A visit to my pumpkin dealer
Brits don’t really do Halloween, except this one guy. This is a local farmer. We buy potatoes from him in the summer.
In October – well, by the time October rolls around – he’s grown thousands of pumpkins for sale. And he’s always super busy selling them. Mostly families with young children buying wheelbarrows full of them. Lord knows what they’re doing with them.
He must have hundreds and hundreds left over, but he also keeps pigs, so problem solved.
Authorities are warning us not to dump our pumpkins in the woods. Apparently, pumpkin gives hedgehogs diarrhea.
Do I believe this? Well, the expert quoted suggests we make the flesh into delicious pumpkin soup instead, thereby proving she knows fuck all about ornamental pumpkins. I cooked one up one year and it was nasty.
Speaking of woodland, go watch this hilarious ad.
Posted: October 30th, 2024 under personal.
Comments: 6
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Comment from Skandia Recluse
Time: October 30, 2024, 7:18 pm
Pumpkins are for pie!
Comment from OldFert
Time: October 30, 2024, 7:30 pm
34.9 percent APR???
Comment from ExpressoBold Pureblood
Time: October 30, 2024, 7:58 pm
HAH!
Hallowe’en isn’t on the Federal Employees list of Approved Holidays! Hallowe’en is not on the list of proposed Federal holidays….
However did they miss that one?
Comment from Uncle Al
Time: October 30, 2024, 9:17 pm
New video game idea: Colonic the Hedgehog
Comment from Bob Mulroy
Time: October 30, 2024, 10:56 pm
34.9 APR!?!?!
OUCH!
Comment from Durnedyankee
Time: October 30, 2024, 11:31 pm
Durnedyankee #3 says:
” it’s fall! Time to shove a pumpkin up your….”
Pumpkins are for smashing on Halloween if I recall correctly… and surviving pumpkins are for pie.
But pumpkin soup might taste a bit like Kabocha squash soup maybe?
I’ll have to give that a shot.
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