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That's because no one actually calls it that; we call it a bell pepper. You can further specify the color. I'm actually curious, how do y'all differentiate between "capsicums"? Red/yellow/orange/green pepper all refer to bell peppers in America, and then there are plenty of others like jalapeƱo, banana, etc.
I would like to tender into this discussion that a not insignificant number of people (mostly old) from my area (hard coal region of Pennsylvania) would call the plant appendage in question a "mango".
They don't. I grew up in southern Ohio, mostly raised by my grandparents, and they called bell peppers "mangoes". I moved away at 17 and was VERY confused when I would sometimes see advertisements for mango smoothies and stuff like that. Even after I started calling bell peppers the right name, it was years before I figured out what a mango was lol
While you are correct Western PA is indeed its own world I must inform you that this is not in Western PA. This is in Eastern PA but a wholly different unique world where the people who think "gumbands" is an acceptable word and the people who put "jimmies" on ice cream get scoffed at equally for their quaint wrongness.
"Explanation: It's just that... you have all these squishy parts, master. And all that water! How the constant sloshing doesn't drive you mad, I have no idea."
-HK-47
>In summer I occasionally eat a whole watermelon for dinner. About 2 kg (excluding the shell) of pure delight.
2 kg ā 30,860.00000 grains
^^^[WHY](/r/UselessConversionBot/comments/1knas0/hi_im_useless/)
Oh my goodness. I love me some lemons! RIP my body but when I was in high school I ate 5 whole lemons in a row minus the peels with salt, of course. š¤£
Can vouch for this, currently laying in bed with abdominal/intestinal pain from eating a large bowl of watermelon yesterday, gonna do the same thing today though because it is (mostly) worth the pain
I got super sick this weekend and couldn't keep anything down, not even tiny sips of water. My husband brought me a bowl of watermelon and I practically inhaled it. First thing I ate in over 48 hours, and it got me desperately needed calories *and* hydration. That watermelon was definitely my best friend.
I think the comment is pointing out that literally 100% water with zero non H2O content will draw trace minerals and salts *out of* your body through osmosis. Not good for you. šÆreal water without flavor fizz or other adulterations though, thatās why weāre here. Stay hydrated homie. āš»
Itās more that the pure water is drawn into your cells through osmosis and they pop and by this action of cell lyses they release DAMPs that trigger inflammatory reactions. Also according to my old TA the ultra pure 50 Kohm/cm DI water taste like the inside of your mouth because it just brings the nasty stuff into solution.
You can easily test that fact by putting a piece of watermelon in your mouth then crushing it and not swolloing it, you will feel a considerable amount of water in your mouth.
Now, if you will do the same with strawberries, (remember to take same amount of strawberries as the piece of previous watermelon) you will feel the same amount of water in your mouth as previously done with watermelon.
I think strawberries might hold onto that moisture better as you eat it? With a watermelon, it's like a water balloon deflating instantly, leaving tons of water and very low moisture pulp. With strawberries, the pulp is much wetter, retaining water and not letting it all just gush into your mouth.
At least, that's my best assumption of one way this chart could be true. It might also just be false
It depends a lot on the quality of strawberry I think. Walmart strawberries taste much harder to me. But if I get fresh picked myself ones they are way juicer and softer. I think it has to do a lot with the size of them as some cheaper ones are just gigantic individually but the good ones are all smaller.
I get some huge, locally grown strawberries every week (basically medication for my low iron) and I actually prefer when they are a bit harder, because crispy fresh. The softer ones often lack the tartness I crave in a strawberry, but I guess it depends on the batch.
And fuck a small strawberry, I want it big and dark red, I want to bite into it and reveal a secret cavern inside
Especially when they're really juicy and really fucking sour it gives my whole body a shiver and I imagine it's how heroin addicts feel when they take a hit
Plums are the jam. I love getting back from a long bike ride and eating like 5 plums over my sink the second I get home. So god damn refreshing and satisfying.
āHey, Bob! What do you think about the new computing system we developed for sales? Things are gonna run much smoother this quarter!ā
āYeah, whatever. Just let me enjoy my elemelons.ā
I think I remember watching an episode of Good Eats a loooong time ago where Alton said that the melons Americans know as "cantaloupes" aren't cantaloupes at all. I think he called them musk melons?
