Alcohol in watermelon?


I was wondering if this is done for real. I’ve never seen or hear anybody do that before. Can you really pour alcohol into a watermelon like that and then eat it? Amusing scene.

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Haven't seen the film yet, but, yes, we used to do something like that in college. We used wine. https://youtu.be/dSNSyioD2Bk

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Yes, it's very common.

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Yup.

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It's also easy to smell and Hoffa was no idiot so he probably knew.

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Oh, he knew for sure. Everybody who can't drink in his presence is suddenly sucking down watermelon? He knew.

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Yeah, but it takes at least 12 hours for the alcohol to infuse the watermelon, so if you want to do it, you cut a hole in it like they did in the movie, pour vodka or gin inside, and put it in the fridge for 12 hours. If you just made a hole in a watermelon and poured a bottle of liquor in, it would spill all over the place as soon as you cut into it. People I knew at college did it and cut the watermelon into cubes and put toothpicks in them at parties, kind of like Jello shots.

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I haven't seen the movie but we did that a couple of times with vodka when I was late teens / early 20s. Vodka doesn't have a very strong smell so maybe that's why Hoffa didn't notice if that's what they used in the movie.

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I've seen it many times.

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Sure, it was never unusual at house parties.

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