Ha. No. It traveled to the picnic in an ordinary Rubbermaid bin.
Though it would have been easier, I tell you, to cut that shell and each little melon ball, too, using rusty nail clippers, than it was to get this picture out of my disco-era cookbook and onto this blog.
The only thing scalloped around here is my nerves.
WATERMELON SUPREME
1 large oblong watermelon
1 cantaloupe
1 honeydew melon
1 pineapple
2 peaches or nectarines
2 cups blueberries
Honey-Lime Sauce
Scoop balls or cut chunks of the melons, using about 3 cups each. Remove rind and core from pineapple (or have Kroger do it). Cut fruit into bite-sized pieces. Mix with melon balls; cover and refrigerate. Just before serving, slice peaches. Drain melon balls and pineapple pieces. Mix all fruit in large bowl. Drizzle with Honey-Lime Sauce. Pour fruit into watermelon shell. Garnish with mint leaves, if desired and serve immediately.
HONEY-LIME SAUCE:
1/2 cup ginger ale
3 TB honey
2 TB lime juice
Mix all ingredients. Drizzle over fruit.
Back in the Patrick Melrose novels, we have finished installment #2, Bad News, in which Patrick constantly shoots drugs into his battered veins while the cask which holds his hated father's ashes falls into his hands.
In book #3, Some Hope, Patrick swears off the drugs but fails to take up anything that might fill the void. His crowd, some of whom are still unaware that he would gladly have booted Daddy's ashes over a bridge railing, gather for a high-society birthday party. Romantic treacheries abound. You'd think Shakespeare had whispered plot hints into the ear of author St. Aubyn. Add in the modern twist of Patrick's old drug dealer making light of his Narcotics Anonymous meetings and you've got yourself a small village of characters, all of whom regard each other as ghastly, but wouldn't miss that birthday party for the world. I wonder whose reputations will still be intact the next morning.
Credits: Betty Crocker Cookbook, ca. 1982
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