WATCH | Tastes like 'regret': Smoked watermelon is no roast alternative

06 March 2019 - 11:42 By Staff reporter
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Smoked watermelon was devised by New York restaurant Ducks Eatery and billed as a vegan alternative to a Thanksgiving roast. 

Reporter Naaman Zhou spent almost four days making a smoked watermelon “ham” and then asked people to taste it.

In The Guardian he wrote: “In the end the watermelon tastes, in the words of my colleagues, like “an evil Christmas”, “an old packet of cigarettes” or simply “regret”. It is the exact temperature of a human body that isn’t doing so well. Someone likens it to warm sashimi, or a piece of fruit that has been left in the sun all day. It is a hot, wet mess.”


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