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Originally Posted by Worth1
All cantaloupes are good if you let them get ripe, they are just picked green for shipping. They know and have trained the customer to except a poor quality product. You couldn't have given this stuff to a hog farmer 50 years ago.
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I often wonder when people tell me that they don't like muskmelons, if they are saying that they dislike ripe melons that are picked when they have turned yellow and slip from the vine, or if they are telling me that they don't like the poor quality product sold in grocery stores and served in restaurants.
Brix is an interesting concept, but it doesn't translate all that well to perception of sweetness for me... My sweetest tasting watermelons have yellow flesh. I suppose because they are missing a bitterness component associated with red color.
My sweetest tasting cucumbers have a brix of less than 3. But they are likewise missing a bitterness component.