{"id":4513,"date":"2010-05-02T22:36:42","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T06:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ballsandwalnuts.com\/?p=4513"},"modified":"2010-05-03T08:28:31","modified_gmt":"2010-05-03T16:28:31","slug":"niche-market-all-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ballsandwalnuts.com\/?p=4513","title":{"rendered":"Niche market, all right."},"content":{"rendered":"

From Huffington Post (more pix)<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"Watermelon,

Watermelon, or giant green dice?<\/p><\/div>\n

From The Associated Press: ANTON, Panama (AP) — A company in Panama is hoping to join in a small niche market of the fruit export business: square watermelons. The Panama Fruit Producer company has started “rounding up” the square fruit, sending its first shipment of 120 boxy melons to New York.<\/p>\n

The company expects to produce about 3,000 of the molded melons this year, and will send them to the Netherlands and Germany as well.<\/p>\n

Operations manager Gerardo Diaz said Wednesday that people are surprised at first because “it is not what they were expecting.” “Later they ask if it is a genetic experiment,” he said.<\/p>\n

Diaz said the watermelons are natural. They are made to grow inside cube-shaped glass boxes and conform to the mold as they get bigger. The first melons cost about $75 apiece, but producers hope to bring the price down.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s all a plot to replace grocers with minimum wage slaves. If oranges and apples were shaped like that, anyone<\/em> could stack the damned things. <\/p>\n

Either that, or it’s a devious plan to convince us we need to spend $75 for fruit. Hey, they’ve convinced we need to buy water from bottles, right?<\/p>\n

D.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From Huffington Post (more pix): From The Associated Press: ANTON, Panama (AP) — A company in Panama is hoping to join in a small niche market of the fruit export business: square watermelons. The Panama Fruit Producer company has started “rounding up” the square fruit, sending its first shipment of 120 boxy melons to New… Continue Reading Niche market, all right.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-such-as-it-is","radius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballsandwalnuts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballsandwalnuts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballsandwalnuts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballsandwalnuts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballsandwalnuts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4513"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ballsandwalnuts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4516,"href":"https:\/\/ballsandwalnuts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4513\/revisions\/4516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballsandwalnuts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballsandwalnuts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballsandwalnuts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}