Posted on 12/23/2005 10:14:27 AM PST by CajunConservative
This one is puzzling thousands of people. St. Bernard Parish, virtually wiped out following Hurricane Katrina, is seeing the spontaneous growth of watermelons. They're everywhere! It's a post-Katrina phenomenon that has even the experts baffled.
"I've never seen anything like this before," said Dr. Ron Strahan of the LSU Ag Center as he surveyed the watermelon infestation.
The fruit, which is normally planted in April, has been sprouting up all over St. Bernard Parish ever since Katrina. Presumably, the seeds were deposited during the hurricane and unusually high temperatures have produced a natural mystery.
"It's just going to be one of those things we're probably not going to be able to explain," said Strahan.
According to Strahan, the clay in St. Bernard absorbed the sunlight, retaining the heat and allowing the melons to grow. A watermelon's consistency is 90 percent water, which means if you eat the St. Bernard Parish melons, you're drinking Katrina juice.
"I don't think I'd want to eat them," Strahan laughed. "I don't think so, but it's just something unusual to look at, maybe take some pictures of and remember this happened after Katrina 2005 and we'll probably never see again."
Katrina may have planted the melons, but bees had to pollinate them, which indicates that growth is possible in St. Bernard Parish following the storm. Even if it is Katrinan melons.
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I am a cajunette so LOL I dont mess with ell ohh ell aye Lola.
And I am a lost and displaced southerner in yankee land and I want to damn know why the Popeyes restaurant is in such a bad part of town Leroy Brown is scared? When they had a Popeyes in a better neighborhood here, in another small country yankee town, KFC did them in. So white yankees have no taste in food so I am prejudiced towards them, LOL!
Well, they're the ones that tend to get robbed. I know I feel a lot better about going in one of those places at night if there's a man with a gun there. I mean a COP with a gun.
Check out engrish.com (can I say that?)
Yep. I like those no smorking signs.
Well, they're the ones that tend to get robbed. I know I feel a lot better about going in one of those places at night if there's a man with a gun there. I mean a COP with a gun.
Me too.
So white yankees have no taste in food so I am prejudiced towards them, LOL!
Derek Jeter's not THAT bad.
The first time I saw a Pope yes that is what the sign looked like to me. I have always called them Pope yes. Their chicken is dynomite though. The red beans and rice are yummie also.
They do have a taste in their RBnRice like my grammas.
See post 8. I was 5.
It takes real guts for the author to even mention watermelons and Louisiana in the same sentence.
HA HA HAAAAAAA!
"An attempt to get evacuees back?"
No, St. Bernard--"Da Parish", was mostly whites.
Wow....this is some strange stuff going on with these melons sprouting up like that!
Admit it! This came from the Onion.
Nope it's for real. Check out the link there's video.
"It is, betcha Ray and Blank mind are red, in the middle and green on the outside!!!
" I didn't say that, but I think you made a fun reply anyways.
Get a few tested. if they're okay then I say send them all to mexico as payment for the workers.
Mmmm . . . drill a hole in a melon and pour a bottle of Everclear in it, then slosh it around and eat the melon.
I don't know, maybe it's just me, but doesn't this sound similar to a story I read somewhere about some fish and bread appearing from nowhere to feed the masses?
-PJ
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