"I remember a BIG striped long melon was 50 cents!......................................"
We used to sell the big Black Diamond watermelon at the farmer's nmarket for ten cents each.
My favorite watermelon is the yellow flesh kind, but you never see them any more.
When I was a kid growing up in rural Mississippi, every summer a man would come around in his Ford pick-up selling peaches, one month, then watermelons the next month. I remember a BIG striped long melon was 50 cents!......................................
Would he cut out slices and offer it as a sample, to all the neighborhood kids?
Can you imagine moms letting their kids do that, today?
"I remember a BIG striped long melon was 50 cents!......................................"
We used to sell the big Black Diamond watermelon at the farmer's nmarket for ten cents each.