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FockTheIRS t1_j8o2uj7 wrote

I’m curious… why watermelons with your burgers and fries? It sounds unique.

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TrueCrazyMan OP t1_j8o6y15 wrote

It’s like a mini dessert after you eat your burger and fries. Plus it gives the meal a balance of salty and sweet. And it just looks cool.

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CBR85 t1_j8o5mm6 wrote

Have you literally never been to a backyard BBQ?

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BlueCreek_ t1_j8whes1 wrote

I have been to many, just none within the US, I guess this is an American thing. Wouldn’t see this at an Aussie Barbie

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Heathen_Mushroom t1_j8xkd8a wrote

Watermelon is definitely a summer season/hot weather fruit common at American barbecues, but it is not specifically a thing to have it served on the same plate at the same time. Mostly people just pick up slices and eat them immediately, the melon slice never seeing the plate.

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reddit_and_forget_um t1_j8oe1cf wrote

? I have been to and hosted 100's of "backyard bbq's" and I have never seen or had a burger and watermelon on the same plate.

Seems a recipe for soggy food for no reason. Why not put/eat the watermelon after?

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literaphile t1_j8p3zep wrote

How on earth would watermelon make the other food soggy? You know you're not supposed to put the watermelon on top of the other food, right?

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Heathen_Mushroom t1_j8xk13n wrote

Of course not, but you are supposed to use a spackling trowel to smash the watermelon and release its foul juices before eating the rind, aren't you?

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CBR85 t1_j8ogvn8 wrote

This comment comes off as the guy who tries to prove how un-racist he is by announcing he has like 3 black friends.

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Subtle__Numb t1_j8oztlj wrote

What about a backyard bbq is black?

God, I had this roommate for a while. During COVID quarantine some of our neighbors invited him to attend their bbq down the street. Want until then I learned he was racist as shit, just didn’t know it. Not that he didn’t like black people, but they were “different” to him. I could tell by the way he told that story for the next 3 months til he moved out. What a loser

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CBR85 t1_j8po97j wrote

Nothing about the bbq is black, his comment just reminded me of this. MB.

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reddit_and_forget_um t1_j8pjqlp wrote

Aha, what are you even going on about? Why not just stand on a chair and shout that you're a racist? Because it's a bbq and there is watermelon, it's now a "black" bbq?

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CBR85 t1_j8poblr wrote

Read my comment. Literally not the point I was attempting to make.

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skyestalimit t1_j8o5qx4 wrote

It sounds great if you like soggy buns and fries

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reddit_and_forget_um t1_j8oe4ps wrote

This...what possible reason could people have to downvote?

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Sqwill t1_j8ogb5o wrote

Because people who have actually had this before know that just because you have a slice of watermelon next to a burger it doesn't magically get soggy.

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Rukkia t1_j8r1bo0 wrote

idk I’ve put watermelon on a plate before and there was a lot of juice leaking from it

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carolathome t1_j8s23nv wrote

Not to mention the burger will only spend about 2 seconds actually on the plate next to the watermelon.

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