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asmith
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 Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 5:27 pm Post subject: Korean Watermellon Appreciation Thread! |
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| I had watermellon last night. I drank soju with my watermellon. It was delicious. It made me forget about the upcoming worldwide global meltdown. I would just like to say that I love Korean watermellon. |
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The evil penguin
Joined: 24 May 2003
Location: Doing something naughty near you.....
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| Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 5:43 pm Post subject: Re: Korean Watermellon Appreciation Thread! |
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| asmith wrote: |
| I had watermellon last night. I drank soju with my watermellon. It was delicious. It made me forget about the upcoming worldwide global meltdown. I would just like to say that I love Korean watermellon. |
I love my dictionary. It stops me making the same dumb spelling mistake 3 times in a row.
Oh, and korean melons are commonly fertilised with sewage effluent or grown within effluent sludge, and melon vines are particularly adept at uptaking pathogenic bacteria and microorganisms from their environment and harbouring them within their fruit.
did you know that? did ya did ya??? |
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losing_touch
Joined: 26 Jun 2008
Location: Ulsan - I think!
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| Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 5:50 pm Post subject: Re: Korean Watermellon Appreciation Thread! |
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| asmith wrote: |
| It made me forget about the upcoming worldwide global meltdown. |
Wow! I didn't know that doomsday was upon is. The fact of the matter is that things are sweet from my chair. Maybe you should look to change your perspective. |
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Pwillig
Joined: 26 Jan 2009
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| Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 6:01 pm Post subject: |
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I bought some gold kiwi from E-Mart the other day. I feel it should be renamed to "orgasmic".
Seriously. |
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thurst
Joined: 08 Apr 2009
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 6:03 pm Post subject: |
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heh i came into school today and there was plate of freshly ravaged watermelon rinds on the table and has been everyday since summer camp began.
between that, all of the chicken & hof joints and UN club (in itaewon) there's a million black/korean jokes i'll be making when i get back home. |
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pkang0202
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| Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 6:26 pm Post subject: |
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How come KOrean watermelons do not have yellow spots on them from sitting on the ground?
In the US, you can tell which watermelon is the ripest by how big/yellow the bottom is. It gives you an idea of how long the watermelon has been on the vine. |
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MMagidson
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| Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 6:40 pm Post subject: |
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| A few months ago, I was at the supermarket trying some watermelon. All of a sudden, some random Korean lady comes up to me and starts proclaiming that Korean watermelon is better than American watermelon. Probably the only person in my neighborhood, besides the NTs, that spoke perfect English to me. I couldn’t resist laughing for at least a minute while she managed to disappear avoiding a debate. |
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mcviking
Joined: 24 Mar 2009
Location: 'Fantastic' America
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| Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 7:39 pm Post subject: |
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Funny watermelon related story. I send my girl friend at the time to go get some groceries because I had to go to work and it doesn't take a Korean ten minutes to explain what a trash bag is. Eggs bread, cereal, milk, cheese, and something for your self I told her.
I come back home and she has a watermelon on her lap and shes eating it with a spoon looking like a goblin snarfing down the water melon. I look at the groceries, no cereal. Why did you get a watermelon and no cereal ? Oh I don't like cereal. IT WAS FOR ME DAMNIT!!!
She got none of the groceries I wanted but she made sure to have a whole f###### water mellon to herself. That's why shes an ex. But I always laugh thinking fo her eating a water melon, with a toddler expression on her face. |
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Rusty Shackleford
Joined: 08 May 2008
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| Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 8:00 pm Post subject: Re: Korean Watermellon Appreciation Thread! |
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| The evil penguin wrote: |
Oh, and korean melons are commonly fertilised with sewage effluent or grown within effluent sludge, and melon vines are particularly adept at uptaking pathogenic bacteria and microorganisms from their environment and harbouring them within their fruit.
did you know that? did ya did ya??? |
A link or some kind of evidence would be nice. |
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retrogress
Joined: 07 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 8:23 pm Post subject: Re: Korean Watermellon Appreciation Thread! |
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| Rusty Shackleford wrote: |
| The evil penguin wrote: |
Oh, and korean melons are commonly fertilised with sewage effluent or grown within effluent sludge, and melon vines are particularly adept at uptaking pathogenic bacteria and microorganisms from their environment and harbouring them within their fruit.
