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Summertime...

...summer, summer, summer-tiiime, oooh the summertime... doot doot pause doot doot...

Anyway, Kim and I had some watermelon yesterday.  If you’re ever not sure what season it is, that’s one good way to check.  If you’re eating fresh watermelon it’s probably summer.

It was delicious too, and that is the main point I’m trying to make.  Other fruits must be so jealous of watermelon.  I like most fruit, but there’s really no comparison.  I mean what other fruit is four times as big as your head, is hard and dry on the outside, and is hiding a cool, juicy, sweet, red paradise on the inside?

I also love raspberries and strawberries, but they are still no match for watermelon.

Posted by Anthony on Jul 13, 2005 | 12 replies
Filed under: Food, Humor

Comments:

01. Jul 13, 2005 at 04:03pm by Maria:

What’s the thing at the beginning?  "...summer, summer, summer-tiiime, oooh the summertime... doot doot pause doot doot..."
  ???

02. Jul 13, 2005 at 04:42pm by Rolly:

Giant Papaya is a close contender

03. Jul 14, 2005 at 10:26am by MPAW:

I’m a peach man myself, but a hip-hip-huzzah for watermelon anyway!

04. Jul 14, 2005 at 07:46pm by Tasha Moyer:

I hate watermelon.  It’s like sweet styrofoam. Except grosser.
But, I love love love raspberries and blackberries and really ripe plums.  Yum yum

ps that’s the second time I typed ’styrofoam’ in the last 5 minutes. (make that third) How many people can say that? Hmm?

05. Jul 15, 2005 at 01:21am by Anthony:

Plums, peaches, papaya?  Come on.  Have any of you ever even SEEN a watermelon?  Did you notice how it could fangoriously devour an entire bushel of your little fruits without a moment’s hesitation?  (OK, it might hesitate before consuming the giant papaya, but only for a moment.)

Anyway, the beginning is from a song called "Summertime" by DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince, which came out in 1991 and was on the radio a lot.  It’s still on once in a while so you might have heard it.

06. Jul 15, 2005 at 10:07am by MPAW:

Watermelon never got it’s picture on a bubble gum card. How can you say something is great that’s never had it’s picture on a bubble gum card?

Perhaps peaches don’t try to eat the watermelons because they know the taste is inferior to their own.  Plus, a peach pie will always be better than a watermelon pie, and that’s a scientific fact!

Good grief.

07. Jul 20, 2005 at 12:41am by Anthony:

Watermelon pie!  Ick.

(Readies witty defense...)

Watermelon would never allow itself to stoop to the level of mere filling as would be required to be part of a watermelon pie.

08. Jul 20, 2005 at 09:49am by MPAW:

A pie is the greatest form of food that a fruit can participate in!  The fact that there’s watermelon pie at all has to be because it petitioned for it.  What human being would want watermelon in a pie?  In fact, if you look at the ingredients, the watermelon can’t even hold it’s own.  It needs the help of jello!  I rest my case.

See, now I had a choice between leaving well enough alone in this discussion or taking it to an even more ridiculous level.  I probably made the wrong choice.  I will make the concession however, that watermelon Jolly Ranchers rule all over peach Jolly Ranchers.  How’s that for fair and balanced?

09. Mar 6, 2006 at 10:44pm by Ed DiSante:

was surfing and found this blog--believe i am your uncle eddy whom you have not seen for years

10. Mar 7, 2006 at 08:34am by Anthony:

Hi Uncle Eddy!  Thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment.  Yes, I think I’ve only seen you once or twice in my life when I was old enough to remember.  Actually I think the single bit of information that I have about you is that you are my "uncle Eddy who lives (lived?) in Africa."  Ha!

11. Mar 9, 2008 at 04:41pm by maria:

Ohh! I remember wondering about that little lyric at the beginning, and since you wrote what it was, I’ve heard it and now know what song it is!
And I love it.
I love watermelon too.

12. Feb 7, 2009 at 01:27am by Megan:

Um, where the hell can I buy Peach Jolly Ranchers?! They are the BEST flavor EVER and I can’t find anything about them ANYWHERE! *sobs*

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