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It’s not a waste if its sole purpose for existing is to rot on porches. It’s just a bonus if you can squeeze out another use, like becoming an emergency room curiosity.
It’s still waste even if the primary purpose is wasteful.
Of all the things to worry about when it comes to waste Halloween doesn’t even scartch the surface for me
Still waiting on someone to talk about how fishing nets are 50% of the plastic in our oceans
Halloween food - no.
Halloween plastic decorations, wrapping, costumes… yeah, we can do without
Well, this is talking about food waste, not pollution. Even if it rots and doesn’t do anything, worst case it’s a pile of bio-matter. The land, and everything involved in growing them could be used for actual food though, which could decrease food prices potentially.
Still, it’s not a big deal and there’s bugger fish to fry, but it doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be considered. Changing your mindset can make other issues and solutions more obvious.
It’s low priority for sure.
Is entertainment wasteful?
It certainly can be
Golf courses come to mind
Or cruise ships
Pumpkins are pretty low on my priority list, but entertainment isn’t really a good reason to throw useful stuff away. It’s a waste of water, waste of growing space, waste of fuel for harvest and transportation, and obviously a waste of food.
And people don’t realize just how much growing space pumpkins need!
Technically you can grow them with corn, but the US doesn’t do companion planting so 🤷♀️
Yeah there definitely won’t be enough room in there.
what if I burn it for heat afterwards?
Anything is better than the garbage. Pretty sure.
Sometimes! I think pumpkins are fairly harmless though
Frequently, yes.
Squirrels seem to eat them IIRC
Wait, why would it become an emergency room curiosity? Ohhhhh, missed that last part. Gourds really are nature’s dildo.
Consider my gourd
Perfectly shaped
As all things should be.
Oh wow, that’s good.
So almost nobody read the whole image?
That’s the only reason it got my upvote
What makes you think that. Is there something odd that people aren’t commenting on or something? Maybe calling the inside guts? That’s the only weird thing I recall seeing.
A ‘smash party’ could sound like some sort of euphemism, I suppose. I’m guessing that’s what they’re referring to. They’ve just got a much dirtier mind than the rest of us.
An Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotsman were travelling abroad and needed a place to sleep for the night. They stopped at a farm and asked the farmer if they could sleep there. The farmer said “Yes, you can. But all of you must promise not to have sex with my beautiful daughter.” They all solemnly agreed and were shown to their room for the night.
One by one though, each of them was overcome by temptation and sneaked down the hall to farmer’s daughter’s bedroom to have their wicked way with her.
I’m the morning they came downstairs and were greeted by the farmer. “Good morning!” he said, “I hope you all slept well. Take a basket each and go out and pick something from my farm to eat for breakfast”. Being very hungry from their travels they all eagerly went out to look for their favourite food.
The first to return was the Englishman. The farmer was waiting for him - with a loaded shotgun. “I know what you did last night!” shouted the farmer, pointing his gun at the Englishman. The Englishman threw his hands up in the air, dropping the basket of strawberries he’d picked for breakfast. “Bend over and put those strawberries up your arse and let that be a lesson to you!” The Englishman did as he was told and pushed the strawberries up his bum. Seeing that the farmer was satisfied the Englishman ran out the door and off into the distance.
Next to return was the Scotsman. “What did you pick for breakfast young man?” asked the farmer. “I picked carrots” answered the Scotsman. “Well put them up your arse you dirty bastard!” screamed the farmer, pulling out the shotgun “I know what you did last night!” “Please dont shoot me sir!” Cried the Scotsman, as he painfully pushed each of the carrots up his bum before making a break for it and running out of the house.
Last to return was the Irishman, carrying his basket on his back. “You dirty lying son of a bitch!” screamed the farmer “You had sex with my daughter last night!” “Now tell me what you picked for breakfast.”
The Irishman heaved his basket onto the floor with a thud.
They both looked down at its contents.
“I picked a pumpkin sir.”
That man’s name, Goatse.
