It's a very picky and technical diffinteration, but if it's orange inside, it's
a muskmellon; green, and it's a cantalope, no matter what your market calls
them. Like Abe Lincoln said, "If you call a sheep's tail a leg, then you can
say a sheep has five legs. But calling its tail a leg doesn't make it one."
Walt
--
"Anything more than 500 yards from
the car just isn't photogenic." --
Edward Weston
-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Winsor Crosby <wincros@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> An American yam is a sweet potato. Just a word usage. It is not a
> potato. The true yam is grown in Africa and other tropical hot areas
> something else entirely. There are lots of varieties of sweet
> potatoes from the deep red ones I grew up with and we called yams to
> the pale creamy fleshed varieties.
>
> Never ever have I seen a green fleshed cantaloupe. Sometimes there is
> a thin green layer under the skin if it is not ripe. Musk melon is a
> big group that includes cantaloupes, cranshaws, green fleshed
> honeydews and canteloupe like "musk melons". My local farmers' market
> that sometimes sells what they call musk melons. They look like a
> canteloupe, but not as good tasting to me. I suspect you call
> canteloupes musk melons down there because you like the sound of
> it. :-)
>
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