If you’ve ever eaten a big slice of watermelon – not one of those little salad bar wedges – you know exactly what Enrico Caruso was talking about in the quote above. A nice-sized piece of watermelon really is a meal, a drink and a facial cleanser, all in one delicious snack.
I did a little research into Caruso’s quote, and it appears the Italian tenor wasn’t the first to make such an astute observation about our favorite fruit. French poet and novelist Anatole France wrote in his 1881 book, “The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard,” that “for three centimes I can eat, drink, and wash my face, all by the means of one of those slices of water-melon you display there on a little table.”
I’m not sure who Sylvestre Bonnard is, or what crime he committed, but he’d be wise to buy a bunch of those “water-melon” slices – three centimes is a pretty good deal.
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Plus it makes your face smell like my favorite essence; WATERMELON! Great quote, so true!
I could not think of anything else but to tell you how much I appreciate this quote: It took me straight to the day some family members and I had a marvelous day at the river bak in… 198? Wow it’s been that long??? Any how, my cousins, my family(including grandma) and myself we went to have a day at the Florido River in Durango Mexico (back then we were living there) and we had watermelons for lunch. So everybody is enjoying the watermelon and getting wet in watermelon juice and eating it in big “smiling” slices (I think that’s part of the happiness watermelon brings to our lives, the fact that the slices smile back to us!). So, as I was saying… we were al enjoying our share of juicy and sweet watermelon when my grandma (yes, grandma) yelled “al ataque!” in other words “watermelon war!!!” and began throwing to everybody and anybody watermelon rinds so we all were defending our posts and that was painfully funny (watermelon rinds bombs do hurt!) to see all the family so entrenched in such an activity. Especially when you have your belly full of watermelon! To this day I remember dearly that day out with the family. My grandma now is long gone but I still remember how happy she looked by the result of her “juicy” idea! And we all got to enjoy the watermelon inside and out!
Greetings from Sunny San Antonio, TX.
Truer words have never been spoken, right?