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Wait what? US population is 345 millions. How do you even celebrate Halloween that requires three pumpkins per person? Plenty of people don’t even have a porch.
Pumpkins Georg, who lives in spooky bog & disposes of over 15 million pumpkins every day, is an outlier and should not have been counted.
Have your read the bottom right corner?
It’s disgraceful that we grow food to deliberately throw away.
beats straw, which is fully inedible
Eh it’s better than making plastic shite to deliberately throw away
No, we shouldn’t be doing that either.
Two things can be bad.
I hate the “this thing is worse so let’s not talk about that” mentality, as if you’ve never held two opinions at the same time.
In the times of yore a small group of people tossed some tea into a harbour and set about a revolution.
Today, we must put an end to the tyranny. The quickening pace and further encroachment upon our livelihoods demands pumpkin spice be put to waste.
The future depends on it.
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.
Toss them in the woods, deer fuckin love pumpkin
Time to ties some mini gourds into an anal bead 😔
I bet the inside of a pumpkin feels like… really really good.
Not as good as a warm apple pie.
I hear coconut is a real treat
Mmmm… there’s nothing quite like warm, pumpkin pie
Stop
Collaborate
That’s what the pumpkin told them, too!
wait a minute
Look, I’m just saying I’ve seen two videos of people doing it for the meme.
Freaks me out when they grow white fuzz on the inside 🤢
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.
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
I’m not an expert but I’m pretty sure the pumpkins you carve are not the same pumpkins you eat. You can roast the seeds, sure, but the inside will probably taste like dirt
It can be. Lots of people do eat whats inside pumpkins that they carve. pies, curries, etc. I feel like in terms of waste is one of the much lesser wasteful things people are doing and it often makes good feed and compost
They’re the same, I make pumpkin pie out of them. It’s so much better than from a can too.
My dog likes it. :) I give her the rest of the innards.
Roast pumpkin puree can be added as filler to sauces. Bottom right option seems fine too. Why kink shame?
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.
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.
It’s still waste even if the primary purpose is wasteful.
Is entertainment wasteful?
Sometimes! I think pumpkins are fairly harmless though
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.
what if I burn it for heat afterwards?
Anything is better than the garbage. Pretty sure.
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.
It certainly can be
Golf courses come to mind
Or cruise ships
Frequently, yes.
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
It’s low priority for sure.
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.
Squirrels seem to eat them IIRC
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.
I didn’t know this … Good tip. My retired hen is going to eat well tomorrow
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 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.
https://possumpat.io/post/206685
Donkeys like them
