Do you salt your melon?

[poppy]

Not a euphamism....... I'm really asking, when you eat melon, do you put salt on it?
I do and it's delicious.  (No health issues knock-on-wood).

My husband thinks it's a strange thing to do.

 

[AFwife Claire]

My grandparents did, and so does my mom.  I have before, but I don't usually bother.  I don't think it's nuts or anything though, since I grew up with it!  Is it a southern thing?  My grandparents were from Mississippi.

[City Mouse]

I don't, but I remember my mom putting salt on melon.

[zoobie]

My grandmother did, but I don't. Cantaloupe is good with prosciutto though. And watermelon with feta.

[Mrs Mungo]

It depends upon what kind it is. But, sometimes, yes.

[Slartibartfast]

I don't but many of my relatives did while I was growing up. It's good, I just don't tend to do it anymore.

 

I do like melon with salty things, like zoobie said, watermelon with feta and cantaloupe with prosciutto. 

[Scrub Jay]

I've never even have heard of this. I am intrigued...

[Sharpie]

No, I've never heard of it before.  Perhaps it's regional?  Maybe I'll have to try it. :)

[Another Lynn]

Salt and pepper on cantaloupe!  Yum!

[Jaybee]

Sometimes. I grew up with it in the South--salt on watermelon and cantaloupe. I like it either way, but if the melon is really sweet and delicious, I am less likely to salt it.

[poppy]

Salted melon is like salted caramel. Without salt,still delicious. With salt, it's sweeter and has that saltly contrast too.  Yum.

[KungFuPanda]

I came from a place where people salt watermelon. I thought it was normal until I left home :-)

[OneStepAtATime]

My mother always salted watermelon and grapefruit.  I never saw the appeal.

[mrsrevmeg]

I like salt on watermelon, but not other types.

[BlessedMom]

No I don't ever salt mine, but when I was growing up my mom always salted her melons.

[Slartibartfast]

I don't know what's stranger. The salt thing or people's obsession with French dressing on pizza in the South (okay maybe not the whole South, just a city or so??)

 

I have never heard of people putting French dressing on pizza.

[shukriyya]

I just recently started doing this and it's delicious. I salt my fruit salad, too.

[Mom in High Heels]

I sometimes put salt on watermelon, and always on grapefruit.  I make a summer salad that has fruit, and I always salt that, but no other fruit.

 

No I don't ever salt mine, but when I was growing up my mom always salted her melons.

 

That made me LOL!

[momto10blessings]

Never heard of this before

[Amira]

Chile, salt, and lime. I've never been a melon fan before, but Mexico has taught me how to eat it.

 

Dh grew up putting salt on grapefruit. It takes away all the tartness for me and I really dislike it.

[xixstar]

Salt watermelon and apples occasionally. Need to try it on muskmelon now too.

[momto10blessings]

I don't know what's stranger. The salt thing or people's obsession with French dressing on pizza in the South (okay maybe not the whole South, just a city or so??)

I know people that put ranch dressing on their pizza but not french dressing. Hey what about people putting fries on their salad? Strange.

[Joker]

The only melon I salt is watermelon. Dh and dds put sugar on grapefruit and strawberries (I act like I don't see it). All other fruit is eaten as is without anything added.

[Debbi in Texas]

My mother salts not only her melons, but most other fruit as well. I only salt grapefruit.

[Slartibartfast]

http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/522652

 

Based on a few links I've read some say it started in Biloxi, MS but others say they saw it in other parts of MS. The part that is crazy is how it was common to see the dressing on the table in the local Pizza Huts. But I don't know if it is still common.

 

 

That's odd.

[AndyJoy]

When I was 10 or so, I started taking my own saltshaker to my church's July 4th picnic; the poor hostess committee was uneducated in proper watermelon consumption :)

 

At least 4 generations on my mother's side salted watermelon. Now I only do it if I'm not particularly pleased with the quality. I never salt my friend's fresh-off-the-farm ones.

 

I was declared a freak for this in college in SoCal; none of my friends had heard of it.

 

We could open a whole new argument with my 4-generation paternal habit of never serving pancakes or waffles without peanut butter.

[Ausmumof3]

Never heard of it... It doesn't sound appealing

[Janie Grace]

Wow, I have never heard of this. It sounds gross, but I'm sure some of my Yankee tastes would sound gross to others.

