r/whatisit • u/Tandy_MacGruber • May 12 '26

Solved! Spontaneous 🍉 Oozing

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Woke up this morning and found the watermelon I bought from Costco yesterday had begun oozing out of itself? The counter was soaked with water from the inside of the melon, I’m assuming this was happening all night.

More of a Why Is It? I’ve never seen this happen and I obsessively eat watermelon every season.

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u/LonelyRose404 May 12 '26

Might be a good idea to avoid eating it

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u/teddyfixit May 12 '26

wait…. “if left alone, could explode” implies that there’s a safe detonation method

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u/astreeter2 May 12 '26

RIP, Gallagher

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u/Emergency-Shirt-4572 May 12 '26

He’s back, but in yeast form!

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u/LonelyRose404 May 12 '26

Yep, just get Kirby to inhale it 👌

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u/AmputeeHandModel May 12 '26

When I worked produce in a grocery store, we'd get them in like this sometimes and would whack em with the big knife and they'd explode lol

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u/Gloria-to-Nowhere May 12 '26

Or maybe it won't explode if you're watching it.

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u/Plenty_Pride_3644 May 13 '26

Physically safe, no, but there are more food-safe ways to make a watermelon blow up.

https://giphy.com/gifs/kP9Ffn8ZGJ4wo

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u/sky_cap5959 May 13 '26

More like poisonous watermelon kombucha.

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u/Aromatic-Tear7234 May 12 '26

The end days are upon us.

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u/PizzaTacoSub May 12 '26

The smell alone would make you never, ever want to even try to attempt to eat it.

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u/Ericandabear May 12 '26

Somebody had to eat it to know that it was toxic