[Aliska]

They aren't as good any more, but they grow what they think people will buy. Well as if we haven't mucked up watermelons enough, look what the Japanese have done to them. This is for real, article at link.

At least I've posted the obligatory photo.

Square fruit stuns Japanese shoppers

[ConorMacNessa]

That's an obscenity, but they may as well do the same to the fruit that's being delivered to us. I guess you just have to go to a farmer you can rely one like we do for our Thanksgiving turkey. We go to a local farmer we have relied on for many years , now in the third generation of producing good turkeys.

Lamh Foistenach Abu!

[piasa]

It used to be you could order gourd/melon molds to use in your garden. Snap them over a developing gourd and when they grow they take the shape of the mold- in this case the molds would make the fruit look like a comical human head.