The Amazing History of Watermelon

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In this video, we take a look at the incredible journey the watermelon has been on throughout human history.
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@Fireoflearning 7 месяцев назад

Update - The corpse of Lady Lady Dai Xin Zhui, discovered 2 months after this video's publication, suggests watermelons arrived in China by about 200 BC. Thanks to eucitizen78 for bringing this up. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xin_Zhui

@UlpianHeritor 2 года назад

I still can't believe that black people were mocked for eating watermelon. Who on earth doesn't like watermelons? Honestly, I'd mock someone for not liking watermelon.

@LethargicGM 2 года назад

I've heard the stereotype comes from independent black farmers raising a lot of watermelon and chickens because they are easy and cheap to farm. So going by old timey logic. Black folk favoring watermelon and chicken is the same as being lazy. I don't remember where I heard this. So take what I say with a grain of salt.

@LethargicGM 2 года назад

Nvm he covered it here

@MotivateMoments2023 2 года назад

Africa is hot

@UlpianHeritor 2 года назад

Achik Pluto is cold..

@Duck681 Год назад

I don't like watermelon

@easye4741 2 года назад

Idk why but me clicking on the notification and hearing “the watermelon” is so funny

@LFord420 2 года назад

The wAtermelon

@takingitright 2 года назад

The Watermelon.

@peacejoy1396 2 года назад

*The Watermelon*

@friendly_sitie 2 года назад

which watermelon though?

@iandipasquale8406 2 года назад

@@friendly_sitie The

@TheMilward 2 года назад

This was the most interesting random subject I've learnt in quite a while

@nik07nik 2 года назад

Really? you need to get out more.

@johnwatkins4851 2 года назад

The watermelon shown in artwork at 7:30 can be the result of not enough water during growth and not necessarily some rare/lost cultivar. I got the same looking watermelons a few years ago during a drought.

@davidthedeaf Год назад

Ahhh…then perhaps there is a hidden meaning of the painting, such as the bounty after hard times, or survival of a drought and heatwave?

@deleted-something Год назад

Who knows

@mariamejia936 11 месяцев назад

No, we bred watermelons to have more edible flesh over several generations, as with corn.

@violasses 2 месяца назад

@@davidthedeaf it's a still life so not likely. probably just got a bad melon

@eiliakashkoli2348 2 года назад

1:05 *Just For Knowing* This watermelon also grows in arid regions of Iran, it is called wolf cucumber in here, it is very bitter, but it is boiled with water and given to people with diabetes and is healthy for sugar blood (Sorry for my bad grammar)

@zackary1232 2 года назад

It's similar to bitter gourd or as they call it in my country (caraille), we cook it with salted fish and serve it with rice and dhaal (slit pea gravy)..also we boil the leaves to fight diabetes and it's used for cleansing the blood..but its very bitter!

@AlfredSmallJohnson 2 года назад

A terrific way to spend my Wednesday evening

@sergioyumbe5466 2 года назад

Amen broda

@thescrewsareneatlyfastened 2 года назад

Exactly

@TRC_aka_TheRightCheek 2 года назад

That ending was bananas. B A N A N A S.

@dillona2349 2 года назад

Oh damn maybe you found the secret clue about his next video!

@jaredbaratta8589 2 года назад

I thought it was WATERMELONS, W.A.T.E.R.M.E.L.O.N.S

@enderplant 2 года назад

Bananas are yellow watermelons conformed.

@bernsteiner88 2 года назад

it was also nuts LOL!!!

@kajem575 2 года назад

@@enderplant Bananas are berries.

@ryanhardy2777 2 года назад

Why the hell is no one talking about the end of the video 😂 my mans got a voice

@SwollFullReady2Roll 2 года назад

I ain't

@daedalus2726 2 года назад

@coyotestylepro1150 2 года назад

@@daedalus2726 Holla back

@carver3147 2 года назад

Girl

@bettyschneider5268 2 года назад

Lol 😂 💃🏻🕺🏼

@colemarie9262 2 года назад

That ending was like when your teacher says some wild shit just to see who's paying attention

@Brajany 2 года назад

The virgin politics video VS the Chad History of Watermelons video.

