Back in the early 80s, they tried watermelon and other fruits and had a concession called "the fruit boat" in the Riverfront area. They sold banannas, apples, and other stuff, plus soft drinks and fruit juices. It was a popular concession. Here was the problem: watermelon rinds and sticky, gooey paper plates and plastic forks left all over the place. The people working the concession patrolled from the Lumbercamp down to the diving bell, all around Tom Sawyer's Landing, in the Cookies and Cream/candy store seating area, and the seating area for the ribhouse, and along the pathways. The guests were exceptionally messy, and did not do a good job of throwing away their waste. About three or four in the afternoon, that section of the park looked like someone tossed the contents of a couple of trash cans all around. However, they did sell ALOT of watermelon. My guess is, the clean up patrol was not worth the trouble. You will remember on the "remember the sippers" thread that the reason the sippers disappeared is because of the nasty mess the empty containers left around park. Employees were constantly fishing plastic containers out of the waterways, kids dropped the sippers and left sticky messes on the streets. It seems Copper said he was cleaning along the cave pathways in the last year or so, and discovered an empty sipper behind a rock...it had been there for over 30 years! I can tell you, that watermelon on ice was GOOD! So were the apples and banannas!
