After experimenting on 100, 760 watermelons in 10 years, teachers
and students of the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) have come
up with a landmark discovery on how to pick a sweet, juicy, ripe and perfect
watermelon. The research is likely to revolutionise business, economy and
social and pure sciences, says the research paper ‘Welcome watermelon: way to
wellness and wealth’ published in research journal called ‘All about tarbooz’
in May 2019 edition.
“The findings will impact every household in Pakistan, who mostly
lose Rs 100 to 1,000 or even more a session by picking a wrong, overripe and
starchy hindwana,” said Dr Melon Water, the lead author of the paper.
“You don’t know how much pain I’ve suffered whenever I bought an
overripe watermelon,” he sighed, when asked why he started the research.
“My family would question my degrees, my qualification, my
teaching experience, my job credentials, and even my common sense, whenever I
bought an eight kg watermelon which turned out to be sour, white-red, or
unripe.”
The research involved 100 students and as many teachers who
volunteered for the study.
“Believe me every one of them was affected by watermelon woes,”
the professor swore on a perfectly ripe watermelon in front of him.
The first five years of the research were consumed on
finding out the early, peak and late seasons of the pyramid-shaped fruit.
After visiting 100 farms, and as many markets, the researchers
discovered that the fruit hit the market in early weeks of April, was available
abundantly in May and petered down in June. Even though every cart vendors had
clear idea about the watermelon season, the researchers used several research
techniques to find the months of watermelon.
Later on, the researchers took up cases studies, the most favorite
weapon of the LUMS world to learn or unlearn any simple thing.
Now, after 100 case studies, the LUMS researchers have found the
formulas to pick a perfect watermelon.
1: To buy a perfect watermelon, one must be a watermelon fan. If
you are not a watermelon fan, chances are sweet watermelons will not like you
too. Be warned that watermelon does not treat well its fans either.
2: Plan to buy a watermelon only in the summer months of
watermelon season. If you feel like eating a watermelon in November or
December, you may not find the fruit.
3: Always select such a vendor or shop which has a heap of green
watermelons. This will give you a plenty of choice to select the juicy fruit.
4: Once at a mountain of watermelons, pick one that is under your
easy reach. Weigh the watermelon between your hands. Turn it over, at least
three times. Now, pat on it slightly and now firmly and try to feel what is on
the underside.
5: Now, leave it and pick another one. Repeat the patting pattern.
6: Now, pick the third one, and after smacking it gently, ask the vendor
in Punjabi or Urdu (not in English, for God’s sake) that what about this one.
6: After getting his opinion, ask another buyer for a second
opinion.
7: Try to read their opinion with skepticism. If the shopkeeper
says the selection is full of a splotch on its belly, and is brimming with
juice, he is just making a good guess which can be either wrong or right.
8: Give a try to your gut feelings. Pick those pieces which are
big and feel heavy for their size.
9: Buy at least three pieces, and chances are that of them, two
will turn out to be either under-ripe or over-ripe. If you are lucky, the third
will be perfectly ripe.
10: So, the case studies conclude that if you are lucky one, your
every third melon will be worth eating. Brief your families about this bitter,
but 1/3 juicy fact.
The research is certain that through these techniques, every
household can save hundreds of thousands every month, which will boost the
economy. Also, it will save them from emotional trauma.
The research will be presented at an international research
conference on melons in Washington next month.
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