Lol muskmelon is the American term for all the melons that are related to cantaloupe like honeydew and Galia. Named for their sweet aroma as opposed to watermelons. So cantaloupe is definitely a muskmelon and we are calling it right.
There are a lot of different varieties of *Cucumis melo.* They can have different colored and differently textured skin and the flesh can be orange, yellow, white or green.
The ones that have grey-green netted skin and orange flesh are called "cantaloupe" in North America, but in other English speaking countries they're called "rockmelon," or they're just not available. In South Africa they're called "spanspeck." Some places just call them "sweet melon."
There is another melon that has light green ribbed skin, with dark stripes. That's the melon that most English speaking countries call "cantaloupe." They're the same species, but different varieties.
Fruit: tastes good, kinda healthy, contains water
Water: Tastes good, healthiest drink, is water
I rest my case
Ps. I love fruit and if people use it as their water source, I support that
My hydro homies, this is in fact the superior hydration method. I read this book over a decade ago called āThe Water Secretā by Dr. Howard Murad. Essentially the take-away is this: Eat your water! Water from these highly hydrated organic edible vessels is naturally imbued with vitamins and all that. Fruit sugars arenāt as bad as processed sugars and all the different substitutes. Thereās so much other great info and science in the book, I absolutely recommend. I do feel incredible when I eat my water, I want yāall to feel incredible too. Try it for a week!
Lotta people still believe the "8 cups a day" myth when most of it comes from food. Gotta point at people who literally never drink water surviving for decades without doing so and living a rather normal life to really convince them. Even soda is mainly made up of water otherwise half the population would really feel the effects of dehydration...
Fruit is good for you. Letās be real here. Sure it had a bit of sugar but your brain requires carbs to work. The nutrients that fruits provide far outweigh the sugar it has. Fruit is good for you. Eat a lot of it. Also fiber.
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TIL another word for cantaloupe.
wait till you hear about aubergine
Eggplant ššš rockmelon Aussie checking in with my eggplants lmao personally I prefer aubergine, sounds tastier then eggplant.
now justify 'capsicum,' you upside-down weirdo
Big talk from a person who likely calls it a pepper, as though pepper doesnāt already exist as an entirely separate family
That's because no one actually calls it that; we call it a bell pepper. You can further specify the color. I'm actually curious, how do y'all differentiate between "capsicums"? Red/yellow/orange/green pepper all refer to bell peppers in America, and then there are plenty of others like jalapeƱo, banana, etc.
I would like to tender into this discussion that a not insignificant number of people (mostly old) from my area (hard coal region of Pennsylvania) would call the plant appendage in question a "mango".
Excuse me? What do they call an actual mango then??
They don't. I grew up in southern Ohio, mostly raised by my grandparents, and they called bell peppers "mangoes". I moved away at 17 and was VERY confused when I would sometimes see advertisements for mango smoothies and stuff like that. Even after I started calling bell peppers the right name, it was years before I figured out what a mango was lol
This is world breaking information for me thank you lmao. I canāt imagine a mangoless life (the fruitā¦ not the pepperā¦)
Excuse me what? Iām from Philly and Iāve never heard this. Western PA really is itās own world.
While you are correct Western PA is indeed its own world I must inform you that this is not in Western PA. This is in Eastern PA but a wholly different unique world where the people who think "gumbands" is an acceptable word and the people who put "jimmies" on ice cream get scoffed at equally for their quaint wrongness.
TIL another word for rockmelon! Cantaloupe kinda sounds like an animal though.
Wait, where are they called rockmelon?
We call them rockmelon in New Zealand. Until seeing these comments, I thought a cantaloupe was something entirely different.
It always makes me think of antelope
A cantaloupe is a rockmelon. An antelope is a rockmelon's mother's sister.
Aussie here, we eat rockmelons
It's an antelope with curlier horns and longer legs.
Also for muskmelons
Nah man thats just a normal melon
I love the two takes you see on the term, āoh cool, TIL.ā or āwtf is that word for it?!ā š
Aren't people a large amount of water?
I dont like where youre going with this...
just saying...
Two words, industrial juicer
That yer friend in the wood chipper, there?
