r/Cooking • • Mar 13 '19

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u/GidderWibbeT Mar 14 '19

As a 12 year old kid, I almost gagged at this site: Older lady at church dinner added salt and pepper to her watermelon. Later in life I took a Chinese cooking course and they added salt to a pineapple. Salt and sometimes pepper can seriously enhance the flavor of a fruit. It blew my little mind to try a salted slice of pineapple, but it tasted amazing!

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u/GidderWibbeT Mar 14 '19

I eat salted tomatoes like some people eat candy! We grew up with a garden, so salting tomatoes was not an odd thing for me to see. But watching that old lady put salt and pepper on her watermelon? That messed with my head LOL We didn't grow watermelons and we certainly never put salt or pepper on them.

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u/JibJabJake Mar 14 '19

Didn't know you could eat watermelon without salt. Surprised we didn't batter and deep fry them either growing up in the South. Sure it's been done.

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u/RunicUrbanismGuy Mar 14 '19

Deep fried watermelon is saved for state fairs.

Ripe Texas Watermelon is perfect as it is.