@S3aCa1mRa1n 2 года назад

Yes

@samfiadrangus9188 2 года назад

Fuck Incels.

@evan5935 2 года назад

@@Hollylivengood history of CHAD and CHAD-like behaviour 😉😉😏😏

@evan5935 2 года назад

@@Hollylivengood so in this case, its the CHAD-Like history of the watermelon. (As opposed to the virgin-like history)

@luotto8193 2 года назад

I love videos like this.

@jamespenn5788 2 года назад

One of my favorite fruits. Especially while living in the Hot climates of the Southern USA. Where the watermelon is a summer staple. In the hot humid climates where you can easily get heat stroke. A watermelon is such a blessing. Full of potassium, water and sweetness. Sweeter in flavor when chilled and refreshing. I cut them up in 2" pieces and put the pieces in a container in the refrigerator to chill. When all the watermelon chunks are gone I drink the juice that is left. Delicious!!!

@zarkobojanic2141 2 года назад

Watermelon Is not fruit.

@melissagaynor5880 2 года назад

@@zarkobojanic2141 what do you think it is then

@zarkobojanic2141 2 года назад

@@melissagaynor5880 vegetables.similar famili to pumpkin and cucumber.

@zarkobojanic2141 2 года назад

@@melissagaynor5880 the fruit is perennial plant.

@truthplease3149 2 года назад

@@zarkobojanic2141 you have it backwards. Cucumbers and pumpkin aren't vegetables but are fruit the same as watermelon...

@nemir0566 2 года назад

That ending you sang is spectacular, nice work

@maxiepattie85 2 года назад

I'm growing watermelon and THEY PICKED UP ON THAT! I'm putting drugs and bombs in mine to kill kill kill

@maxiepattie85 2 года назад

Kill your TV! nobody wants that

@LlamawithHat 2 года назад

@@maxiepattie85 cool

@AnomalousCat Год назад

He ain’t no holla back girl

@emperorpenguin4663 2 года назад

Walking across the hot desert and you spot a water melon, what a heavenly gift!!!

@chrisedwards8066 2 года назад

The thing I love about this channel, apart from the informative and interesting content is Justin's own personality, the bizarre, spoken word versions of songs from Gwen Stefani and Averil Levigne etc to the outlandishly entertaining post about his "adventures" with Peanut the Capybara. You just know that there is a LOT going on in this man's mind and I feel blessed that we get to share it.

@Fireoflearning 2 года назад

Thank you lol

@MrPHBOY 2 года назад

Fun fact the Chinese word for Water Melon is 西瓜 (literally Western Melon) points to its origins from the Chinese perspective.

@lucaschiantodipepe2015 2 года назад

Kumquat in Italy is called "mandarino cinese" (Chinese tangerine ).

@irvinbethea7214 2 года назад

Damn y'all got kong- Fu, we can't have a damn fruit?

@regsun7947 2 года назад

Think about this: cucumbers and a good watermelon (not like the ones I've tasted in the past few years that are pretty much only sweet and nothing else) have the same base flavor. Watermelon without sweet tastes almost just like a cucumber.

@gratefulila9980 2 года назад

Can make pickles out of the watermelon rind also

@suzettehenderson9278 2 года назад

Excellent point. I'm not a huge fan of watermelon, but eat some now and again. Can't stand cucumbers. Love the pickles, however.

@ANTSEMUT1 2 года назад

They are related.

@regsun7947 2 года назад

@@ANTSEMUT1 Indeed they are.

@luciatheron1621 2 года назад

In South Africa we make a preserve with the whitish part of the melon.

