pumpkins – Urocyon's Jaunts 2.0

tilthat:

TIL canned 100% pumpkin is actually 100% squash. Pumpkins can be stringy and watery and the USDA is lenient with gourd terminology, so it’s perfectly legal to label a food product as “pumpkin” when, in reality, it’s made from a different variety of squash.

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Around my area in PA they called those gourds neck pumpkins. They made much better pies than real pumpkins

That type sounds like cushaws.

I don’t think they’re used very much for commercial canning, but they’re great for about any “pumpkin” type cooking purposes.

(Mmm, cushaw butter…)

tj-dragonblade:

Woke up to this:

So we checked the doorbell cam:

Hope you enjoyed the snack, dude. Thanks for waiting til Halloween was past.

freakxwannaxbe:

There is an old belief in Serbian villages and small towns that certain pumpkins (and watermelons), when left outside during a full moon, will turn in to a vampire.

Happy Halloween, everyone!

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coolcatgroup:

hall–o–ween:

You comfie bud???

dangerously-human:

happifying-things:

I love you, pumpkin

@thisbibliomaniac

lostinhistory:

theraconteurasaur:

surroundedbybooks:

gallusrostromegalus:

pieandvideogames:

acoffeefraud:

today I learned that there’s a town in Quebec where a bunch of people grow giant pumpkins, and on one very special day a year, cut them up, empty them, and use them as a canoe. then have a race. a pumpkin race. it’s even called ‘the potirothon’, from potiron (pumpkin) and marathon.

i have a new goal in life, guys.

@gallusrostromegalus

I AM ABSOLUTELY DELIGHTED.

Isn’t the inside all… sticky from pumpkin guts? How do they account for that? I know what I’m going to be researching in spare moments at work today

Oh my god, now I know my plans next growing season.

Nanaimo, BC is home to the bathtub races.

We like our non-traditional watercraft up here