Let's not leave out the animaals, they have feelings too ...
Donning flame retardant underwear .. have after it aggy
Posted on 07/03/2008 11:52:34 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
Austin, TX (AHN) - Watermelon rinds could be the new natural aphrodisiac, new research has shown. Researchers from Texas A&M's Fruit and Vegetable Improvement Center say the fruit's rind can have a Viagra-like effect.
The flesh and rind of watermelons contain citrulline, which reacts with the body's enzymes when consumed in large quantities. The compound is changed into arginine, an amino acid that benefits the heart and the circulatory and immune systems. Just like the popular Viagra and other drugs meant to treat erectile dysfunction (ED), it also helps relax and dilate blood vessels.
Researchers are now working on breeding watermelons with higher concentrations of citrulline in the flesh of the fruit. Nearly 60 percent of this phyto-nutrient is found in watermelon rind than the flesh. Though found in all colors of watermelon, it has the highest concentration in the yellow fleshed types.
However, a person would need to eat about six cups of watermelon to get enough citrulline to boost the body's arginine level and have the desired effect.
The organic compound citrulline is an alpha-amino acid. Its name is derived from citrullus, the Latin word for watermelon, from which it was first isolated in 1930. Citrulline in the form of citrulline malate is sold as a performance-enhancing athletic dietary supplement which is said to reduce muscle fatigue.
When the melon exploded, we'd all run off into the woods in pairs to "get a piece."
(Yes, it's a JOKE. A lame, one, but it's the only watermelon joke I know!)
Discovering too late that a watermelon spiked with vodka had accidentally been served to a luncheon meeting of local ministers, the restaurant’s owner waited nervously for the clerics’ reaction.
“Quick, man,” he whispered to the waiter, “what did they say? “Nothing,” replied the waiter. “They were all too busy slipping the seeds into their pockets.”
So, you go to the grocery story and paw over the yellow watermelons. You ask the produce manager to help you “find me a big one eh!”
This is DEFINITELY one for the Garden List!!!!!
Pprobably a few other lists, but we shall see!
“Research Says Compound In Watermelon Can Have Aphrodisiac Effects”
About the only that will work is if you knock a hole in it.
“Research Says Compound In Watermelon Can Have Aphrodisiac Effects”
About the only that will work is if you knock a hole in it.....and fantasize.
Oh come on. Guys have always been attracted to girls with big mel... [oh I haven’t got the guts to say it]
Hay! I could get UP for that!
Is this an Aggie joke ..........?;o)
Let's not leave out the animaals, they have feelings too ...
Donning flame retardant underwear .. have after it aggy
please, please tell me this one doesnt include bbq sauce...
LOL
Young man, people will take you more seriously if you learn to spell first.
Only about 100 miles off. Kinda like having a story about the World Trade Center with a Philadelphia dateline.
All of my children have been raised to call soiled diapers aggys
and to call these kind of people the same thing
but I don't want to start any trouble ...
Does this work on the ladies as well? If it does, we will skip BBQ and eat water melons for Independence day.
They left out this part ... again ...
Cut a hole in the side of the melon, then stick the handle of a wooden spoon into that hole and mush it around a bit to break up some of the pulp, then put the neck of the bottle of the liquor of your choice into the hole. The amount of booze, depends on the size of the melon.
A nice combo is about a cup of triple sec and a pint of vodka for a small melon.
Punch holes in the rind of the chilled melon, insert straw and enjoy.
*GROAN*
Pickled Watermelon Rind
By Diana Rattray, About.com
Shared on our forum by Judy
Ingredients:
* 2 pounds prepared watermelon rind
* 1 tablespoon pickling lime
* 4 cups clear, distilled vinegar
* 1 cup water
* 5 cups sugar
* 1 tablespoon whole allspice
* 1 tablespoon whole cloves
* 6 small pieces cinnamon stick
Preparation:
Prepare and remove all green and pink portion from watermelon rind. cut in small pieces and soak for three hours in lime water made from the lime mixed with one quart of water. Drain and rinse the watermelon rind. Cover with fresh cold water and boil for one hour, or until tender. Drain the watermelon. Cover with a weak vinegar solution (one cup in two cups of water) and allow to stand overnight.
