cantaloupe

The American squatted in the dirt, struggling to free the cantaloupe from its prickly stem, almost toppling over.

I wouldn’t have chosen cantaloupe as the fruit to go to in my morning, but it turns out cantaloupe is pretty darn good.

He and about 18 classmates from University of San Diego High spent six weeks picking cantaloupes in Blythe.

In the mid-1980s, when he managed cantaloupe fields, federal government pilots would fly small planes over the state’s cropland looking for large crews of workers, he recalled.

But the relationships either fade or split open like cantaloupe dropped on hot pavement.