JSngry Posted August 14, 2006 Report Share Posted August 14, 2006 No salt on watermelon. EVER. It's just wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guy Berger Posted August 14, 2006 Report Share Posted August 14, 2006 (edited) This is the first time I've heard of such a thing. Sounds like an abomination to me. But I'm not a huge watermelon fan. Guy Edited August 14, 2006 by Guy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Free For All Posted August 14, 2006 Report Share Posted August 14, 2006 Me neither. No salt on any of the melons, including canteloupe and honeydew. My dad always used to put sugar on raw tomatoes. I never really got into that either. I have been enjoying some great watermelon this summer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harold_Z Posted August 14, 2006 Report Share Posted August 14, 2006 No salt. The thing is to buy the melon whole. The pre cut pieces may be old and the texture and flavor are shot. The past couple of years I've been getting the seedless whole and they have been GREAT! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Posted August 14, 2006 Report Share Posted August 14, 2006 Watermelon has to have salt on it! It just adds flavor that is like the NBA -- fantastic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexander Posted August 14, 2006 Report Share Posted August 14, 2006 Salt on hard-boiled eggs - yes. Salt on cucumber - yes. Salt on watermelon - NO! NO! NO! Yuck! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(BB) Posted August 14, 2006 Report Share Posted August 14, 2006 That's just sick and wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rachel Posted August 14, 2006 Report Share Posted August 14, 2006 vodka. in the watermelon. no salt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Posted August 14, 2006 Report Share Posted August 14, 2006 That's just sick and wrong. I grew up in San Diego, we never did anything sick or wrong, just boring stuff... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(BB) Posted August 14, 2006 Report Share Posted August 14, 2006 That's just sick and wrong. I grew up in San Diego, we never did anything sick or wrong, just boring stuff... I grew up in St. Louis and spent a lot of time in Arkansas where putting salt on watermelon, well it just wasn't done. Now if we were are debating salt vs. sugar on tomatoes that could rage on for hours in my family. I have had some of the least boring/sober moments of my relatively sober life in your hometown. San Diego is also home to one of my favorite roller coasters, second only to Santa Cruz. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clifford_thornton Posted August 14, 2006 Report Share Posted August 14, 2006 Never tried it on watermelons, but it's great on regular canteloupes and honeydews. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
White Lightning Posted August 14, 2006 Report Share Posted August 14, 2006 Here, were we have a lot of watermelon, we either eat it as is, or with a salty Feta Cheese. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rooster_Ties Posted August 14, 2006 Report Share Posted August 14, 2006 Salt on watermelon?? NEVER!!! But my wife loves it that way. My grandmother always did too. Doesn't make no sense to me. Why in the world would you salt something that's sweet?? I'm not saying salty and sweet never go together, but not when it comes to fruit -- at least not in my book. I don't think I've ever even tried it with salt before. Just seems wrong, always has, and always will. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spontooneous Posted August 14, 2006 Report Share Posted August 14, 2006 My parents always salted it. Therefore I cannot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottb Posted August 14, 2006 Report Share Posted August 14, 2006 My wife salts hers. I think its OK with salt but prefer to leave it alone. A more important question in my watermelon experience is: Seedless watermelons ie genetic mutants vs the natural melon as God intented. My wife has been getting the seedless variety lately. (I can only assume it has something to do with the kids.) I have yet to find a seedless watermelon with a flavor worth eating more than a small piece extracted from the exact middle of the melon. There's nothing quite like a real good melon that is so flavorful you can't help but keep eating until you're literally sick and can't make the car ride home without a mason jar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazzmoose Posted August 14, 2006 Report Share Posted August 14, 2006 It's hard enough to avoid overconsumption of salt these days without putting it on something that would thereby be rendered inedible. I vote the straight abomination ticket! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Wheel Posted August 14, 2006 Report Share Posted August 14, 2006 Salt on watermelon?? NEVER!!! Doesn't make no sense to me. Why in the world would you salt something that's sweet?? I'm not saying salty and sweet never go together, but not when it comes to fruit -- at least not in my book. Salt actually accentuates the taste of sugar. You have to be careful not to overdo it, of course, but there are a lot of recipes that take advantage of this property of salt. Prosciutto is pretty salty, and the prosciutto/melon combination is an Italian classic. In Malaysia they combine ripe pineapple with other, more sour fruit and dress it in a sauce based on salty shrimp paste and sugar to make rojak. (I'm not really a fan based on the one time I tried Penang rojak - I'd be perfectly happy eating straight pineapple.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Gould Posted August 14, 2006 Report Share Posted August 14, 2006 This is the first time I've heard of such a thing. Sounds like an abomination to me. But I'm not a huge watermelon fan. Guy I am 100% behind Guy's comments except to add that it seems as though there should have been an option for "I never heard of this before, and it sounds like an abomination." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stereojack Posted August 14, 2006 Report Share Posted August 14, 2006 My dad, who was from Minnesota, always salted his watermelon. I've never known anyone else who does, but I can remember seeing adds for salt when I was a kid that showed watermelon, so I learned early on that it is popular - somewhere. A regional thing, I guess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave James Posted August 14, 2006 Report Share Posted August 14, 2006 Yes, yes, yes..to not do so is just so much melonious bunk. Next thing I know you guys are going to tell me you don't put salt in your beer. Whatsammata wit youz? Up over and out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
king ubu Posted August 14, 2006 Report Share Posted August 14, 2006 I may put sugar in my coke, but never on tomatoes... pu-leeaze, Sirs! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Magnificent Goldberg Posted August 14, 2006 Report Share Posted August 14, 2006 I don't put salt on or in anything - not even bread. (Course, if we very occasionally have to buy bread, there's salt in that, but not in my own.) MG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7/4 Posted August 14, 2006 Report Share Posted August 14, 2006 I say no, but I remember my parents did it when I was a kid until my Dad had to go on a low/no salt diet. I forgot about this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Man with the Golden Arm Posted August 14, 2006 Report Share Posted August 14, 2006 Mom salts as I recall, bananas too!? Grandpa used to salt his beer (and mine when I was like five) he also ate onions like apples and limburger and braunschweiger sammiches. Best techinique of his was to put a big swath of butter on the side of the plate, salt and pepper it and then put it on one side end of his corn on the cobb thus buttering it while en palate. Kept the mess way down. Maybe the next poll of around or typewriter style on the corn? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RonF Posted August 14, 2006 Report Share Posted August 14, 2006 Salt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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