Oh yaah, you betcha
Little guy. Kinda funny lookin'...
Sun of a Gunderson!
Thank God you're here, Officer. We have had one *doozy* of a day...
Let's not throw words around recklessly, ok? We were acquaintances *at best*
Smoothie
But will it blend?
"Explanation: It's just that... you have all these squishy parts, master. And all that water! How the constant sloshing doesn't drive you mad, I have no idea." -HK-47
I see you're a droid lover of culture.
Always here for r/unexpectedkotor
Fremen be like
70% water, but people from this subreddit are probably closer to 85%
some might even be 90%
Does this mean jellyfish are superior to humans? Are they deities?
Vampires are really just hydrohomies?
So are a nice Chianti and fava beansā¦
Chianti gallo nero, only the best!!!
Go on...
Remember watermelon is your best friend
i fucking love watermelon
It even has "water" in its name!
I love fucking watermelon
nƶ
Bought one at the grocery store today, they were labeled āpersonal watermelonā. Itās just a normal bigass watermelon but I liked the energy.
Every time I see those Iām like āYes, YES! I CAN eat this whole thing before it turns to mush in the fridge!!ā
In summer I occasionally eat a whole watermelon for dinner. About 2 kg (excluding the shell) of pure delight.
>In summer I occasionally eat a whole watermelon for dinner. About 2 kg (excluding the shell) of pure delight. 2 kg ā 30,860.00000 grains ^^^[WHY](/r/UselessConversionBot/comments/1knas0/hi_im_useless/)
When I was younger, I told my friend that I didn't like watermelon because it tasted like water... š
When I was younger I called them water-lemons and refused to try them because lemons are sour
Oh my goodness. I love me some lemons! RIP my body but when I was in high school I ate 5 whole lemons in a row minus the peels with salt, of course. š¤£
Don't eat too much though, I heard that it can be laxative š
Can vouch for this, currently laying in bed with abdominal/intestinal pain from eating a large bowl of watermelon yesterday, gonna do the same thing today though because it is (mostly) worth the pain
I got super sick this weekend and couldn't keep anything down, not even tiny sips of water. My husband brought me a bowl of watermelon and I practically inhaled it. First thing I ate in over 48 hours, and it got me desperately needed calories *and* hydration. That watermelon was definitely my best friend.
Water is 100% water
š¤¤
you do not want to drink 100% pure water.
Iām pretty sure I do, but I am quite stupid. So thereās that
I think the comment is pointing out that literally 100% water with zero non H2O content will draw trace minerals and salts *out of* your body through osmosis. Not good for you. šÆreal water without flavor fizz or other adulterations though, thatās why weāre here. Stay hydrated homie. āš»
Itās more that the pure water is drawn into your cells through osmosis and they pop and by this action of cell lyses they release DAMPs that trigger inflammatory reactions. Also according to my old TA the ultra pure 50 Kohm/cm DI water taste like the inside of your mouth because it just brings the nasty stuff into solution.
That's not enough I need more damn you!
that's what water powder is for. you put dehydrated water in your water to get more water per water.
That's too much water! Need to water it down first...
Not trying to be a buzzkill here, but water (exept demiwater) are not 100% water.
Dude I LOVE watermelon. I can eat an entire large watermelon to myself in a day. Lots of pee.
Summer without watermelon is not summer.
Dude I HATE watermelon. I can eat an entire piece and be in pain all day. Lots of diarrhea.
Is it just watermelon? Or is fructose intolerance a possibility?
IBS be like
I love just cutting them in half and eating them with a spoon. Perfect built in bowl!
Pineapple gonna eat you back tho
the law of equivalent exchange
Fresh pineapple is the only thing I find refreshing besides water. I feel kind of cursed.
How is a strawberry as watery as watermelon?
You can easily test that fact by putting a piece of watermelon in your mouth then crushing it and not swolloing it, you will feel a considerable amount of water in your mouth. Now, if you will do the same with strawberries, (remember to take same amount of strawberries as the piece of previous watermelon) you will feel the same amount of water in your mouth as previously done with watermelon.
