by laura beth

On our quest for the perfect BBQ, we stopped at City Market in Luling. The BBQ is in a enclosed room in the back of the market. You walk into the hot, smoke filled room, order adn pay for you meat, and then go back out into the main restaurant to get beans and drinks and sit at a picnic table to eat. I thought it was pretty good, but BBQ more or less tastes all the same to me. Luling seemed to have quite a bit of charm. They were gearing up for the annual Watermelon Thump and had signs all over town encouraging your votes for each of the three Queen hopefuls: Ravanna, Sephra, and a third girl whose name escapes my memory.



Anyhoo, I love watermelon, and this post had me reading up about them. Along the way I found this site: What About Watermelon, and through that I learned that in Japan, people are experimenting with growing heart-shaped watermelons. You can also get watermelons in cube, pyramid, and face shapes. They are ridiculously expensive (over $100USD) to buy, but the concept of growing them in a transparent mold seems relatively simple. Maybe I'll give it a go someday...In the meantime, here are a few more fun, modified (but not genetically modified) foods:

face, cube, heart, and pyramid shaped watermelons
heart and star shaped cucumbers
heart shaped tangerines
cube shaped eggs