fatness
Footballguy
Yep. I think it was sort of a "make a treat out of something everyday and cheap" thing. Salt on potatoes is good. Salt on watermelon is an atrocity.Anyone else eat raw potatoes with salt on it as a kid?
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Salt on watermelon - yes or no? (1 Viewer)
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NCCommish
Footballguy
Or, and this is just me brainstorming, the people who do like it are in the minority because the rest of us believe watermelon doesn't need anything else to be scrumptious and those who think it needs salt are wrong.The masses are afraid of what they don't know.
A lot of salt nazis here on the board - led by pork prince icon () which is weird ...
Results seem artificially low - hell, something as potentially off-putting as oysters would likely get a higher score. (I love oysters)
Stinger Ray
Footballguy
It is damn good.Salt on watermelon is an atrocity.Anyone else eat raw potatoes with salt on it as a kid?
Thunderlips
Footballguy
A good watermelon doesn't need any additional flavoring. It's perfect unto itself.
Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
As kids we snapped off a stalk of wild rhubarb and ate that. A little on the sour side but none of us ran into the house and asked our mommies to sprinkle sugar on it.fatness said:Yep. I think it was sort of a "make a treat out of something everyday and cheap" thing. Salt on potatoes is good. Salt on watermelon is an atrocity.WhatDoIKnow said:Anyone else eat raw potatoes with salt on it as a kid?
Tom Servo
Nittany Beavers
Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
Wingnut
Footballguy
This is key. Even the slightest bit too much and it doesn't work. I use coarse salt, and I use so little you barely even see it. Just a few grains per piece of melon.
Evilgrin 72
Distributor of Pain
It doesn't. But peanut butter and pretzels didn't need anything else to be scrumptious either. Add chocolate to them and they're equally (if not more) scrumptious, but just with a different flavor profile.NCCommish said:Or, and this is just me brainstorming, the people who do like it are in the minority because the rest of us believe watermelon doesn't need anything else to be scrumptious and those who think it needs salt are wrong.Binky The Doormat said:The masses are afraid of what they don't know.BigJohn said:
A lot of salt nazis here on the board - led by pork prince icon (
Results seem artificially low - hell, something as potentially off-putting as oysters would likely get a higher score. (I love oysters)
Melon doesn't need anything else to be good, but wrap some prosciutto or throw a pinch of salt on a piece of honeydew and it also tastes good.
Remember that salt is a flavor enhancer. You don't need to salt it until it's SALTY, but just ahint of salt helps bring out natural sweetness. There's salt in all kinds of desserts you wouldn't think had it in there.
Fennis
Footballguy
Thurston, there is no coarse salt for my watermelon. Can you please have your girl pick up some amethyst bamboo salt at Oscar de la Rentas?
Henry Ford
Footballguy
You don't have to #### with good tuna to make it taste good, either, but I still like a nice tuna tataki. Just because people like to prepare food doesn't mean that the ingredient is awful.Leroy Hoard said:
Evilgrin 72
Distributor of Pain
I haven't done it yet, but I will. And I do not drink chocolate martinis. You want to sit across the table and drink against me, pal, be my guest. Here's my address :
13 Mary St
San Antonio, TX
Or something like that. Come on down and see what happens to you, tough guy.
Fennis
Footballguy
fatness
Footballguy
We ate grass. When dad said "time to mow the lawn" he'd send us all out and we'd eat it. If you get too much stuck in your teeth birds try to nest in it, so flossing is important.As kids we snapped off a stalk of wild rhubarb and ate that. A little on the sour side but none of us ran into the house and asked our mommies to sprinkle sugar on it.fatness said:Yep. I think it was sort of a "make a treat out of something everyday and cheap" thing. Salt on potatoes is good. Salt on watermelon is an atrocity.WhatDoIKnow said:Anyone else eat raw potatoes with salt on it as a kid?
Evilgrin 72
Distributor of Pain
I eat salt like a mofo. When I was a kid, I used to wait until the pretzel bags were empty and then eat the salt out of the bottom of the bag. If I'm being honest, I still do from time to time.
Of course, that led to this exchange. I was about 18 or so and telling my friend Daryl that I ate pretzel salt by itself. He didn't believe me, so I yelled out to my then 11-year old brother (Yams from the eat-offs):
EG : "Hey Yams, what do I always eat plain?"
Yams : "D*ck."
All of my friends exploded in laughter. To this day, some 25 years later, every now and again, one of them will say : "Yo, what does [EG] eat plain?"... followed by the choral response : "D*CK !!!!!!!!!!"
AhrnCityPahnder
Yinz-o-riffic
Vote: Yams for FFA Ombudsman - 2014
Thunderlips
Footballguy
Bacon on watermelon?......I find your viewpoint intriguing and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
Alonzo Mosely
Footballguy
Tried it, don't like it.
Now to go juice a watermelon, rind and all.
Now to go juice a watermelon, rind and all.
Henry Ford
Footballguy
Alonzo Mosely
Footballguy
Evilgrin 72
Distributor of Pain
He has an account here. I think he posted 3-4 times and was already arguing with someone cool (DW, maybe?) I told him to go away.
AhrnCityPahnder
Yinz-o-riffic
Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
You had a good father. This is why you turned out so well. Unfortunately my father bought a lawnmower.We ate grass. When dad said "time to mow the lawn" he'd send us all out and we'd eat it. If you get too much stuck in your teeth birds try to nest in it, so flossing is important.As kids we snapped off a stalk of wild rhubarb and ate that. A little on the sour side but none of us ran into the house and asked our mommies to sprinkle sugar on it.fatness said:Yep. I think it was sort of a "make a treat out of something everyday and cheap" thing. Salt on potatoes is good. Salt on watermelon is an atrocity.WhatDoIKnow said:Anyone else eat raw potatoes with salt on it as a kid?
Henry Ford
Footballguy
mr. furley
Footballguy
Wingnut
Footballguy
The_Man
Footballguy
As noted above I am a huge fan of salt on cantaloupe. So I was looking forward to trying salt on watermelon - found it disappointing. It wasn't gross, but it didn't augment the natural melon flavor the way it does on 'loupe, it kind of distracted from it.
3/10 - will not try again
3/10 - will not try again
Wingnut
Footballguy
Wrong, but thanks for the feedback.
Henry Ford
Footballguy
Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
Thanks for the update.
AAABatteries
Footballguy
AAABatteries
Footballguy
Missed this thread back in the day - damn Nipsey 
I’ve eaten it both ways over the years - both are good. Honestly, I’ll hedge and say it depends on the ripeness of the watermelon.
I’ve eaten it both ways over the years - both are good. Honestly, I’ll hedge and say it depends on the ripeness of the watermelon.
grateful zed
Footballguy
ive done salt on cantelope but never watermelon.
ShamrockPride
Footballguy
Hell of a necrobump.
DA RAIDERS
Footballguy
tajin you rubes
E Street Brat
Footballguy
Galileo
Footballguy
No...no...no... its pepper on cantaloupe.
