[Sca-cooks] Earth Apples?

[lilinah at earthlink.net]

>I am aware that a television show is not wonderful documentation, and
>just because it is on TV does not make it so, but I wanted to check
>something out regarding the issue you just brought up.
>
>On a recent (new) good eats about melon Alton Brown said that the vast
>majority of Americans have never eaten a true canteloupe and that the
>menlons sold as canteloupe in the United States are actually Musk
>Melons.
>
>So, all you learned botinists, reasearchers and such out there - is
>there anything to his claim?
>
>Glad Tidings,
>Serena da Riva

All my reading on melons says that the melon commonly sold in the US 
as cantaloupe is actually a variety of musk melon and not a genuine 
cantaloupe.

I don't like them anyway - i have a mild reaction to them - they make 
my mouth feel odd, which other melons do not.

I'm not actually sure what a real cantaloupe is, or whether i've ever had any.
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Urtatim (that's err-tah-TEEM)
the persona formerly known as Anahita