A bouncy fruit?

My wife brought back a fruit that I had never seen from her recent trip to Tennessee. Her uncle grew something they called a tigger fruit. After searching around online, I found a number of references to tigger melons.

This a very aromatic melon with a beautiful appearance. It smells like cantaloupe, peach and maybe apricot. It is about the size of a softball. I assume the name comes from the color of the Winnie the Pooh character.

We will be cutting into one at the office today. I'll come back by to give a report.

A description of it at seedsavers.org reads, "The fruits are vibrant yellow with fire engine red zigzag stripes. The fragrance is powerful, similar to Queen Anne’s, but Tigger weighs about 1 pound and the white flesh is semi-sweet. Originated in Armenia."

Has anyone ever had one one? Any advice on how to prepare this thing?

Update: The tigger melon, while gorgeous to look at, had very little taste. It seemed like a watered down cantaloupe flavor.