Spring arrived last week, at least according to the calendar and the weather guy on my local news, but I don’t really consider it spring until a bin full of watermelon shows up in the produce aisle of my grocery store.
I snapped the photo above on Saturday. When I spotted it, my face lit up like a kid on Christmas morning and I let out a loud “Whoa!”, which probably startled the little old lady standing next to me at the green pepper display.
Depending on where you live, a watermelon bin might be old news, but living in the northeast United States, it was a thing of beauty after an otherwise boring and dreary winter. Has anyone else seen watermelon bins in their local grocery store? If so, where are you from and when did they arrive?
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For making juice I always go for the Mini Watermellons as they have no seeds.
Here, in the Pacific Northwest, we get them all year – the winter crop I think mostly from Mexico.
Prices range from $2.39 each to almost $ 8.00.
Glad to hear from a fellow juicer, John. I like to juice watermelon now and then or blend it up into smoothies. There’s nothing better!