@binkerooney5175 2 года назад

I feel like I’m obliged to subscribe after I’ve been taught a valuable lesson on my favourite fruit

@rueisblue 2 года назад

check out his other videos he mostly does history of nations but he has several on food history as well

@binkerooney5175 2 года назад

@@Juanmaligno better

@davidnotonstinnett 2 года назад

Berry*

@mikekazz5353 2 года назад

MF DOOM!!!

@genghiskhan6809 2 года назад

A single glass of watermelon smoothie can last me a whole day working the sun.

@trey85031 2 года назад

I made a big bowl of watermelon to eat while I watched this. It was delicious

@captainmurphy4720 2 года назад

You didn't just cut it in half and use the natural bowl it gives you?

@trey85031 2 года назад

@@captainmurphy4720 Nope I cut all the good stuff out, put it in tupperware, then give the natural bowl to the horses that live by me. They freakin love the rind.

@timmothycopeland4866 2 года назад

such an American thing to say one "made a bowl of......" . You didn't really make a bowl of anything. You may have filled a bowl with cut up fruit. But you didn't really make anything, other than potentially a mess and a turd or two.

@kajem575 2 года назад

You ate a bowl made of watermelon?

@Sebi076 2 года назад

I like how wild watermelons can survive extreme heat and dehydration and still produce fruit, while growing a domesticated watermelon requires perfect pampered conditions or else it would either die or not produce fruit.

@6kbps 2 года назад

actually have i've grown watermelon without any of that nonsense, just sowed seeds into soil and watered each day using an automatic system, no pruning or anything

@THall-vi8cp 2 года назад

That's the result of human selection. By controlled breeding and selecting for traits we want under controlled agriculture, we unknowingly select for plants that can only survive under conditions of modern agriculture. In other words, we weaken our own crops. This happens largely due to the heavy inbreeding required to produce stable, predictable varieties.

@mariecherrytree 2 года назад

Watermelon is one of my favorite foods, like not even just fruit. I will eat it over actual dinner.

@Varphi_ Год назад

Same!!!

@ragingfred 2 года назад

It's fascinating that the history of fruit is as rich as the history of entire civilizations.

@MichaelKingsfordGray 2 года назад

Well, I learned something. Thank-you! A Correction: "Square" watermelons are, in fact, Piet Hien super-egg cuboid shape, and are NOT a result of genetic selection, but simply grown inside restricting boxes. They are non-heritable engineering changes to the shape.

@narmale 2 года назад

Duh....

@MichaelKingsfordGray 2 года назад

@@narmale Anonymous coward.

@coucoubrandy1079 2 года назад

@@narmale he's right though, anybody would have guessed that . Maybe not some ?

@matwiw 2 года назад

"The earliest archeological remains of watermelon..." hehehehehehe why it sounds so funny

@keejsallyspirallie261 2 года назад

hehehehehe

@thomashughes4859 2 года назад

You might consider doing one of these for the banana also. Interesting!

@lordharvey5199 2 года назад

There is nothing interesting about banana

@YardratZ 2 года назад

@@lordharvey5199 na bro. Bananas that we eat in America are not real bananas. That’s why they have no holes. It’s actually kinda deep.

@maxis2k 2 года назад

@@lordharvey5199 You clearly haven't seen videos about it. Like how we almost lost all types of Bananas to a plague. The wars fought over monopolizing it. And the Banana republics. Other people have done videos so you can look them up.

@nunyabiznes33 2 года назад

@@lordharvey5199 you just dissed the main staple in many African countries

@doommagic 2 года назад

@@Hollylivengood The terms "plantain" and "banana" simply refer to whether the fruit is used for primarily cooking or eating it as is/as a dessert. They're just different cultivars of the domesticated banana plant.

@TommyTheWalker 2 года назад

I remember when I was a kid in Sicily, going to the beach and seeing these immense fields of 🍉 it was so beautiful to see and the later on actually eating them, OMG! They were so sweet!

@SFCKNZSD 2 года назад

I already know this is gonna be great

@bingbonghafu 2 года назад

That outro caught me off guard

@constatinexipalaeologus507 2 года назад

Watermelon- I knew I forgot something at the store!

