A round, sweet melon with orange flesh and a rough, netted skin.
The name comes from Cantalupo, an Italian town near Rome, where this type of melon was grown in the papal gardens. European languages adapted the place name into 'cantaloup' and then 'cantaloupe' in English.
You’re basically saying the name of an Italian village every time you say 'cantaloupe'. It’s a fruit so fancy it was once grown for popes before it became an everyday supermarket snack.
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