

... That's not weird prunemitter, it's actually pretty common in the south of the US and in Mexico to add a little salt to the fruit. Makes the sugar stand out.

You want weird, touch my tra la la then.