did you know that? did ya did ya??? |
A link or some kind of evidence would be nice. |
The watermelons I be seein' ain't growin' in da effluent. They be growin' on da groun'. An eyes in D heart of dis big ole fat country. |
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Fishead soup
Joined: 24 Jun 2007
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 8:24 pm Post subject: |
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| Next time have it with a box of fried chicken and beer |
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asmith
Joined: 18 Jun 2009
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| Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 9:30 pm Post subject: |
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| Fishead soup wrote: |
| Next time have it with a box of fried chicken and beer |
I don't drink beer. I'm a soju-head. Jinro Original. That's my brand. A bottle a day keeps the nightmares away. |
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bixlerscott
Joined: 27 Sep 2006
Location: Near Wonju, South Korea
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| Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 10:38 pm Post subject: |
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| pkang0202 wrote: |
How come KOrean watermelons do not have yellow spots on them from sitting on the ground?
In the US, you can tell which watermelon is the ripest by how big/yellow the bottom is. It gives you an idea of how long the watermelon has been on the vine. |
They sit on black sheets of vinyl plastic as PVC is widely used in Korean agraculture to make the soil warmer and retain moisture. They are probably turned regularly too to achieve symmetry for a perfect look. This results in larger potatoes, watermelons, and onions, but chemicals may be leaching into the produce from having PVC breaking down in the weather. The black sheets of PVC come in big rolls and are unrolled onto the ground, holes are cut into it where plants are to be, but I wonder how the soil receives rain. Maybe they are manually watering each plant being that farming is very small scale in Korea. Clear PVC is also used for greenhouses to make it warmer for the plants resulting in earlier harvests and increased yield. Fruits such as pears are also sheithed in yellow plastic tie on bags.
Really, I find the Korean watermelons to be standard American species just same as the zuccinni squash and red hot chili peppers. Importing species of plants, livestock, and foreign knowledge allowed Korea more food and resources as it had very little in the old days when it was one of the worlds poorest countries. I'd say they're doing well now days to be enjoying cold watermelons, ice cream, and steaks, but the selection does pale in comparison to what we're accustomed to having as well as the prices being steep. Watermelons have come down a lot recently, but steak is still 40,000 won a pound or half kilo at my local grocer. |
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bassexpander
Joined: 13 Sep 2007
Location: Someplace you'd rather be.
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| There was a truck driving around selling watermelon for 3,000 won each last night. I used to hate the noisy trucks with their megaphones that drove around in my neighborhood. Given the insane food prices at stores lately, I've actually found myself hoping to see them around. |
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pkang0202
Joined: 09 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 3:11 am Post subject: |
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| bixlerscott wrote: |
| pkang0202 wrote: |
How come KOrean watermelons do not have yellow spots on them from sitting on the ground?
In the US, you can tell which watermelon is the ripest by how big/yellow the bottom is. It gives you an idea of how long the watermelon has been on the vine. |
They sit on black sheets of vinyl plastic as PVC is widely used in Korean agraculture to make the soil warmer and retain moisture. They are probably turned regularly too to achieve symmetry for a perfect look. This results in larger potatoes, watermelons, and onions, but chemicals may be leaching into the produce from having PVC breaking down in the weather. The black sheets of PVC come in big rolls and are unrolled onto the ground, holes are cut into it where plants are to be, but I wonder how the soil receives rain. Maybe they are manually watering each plant being that farming is very small scale in Korea. Clear PVC is also used for greenhouses to make it warmer for the plants resulting in earlier harvests and increased yield. Fruits such as pears are also sheithed in yellow plastic tie on bags.
Really, I find the Korean watermelons to be standard American species just same as the zuccinni squash and red hot chili peppers. Importing species of plants, livestock, and foreign knowledge allowed Korea more food and resources as it had very little in the old days when it was one of the worlds poorest countries. I'd say they're doing well now days to be enjoying cold watermelons, ice cream, and steaks, but the selection does pale in comparison to what we're accustomed to having as well as the prices being steep. Watermelons have come down a lot recently, but steak is still 40,000 won a pound or half kilo at my local grocer. |
Good answer. Also took care of another point I was wondering about, whch was how KOrean watermelons are so uniform in appearance. |
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