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[-] elliot_crane@lemmy.world 107 points 1 year ago

I like how the watermelons have a whole 10K more likes. Let’s go watermelons!

66% more likes!

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 51 points 1 year ago

Every seed is sacred

Every seed is great

If a seed is wasted

God gets quite irate!

[-] iiGxC@slrpnk.net 12 points 1 year ago

soo... cum in seedless watermelons?

[-] bmsok@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes. American Pie - Summer Edition. Just as warm, but a little bit wetter.

[-] TriPolarBearz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Cumming soon, to a theater near you!

[-] emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 32 points 1 year ago

What's wrong with seedless watermelons? Are GMOs forbidden by Christian law?

[-] Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 27 points 1 year ago

probably same reason why some are anti birth control. kinda playing against gods role by manipulating the natural result.

[-] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Should someone tell them why watermelons are so big and delicious in the first place?

[-] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Because god put them there as a tasty treat for his most faithful hippopotamuses :)

[-] Neato@ttrpg.network 22 points 1 year ago

They need to learn about bananas.

Also like, 100% of all agriculture and livestock. Fuck. Look at what we did to wolves. If god didn't want us to fuck around with genetics they wouldn't have made them malleable.

[-] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 year ago

Obviously agriculture is a lie. Cows and sheep and donkeys and chickens and dogs always existed exactly as they do now since that's how God made them and they never changed.

Or something.

[-] Aceticon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well, the universe was create 6000 years ago so obviously domesticated animals have always been as they are. /s

[-] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

You know the saying, "it didn't happen if it isn't in writing"?

That must apply to all of prehistory then, right?

[-] IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social 18 points 1 year ago

It makes priest horny for castrated choir boys.

[-] niucllos@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago

Funny thing is they aren't even GMOs, they're hybrids between tetraploid and diploid watermelon cultivars. You could do it yourself in your backyard if you can find tetraploid seed for sale, or make it yourself with colchicine

[-] basxto@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

I wonder if they are also against pepper mint.

[-] Deconceptualist@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago

🎼 Every seed is sacred / every seed is good... 🎶

[-] starman@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago

Are GMOs forbidden by Christian law?

No, AFAIK they aren't

I think it's just a joke and not a real movement or something

[-] smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 year ago

I dunno, while I support everyone's right to their own beliefs, some of their past actions and even current doctrine do not sit well with me.

The Catholics aren't much better.

[-] lugal@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago

Exactly. How long will watermelons keep silent about the genocide?

[-] smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago

The genoseed hasn't been talked about enough.

[-] CareHare@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

Tensions between the watermelons and the cavaillons have always been high, but now we're just at a pitting point.

[-] smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Why can't everybody just rind their own business?

[-] lugal@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

All the more suspicious that watermelons don't talk about it

[-] TheCheddarCheese@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

Catholic watermelons against seeds

[-] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 year ago

I too will be joining the seedless watermelons against Catholics.

Who do they think they are?

[-] hexabs@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Seedy folk, that's for sure

[-] GladiusB@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

To be fair seedless watermelons suck

[-] The_v@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago

Now why seedless watermelons suck is an interesting story.

The first intentional creation of a seedless watermelon was done in 1939 in Japan. University breeding programs in the southern U.S. after WWII began using the technology to create the first hybrids. In the early '50's and '60's multiple tetraploids were created by the university programs and released to private companies to produce seed with.

These tetraploid lines were "greys". "Greys" were selected to have a thick hard rind for long distance shipping. They were barely red on the inside and tasted slightly bitter. They all sucked for flavor.

A seedless watermelon hybrid is made by crossing a tetraploid female by a diploid male. The resulting hybrid (triploid) has 3 copies of every chromosome and is sterile.

Fertile stable tetraploids take a long time to create - around 15 generations of you are lucky. Seedless watermelons also took a long time to gain popularity in the market. So nobody put significant money or time into creating more tetraploid inbreds for over 40 years.

From the 1980's when seedless watermelons were introduced until around 2010, everyone used those shitty old tetraploids as 2/3rds of the hybrid. Since 2010 companies have created new tetraploid to use, but a significant portion still use 70 year old shitty ones.

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[-] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 year ago

Is it bad that I scrolled to make sure it wasn't a shittymorph before I decided to read the rest?

[-] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

That's extremely interesting, thank you for sharing it!

[-] The_v@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Also a bit of trivia I had to double check.

The seedless watermelon against Catholics image.

The original picture is one I took.

[-] Shadowedcross@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I didn't even know seedless watermelons were a thing, so it saddens me to discover that they are, and that they're bad, since the main reason I don't like watermelons is having to deal with the seeds.

[-] The_v@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

They are not all bad. In the early 2000's a breeder created a logistical method create tetraploids in 6 years (5 generations every 2 years). He used 3 countries to do it in if I recall correctly.

He integrated some of the small seeded deep red fleshed Chinese germplasm combined with the old flavorful allsweet types to make dramatically improved tetraploids.

Other companies have followed suit and the average quality of the fruit has improved. Some of the newer ones have really excellent flavor.

[-] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Still better than the alternative

[-] GladiusB@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

What alternative? Regular watermelons? I disagree. Regular is 10 times better.

[-] trolololol@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

No, the alternative is more Catholics

[-] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

I mean Catholics.

[-] Allonzee@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If God doesn't want us fucking with their creations, they're more than welcome to hold a press conference.

Until then, I'll keep assuming they're emotionally crippled howard Hughes style in the Heaven Penthouse drinking their own divine urine and shouting random conspiracies about which Angel is gonna pull a Lucifer next.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

"If that is okay, please give me absolutely no sign."

...

"Thy will be done."

[-] frezik@midwest.social 9 points 1 year ago

Where's the group for being against Catholics and watermelons?

[-] Aceticon@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Seeds Against Watermellons and Catholics?

[-] Killing_Spark@feddit.de 8 points 1 year ago

Get ratio'ed

[-] danc4498@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Are they both troll groups?

[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 year ago

Nope, seedless is against their gods will.

[-] yannic@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago
[-] citrusface@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago
[-] candyman337@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago
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