@texasborn2720 2 года назад

Can't wait till he does Maise or Corn next. That crop has changed the world than most any other crop certainly in the top five !

@texasborn2720 2 года назад

@Artax Indeed ! And corn silk is also used for many medical remedies such as bladder infections just to name one of many !

@coucoubrandy1079 2 года назад

Ehm , maize in English is the same as corn in american. And there's many sorts of it.

@dr.ofdragonstudies8114 2 года назад

I always thought watermelons came from the Americas. You learn something ever day!

@Numba003 2 года назад

This is the kind of content I love seeing in my feed. I love these sorts of occasional specific topic videos. Thank you. Stay well out there everybody, and God bless you friends. :)

@IlluminatingWatches 2 года назад

I’m so pleased that there is a place on RU-vid where I can watch videos on stuff like the history of the watermelon. Awesome stuff

@flyfish20six99 2 года назад

Dude, I love that your videos have a splash of randomness. You have found just the right mix. Kudos to you sir. *Tips hat*

@jobengals86 2 года назад

“Because I ain’t no holla back girl. I ain’t …. No holla back…. Girl.” 😂 😂

@Garf_malarf 2 года назад

This was the most unexpected yet interesting thing I’ve come across randomly in a long time.

@jeromedavid7944 2 года назад

My old kitty Munchie would turn down a plate of tuna for a bowl of watermelon chunks and juice. She's been gone since the summer of 2020 and I miss her greatly but always have a smile when enjoying a slice of melon thinking about my old buddy that crazy cat that loved watermelon!

@mysteriousokapi4564 2 года назад

I’ve just discovered this channel today and it is already one of my favorites. I’m probably just going to watch these videos all day.

@Fireoflearning 2 года назад

Thank you!

@BigGrizzNYC 2 года назад

The level of seriousness is what makes this funny.

@tee4212 2 года назад

Please do more of these with different fruits, I love your channel!!

@gaittr 2 года назад

Your channel is so unique and there's nothing like it on RU-vid. I think you do and wonderful job

@Kyubeylovessouls 2 года назад

Mom said I can watch one last video before bed as long as it's educational.

@Fireoflearning 2 года назад

Tell Mom I said thanks!

@ladybearbaiter 2 года назад

Interesting info. My speculation is that the red color of the melon flesh and its sweetness developed due to changes and nutrients in the soil as it migrated across different areas.

@vladtheimpala5532 2 года назад

More likely selective propagation. You plant the seeds of the sweetest melons and throw the others away. That’s how we got most if not all of the fruit vegetables we have today. It’s quite different from that of years ago. I think he has a video on that subject. The Indians are responsible for the corn we have today. It didn’t used to look like this 🌽. It used to look more like this 🌾. It’s actually a type of grass like other grains such as wheat or barley. It was selectively propagated over many generations. Corn as we know it today didn’t exist in Europe before they knew about America.

@vladtheimpala5532 2 года назад

@A Z Too bad the seeds went with him. Those sound like delicious melons.

@vladtheimpala5532 2 года назад

@A Z That’s interesting. I live half a world away from there in the northwestern United States yet I have similar memories of eating watermelon in the summer with my cousins at my grandparent’s home when I was young. It was a highlight of my youth as well. Although they grew a lot of things in their garden and it was always better than what you could get at the store they didn’t grow their own melons. I’d love to try some homegrown watermelon. Maybe next year.

@vladtheimpala5532 2 года назад

Maybe in twenty years I’ll have come up with some sweet yellow watermelons. I care less for the color though than for the sweetness and flavor of the melons. I’m craving some watermelon now.

@vladtheimpala5532 2 года назад

@A Z Homegrown is almost always better. I think the reason for that is because they select for what looks the best on the shelf because that’s how people decide which produce to buy. Also for which is easier to grow and produces the highest yield not for what tastes the best. I have never tasted tomatoes as good as the ones my grandparents grew. I never even liked cantaloupe until I had some that I got from a roadside stand. It always seemed flavorless to me. It’s hard to find good cantaloupe in western Washington State where I live.