I was thinking more like a 1Guy1Jar type of thing, but with a pumpkin. At least it won’t shatter into glass shards this time!
(I can still clearly hear the sound of the glass after all these years…)
The version I know is that they will only live if they can stick the fruit/vegetable in their ass without making a sound, and they were shot because they couldn’t stop giggling because they saw the third guy carrying <whatever large produce>.
Man that is dark!
Last year I placed two dozen or so pumpkins around my property and got up on the roof and started shootin with my AR until the neighbor called, claiming some maniac was on my roof shootin a gun so I went inside cuz that sounded pretty spooky smh can’t have nothin nice no more
If you know someone with chickens, give your pumpkins to them. The chickens love to eat the insides all the way to the edge of the rind. It is also supposed to be a natural dewormer.
Farm period. Cows/goats/horses/pigs all love pumpkin. Plus when they crap out the seeds, you’re going to find a bunch of pumpkins in the fields
I didn’t know this … Good tip. My retired hen is going to eat well tomorrow
I came here to say this! My chickens love pumpkins. If you know anyone who has goats they will demolish then. Aaaand You can also cube them or puree them and add them to dog food. With an appropriate ratio of animal protein.
For cat food you can boil and blend some chicken with a little bit of pumpkin and salt by weight. It comes out like a pate’ and my cat loves it. Vet aproved if you stick with the correct ratios.
If you have dogs that like to chew and shred you can cut a hole in one to get it started and let them have at it outside.
I also highly reccomend calabaza en tacha as a dessert. Shit is sooo fucking good and really simple to make.
I used to grow pumpkins, but this time of year so many are being thrown out at stores that i just dive them now.
complain about throwing a billion pumpkins into landfill
Order a billion tonnes of plastic shite off Temu which then breaks, and throw it into landfill
Fucking keep chucking the pumpkins, guys
At least the pumpkins are compostable.
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It’s not like it’s one or the other. We need to improve in both of those areas.
Toasted pumpkin seeds:
Using running water seperate seeds from pumpkin guts. Soak them in salt water while you carve. Preheat and bake at 220C for 15-20 mins. Eat them whole.
Insert them whole.
Insert them. Hole.
Try finger, but hole
I had an elementary school teacher who would ask all of us to save the seeds when making jack o lanterns and give it to her. She’d then make a ton of roasted pumpkin seeds and share it with us and some kids from other classes who brought seeds.
They are pretty good. Highly recommend.
Or rather than soak them, you can manually separate them, oil and salt them, then cook them on a lower setting until they start to go golden brown.
I bet the inside of a pumpkin feels like… really really good.
Stop
wait a minute
Collaborate
That’s what the pumpkin told them, too!
I hear coconut is a real treat
Mmmm… there’s nothing quite like warm, pumpkin pie
Look, I’m just saying I’ve seen two videos of people doing it for the meme.
Not as good as a warm apple pie.
Well that escalated quickly
I mean you could start by composting and not throwing into a landfill… many cities accept with leaf collection
I let the squirrels have at it, even giving them a hole to get the seeds. Then when it starts rotting into the compost can. I gotta have that pumpkin spice dirt.
I’m commenting just because I think some people get this mixed up. Pumpkin spice has nothing to do with pumpkin. It’s the spices you’d put in pumpkin pie, without the pumpkin pie.
I’m not a fan of pumpkin spice flavored stuff, but I’m happy it seems lately a lot more if it has become pumpkin flavor instead.
Toss them in the woods, deer fuckin love pumpkin
One of these things is
not likemore appealing than the othersThe plantar fasciitis?
Chickens do like to eat pumpkin. I always get 5-6 pumpkins and after they are done as decoration, they’re fed to the chickens. Not at all wasted.
Chickens are also infinitely easier to shove entirely into your ass. I’m stealing this!
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WTF did I just read?
Chickens are also infinitely easier to shove entirely into your ass. I’m stealing this!
Their head is, at least. The clawed feet can get rather… “scratchy” though
