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Japanese Find Out How to Make Heart-Shaped Watermelons

Posted May 12, 2009 3:14 PM

From Gizmodo:

Having mastered the art of making square watermelons and even pyramid watermelons, Japanese farmers turned to making heart-shaped watermelons. These 15,750 yen ($160) watermelons were grown by a couple and took three years to perfect down to the point where they were good enough to convince people to pay $160 for them. There's only 20 melons in this batch, but we're sure Mr. and Mrs. Hiroichi Kimura will grow more next season.

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05/12/2009 9:19 PM

Just one question: WHY?

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05/13/2009 12:03 AM

To ask ludicrous prices for them off course , they allready had sqaured Melons here.

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05/13/2009 4:12 AM

I can imagine going to a really fancy restaurant where they have their special heart-shaped fruit salad, by cutting a slice of the watermelon right through the middle, and adding some other exotic fruit on top, whipped cream etc. And the price would probably be higher than $160.... (even if you could get about 3 usable slices from 1 watermelon)

If you were to count all the useless things out there that people buy, it would be a full time job!

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05/13/2009 7:48 AM

if they are in hot weather they will about how to make it rich of water only they wouldn't think about shape. thanks
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05/13/2009 9:57 AM

oh sure, but where's my watermelon shaped heart?
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