Square Watermelon

When I first saw this photo I had one thought, "this must be from Japan." It didn't take long to figure out I was mostly right.

From HuffPo...

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 square watermelons are thought to have been produced by a Japanese farmer and have been sold in some markets in Japan for years. Diaz said the only square watermelon production in the Americas he knows about is in Brazil and California in the U.S.

By the way, that 21,000 yen price for the melon...that works out to about $220 which is in the same ballpark as another fruit in Japan.