SC - Yolks vs whites
LYN M PARKINSON
allilyn at juno.com
Thu May 1 22:57:31 PDT 1997
> Just to throw in my 2 cents... in taking an archaeology course we were shown
> pictures of Bushmen eating what appeared to be a small watermellon.. It was
> known as a "Bitter mellon" and the archaeologist we questioned said that they
> were NOTHING like the mellons that origionated in the Americas. Our are sweet,
> the ones from Africa are definitely not.
>
> These mellons, however, do contain a great deal of moisture and are what the
> Bushmen survive on during the dry season. It is possible that the mellons seen
> in the illustrations and mentioned are these bitter mellons.
>
> Do the references sited above say anything about the mellons being sweet?
> That would be the best way to tell which are being refered to.
>
> One more thing, I keep hearing about/reading about gourds. What are they? I
> had been taught that the winter squash we eat are also New World.
>
> Linneah
My apologies to everyone on the list. I have just completed some more
investigation and the watermelon did, indeed, origionate in North Africa and
was brought to the Americas. I still wonder about whether it was sweet or
whether ours today is a descendant of the bitter melons I mentioned above.
Linneah
who can sometimes be too quick to show her limited knowledge
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