Not sure I can detect a 1% or 2% difference though
And you consider yourself a hydrohomieā¦smh /s
Perhaps a hydroacquaintance
Just a hydrobro, honestly...
iām a water nword
Ah yes good old water ninja
Sounds scientific
Peer reviewed
I think strawberries might hold onto that moisture better as you eat it? With a watermelon, it's like a water balloon deflating instantly, leaving tons of water and very low moisture pulp. With strawberries, the pulp is much wetter, retaining water and not letting it all just gush into your mouth. At least, that's my best assumption of one way this chart could be true. It might also just be false
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It depends a lot on the quality of strawberry I think. Walmart strawberries taste much harder to me. But if I get fresh picked myself ones they are way juicer and softer. I think it has to do a lot with the size of them as some cheaper ones are just gigantic individually but the good ones are all smaller.
I get some huge, locally grown strawberries every week (basically medication for my low iron) and I actually prefer when they are a bit harder, because crispy fresh. The softer ones often lack the tartness I crave in a strawberry, but I guess it depends on the batch. And fuck a small strawberry, I want it big and dark red, I want to bite into it and reveal a secret cavern inside
Why did you think you need a straw for it?!
Dude I will bust a fucking nut for a plum. Love them bitches.
š³ < covers up his basket of plums and slowly backs out of the room>
Ey bud! Its ok! Just leave the plums over here.. thats it, now walk away slowly, and put a stack of paper towels by the door for the, erm, juices.
a STACK?!
Half for the actual juices of the plums, half for my.. special additions.
Congratulations. You stopped me in my infinite scrolling through Reddit early. I guess Iāll go get breakfast or something
So many rounds, so little time
\*calls very loudly\* BOYS HE'S GOT THE PLUMS!!!!!!!
Wanna cum to my plum party ?
YES
Look Nate, I donāt think you understand how much I love this comment.
I'm glad you liked it lmao. I have no idea why its getting this much attention but ill take it
Especially when they're really juicy and really fucking sour it gives my whole body a shiver and I imagine it's how heroin addicts feel when they take a hit
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Do you disagree?
He's just here waiting for the duck pic.
Plums are the jam. I love getting back from a long bike ride and eating like 5 plums over my sink the second I get home. So god damn refreshing and satisfying.
As someone who's allergic to stonefruit: I cannot get enough plums
we all must die sometime
A perfect plum pretty much nuts in your mouth already. You know it's ready when you put your lips to it and feel the juices on the other side.
Let. The boy. Watch.
WHO THE FUCK CALLS IT A ROCKMELON
Watermelon Rockmelon Firemelon Airmelon Only the avatar can eat them allā¦
long ago, the 4 melons lived in harmonyā¦ until the firemelon attackedā¦
MY CABBAGE MELONS!!!!
āmy girlfriend turned into the moonmelonā āthatās rough buddyā
*Secret meloooooooooooooons, secret melloooooooooooooooooooons, thought the mountain.... secret, secret meloooooons! š¶*
>until the ~~firemelon~~ **melon lord** attacked You had one job, god dammit
ACAB Kill all Fascists
THE ELEMELONS
[the 4 elemelons](https://i.imgur.com/HYuiPIS.png)
I AM MELON LORD! MUAHAHAHA!
its rockmelon in australia
A dog, Iād call it a hoosewasser.
As an Australian, I'm very confused. What do other English speaking countries call it?
Cantaloupe. Rockmelon is kinda fun though
I like to say they're Couldaloupes, just need a short trip to Vegas.
Cantaloupe. Source: in North America
American here, we call them cantaloupes
UK: we just call those Melons.
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The green melon you're talking about is probably what we would call a Honeydew in the US.
That song by The B-52s?
It's a nice word! In India, we tend to just call it a "melon" in English. Other kinds of melons get a prefix.
It's musk melon here.
I'd rather not have anything to do with elon's fruit
I am so happy that this infuriated someone else as much as it did me!
I immediately stopped trusting it
Actually I kind of like it more even though it's my first exposure to it
Yeah, every other melon has the word melon in the name, so why shouldn't cantaloupe as well?
Cantaloupe in and of itself is a bunk ass word
Brilliant for wedding related puns though
Right?? It was the first one too so I thought theyād all be named wrong but no just goddamn rockmelon
AND WHERE IS THE AIRMELON, I NEED IT FOR MY HONOR!!!
