DH doesn't want to eat our pumpkin because it had a slug on it!

[ElderberrySyrup]

He is insane, yes?

I have explained to him about pumpkins growing outside, where slugs live.

AIBU to want to sit him down in front of half a dozen episodes of Dirt Girl World, followed by a couple of Ray Mears programmes, until he gets the message about nature not being evil and disease-ridden but normal and in fact, the very environment in which we have evolved to live?

I'll tell you a story about food hygene (is transferrable to your sluggy pumpkin)

Ladt Dartmouth was having a dinner party. The butler proudly bore in the large salver containing a roast sucking pig. He slipped on a stray grape, and the piglet fell to the floor and rolled across the carpet.

"Take it away, Briggs," said her ladyship, "And bring in the other one."

Just wipe it and tell him its a different pumpkin from a slug-free environment.

rofl PigletJohn. That was both amusing and helpful, thank you

It's a pity he bought it himself, or I could have told him they were on BOGOF.