Forget the tap test. To determine a watermelon’s ripeness, check the color. Ripe melons have a faint bleaching between the stripes. No stripes? Check the underbelly where the melon rested on the ground. It should be creamy white or yellow with no green or brown. And, by the way, watermelon is a vegetable, related to cucumbers. All this from “Lobsters Scream When You Boil Them
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Fruit or vegetable
"By the way" Watermelon is a fruit - the ripened ovary of a seed-bearing / flowering plant.
Look it up before your writers look really ignorant ;)
Watermelon is the official
Watermelon is the official State Vegetable of Oklahoma.