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.
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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.
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 🤷♀️
Wait, why would it become an emergency room curiosity? Ohhhhh, missed that last part. Gourds really are nature's dildo.
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."
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
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
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
Well that escalated quickly
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 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.
Planter doesn't work very well, they shrivel and rot within a few weeks.
Toss them in the woods, deer fuckin love pumpkin
Time to ties some mini gourds into an anal bead 😔
At a medium pace.
Imagine if we just didn't grow them in the first place since clearly people don't want to eat them anyway...
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.
Use it as a helmet at the Motocross!