Discard the liquid the next morning and make a syrup of the three cups of vinegar, one cup water, sugar and spices. Heat the syrup to the simmering point. Remove from heat, cover and steep for one hour to extract the flavor from the spices. Add the drained watermelon to syrup and cook gently for two hours or until the syrup is fairly thick. Pack the fruit and syrup in pint-standard canning jars. Adjust the jar lids and bands. Process for 15 minutes in a boiling water bath.
Oh, Baby! That sounds goooooood! :)
“Watermelon; it’s a good fruit! You eat, you drink, you wash your face.” ~ Enrico Caruso
We’d better be careful with this info. This is the same department at A&M that is researching the transplantation of natural predators to kill off fire ants.
I think it is a kind of gnat that sucks out their brains. Just what we need running loose, brain-eating gnats.
Remember that Kudzu and nutria were imported to cure problems?
The Japanese Beetles should be hatching any day now, too. They can strip a rose bush in a day. Again, nothing but chemicals will kill them off. And we're losing that battle, fast.
Squish the Japanese beetles. Put on some rubber dish washing gloves and squish ‘em. It’s laborious work but it beats spraying them.
Thank you for that -— hubby picked up a watermelon today and I haven’t had pickled rind in YEARS!!!!!!!
1/2 cup dried cayene peppers
1/2 cup jalapeno peppers
1 gallon of water
Bring to a boil and let simmer for 30 minutes. Let it cool, strain it and put it into a squirt bottle.
Spray your rose bushes (or whatever) from top to bottom and say good bye to the japanese beetles.
It works, believe me, it works.
So that was why my Pappy had my Mama pickle watermelon rind by the ton...
Shhhhh! I have LOTS of spray bottles of “Eight” to sell to my customers within the next few weeks. ;)
I, personally, don’t have a problem with these beetles. I have worked hard to have a working “eco-system” in my garden, so the only thing I ever need to use is Round-Up for weeds.
I have so many birds and Good Bugs in my garden that the Bad Bugs don’t even bother to show up. :)
(I know. I sound like those whack-o Greenies I despise so much, LOL!)
Actually I sound more like the whacko greenies we both despise -— because I don’t use Round-Up. Only because I don’t care to waste the money for it :)
See Post #30. I don’t have a problem with them. My in-town customers do.
And, no. Do NOT squish them. When you squish them, they release a chemical that brings others into the area by the hundreds. Some sort of “distress” hormone. (Ick!)
Use a bucket of soapy water and toss them in to drown. Rubber gloves optional. :)
Actually, it’s a three-pronged assault. You need to spread grub killer on your lawn in spring and in fall. That kills them while they’re pupating (as grubs) from the following season, or kills the just-laid eggs in the late summer-into-fall.
Secondly, use “Eight” to spray any that you see. It kills them on contact.
Thirdly, invest in those Japanese Beetle traps. HOWEVER, under cover of darkness, put them in your neighbors’ yards. That draws them to the traps and out of YOUR yard, LOL!
Just kidding about the last one. I tell my customers that when I’m joking around with them. The traps really do work. They have a female bug scent to them. The male bugs just go crazy for it. Go figure. ;)
You’re right. But the stuff works. Ask any GOOD plant I’ve accidentally sprayed with it, LOL!
I did some brush killin’ today. It felt good, and I don’t care which Greenie knows about it. :)
Did I tell you of my current obsession with Viburnum? I now have a ‘Blue Muffin,’ a ‘Raspberry Tart,’ a ‘Mohican,’ and an ‘Onadoga’ in the yard. They’d better quit breeding them with such CUTE names or I’ll never stop, LOL!
