PsiChick: AeAe: PsiChick: Lsherm: St_Francis_P: Somacandra: Honest Bender: Who doesn't like watermelon?

In all honesty, I farking HATE watermelon. The flavor, the smell, everything.

Yeah, me too. I thought I was the only one.

Thirded.  I've been on a pineapple kick lately.  I forgot how much I like it, especially the center part.  It's like eating sugared wood.

...I hate you.

/Fresh pineapple is amazing
//And too farking expensive
///And now I want pineapple

what?  It's like $2.99 at the Costco.

NV. Our prices go higher since we have to ship everything from CA.

/I am going to check that, though...

I just picked up two Dole Pineapples for $2.50 each.  Granted, they're going to be a little more in NY, but they shouldn't be $20 a piece.

Truther: Honest Bender: Who doesn't like watermelon?

honestly, this.

But Subby, saying all Republicans are racist (headline certainly infers this) because of this person's idiotic statement is like saying that all Muslims want to behead infidels.

Just ain't right to lump whole groups of people together cause of the actions of one or a few.

So...all generalizations are false?

Skyrmion: I've seen some pretty crazy shiat on Fark... but people who hate watermelon!?

Damn, that's farked up.

I don't like it.   It has very little to do with the taste, although I've tasted watermelon that was actually absolutely delicious, and at the other end of the spectrum I've tasted watermelon that was insipid, bitter or completely tasteless.

It doesn't matter <i>how</i> it tastes--because whatever it tastes like, I'll be tasting it for the next week.  Even so-called "burpless" varieties have the same effect.  If I taste even the tiniest morsel, I'll have a case of indigestion that would kill a friggin' tyrannosaur that goes on for days.  Some (but not all) cukes do the same thing, and so does cantaloupe.  It's not worth the pain.  Sometimes I'll still roll the dice for cucumbers in a salad because I very much love them, and fried pickles are farkawesome, but melon is pretty much off the menu.

/chairwoman is a farking coont
//loves me some soul food, because that's what grandma cooked growing up
///I'm fish-belly white.
////this slash deliberately left blank.

Ed Grubermann: gilgigamesh: DROxINxTHExWIND: Fark out of here. There are three of us??

Huh.  With that many of us here I'm surprised the white flight hasn't kicked in.

Screw this! I'm moving to Redit!

*lowers  Ed Grubermann'sproperty values*

ProdigalSigh: Honest Bender: Who doesn't like watermelon?

I didn't know watermelon and fried chicken were a stereotype until someone mentioned it in college.  My reaction was similar, I thought watermelon and fried chicken just sounded like a great summer meal for anyone who could find a good watermelon and had a halfway decent fried chicken recipe.  I had to ask someone and this was roughly the response:

"Fried chicken and watermelon were considered cheap/throwaway foodstuffs at one point in the South, something black people reveled in when they could get it but generally disdained by the aristocratic southerners."  Frankly, I still don't get it, a good fried chicken recipe is treated around here like a good ribs recipe is in other places and the ability to pick the best watermelon is a learned skill if not an innate talent, and a respected one.  But I'm from Indiana, which has deeply racist roots, and almost no black people outside the cities so it gets weird regarding perceptions.

I had the same reaction as Forest Gump did when someone said "coon," the movie was the first time I heard the term used to refer anything other than raccoons.  Same with "Spook" in the movie Sneakers, my thought was "how did they know he was in the CIA (which the character was and I knew was a reference to CIA operatives)?  And why does that piss him off so much?"

In other words, I don't get this.  Can someone else explain it to me?  Is watermelon still so downtrodden?

Any word, when frequently used with intent to insult, becomes an insult.  Boy, coon, spook, gay, retard...  Any thing regularly used to insult or inspire fear becomes an object of fear and a source of insult.  White hoods, crosses, hangman's nooses, watermelons, fried chicken...

It is the memory of insult and terror, handed down through generations, that makes words and things taboo long after they are not used to insult or terrorize.

A dog regularly beaten with a tennis racket will always cringe around tennis rackets.  Puppies will learn their dam's fear of tennis rackets. When such a puppy grows up, it will bite tennis players who mean it no harm.  Then the dog will be killed.

That is why I wish certain details were omitted from history classes.

BarkingUnicorn: That is why I wish certain details were omitted from history classes.

As long as you get to decide what to omit, right?

gilgigamesh: Ed Grubermann: gilgigamesh: DROxINxTHExWIND: Fark out of here. There are three of us??

Huh.  With that many of us here I'm surprised the white flight hasn't kicked in.

Screw this! I'm moving to Redit!

*lowers  Ed Grubermann'sproperty values*

Oh, yeah. Like I'm going to be able to sell this username now. Bastards.

Has anyone, in the history of ever, attempted to lure a Caucasian into a trap using a watermelon?

gilgigamesh: Ed Grubermann: gilgigamesh: DROxINxTHExWIND: Fark out of here. There are three of us??

Huh.  With that many of us here I'm surprised the white flight hasn't kicked in.

Screw this! I'm moving to Redit!

*lowers  Ed Grubermann'sproperty values*

This site was fine before YOU PEOPLE showed up.

/Farking uncapitalized account namers.

ultraholland: Snarcoleptic_Hoosier: This site was fine before YOU PEOPLE showed up.

/Farking uncapitalized account namers.

I've got lowercase fever.

Stay away from our grammar books, boy!

MontanaDave: Uchiha_Cycliste: I've always been unclear on how an honest to god seedless watermelon would propogate.

So when you smoke homegrown, it isn't really HOMEgrown?

Clearly you've never lived in Humboldt or Oakland.

Rann Xerox: Chicken? Now you're getting me hungry, and I just ate.



Rann Xerox, with KFC and a pack of smokes

Damn Teabaggers.

HighOnCraic: Make that four of us.  We just need one more . . . to form a basketball team.

Can I join?  I'll be the poor defending shootist (who can't dribble or really shoot better than anyone else) who the fans will inexplicably want more of - somehow overshadowing any of you who actually know how to play.  They'll completely unfairly compare me to Pistol Pete (even though I'm not skilled enough to sniff his jock strap), as we have no overlapping skill sets besides - well - I have to confess:

I'm white.

I Browse: DROxINxTHExWIND:

Fark out of here. There are three of us??


Four.

/yet another black guy on Fark
//haven't read the rest of the thread, but I'm sure there are others.

It's pretty irresponsible of you guys to all be hanging out in the same thread.  What if something were to happen?  It took us 15 years to collect the 4 of you, and I'll be goddamned if we're about to start again at zero.

Last warning.  If things go bad, we're just gonna say fuggit and start collecting messicans instead.

sumida sublight: You know, if she'd just posted a picture of the same box trap with a copy of Das Kapital under it, she could have at least been sort of witty and still kept her Tea Party cred.

Who says she lost any Tea Party cred as it stands?