[flashback:]
Dorothy: This one's ripe.
Blanche: And how do you tell, Dorothy?
Dorothy: Well, you smell the tip of it. It's an old Sicilian method my mother taught me.
Blanche: Oh, Dorothy, dear. The best way to tell if a melon is ripe is Southern. You thump it.
Rose: Well, actually, roomies, I have the best method, the farm method. It works every time.
Blanche: And what might that be, Rose, dear?
Rose: [pulls out a knife, carves out a chunk of cantaloupe, tastes it and places the cantaloupe back] No. Mm-mm. [again] Better.