I eat my peas with honey

[conuly]

I've done it all my life
It makes the peas taste funny
But...
It keeps them on my knife!

I always thought this poem was strange as a kid - not because he eats his peas with a knife, but because if he's "done it all his life" surely he thinks that they taste normal that way?

Anyway, I have a poll:

[Poll #1211797]

See, I've had this recipe for watermelon salad with feta and mint floating in my mind for a while (and we always have plenty of mint), so I picked up some feta at the store today. But then, when I was googling to figure out how *much* feta goes in that salad with a whole or half a watermelon, I saw THIS recipe, and this one as well.

I grew up just grabbing a slice of (cold, refrigerated) watermelon and eating it on the fire escape in my room (did the same with gumbo. Everybody else ate in the kitchen, but for those meals I seem to remember eating them looking out over the backyard a lot, which normally I didn't do) and then coming back for more and more and more.

And in the comments to one of those recipes somebody posted that they normally eat watermelon with salt (SO not how I ever did it) like it's a normal thing, and I remember reading that in some areas, that *is* how one usually does it.

So - yeah, poll.

Comments

[mommyathome.livejournal.com]

In Israel everyone has watermelon with Feta. That's how it's served in restaurants as well.

[conuly]

And? How is it?

[mommyathome.livejournal.com]

brilliant!

[firingneurons.livejournal.com]

I eat watermelon usually with these... Deep-fried bread things. I don't actually know the english name for them, but the low german (mennonite) name is (probably misspelled) Roll Kuchen. They're so tasty!!

[joeymew.livejournal.com]

I don't actually like watermelon that much. I just like turning them into jack-o-lanterns. I believe it was you who suggested it all those years back!

[conuly]

Was it?

Well, you can send all your excess watermelon to me, if you can find a container to ship it in and a way to preserve it!

[ksol1460.livejournal.com]

And of course you know that seeds gathered from a blue watermelon picked on a blue day and then planted on a blue day will make more blue watermelons. ;)

[(Anonymous)]

In Israel everyone has watermelon with Feta. That's how it's served in restaurants as well.

[conuly]

And? How is it?

[(Anonymous)]

brilliant!

[firingneurons.livejournal.com]

I eat watermelon usually with these... Deep-fried bread things. I don't actually know the english name for them, but the low german (mennonite) name is (probably misspelled) Roll Kuchen. They're so tasty!!

[joeymew.livejournal.com]

I don't actually like watermelon that much. I just like turning them into jack-o-lanterns. I believe it was you who suggested it all those years back!

[conuly]

Was it?

Well, you can send all your excess watermelon to me, if you can find a container to ship it in and a way to preserve it!

[ksol1460.livejournal.com]

And of course you know that seeds gathered from a blue watermelon picked on a blue day and then planted on a blue day will make more blue watermelons. ;)