what will they think of next

[sam]

i have just read this and thought it was quite amusing ......

Square-shaped watermelons created for easy storage are to hit stores in the UK.
The bizarre-looking cuboid fruit caused a stir in Japan when they went on sale there five years ago. UK shoppers will get their first taste of the Brazilian-grown melons from October, according to Tesco. Farmers create the fruit's unusual shape by putting them in transparent boxes while they grow. The melons take around 60 days to reach maturity.

[Kingetter]

The E U already gave up on straight bananas and one or two other things.

[Elenna]

i have just read this and thought it was quite amusing ......

Square-shaped watermelons created for easy storage are to hit stores in the UK.
The bizarre-looking cuboid fruit caused a stir in Japan when they went on sale there five years ago. UK shoppers will get their first taste of the Brazilian-grown melons from October, according to Tesco. Farmers create the fruit's unusual shape by putting them in transparent boxes while they grow. The melons take around 60 days to reach maturity.

I saw this too, and though they supposedly may be easier for "storage"...I cannot say I've ever actually had trouble with the normally shaped ones in that regard ...I wondered if they would seem so much fun to eat. Somehow, a fruit forced into an unnatural shape for consumer convenience simply doesn't seem to have the same appeal, or quite seem to equate with lazy, laid-back summer days....