[mamaraby]

Ewww....no. (I tried it growing up and don't see the appeal.)

[Mom in High Heels]

We could open a whole new argument with my 4-generation paternal habit of never serving pancakes or waffles without peanut butter.

 

Ack, this is so gross.  My parents eat them this way, as did my grandparents.  I don't like peanut butter, so perhaps that's why I find it gross, but even if I did, it just seems so....wrong.

 

My grandfather always ate the same dessert after every dinner.  It was fresh biscuits (I swear my grandmother spent most of her days making biscuits), sliced open with peanut butter spread on them, then covered with dark Karo syrup.  He used so much syrup he had to eat it with a fork.  Ick.  He said he'd eaten that almost every day of his life (he was born in 1899), and was what kept him alive for so long (along with a few "swigs" behind the shed).

 

[Guest]

YES!

[Mrs Mungo]

Salt enhances the flavor of lots of things. Even if you haven't tried it, I think calling it gross or strange is kind of weird.

[Catwoman]

No. No salt on melons for me!

 

But I like salt on lots of other things, so I'm definitely not anti-salt. :)

[Catwoman]

My mother salts not only her melons, but most other fruit as well. I only salt grapefruit.

I put sugar on grapefruit.

 

LOTS OF SUGAR. :)

[AngelaNYC]

Not a euphamism....... 

 

LOL.  Totally thought it was a euphemism.  I even re-read it like this --->   

 

Sorry, carry on...

[Evergreen State Sue]

Salt and pepper on cantaloupe!  Yum!

 

Yep!  My Dad did both salt and pepper on cantaloupe.

[Catwoman]

LOL. Totally thought it was a euphemism. I even re-read it like this --->

 

Sorry, carry on...

I'll admit it.

 

I did the same thing. :D

 

I was actually a little disappointed to find out that it was actually about putting salt on a melon.

[happi duck]

I sometimes salt my melons. :)

 

This was normal growing up in the Midwest...no southern heritage.

 

My favorite way to eat watermelon is with fresh lime juice and mint!

[TechWife]

I salt watermelon. I've never thought of salting other melons, maybe I should experiment. 

 

 

[poppy]

I occasionally French dressing on pizza and I didn't know it was a thing! More sweet + more fat. Unhealthy but it hits those pleasure centers in the brain.

 

I have heard of ranch on pizza, trendy in CA 20 or so years ago.

[foxbridgeacademy]

The only kind of Melon I eat is Watermelon and yes, sometimes I do (not an unusual thing to do in S. Indiana).  One of my favorite memories from childhood is eating salted watermelon under my Mim's Tulip Tree at family cookouts, then spitting seeds at my PITA cousin.  

 

I also will occasionally put salt on green apples (same family members taught me that).  

[Farrar]

My family made me stop.  :tongue_smilie:

[Guest submarines]

LOL.  Totally thought it was a euphemism.  I even re-read it like this --->   

 

Sorry, carry on...

 

Me too, me too!

[Shamzanne]

I nearly always salt melon, especially when it isn't very tasty. The only exceptions are the local, heirloom melons at the farmer's market. There are several that have such a lovely, complex taste that I don't want to mess with them. I also hate cooked fruit and fruit pies, for the PP that joined these two things together.

 

I also put a sprinkle of salt in chocolate milk (Yum-O!) and when I'm feeling indulgent, put peanut butter, brown sugar, and then maple syrup on my pancakes.

[skeeterbug]

Salt on cantaloupe and green apples.

 

Sugar on grapefruit.

 

:)

[Word Nerd]

My dad does and his parents did too. I don't like melon.

[mommaduck]

Yes. I grew up salting them. It brings out the sweetness.

[IdahoHomeschooler]

I salt my salt. Of course I salt my melon ;)

[chocolatechip]

I've heard of people doing it. I've tried it. But I don't do it regularly.

 

I do eat peanut butter on pancakes, though!

[Lolly]

I know people that put ranch dressing on their pizza but not french dressing. Hey what about people putting fries on their salad? Strange.

 

you know what is really good? Dipping your french fries in soft serve ice cream!!! 

 

I sometimes salt my melons. Usually do with watermelon. Salt on apples is really yummy. I use sugar and salt at the same time on grapefruit (otherwise it is just yucky).