-badgerbadgerbadger- t1_ivhxpn6 wrote on November 8, 2022 at 2:21 AM

Reply to comment by Rich_Acanthisitta_70 in Genomic analysis of 3-6,000 year old watermelon seeds finds the fruit likely had bitter pulp and greenish-white flesh, and may have been consumed primarily for its seeds by bobstonite

I took art history and learned that while plants did look different a long time ago, the changes were not so different in the last 300 years, that watermelon had just gone bad, but many people back then never actually had the fresh fruit so the bad look was normal