The tag on the plant said that the melons would grow to 20 lbs.
Mine were maybe 5 lbs.
In real life this is a story about my brother. Ever since the incident, meldahelda has been our family word for watermelon.
Why do you go dragging me into this nonsense?
I wasn’t even alive when “meldahelda” happened.
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I HAVE BEEN LIVING ON THEM ALL SUMMER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How big did yours get? 🍉
Still pretty impressive
They may have been small, but they tasted great!🍉
Excellent
My Max would pick watermelons from the garden and bring them to me. That dog loved them! This story reminds me of the time my brother in law said, in all seriousness, “what the heck is a Yavondaleen?” He had heard a commercial where someone said “Come on Aileen” and heard “Yavondaleen” instead. We still use that for something misheard. It’s a damend YAVONDALEEN!
Each family has so many of these. They help to make life fun! 😆
My grandfather ran a trading post on a Blackfoot reservation, so my dad lived on the reservation for a few years growing up. (This would have been pre-WWI.) He told us the Blackfoot word for watermelon was “wawamuskus.” I doubt that, but that was our word for it in my family!
Love it! 😂. (I wonder if you could look the word up on Google Translate?)
I’m pretty sure my dad (or more likely his dad) made it up. “Wa-wa” is English baby-talk, and “muskus” was probably his rendering from muskmelon. Grandpa liked to play with words. 🤭
weϴkanimini This is the closest I could find to watermelon. It just means fruit. I found lots of animal names but not many plant ones.
Ha! Toby, I get asked that question a lot! 😉 😀
YAY for meldaheldas!!! Delicious! 🙂 They may be small meldaheldas, but I bet they were yummy! 🙂
We have a lot of those family mis-words and jokes, etc… such fun! When my oldest was under 3 he called hamburgers “hangburglers”…so that still makes the rounds all these years later. 😀
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I think we should compile a language made up entirely of “family words”. It would be completely incomprehensible to code breakers! 😆
HA! That would be fun and funny! 🙂 😀
THat is a much better term than watermelon
Feel free to adopt it in your family!
Leo remembers watermelons growing from cracks in the pavements in Spain in the sixties…he reckons about ten kilos and not something you wanted to trip over…
Whoa, now THAT would be a sight to see! Did he ever pick and eat one or were sidewalk melons considered not clean? 🍉
He picked some…..the pavements were a lot cleaner than the beaches in t hat era……