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Why Serve Honeydew Melon? No One Eats It.
Is the premise of this article. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/03/upsho … 0002&abg=1 But I have no idea what they are talking about. I eat it a lot, and I definitely prefer it to cantaloupe, even though according to the article most people are the other way around. Aug 23 14 03:50 pm Link Makes sense. Honeydew goes best with the milk of Paradise. I guess that's a bit rich for most people.  Aug 23 14 04:14 pm Link I feel annoyed that I just wasted 5 minutes of my life reading something so seemingly pointless, and at the same time I have no one to blame but myself because it totally delivered exactly what was promised in the title and OP. I should probably just go to sleep. Aug 23 14 04:21 pm Link The only way I like either cantaloupe or honeydew is frozen, in a smoothie. Cantaloupe, especially, has a horrible smell to me, as does papaya. Aug 23 14 05:11 pm Link I hate when I order "fruit salad" with my pancakes to only get honey dew and cantaloupe. MAYBE 2-3 grapes if I'm lucky. It's like if you ordered a salad and it was just lettuce. I don't like honey dew though, so I think the fact that I know servings like that occur purely for the cost effectiveness, somehow makes it even less appetizing to me. Which is very silly of course....but damn it's so rare to go to a restaurant and actually get a good fruit side dish. Aug 23 14 05:14 pm Link Honeydew is nice but the flavor is bold, sweet, AND fragrant. By this I mean that if eaten, it can be tasted and smelled at the same time, if that makes sense. It's like eating a garnishing herb (the kind at the side of a plate that nobody eats) but in the form of a fruit. It's also very soft... And an odd texture from many fruits. Maybe that's why people don't like it. I love it, though.  BUT I prefer tangy fruits such as pineapple, green grapes, strawberries, cherries or fruits with subtle light sweetness like watermelon. Aug 23 14 05:30 pm Link tl;dr but honeydew is one of the few fruits I hate. Aug 24 14 12:27 am Link Koryn wrote: You should try Durian sometime. Wonderful flavor, but the odor takes some getting used to. I do love a Durian smoothie. Aug 24 14 07:21 am Link 
Photographer Posts: 4288 Amundsen-Scott - permanent station of the US, Unclaimed Sector, Antarctica Prosciutto and melon. In a word, fantastic. You can use honeydew or cantaloupe. Different flavor to each, but both very, very good Aug 24 14 07:24 am Link This is hilarious to me because when I was visiting with my dad for a week recently, they had two huge tupperware containers full of sliced up honeydew. I ate a lot, but my hubby doesn't like it. He was astonished at the amount of honeydew they had. "It's in season!" And damn tasty, to me. Aug 24 14 09:38 am Link Love honeydew. And watermelon. And canteloupe. But my goodness, they have a lot of sugar in them. Yes, I know it's natural sugar. But it's still sugar. Some of us have to watch that stuff. Aug 24 14 08:23 pm Link descending chain wrote: I want to try Durian. I've watched videos of people eating them online - westerners - and all seemed really surprised by the taste, and mostly really liked it. Aug 25 14 07:36 am Link Love it so hard. And cantaloupe. OMNOMNOM! Aug 25 14 08:31 am Link NothingIsRealButTheGirl wrote: I can tolerate honeydew. I do not like cantaloupe. Aug 25 14 08:32 am Link But I love honeydew Aug 25 14 08:42 am Link JadeDRed wrote: This. Aug 25 14 08:42 am Link I eat it.  Aug 26 14 10:08 am Link I LOVE good ripe honeydew melon - my grandfather and I would go out and pick one out of the garden in the early morning - while the night's coolness was still on them - and just eat it right there on the tailgate of the truck. The problem is that few people ever get a good honeydew - just bland underripe pale imitations - and then they ignore them when offered again. It's like knowing that some people have gone their entire lives and never tasted a good tomato. Good honeydew is wonderful - but, good honeydew is rare. Aug 26 14 10:15 am Link |