@siddokis2945 2 года назад

When I was young they were all the big oblong shaped type, now all I ever see are the round ones.

@couragecoachsam 2 года назад

Imagine being the leading expert on the history of the watermelon

@thetrapboy 2 года назад

So far, ive watched your videos on Cinnamon, Pineapple and now Watermelon. You have great content. SUBBED.

@axyxgaming7915 2 года назад

Thank you for your videos! I stumbled across them and have been binging through your library of work. Hello from Wasilla.

@nathansamuelson 2 года назад

Loving these videos, never knew we had such a storied history with melons

@voidgeometry794 2 года назад

Great Video! I hope you keep it up with the food history. Thank You~!

@vladtheimpala5532 2 года назад

I could just listen to your videos but then I’d miss out on the great illustrations. You have a great sense of humor too. You say funny things in a very serious tone of voice. I still chuckle when I think about Julius Caesar running into Karen at the grocery store where you got him a job. That’s a classic.

@grevillemarchant1498 2 года назад

I can't believe I came across this video. I met Harry Perez many years ago in Northern Israel a small hilltop town called Yokne'am Illit. At that time Harry was developing the seedless watermelon that we enjoy these days. He is a fascinating chap and I have often dined out on our meeting and his work on watermelons.

@earlehugens8070 2 года назад

the paintings used are enough on their own.wish you could reference them for us,but that GStefani thing was whiplash snapping funny..did not see that one coming.thanks for your work.

@theburrowrises8549 2 года назад

Telling my 9 year old the old saying: "you are what you eat" left her thinking for a moment before saying: "I am tuna. I am tuna, and watermelon."

@iAmAnAstronaut 2 года назад

Curious if you have any information on the variety called “Ancient Watermelon” sold by Baker Creek Heirloom seed company. The seeds were discovered in a cave in Arizona in the 20’s and are believed to be the only variety that is native to North America. It is red fleshed but it’s shape is unique like that of a gourde.

@favoritemustard3542 2 года назад

Did you ever try them?

@IAmAnAstronaut005 2 года назад

@@favoritemustard3542 yes. I grow them every year. They are delicious with big red seeds.

@alerner1983 2 года назад

Excellent work. Thank you!

@Tanu.90 2 года назад

You are just awsome man, my favorite channel on youtube. You helped me go through the worst years in my life. I hope one day I'll become rich to give you a truckload of money to continue do this! Thank you 😊

@Fireoflearning 2 года назад

Glad I could be of help!

@icarolopes5855 2 года назад

Jesus Christ, that ending LOL

@sarahwithanhyouheathen3210 2 года назад

I love this so much. Who knew watermelon history was so interesting? Also that painting of the first Thanksgiving is such horsecrap lol. I know it was shown because of the food, which is a valid reason. Please carry on with this series for as long as you like!

@mathtonight1084 2 года назад

You really caught me off guard with that surprise reading of "Hollaback Girl" at the end

@Real11BangBang 2 года назад

We need the history of pumpkins next

@Zi7ar21 Год назад

I love loading up a plate with a delicious fruit/veggie, kicking back and relaxing to a video about the history of it!

@thomvinson 2 года назад

Thanks for an informative production.

@mspears_bobobuddytheseniorcat 2 года назад

This was fascinating and then “I ain’t no holla back girl” got me laughing and wasn’t that about bananas?! 😹🎵 So random! ❤️👍

@titanwilkins4044 2 года назад

Now this is the content I needed to see.

@AchillesWrath1 2 года назад

I wonder if cantaloupe will be red and sweeter on the inside one day and we're just a little early in it's evolution?

@roger_001 2 года назад

First video I watched from this channel, really enjoyable and interesting but the ending is what made me subscribe lol

@sigurdbigset 2 года назад

I realy like your videos, it's amazing that you started working at target

@Portaldog 2 года назад

This is such a random video, I love it!

