Is my butternut squash plotting world domination?

[Wallabyone]

I've had a squash in the fruit bowl for over a week. Yesterday I noticed a patch on it, about the size of penny. It has small bubbles on it, like eggs-orange caviar almost 😷 I pushed it without thinking and some burst and squirted stuff out at me. What is it?! Are they tiny butternut squash babies waiting to hatch and multiply?

I like butternut squash, but never found a recipe I liked it in. Then I discovered the revelation that is squash & sage soup. Like a chorus of angels...

It's a sort of rot. No spiders there. Might be black rot or any other sort of rot that affect cucurbits.

Was thinking syphilis....

No spiders there

Please remember you don’t know who is who on the internet. I think this might be a spider posting.

Every few years there's a food trying this. And it's a conspiracy against me. Every one is something I hate. 1980s it was cranberries, then coriander, now squash, all crap I hate.

I threw a butternut squash with a best before September 18 date out on Monday. Still looked fine.

TBH, butternut squashes could do a better job than people at running the world. I'd vote for them.

I once had a butternut squash for 4 months. Then I put it out in the garden where it sat happily for the summer before finally succumbing to squelchyness and the brown wheelie bin of squash afterlife

@marvellousnightforamooncup Perhaps Jeremy Corbyn could dress as a butternut squash 🤷🏻‍♀️

Jeremy Corbyn IS a butternut squash.

Probably wasp spider eggs. They're orange and pretty native.

My dad once grew some ornamental gourds and one was particularly attractive, so it was on display in a bowl in the house. It exploded. Geez what a mess.

I don't trust the things at all.

That definitely looks like a very rare species of nope eggs to me.

TBH, butternut squashes could do a better job than people at running the world. I'd vote for them.

Let’s start a campaign

This has the makings of a brilliant idea!

I want a t-shirt! Am not enjoying reading tales of exploding squashes though 🤢

Have any world leaders ever exploded? No? They just haven't got the passion for it.

I grew butternut squash and pumpkin in separate years. They both survived for 12 months in a coolish dry place. (Just got lighter in weight as they slowly dehydrated through their thick skins.) BBE dates are a bit of a formality - if it looks ok, and smells ok, you can probably eat it. Never had a growth like the OP has got. This reminds me of those photoshopped things that went around a few years ago with seed heads erupting from people's skin.

Haha put it in a clear lunch box. Superglue the lid on and also secure with insulation tape. Wait to see what hatches

Jeremy Corbyn IS a butternut squash.
How bloody insulting!

What did the poor butternut squash do, to be compared to that creep?

TBH, butternut squashes could do a better job than people at running the world. I'd vote for them.

Could they sort out Brexit in time for the deadline? Will the eggs have hatched by then? By the time you read this, will we all be paying homage to our Squash-y Overlords?

Is it a bit sick that I want to squeeze the picture like it was a spot?

I wanted squeeze them too but resisted. This strange thick substance started to come out of one side of the eggs, so I finally threw it away last night 😷 I guess now we'll never know if the squash parasites could have saved us from Brexit.

There are two types of people in the world.

Those who would fling that thing to the far side of fuck whilst torching it

And those who would put it in a clear lunch box. Superglue the lid on and also secure with insulation tape. Wait to see what hatches

😱

I feel cheated now OP. I've just read through this thread, got to the end to find you've thrown it away!
Any chance you could dig it out of the bin please?

I'm sorry @TheSultanofPingu but I started to get a bit frightened of it, and then wondered what I'd say to my family as I was carried away by the creatures...it's in the kitchen bin. I definitely won't be putting my hand down it