I also added a ‘Grace’ Smokebush and a ‘Golden Mock Orange.’ A ‘Pinky Winky’ hydrangea is going in when we get some more rain and I can actually DIG a hole for it!
Thank goodness I’m a Nursery Manager. I would REALLY be in trouble if I worked in a yarn shop. ;)
P.S. Package on it’s way to you! Went into the mail today. No, it’s not a cutting/graft from my Viburnum Collection. (But I can do that for you if you want!) And everyone misses you at ‘you know where.’ Pop in to say “HI,” would ya? :)
I know the stuff works, it just hasn’t been in the budget this year :) The stuff ain’t cheap!!!!
The majority of the rest of your post is all Greek (or should I say Latin) to me -— I have no clue what you’re talking about, although I’m assuming you’re discussing “flower” type stuff. If I can’y use it to cook with, it’s not worth my time or trouble to deal with -— but that is just my personal prejudice.
I felt really bad the other morning when I discovered that one of the cats had done a serious number on Jax’s planter. She was so proud of it, she’s got all kinds of flower plants growing in it and they have been doing wonderfully........but Thomasina got ticked at me because I put her outside and closed the door (all our cats are outside cats) She totally tore up that planter.
You know my hesitation about “popping in” but if you think it’s OK I will. Just because I love you so much :)
The way this story has flown around the web, you may have problems finding a watermelon for the kids tomorrow. LOL
By all means...pop! :)
Viburnum are flowering shrubs. Sorry!
Husband won’t let me let the chickens out to free-range anymore. They DID tear up my planters by the kitchen door earlier this spring, and they like to poop on his newly laid brick walkway which drives him insane for some reason, LOL!
(The hose is right there! Just hose it off, Man!)
Surprised wife hadn’t already stocked up. Maybe she saw the article!
We’re just too cheap to use the phone, LOL!
But I did have to resort to Sevin-5. My rosebush is in bad shape. The beetles only got as far as some leaves on the Nile plants.
Lady who sold me the Sevin-5 suggested I use the leg of a pair of pantyhose, shaking over the plant to distribute the Sevin 5.
Diana, what do you use to apply the Sevin 5?
It's true!!! lol.
We can’t sell Sevin in Wisconsin anymore; it’s been banned by the Greenies.
It truly is some toxic stuff, so you might want to switch to a product made by the company Bonide called “Eight.” They also make a Japanese Beetle Killer. Both can just be sprayed on, but you’ll still lose some of your plants. The bugs have to ingest it before it kills them, so they need to eat the leaves sprayed with the toxin.
Bayer makes a good line of insecticides now, too. And their rose and shrub soak (you mix it with water and feed it to your roses and shrubs at the base) fertilizes the plants and also makes them systemically “icky tasting” to the beetles. However, that should’ve been done a few weeks ago before the beetles popped.
Timing is everything with these creatures.
And we do sell a lot of Milky Spore, too. And you’re right; it gets stronger with time in your lawn. Apply it again in the fall if you can.
Good luck!
Sorry, lost my head
You have made my day! I was at that game. I was in high school at the time. And yes, I’m an Aggie. The alumni were all yelling “run him through!”.
I'll definitely look at the Bayer product. And their rose and shrub soak (you mix it with water and feed it to your roses and shrubs at the base) fertilizes the plants and also makes them systemically “icky tasting” to the beetles.
However, that should’ve been done a few weeks ago before the beetles popped. I'll be better prepared with this new advice. Thank you. And we do sell a lot of Milky Spore, too. And you’re right; it gets stronger with time in your lawn. Apply it again in the fall if you can.
Marking it on the calender; will do. My plants are in recupe mode. Japanese Beetles, I think, have gone on to plague someone else's plants.
Amazes me to know Sevin was banned in WI. I was in Fondulac (sp) last year, didn't see a whiff of pc, there then. However, I have attentively been observing the encroachment of the same types of policies being enacted in WI as those which have nearly bankrupted CA.
LOL, I proved you right and posted the link.
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