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Where on earth do you get 12 kg watermelons? Genuine curious, the ones imported here in Denmark I would guess are big if they're around 3 kg.

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I get them from my garden but I weigh them in pounds. Larger ones can grow in excess of 40 lbs (close to 20 kg).

Am from the Southeastern United States.

> ...I would guess are big if they're around 3 kg

Before making a guess, try to weight them. I have hard time imagining watermelon (watermelon is the green thing unlike yellow melon) with only 3kg :) Your full water kettle already weights 2+kg.

In Istanbul the watermelons we get from the grocery store are about 4kg, the ones we buy from the road-side watermelon trucks in the summer can be 10-15kg (if their scales aren't rigged).

Warmer countries. E.g. in Italy the common water melons are at least half a meter long.

The same in Portugal. Ours can be very big.

I guess we can conclude a watermelon is a really bad weight reference unit!

  $ units 
  You have: 1 watermelon
  You want: grapes
        * 907.19
        / 0.0011023

Is there anything "units" can't convert?

  $ units 
  You have: 1 VIM user
  You want: Emacs users
        St4ck 0verflow...

Sitting even further north than Denmark, the OP did say that their melons are imported. Although it's possible to grow them in Denmark (especially in a greenhouse) perhaps it's not commercially viable.

Regardless, I guess the OP just needs to find a better grocer, local "fruit mongers" up here in frigid Sweden certainly routinely handle watermelons that are way bigger than 3 kg. :)

First source I found claims 9-11kg[1]

1: https://www.whataboutwatermelon.com/index.php/2018/08/how-he...

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