When humans breed a plant or animal for one or two desirable traits, they very often end up with accompanying unintended traits that can be desirable, undesirable, or neutral. That is how a subset of less fearful and aggressive wolves were bred over millennia to become dogs with unintended traits like floppy ears, piebald coats, and tail wagging. This same process was replicated in foxes in the (former) Soviet Union between 1959 and 2018. Over just 60 years the very intentional process of breeding just for tameness inadvertently produced friendly floppy-eared piebald foxes who wag their tails. [api.nationalgeographic.com]

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The second National Geographic link is behind a paywall but it has more of the details about the secondary traits. I read the National Geographic article in hard copy when it originally came out in 2011 and found it utterlyfascinating.

It is therefore entirely possible that either the OP's preferred texture or taste has been bred out of the watermelons in the process of rendering them seedless.

@vertrauen they now think dogs became domesticated in just a few hundred years, same as those foxes only taking 60.

WalMart usually has both.

@AnneWimsey thank you. I try and shop at the co-op, I grab them when I see them I guess it makes them more special. The equivalent here would be Asda and there’s not one close.