Though splashing cocktail-making ingredients may not be your first instinct as you stir together fruit salad, it's a culinary ...

Just drink the liquid and throw away the rest? Use the straw as a single chopstick to dredge the fruit up to the rim?

Then carefully spoon all the fruit salad back into the scooped-out melon ... and carefully attach these to the melon with two cocktail sticks. You could even add some red grape slices or even ...

Just be aware that most tropical countries start thinking about shipping the expats home when they see them eating the fruit but discarding the cocktail. (Please send your questions to Miss ...