September 12, 2007

Square Watermelons

A round watermelon can take up a lot of room in a refrigerator and the usually round fruit often sits awkwardly on refrigerator shelves. Smart Japanese farmers have forced their watermelons to grow into a square shape by inserting the melons into square, tempered glass cases while the fruit is still growing on the vine.


I love this stuff...

2 comments:

Sabriel said...

That is so awesome!

WTF?! said...

If necessity is the mother of all invention, you just found the offspring...