Posted on 06/29/2019 10:26:53 AM PDT by bgill
Spring weather has delayed the Texas watermelon harvest, casting doubt on the supply ahead of the Fourth of July holiday. Fields across the state are behind schedule due to weather, meaning peak sales for the summer holiday are in jeopardy statewide, growers say. Gary Collins first started growing watermelons 66 years ago. This season, he said, has been “pretty rough.” “Ground was cold, ground was real cold,” Collins said.
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“Proof” of the coming Ice Age.....
Global cooling is eal - I have proof!
Betcha there’s Aunt Jemima Syrup and Uncle Bens Rice in the Pantry too.
If that’s real, it needs to go viral. WTF?
It has, supposedly, already been “debunked”
I’m sure the original video is available somewhere. Wouldn’t surprise me in the least. This woman comes from the same “I was named after Sir Edmund Hillary” school of narcissistic fabrication and self-promotion.
Nonsense.
Bullshit meme that made the rounds on 4chan and the_donald months ago.
Tomi Lahren eventually deleted her post
Uh, ain’t that a trigger word now? You know, like “cotton”.
Not enough watermelon to set off fireworks. Oh the horror!
You missed it the first time around?
I thought we here in Texas got most of our watermelon from Mexico which is also the source of most of the good beer around here.
Indian Princesses get minority passes.
According to the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension, Texas ranks
No. 1 in the nation in watermelon production. The fruit was
an $87.5 million crop in 2018, according to an AgriLife
Extension economic report, with other melons adding more
than $5 million to that crop value.
“You missed it the first time around?”
I did.
Looks like Octoberfest is the new target date now. Ahhh, beer and watermelon, afternoon delight.
rwood
Racism!
A couple of weeks ago I bought a medium sized seedless at a Walmart grocery in nw Arkansas. The sticker indicated it was a Texas product.
It must have floated, broke away, sailed up the Gulf, then upstream through the Mississippi into the Arkansas and up the Illinois rivers to get here. Curiously, there were several large containers of them with similar Texas product labels.
It must have floated, broke away, sailed up the Gulf, then upstream through the Mississippi into the Arkansas and up the Illinois rivers to get here. Curiously, there were several large containers of them with similar Texas product labels.
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I think they just roll.
I care less if it is fake. It is hilarious and Tomi is smoking hot.
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