Taiwan Has Gone Crazy For Watermelon Toast

With this stifling heatwave upon us, it certainly seems to be the time to be tucking in to huge slices of juicy watermelon. However, across the globe in Taiwan, they are doing it slightly differently by gorging on watermelon bread.

Lee Wen-fa, the head baker at Jimmy's bakery in Yilan County, northern Taiwan, came up with the creative invention to encourage children to eat in the hot summer months, when they sometimes lose their appetites.

The bread is coloured using charcoal, green tea and strawberries (surely that makes it a superfood…right?) and is sold by the loaf or sliced and toasted. Despite baking around 2,000 loaves a day, Jimmy's is struggling to keep up with the high demand of avid customers who are having to wait in line for their loaves.

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