"mr.sumo snr." <mr_sumo@hotmail.com> wrote in message

> The BBC http://tinyurl.com/qell reports Japanese supermarkets selling
> vegetables specially cultivated for 'single' people.  I just thought that
> was a fetish category down at the local pRon video rental store.
>
> Checkout the link on that page to 'square watermelons'  - has anyone seen
> one of these yet?

Yes, that's not new. In deluxe department stores, they have them most of the
year, at local ones only at present season. They often ask 10 000 yen for
one, and that's an ordinary watermelon  except that shape.

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