Melo mania! Thai family hope they have found another valuable pearl in their dinner!

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Melo mania! Thai family hope they have found another valuable pearl in their dinner!

 

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A family in Si Racha, Chonburi hope they have found another so called "Melo Pearl".

 

Melo pearls are very valuable and can sell for millions of baht. One was found the other week in the south of Thailand though the finder suffered mixed fortunes. 

 

Monthian Jansuk, 40, and his wife Wasana, 44, who live in a camp, fancied a seafood dinner and went to Saphan Pla in Laem Chabang to buy prawns, shellfish and fish for dinner.

 

Monthian, an operator of towing equipment from Phetchabun, saw a large Hoi Khong (also known as an apple snail) and asked the lady selling it if it was edible as he had never tried it.

 

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Yes, she assured him, it would be delicious and was only 50 baht.

 

What's more it was the last one.

 

They went back home and as their son was separating the flesh he found the ball of orange. They initially thought it was roe but on closer inspection it was hard and inedible. 

 

Now after some Googling they think they could be the owners of a Melo pearl. They are contacting experts for confirmation.

 

They will hope to get better luck than a man in Nakhon Sri Thammarat. He hoped to get 10 million baht from a Chinese businessman who saw the find.

 

Instead the local police recognised the Thai man after he appeared in the press bragging about his discovery on a beach.

 

They realised he was wanted in connection with 16,000 meth pills found near his house and promptly arrested him.

 

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[Dagfinnur Traustason]

Time for the police to make an arrest!

[ThailandRyan]

I just want a can of Mello Yello, I miss it and can not find it here in Thailand.  Wonder if its rarer than the Melo Pearl....just thinking.

[Elkski]

No more apple snails will be left in the water soon. 

[trainman34014]

14 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

I just want a can of Mello Yello, I miss it and can not find it here in Thailand.  Wonder if its rarer than the Melo Pearl....just thinking.

If it's not made or distributed by CP Group forget it !

[klauskunkel]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

on closer inspection it was hard and inedible

When you find something strange, the first thing you do is put it in your mouth. Just like babies do. 

[Justgrazing]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

 

They went back home and as their son was separating the flesh he found the ball of orange

 

An if they get on Amazon they can get a matching necklace , earrings and bangle for a very reasonable ten quid .. 

What did the sloth say after being mugged by snails .? 

" It all happened so fast " ...

Edited February 12, 2021 by Justgrazing
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[PETERTHEEATER]

1 hour ago, Elkski said:

No more apple snails will be left in the water soon. 

These things don't grow on trees you know.......

[chilli42]

I bet we are going to be seeing a whole lot more of these Melo Pearls.

[wombat]

2 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

 Mello Yello,

 

Donavon did a good version of that

Edited February 12, 2021 by wombat

[Burma Bill]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

What's more it was the last one.

 

Maybe lucky with this:-

 

[shackleton]

What happened to  the two guys who found the first pearl

did they receive their 10 million baht from the Chinese guy who was seemingly flying to Thailand to collect it????

I know about the first one getting locked up on drug charges 

Their story of rags to riches has fallen of the news wires?