Watermelon

92% water, 8% melon.

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Watermelon might refer to:

• A tasty fruit that, true to its name, is composed of 92% water. It has a number of health benefits, but as with other "superfoods", it shouldn't be taken as a miracle cure or anything of the sort.
• A common stereotype of environmentalism, that it's allegedly a front for socialism or communism (because a watermelon is "green on the outside, red on the inside")
  • A book by right-wing author James Delingpole that makes said allegation
• A racist stereotype against black Americans, likely originating from a Jim Crow-era smear campaign against the fruit as emancipated blacks were the primary growers and sellers of watermelons at the time
• A symbol of Palestinian liberation, first used as a stand-in for the Palestinian flag, which Israel had banned, during the 1967 Six-Day War. The emoji form of the watermelon, 🍉, is frequently used to indicate that someone is a supporter of Palestine.