What’s a Cuculoupe?

What do you get when you cross a cucumber and a cantaloupe? If you are a Louisiana farmer you get national exposure and chance for your unusual piece of produce to be gobbled up on air by Regis Philbin and Kelly Ripa. “It’s good,” said Ripa on Wednesday morning’s “Live with Regis and Kelly” show. It’s like a “less-sweet cantaloupe” that would be “very good with vodka.” With that said thousands of viewers have been clamoring to take a bite of their own “cuculoupe.” That’s what the growers of the Louisiana-grown oddity named it. The Dusenbery family of Houma, Louisiana … Continue reading