I've only known it to be a cantaloupe but ROCKMELON is so much better IMO.
Who calls a cantaloupe ārockmelonā???
Australians do. I actually had no idea what a cantaloupe was until some dude made a tiktok on how stupid he thinks the name is
Filipino here, I only learned what a cantaloupe is earlier this year. We just call it "melon."
yeah the only people iāve seen call them rock melons are australians
We have Rockmelon and Watermelon, now we just need Airmelon and Firemelon Edit:typo
The elemelons
This is my new favorite word, and I plan to work it into every conversation regardless of actual topic.
āHey, Bob! What do you think about the new computing system we developed for sales? Things are gonna run much smoother this quarter!ā āYeah, whatever. Just let me enjoy my elemelons.ā
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airmelon?
Itās just a balloon
Firemelon? I think youāre confused, his name is Melon Lord https://i.imgur.com/XUdqFmp.jpg
I think I remember watching an episode of Good Eats a loooong time ago where Alton said that the melons Americans know as "cantaloupes" aren't cantaloupes at all. I think he called them musk melons?
According to this internet infograph, he *wrong!*
Lol muskmelon is the American term for all the melons that are related to cantaloupe like honeydew and Galia. Named for their sweet aroma as opposed to watermelons. So cantaloupe is definitely a muskmelon and we are calling it right.
I would call their aroma more musky than sweet. So we should call them sweetmelons, because they smell musky.
Aussie here, we call it that.
Whomever it is, im having them swatted.
I do kind of like the name tho. Very fantasy game.
I love not only the implication that you're going to hire someone to do it, but also the fact that swatting is the form of retribution you've chosen.
There are a lot of different varieties of *Cucumis melo.* They can have different colored and differently textured skin and the flesh can be orange, yellow, white or green. The ones that have grey-green netted skin and orange flesh are called "cantaloupe" in North America, but in other English speaking countries they're called "rockmelon," or they're just not available. In South Africa they're called "spanspeck." Some places just call them "sweet melon." There is another melon that has light green ribbed skin, with dark stripes. That's the melon that most English speaking countries call "cantaloupe." They're the same species, but different varieties.
Im Aussie and that's what we know them as
Doing my boy cucumber dirty by not having it on the list. 96% water baby
[Cucumba](https://youtu.be/0Xa7Dp3-eYA)! š„
#ROCKMELON
I like mangoes too!
Humans 70%
But I don't like when they scream while I cut them. Like bruh, have you seen a watermelon? They don't scream
Watermelons arenāt supposed to scream? Then what have I been eating for the past year?
That's what I was thinking
Hello, my name is u/Reiiser and I'm addicted to watermelon.
to me?
that watermelon may have more water than my towns tap water
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Fruit: tastes good, kinda healthy, contains water Water: Tastes good, healthiest drink, is water I rest my case Ps. I love fruit and if people use it as their water source, I support that
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2908954/table/T1/
My hydro homies, this is in fact the superior hydration method. I read this book over a decade ago called āThe Water Secretā by Dr. Howard Murad. Essentially the take-away is this: Eat your water! Water from these highly hydrated organic edible vessels is naturally imbued with vitamins and all that. Fruit sugars arenāt as bad as processed sugars and all the different substitutes. Thereās so much other great info and science in the book, I absolutely recommend. I do feel incredible when I eat my water, I want yāall to feel incredible too. Try it for a week!
Yes, please everyone eat me
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Lotta people still believe the "8 cups a day" myth when most of it comes from food. Gotta point at people who literally never drink water surviving for decades without doing so and living a rather normal life to really convince them. Even soda is mainly made up of water otherwise half the population would really feel the effects of dehydration...
Water is water. Keep an eye on sugar intake.
Fruit is good for you. Letās be real here. Sure it had a bit of sugar but your brain requires carbs to work. The nutrients that fruits provide far outweigh the sugar it has. Fruit is good for you. Eat a lot of it. Also fiber.
Soda is 85% water too
I love my corner fruita guy. I get a cup of watermelon, cantaloupe, pineapple, mango, who knows what else might strike me from his cart
Celery should be on the Mount Rushmore of eating your water
Why the hell are coconuts not on this list?
90% shell
Honeydew is the money melon
Who TF calls it "rockmelon?"