Note: You may know this fruit as a rock melon. The nomenclature is confusing. Clear it up in comments, if you please.
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Smasha de cantaloupe
Note: You may know this fruit as a rock melon. The nomenclature is confusing. Clear it up in comments, if you please.
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Rock Melon is another name for Cantaloupe that us Aussies and Yanks use or in other words they are one in the same. My trusty Collins English Dictionay told me so.
ReplyDeleteWhich word for them do you know best River?
DeleteThey are too expensive to be throwing at a wall. We call them Rock Melons.
ReplyDeleteAre they Diane. I haven't looked lately. I think ours come from up your way.
DeleteIn Australia, they are called Rock Melons.
ReplyDeleteFar too expensive to be thrown at a wall, hopefully these were rotten ones????
Colin, I'd never heard of Rock Melons until I was twenty or so. Always cantaloupe for me.
DeleteRock Melons here in Adelaide too, although posh people have been heard to say Cantaloupe. I'm actually eating a couple of slices as I type this. Throwing them at a wall is a shocking waste.
ReplyDeleteAnswered my question River. Now I thinking I would like some.
DeleteI won't say Wikipedia is always correct, but they have pictures showing difference [skin] between a European version and a USian version of the fruit, though the use of names cantaloupe/ rock melon seems interchangeable.
ReplyDeleteGrowing up in Vic this was a cantaloupe. Perhaps the different name is one of those state by state distinctions we once had e.g. fritz vs beef german, cordial vs soft drink?
Interesting question. Interesting way to "use" them, too.
FC, why don't I know either fritz or beef german? Are they strasbourg? Cordial can be something other than cordial? How odd.
DeleteFritz is a South Aussie only lunch meat, there is nothing like it. If you ever want to try it when you are in Adelaide, don't get the "Chapman's" variety from the dairy case of the supermarket, go to the service deli and get some "bung fritz", it's the real deal and much better. (I smell a fritz post coming on...)I don't believe it is anything like beef german either. There are similar (strasbourg) products available in the Eastern states, but they don't compare to our "bung fritz". Cordial is a fruit syrup or fruit-like syrup that gets mixed with water for drinking while soft drink is carbonated and flavoured water, eg:cola.
DeleteYo-Yo biscuits are another South Aussie only item.
Just had a phone text reply from my daughter K, the sandwich meat we used to buy for their school lunches was called Devon, it's the closest looking to fritz, but the taste is quite different, blander. Fritz and sauce sangers are a hit with little kids, fritz and tomato with older kids sometimes, fried fritz and tomatoes for breakfast on weekends, sometimes with an egg. Oh, memories.
DeleteIn Tasmania soft drink was known as cordial. I don't know if they have got with the program yet.
DeleteRiver, bung fritz it is. I bet it is nice fried. We used to have fried stras for breakfast at times, when my father cooked. Your cordial is as ours.
DeleteI did not know about cordial in Tassie FC. Odd.
WA is a rock melon state!!
ReplyDeleteGrace, are you really trying to say WA Rocks?
DeleteWA rocks? Not once Gina gets onto it and smashes them.
DeleteWell on behalf of NSW, where I was born and lived until 1980, NSW is a Rock Melon State also.
ReplyDeleteI bet that if you were to go into a supermarket (Coles/W'worth etc) and asked an employee to direct you to the "Cantaloupe" section, you would be directed to the camping section to look at tents etc!
Ah dear, trust dear old Melbourne to be the different one!!
Colin, I have seen puzzled expressions on the faces of supermarket employees for a million reasons... which is not to suggest all supermarket employees are clueless, but how sad, for example, a young adult can hold up a piece of broccoli and ask "what's this?"
DeleteIf Janis Ian had been born in SA she might have sung "Will you darnce, will you darnce, take a charnce on romarnce...". Born in Qld this might have been "Will you dance, eh?"
Sadly, la difference will not vive much longer as our lingo is increasingly homogenised by inarticulate newsreaders, sporting sellairbrities and USian TV.
Colin, I think here they would know both terms in the supermarket.
DeleteWho would not know what broccoli was FC. Really? Homogenisation is happening with languages around the world. It is good that we seem to be holding out with certain words.
Anyone who doesn't know what broccoli is should be shot. Well, maybe that's a little harsh. Over here in "my" Coles, we all seem to know all the fruits and vegetables, even the horse radishes that look like giant white carrots, and celeriac. When in season we sell things like dragon fruit and lychees, they're easy enough to recognise.
DeleteReally!!! A lot of frivolity on this subject.
ReplyDelete1. If you don't know what broccoli is then I do wonder and for the record, President G.H.W.Bush (Snr.) hated the stuff, I am not too enthusiastic by it either. Quite difficult to cook properly, best eaten in top class restaurants!
2. Gina is great for Australia - she produces and employs. Any able bodied of the "dole" mob, should be sent there - and trained. Might work and should work? Just have a look at what they are paid!
It might be in not pleasant areas but they, the workers, are all on fly-in and fly out agreements, same here in the outback mines.
3. And finally (smirk, smirk) - I asked an employee at W/worths today - where are the cantaloupes? - blank look. To save any embarrassment to the young lady, I just said -"Don't worry".
Actually I was in the shop only to get sugar!
Ah, cantaloupes, and into the match, marches Gina Rinehart! Very amusing, Gina would get a giggle.
I just had a terrible thought!
DeleteI wonder did the young W/worth's lady after my question, see me at the check out with a $1.60 bag of white sugar? Australian brand of course. White sugar is a new name for "cantaloupe"!!!!!!!!! Good God, what have I done?
Colin, I suppose I would call this a post going off! R cooks broccoli to perfection, and I did not grow up eating it.
DeleteGina is a successful rich woman who would like to drive down the wages and conditions of all workers, give not a fig for our original owner's lands, reduce her tax contribution to the national good, yet think by donating a pittance to a charity of her choice makes her the perfect citizen, that we should all aim to be. We will agree to disagree. Gina seems quite humourless. How can we thing of her otherwise when she won't appear in the media.
Extracting sugar from cantaloupes. You might be onto something there.
See I thought the ones with the orange inside and beige outside were cantaloupes. The ones that were green on the inside and paler on the outside were rock melon. *shrugs*
ReplyDeleteYeah Fen. I think I agree, but I don't know. They are two different things hey. I will investigate, in my old age, when I really care.
DeleteBeige outside, orange inside=rock melon/cantaloupe.
DeletePaler outside and green inside=honeydew melon.
Thanks River. We are now clear on that.
DeleteP.S. Bung Fritz is also made by Chapman's at their factory in Nairne, but the dairy case version, just called fritz, is sold in knobs,in plastic packaging, while the service deli bung fritz is larger, tied in a distinctive shape and sold in its orange coloured "skin" and seems to taste different.
ReplyDeleteBungs, knobs, skins, distinctive shapes River? I feel a little uncomfortable.
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