Now I'm sure when plucked warm from the stony Provencal ground after ripening to perfection in the sun they are fabulous, but this is May, it's Britain, so just face up to that fact. DO NOT put them in your fruit salad. They are utterly disgusting. No amount of wishful thinking will make that different. You might as well put chunks of soap in there or rotten eggs or something. It's NASTY.

I fail to see why this simple fact eludes chefs with many years experience and skill in other culinary areas.

Melon = cheap bulk.

melons in fruit salad ?

reminds me of that joke about the old couple – "no dear, they're dangling in your porridge" 😆

+1

+2 – the cauliflower of the fruit world

i blame farmers markets for promoting in season fruit and veg

Shit off!

Whats round, yellow and sings- melon kim
vintage eighties joke for you there

compressed watermelon (vac pac then cut into large cubes) with pork belly and watercress FTW!

Ate a half of melon not 30 mins ago, very nice it was..melons rock.

Melon = cheap bulk

the cauliflower of the fruit world

So how do you semi-civilised anglo-saxons eat your Parma ham then ?

If you don't like melons you're gay. Fact. 😀

This melon tasted of nothing it was not sweet, it was bitter and thoroughly disgusting.