I was watching 'How do they do that' on YouTube with Jasmine a few
weeks ago. Down the right hand of the screen was a list of videos and
one caught my eye:
Square watermelons grown in Japan.
Apparently, Japanese watermelon growers were thinking about profit
margins and efficiencies and decided that square watermelons would be
much more economical to stock - they'd stack nicely on a shelf.
When
I was watching the video I was so impressed, until they got to the end
of the video. It turns out that these square watermelons are no good at
all for eating - the growing process renders them inedible, mainly
because they have to harvest them before they are ripe, or they explode!
