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King Tutankhamen loved watermelons so much that one is painted on his tomb. Ancient Greeks and Romans (probably) indulged in melons of various kinds, chilling them with snow carried for days from high mountains. Hippocrates advised putting the cold rind of melons on the heads of kids with heat stroke. Chinese lovers might give a cool melon in summer. Mark Twain declared in Pudd’nhead Wilson, ”When one has tasted it, he knows what the angels eat. It was not a Southern watermelon that Eve took; we know it because she…
