Water Melon Trees

His parents had a banana orchard. It was not a banana orchard, really. It was an orchard half of which were banana trees and the rest were papaya, jack fruit, mango and rambutan trees. Yes, they also had two durian trees.

Water melon trees? Don't you know water melons don't grow on trees? Kiwis? No, kiwis don't grow in the region where he lived. No lychees or strawberries either.

They had free range chickens and a fish pond. Gefilte fish? No, they did not have gefilte fish in the pond. But they did make fish gefilte from their fish.

They did not exactly own their land. Technically, they were squatting on the maharaja's land.