@72APTU72E 2 года назад

That was my jam in middle school, hollaback girl. Fuck it's been years thanks for that cover.

@tyler-qr5jn 2 года назад

Was eating watermelon and decided to search for a video on it's origins. Now here I am

@ant-1382 2 года назад

This what I love about U-tube! Interesting tid-bits of information, that I would otherwise not really think about!

@john-patrickcoane4919 2 года назад

Well, I learned something new. Love it.

@thunderhammerx2966 2 года назад

Interesting, please tell us the history of the Durian or the Lime sometime.

@bigbelix 2 года назад

Another great channel discovered, DOPE.

@CountryBwoy 2 года назад

It's so weird! While watching this video I actually started smelling watermelon! I haven't eaten any or much in years!

@ayashiidesu 2 года назад

7:27 Italian painter: look I got a not red but weird looking watermelon! Let's draw it down and use it as a meme! Historian hundreds of years later: as you can see in this picture, watermelon looks very different from the one today.

@quinnfischer9624 2 года назад

took me a while to get the clue at the end! im very exited about this new sirese

@KevinMartin314 2 года назад

Subscribing just for that outro 10/10 singing my man. Lemme know when the concert is.

@aaronlopez3585 2 года назад

I tend to be a Mango or Guava man but after this I'm sort a craving a nice cold slice.😋

@bobomcfoe8157 2 года назад

This video is wonderful and all it made me laugh every time you said "domesticated watermelon"

@Tonyburge 2 года назад

This is about to blow up

@lorisperfetto6021 2 года назад

Seen the post, time for the video!

@pittmanfh 2 года назад

You got a new sub from me based solely on the unsuspected ending.

@jayeshjadhav5575 2 года назад

I am in love with this channel

@larrybrennan1463 2 года назад

Mark Twain had this to say: The true Southern watermelon is a boon apart, and not to be mentioned with commoner things. It is chief of this world's luxuries, king by grace of God over all the fruits of the earth. 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 repented.

@dreszerg6837 2 года назад

Great video. You should make a video on Persia in the future.

@alistairt7544 2 года назад

Me eating a slice of watermelon while watching this video: Interesting

@lawrencetaylor4101 2 года назад

We had good growing conditions in Eastern Colorado. One great memory I have was going to the farmer's stands on the state highway coming in from the Southeast and buying cantelope but especially watermelon on warm summer evenings.

@camday3504 2 года назад

Wouldn’t be near “Rocky Ford” would it?

@joelnorton9742 2 года назад

Origins of all modern foods. Facinating

@eiliakashkoli2348 2 года назад

Most of them are from Asia

@MotivateMoments2023 2 года назад

@@eiliakashkoli2348 And watermelon came from Africa There is no wild Watermelon in Asia or outside Africa

@BigboiiTone 2 года назад

So interesting to see that white star dividing the lobes within the fruit. Today's watermelons are basically red fruit all the way through, with the white having been bred out. This is an example of the changes in fruit (that happened pretty recently!) that I am fascinated by. What other fruits have had changes such as this??

@_MISTY-RAIN_ 2 года назад

This is my favourite one of your videos

@fabledredeyes 2 года назад

great as always and **legit** I'm here for fruits and vegetables now

@KonnaroTaro 2 года назад

watching this while waiting for my next class very interesting

@onewayturtles 2 года назад

"So! What do you do for a living?" "I'm a watermelon historian."

@mriaschug5432 2 года назад

What a roller coaster, I learned so much!!! Awesome vid, and omg can someone explain the ending for me hahaha, beautiful rhythm my dood.

@antemorph66 2 года назад

Never knew I wanted to know about this, but now i know I knew I do.

@carter3329 2 года назад

OMG the ending of this video is SOOOO funny!!! PLEASE PLEASE do that at the end of each video! Just say random rap lyrics in a serious tone. I subscribed just from that!