Muskmelons & other melons Actually very nutritious

[AnitaJo Page <PATnANITAPAGE@xxxxxxx>]

     Yes, mentioning muskmelons is a clue that a person is
probably from Indiana.

     "How do you know the person is from Southern Indiana?"

     "They pronounce the R in Warshington."

     The sandy soil area along the Wabash River produces great
amounts of melons.

     Muskmelons are just about the same as cantalopes except
that the muskmelons are usually bigger and sometimes a little
softer.

     Buy a muskmelon, leave it in your kitchen overnight, and you
will know how it got its name.    The musk smell is not a bad smell
or a sharp smell, but it is a distinct aroma.

     But check out the nutritional value of these cantalopes, honey
dew melons, and muskmelons.    Older people and those with
difficulty in chewing can get a lot of nutrition without a lot of
eating problems (as compared to chomping on a steak).

      Back in my hometown just a few miles from the Wabash,
melons were free.    If you visited someone on a farm, you could
expect them to pull a watermelon out of a tub of water under a
shade tree where some melons had been put to cool.

     If you were working near a melon field you could just pick a
melon, split it open on the ground, and eat the heart out with
your bare hands.

     Then I went a couple of hundred miles north to work in the
steel mills in Gary.     (Going to make those great wages!).
I saw watermelons selling for a dollar apiece.    It was hard to
believe.    A dollar for a watermelon!!!

     I guess if I had really thought it out, I would have figured it out
that eventually someone was buying the melons.    Otherwise,
the farmers would not have raised so many.    It just never crossed
my mind that a watermelon had any commercial value.

     We always ate free melons.    Everyone had melons.    Now
a nice cantalope is a dollar.    My muskmelon was $1.50.     Honey
dew melons are going for $2, and watermelons are $3.

     I did fill up in Linton, Indiana for $1.30 for midgrade gasoline
(90 octane) though.    That's not available in all parts of the state
though.    Did you ever think that the consumer is being flim-flammed
on gasoline prices?

     Okay.    Get ready for a Cub Scout silly joke-----------------

     Down along the Ohio River the farmers are having a real
problem with dogs eating the melons in the fields.

     What kind of dog would eat a melon?

     Why,  MELON-COLLIES ,  of course!

                              Pat