From NorthTemple:
A round watermelon can take up a lot of room in a refrigerator and the usually round fruit often sits awkwardly on refrigerator shelves. Japanese farmers have forced their watermelons to grow into a square shape by inserting the melons into square, tempered glass cases while the fruit is still growing on the vine.
How cool is that? :)
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trust the Japanese to come up with something like this
This is sick. Cruelty to fruit.
Sweet! I want one.
My question is, where on earth are all of you coming from? It hasn’t even been a full day yet and already there are almost 7,000 views on this page. So, to the next one who comes through, is this showing up for some common Google search? I’m stymied. :)
Cool! Would be awesome to see something like this in the states!
Ben – Stumpled upon…
I got here view Stumbleupon.
stumbleupon…noob
@ Ben..
There’s a cool little plugin that i’m sure a lot of people who viewed this page use. It’s called stumble, takes you to really odd sites based off your interests and what not.
This page was submitted to stumble upon by a user called Xagreus and it received a few thumbs up so its in common rotation. I too get you a thumbs up so prepare for even more traffic.
yet another Stumbler here!
stumbling away
yeah, stumbler here from nc, usa. it would be cool if we had some square melons over here but it would require people to think so i guess i’ll be waiting a long time. : (
Stumbleupon as well
thats so awesome. I give it a thumbs up. Along with this link. Check it out! http://www.picable.com/Nature/Trees/Unripe-Apples.51438
Causing fruits and/or vegetables take the shape of a predefined form is not new;but making it feasible on a commercial scale is new to me.The Japanese are renown for their ability to work in miniature.One only need look at the art of bonsai.The melons are a great idea.
“My question is, where on earth are all of you coming from?”
i found it via stumbleupon(http://www.stumbleupon.com)
square melons. awesome. maybe we can make stackable grapes?
what’s wierd about all this traffic is that this is not new… japanese have been doing this for a while
Interesting stuff. My son proved this could done with potatoes as a school experiment 10 years ago. At the time he wanted to show that square potatoes could be an efficient way to produce french fries/potato chips. His experiment then was successful: a very simple technique
They cost about 140$ a pop though.
Not exactly new… they mentioned this on the Simpsons years ago (and if that’s anything to go by – don’t buy one, as they soon pop back into roundness, making you drop them on the pavement)
The power of the watermelon!!!!!!!
Yup, Stumbled here too.
Ben, your hits are most likely coming from StumbleUpon.
Hella funny i want a square water melon !
Stumbled my way here !
Towlie
But how does it affect the fruit to rind ratio? Do you end up with a small sphere of edible fruit in the middle or does the rind stay a consistent width causing the fruit inside to be cubicle as well?
Stumbled here myself and gave it the thumbs up
Stumble here too. Wonder if they charge more for the cuboid shape?
Ich habe gelost eine fortz! Eine verstunkener fortz! Jawohl.
I got here with stumble and this is so awesome i need a few of those
Coming from a long way off India
Stumbled and giving a thumbs up :-)
What next? Square EGGS?
These are cool as hell.
I stumbled here! stumble on my site, Allims.org!
Stumble!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yep stumbled.
Maybe the other posts aren’t as interesting???
Stumbled upon also . Full marks
Fine, if everyone else is saying it: Stumble sent me here..
yet another Stumbler here from Brazil….
Alright already, we get it! You all stumbled upon this page (yeah me included), but one or two posts should be sufficient.
Let’s just call it quits, a’ight?
Ben,
Wow. Quite the number of comments. I was actually a little disappointed to find out they grow the watermelons in jars. My sister-in-law does plant genetics and one of the recent projects at her company is genetically breeding square tomatoes. They’re also trying to breed tomatoes with fewer guts. Unfortunately, the first crop came out the texture of potatoes…
This is nothing new. They’ve been doing this a long time, and they’re very expensive.
i m wondering how u can do that???
toby u’re too stupid.
i m wondering how u can do that???
Another stumbler here. :) I wonder if they taste as good as normal watermelons.
The Japanese are utilizing it, but people have been using shaped fruit here for decades, Just not much market for it. A French brandy has a pear in the bottle. They place the bottle in a tree and insert the branch into IT before the fruit grows. Clever bunnies!
wow. StumbleUpon is pretty amazing
stumble upon ;)
Wow…..
Yet another stumbler…….
I stumbled here too
How funny!!
Innovation..oh and I stumbled here.
Stumbled here 2
Please don’t take this the wrong way–square watermelons are quite interesting. But 1400 hits? I wish my literary blog would get those kinds of hits, but then it demands more attention than a watermelon.
