Over on Reddit, and with remarkable regularity, people have been asking what those weird markings on watermelons are, which are sometimes described as looking like "crop circles". The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

A few days ago, one curious Internet user asked the same question, though a quick search finds that the question has been asked many times throughout the site's history.

"I’ve worked for a grocery chain as a fruit cutter for the past 2 years. I’ve never seen this before," Reddit user thelostsummoner wrote on Saturday.

"We got this watermelon shipment in this morning and on three or four of the watermelon, this pattern is like etched into the surface of the watermelon rind. It’s not on top! I picked at it wi

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