Muskmelon

(1980 memoirs)
One thing as a child Frankie despised above all and that was a muskmelon.  So of course her brother Henry tried to tease her about it.  He dressed one up as a doll and offered it to her.  Amazed at her good fortune and his generosity, she lifted it up in her arms to her face - when suddenly - her eyes still dilated in the telling - she caught the scent of the thing and then threw it as far as she could throw!  Of course then Henry and any others in the joke laughed their heads off.  But when I knew her [over 50 years later], she had gotten over this horror and we had them on the table.