Ben, I came from Stumble Upon…S.
Stumbleupon! I am addicted to it ! I can’t stop! I keep on stumbling ! Help me!
Whoa – ima random stumbler… I live on North Temple and pass that gold leaf covered statue everyday…
wow….i am speechless…i wonder if there is a purpose to their round shape? other than being awkward in a refrigerator?
Those guys are cool: people think those fruits are just a weird game but the truth is cubic fruits can be easilier stocked and transported. Cubic = money.
55,753 views, and yes I also stumbled it…
Stumbled as well… check out this in-depth article (with more pics) on the Square Watermelon Phenomenon:
“The Square Watermelon – Strange Fruit Indeed!”
http://inventorspot.com/square_watermelon
amazing? can we do this with eggs?
Come here stumbled, from Madagascar.
Stumbled from MAuritius dude… may i know where i fell? :p Japanese r really crazy… but practical lol
This isn’t exactly news. First time I saw these square melons was back in ’00 or something.
http://www.vegiforms.com/default.asp?Mode=home
Yep… another stumbler here!
And that is really cool
Ben, I typed in “http://www.” then a random assortment of letters; this page is much better than the previous 44,532,487 site I reached…
Yeah this one is pretty old. If I remember correctly, I saw an article about this online a couple years back.
-Stumbled Upon
Yet another Stumbler.
66,709 Views
Yeah but how do you eat a square watermelon? You couldn’t carve into it the same way you would a normal watermelon.
Kool watermelons, has this turned into a forum for the stumblers?
May meet u guys on another stumble
Stumbled her, I like the storability of the Square Melon. Hope the Plastic surgeons in the US don’t get any ideas!
I found out about this from a forwarded email, but it was from StumbleUpon before that. That’s…wow. Interesting. For some reason they look like huge green candles to me XD Must be because the stems kind of look like wicks….lol
Anyway I don’t think I’ll be paying 80 bucks a pop for a square watermelon, myself. =D
stumble
so… will square watermelons be better or worse for Gallagher’s career?
I came here by digg.
stumble :D
sumbler here as well!
Stumbled here… cool ‘melons!
You’ve probably guessed I’ve stumbled too!
yes.. just so you know…. stumbleupon is still bringing peeps here!.. I just stumbled in and now I’m stumbling out…..cya!! :)
Stumble, noobster.
Stumbled here too, however, I will give this a thumbs down because I’ve seen this too often. Seriously, stop duping content.
Stumble ftw!
OMG! I’ve never seen a square watermelon!
Truly amazing.
Stumbleupon!!!!!!!!!!
Also I thought everyone knew about square melons they have been around for a long time.
They are cool though.
um, to the person that wants to know if we can do this with eggs…only if you can find a way of putting a square bottle up a chicken’s bottom before the egg is fully formed
pretty cool i want one to got here via stumbleupon,com love it try it and you will to
Yet another Stumbler here.
my friend Cynthia ate one of those when she went to Japan. Makes them easier to ship, I guess.
It seems really kl, and a bit more convinient to eat.
……. Stumble too :)
Another stumble-upon’er.
I wonder if they taste the same?
Stumbling rules my life….
stumbleupon. Dude, once you’ve got a thumbs up, the page gets many hits.
The Japanese are known for being very resourceful. This is a fine example of that.
Stumbled here too! I love StumbleUpon!
Reminds me of genetic modifacation. The Japanese are allways trying to make things more perfect than it iallready is. Like they think that they are the makers of the web of life rather than the thread that we all are.
Reminds me of G.M.O.s. The Japanese are always trying to make things more perfect than it ialready is. Like they think that they are the makers of the web of life rather than the thread that we all are.
They are in the States only for about a month they are expansive just like any other kind of food that has been structurally altered. Also yes Stumbleupon is great but watch what sites that it takes you to it doesn’t take into acount any virus that may be there so if you don’t have some type of firewall set up then your in trouble.
p.s. happy stumbling ;-)
I’ll be more impressed if they can make toroidal ones…..
Interesting, first time I’ve seen a non-Simpson’s square watermelon. Just as interesting is how long before StumbleUpon gets bought out by Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, etc?
Another stumbler!
Imagine trying to do something as simple using Genetics.
Reminds me of a joke from the USA / USSR cold war days – US scientists were trying to invent a pen that worked in space (zero gravity) while, the Russians used a pencil! :-)
Jumping on the bandwagon…I am from stumbleupon too
I reckon they should do this with all sorts of fruits, like oranges etc…it looks awesome!