I hereby proclaim the watermelon SL's national fruit.

OMG THIS THREAD IS LIKE TEH AWESOME

Fruit? Vegetable? Both?? Neither??? I just love 'em!

Of course it's a fruit. They're all fruits.

/me proposes a vote to reclassify the watermelon as a fruitable. All in favor, post whatever you want. All opposed... posting again signifies a vote in favor, so to vote no you can never post again .

(I guess that means I'm in favor)

Yes. Thank you for your vote

How can it not be a fruit? It's clearly the fruit of a flower.


The pregnant ovaries of a former flower.

update: eggy beat me to it.

Thank you for your vote

Voting for fruitable just because I like portmanteaux.

Thank you for your vote

And thanks for yours.

Please note that duplicate votes will not be counted





Sorry, i'll stop now

Just like the tomato, it's actually a kind of Dolphin.

And let's not start on about nuts. Anything you think is a nut most likely, in all probability, isn't a nut. In fact most nuts that actually are nuts are nuts that nobody has heard of. And to me, that's just nuts.

Not that I with to diminish anyone else's enjoyment of said mellon, I have to say that just the smell of a watermellon makes me want to puke. I don't know why, it just does. I can't eat it, I can't stand the smell and just the thought of it makes me queezy. I was a real drag on family outings while everyone else is pigging out on the stuff and I am in the fetal position gagging.

Then someone desided to make watermellon perfume or whatever it is that people started wearing... nice to walk next to someone and feel like puking from their perfume (granted 99% of other people like it).

This is no reflection on those who do like it, it is just my reaction to it.

You hereby declare all men as fruit, and are no better than cucumbers.

I risk getting watermeloned to death but I actually don't like them very much. May I be a Galia melon user instead?

Fruitable it is!

But keep all the fruitables away from those who are nauseated by them. Oddly enough I have a similar reaction to Mangos, which for some reason taste exactly like vomit to me. No kidding.

I'll have to vote no on watermelons. Like iceberg lettuce, it's just water with a texture. Cantaloupe, though, is tastey.





Swweeet! Now there'll be people worth dating!

Hmm... strange.

This is off-topic, but this thread is off-topic anyways... Have you ever tried Mango jam? It tastes just like honey, with a faint trace of fruitiness.

Back to watermelons.
They are perfect for architecture, due to their spherical support properties (proof).
Hmm.. don't like liquid nitrogen-- look at the last few seconds.
...shotgun...

And Enoch, thank you for your vote .

What's funny about this is I have an aversion to blueberries... for me, they taste and smell like soap, and carry a very clinical, scary (like medical experiments warzone-type thing) vibe. But, I respect the rights of those who enjoy blueberries, and the rights to bear blueberries under arms.

Hmm.. no, haven't tried it. I'll see if there's some at the grocery store next time I got by though. If it ends up tasting horrible there are crazy mango lovers in the house that will eat it.


Whoah, on an almost related note blueberries smell and taste like vitamins to me.

Funny I thought you were talking about Booberry cerial.. which has all the atributes you describe. I think they used it in the cold war to absorb ionizing radiation from nuclear tests or something.

As long as it isn't that evil of all fruits, a strawberry, I have no problem with anything else. Oh and strawberrys are evil to me, evil, evil, evil.

There could be a scary video to go with that, one of those black-and-white 50s shindigs where a scary hopping blueberry says "EAT YOUR VITAMINS!" and giggles gleefully.




I've never eaten that, nor seen a box for real. I think Quentin Tarantino is a fan tho... or at least, of the rarer Fruit Brute.

This thread made me think about bananas and how I've been told they're a herb, so I went to check at Wikipedia (yeah, I know...) and apparently the fruit of the banana is a false berry as is the watermelon.

Oh, and apparently both banana and watermelon plants are herbs (hey, herbs can bear fruit, I've learnt two things today!)

Eat me Torley, VITAMINS GOOD!!!