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Jun 28 2009 8 Comments

Magnificently proportioned melons

Every year it seems, the media happily mentions the arrival of the season’s first gorgeously un-globe-like members of the gourd family, complete with a picture of several Japanese ladies happily handling a plethora of marvellously proportioned melons.

However, seeing such beauties in the wild as it were is still relatively rare, but they are indeed real,

Japanese square watermelon

and really not very round.

Japanese square watermelon

Categorized: Food and Drink

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  1. personal trainer austin tx says

    6/29/2009 at 5:57 am

    Great headline, you got me.

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  2. Fi says

    6/29/2009 at 12:41 pm

    いくらですか

    (I don’t think the fruit prices of Japan will ever lose their eye-boggle factor for me!)

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    • Lee says

      6/29/2009 at 2:24 pm

      Eric below is probably about right. Maybe even a bit more. But this one wasn’t for sale. It seemed to be for display purposes only.

      You’ll be please to know though that the rest of the fancy fruit nearby was absolutely ludicrously priced!

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  3. Eric says

    6/29/2009 at 1:13 pm

    たぶん1万円〜1万3千円位じゃないかな。。。

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  4. Makito says

    6/29/2009 at 2:02 pm

    Hey isn’t that last year’s photo? Hehe.

    They’ve got pyramid suica in a Shibuya shop now too.

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    • Lee says

      6/29/2009 at 2:27 pm

      Nah, took this one Saturday. Honest!

      With squares and now pyramids done, no doubt it’ll be dodecahedrons next year…

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  5. The Envoy says

    6/30/2009 at 2:00 am

    A round shape would always be the most convenient for eating though….

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  6. phossil says

    6/30/2009 at 3:54 am

    I saw a coverage explaining how they do that..

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