OK, my kids and I planted a couple of watermelon plants in the spring that have produced some nice large fruit. I have also gotten a huge bunch of large orange tubular looking things that look and taste (On the inside) similar to a cucumber.

Does anyone know what this is? I have not been able to find it on google or other search sites.

10-12" long. 6-8' wide. Dull orange, smooth skin with a pale yellow/white flesh inside.

You ate one?? Just kidding. Maybe

Although, my Mom composts and has had several squash-like plants appear to cross breed. Here best tomato plants have come from her compost pit.

Did it look similar to the thing on the left . . . but was the color of the dude on the right? If so, that was no cucumber. You ate some sort of vegetable thing with a face and its own sun.

Not sure you should eat that thing.

Seed packages can sometimes contains fun little mysteries inside, case in point these "straw-matos" from a packet labeled Burpee Salsa Tomato plant purchased from Menards, and the other tomato plants of the same variety yielded ordinary tomatoes. Vegetable roulette.
Tomatoes appear to have strawberries inside

As it turns out, these are orange cucumbers. There must have been ungerminated seeds in the watermelon plant we bought, or something like that.

Anyone need any cumber salad?

I recently bought a yellow watermelon at a farmer's market. Stunningly yellow. When first sliced open, the black [as normal] seeds visually jump out of the bright yellow melon flesh.

Very tasty too. Amishmen sold it to me.

NY Times food section just had an interesting article re: h2omelons. Lemme see if I can dig it out for your perusal.

I FOUND IT!!!!!

Right here . . .

I love watermelon. Thanks for that Clam.

The yellow melon I bought [and devoured] was indeed a smaller, almost round, watermelon, just like the ones in the picture that accompanied the article. Had plenty of seeds though - shiny black and teardrop-shaped just like the big boys.

Pete Ladesic has got nothing on me. I'm all about helping people lead better lives.

Rob, no offense, but they look nasty.
Were they always orange or just over ripe (AKA, rotten)

I shouldn't talk. My garden was terrible this year!

Yah those look like overripe cukes.

No, they are not overripe. They taste and look in everyway just like a normal cucumber, only bigger and orange.

They started as small orange fruits that I thought were going to be pumpkins. PM me know if you want to try one. (Offer that Pete )