To: Eric in the Ozarks
Muscatine is famous for melons.
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That must be why my mom always called cantaloupe muskmelon.
I never knew why but his makes sense.
85 posted on
01/24/2016 7:16:38 AM PST by
Amntn
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To: Amntn
89 posted on
01/24/2016 7:19:59 AM PST by
Eric in the Ozarks
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To: Amntn
Or they took their name from the melons. My parents generation didn’t know wharf a cantaloupe was. Just like green peppers were called mangoes
91 posted on
01/24/2016 7:23:06 AM PST by
hoosiermama
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To: Amntn
Wait...let me check... It lists the world famous Muscatine Melon, but it looks like a watermelon to me.
93 posted on
01/24/2016 7:25:48 AM PST by
nikos1121
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To: Amntn
So did my parents — “muskmelon”.
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