‘Tiss the season to eat delicious, Kumamoto-grown watermelons. Be careful, though, about the orange ones, of the type you see in picture. Among watermelon aficionados, they are known as “basketballs” and are definitely not good to eat, though they are lighter and easier to carry than a typical watermelon – and you can drop them without damaging them at all. Experts are currently considering a number of methods that have been proposed to reduce the percentage of “basketballs” that make it to market.

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