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Watermelon Ham

Watermelon Ham

Updated Jan 23, 2019 at 11:39AM EST by Don.

Added Aug 09, 2018 at 11:32AM EDT by Adam.

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About

Watermelon Ham is a vegan dish served at Ducks Eatery in New York City which is a watermelon prepared as a ham roast. The dish is smoked for eight hours then marinated for four days in a brine of salt, ash and spices. After the dish began spreading on social media, it sparked strong reactions from social media users and trended in food enthusiast communities.

Origin

The dish is prepared by Ducks Eatery in the East Village of Manhattan, New York City.[1] One of the earliest popular social media posts about the dish was posted by Instagram user ogbubbakushdabs, gaining over 36,000 views (shown below).



Spread

Two days later, the dish was tried by food-centric YouTube channel Brunch Boys, receiving a positive review (shown below, left). On August 7th, 2018, the ham was covered by Food Insider in a video that gained over 375,000 views (shown below, right).



The Food Insider video caught the attention of social media users and Buzzfeed,[2] who wrote about the phenomenon and compiled Twitter reaction to the dish. User @LastLightSaver tweeted their confusion, gaining over 30 retweets and 160 likes (shown below, left). Twitter user AliffAbdRani did the same, gaining similar numbers (shown below, right). The reactions were also covered by The Daily Dot.[3]


Khemical Z. @LastLightSaver 5 Followv l cannot, for the life of me, understand why y'all do this tomfoolery A FOOD INSIDER Φ @InsiderFood This smoked watermelon looks like a ham! 3:25 6:04 PM -7 Aug 2018 Muhd Aliff @AliffAbdRani Follow Hello FBl someone here is smoking a watermelon A FOOD INSIDER Φ @InsiderFood This smoked watermelon looks like a ham! 3:25

Online Reactions


LOVE YOURSELF結 @liyooness Followv this is just nasty.. im sorry they did that to you watermelon uN FOOD INSIDER Φ @InsiderFood No, this isn't a ham, it's a smoked watermelon 3:25 Amaks @Amaakaa Follow I have just one question: Why? FOOD INSIDER@InsiderFood No, this isn't a ham, it's a smoked watermelon 3:25 6:39 AM - 8 Aug 2018 Tom Zalatnai @tomzalatnai Follow This is the worst thing l've ever seen FOOD INSIDER@InsiderFood No, this isn't a ham, it's a smoked watermelon 3:25 Zakkiethunnisa @NisaZakkie23 Follow Why would you smoke a watermelon is just beyond me FOOD INSIDER@InsiderFood No, this isn't a ham, it's a smoked watermelon 3:25 8:17 AM -8 Aug 2018 madihah @real_meds Follow get the f--- outta here FOOD INSIDER. @InsiderFood No, this isn't a ham, it's a smoked watermelon 3:25 Follow @iamfase Now this is the kind of experimental food l encourage and would be down with uN FOOD INSIDER Φ @InsiderFood No, this isn't a ham, it's a smoked watermelon 3:25 9:16 AM-9 Aug 2018

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External References

[1] Instagram – duckseatery

[2] Buzzfeed – This Restaurant Is Cooking Watermelon Like Ham And The Internet Is Quite Honestly Concerned

[3] Daily Dot – This watermelon cooked like a ham is grossing out the internet

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