To think what a waste of pumpkins

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Loads of pumpkins for sale in supermarkets.

I don't want to come across as a miserable piece of shit but I think it's an incredible waste. All these pumpkins are grown to make lanterns with, and the flesh is thrown away (not that it would be worth eating as apparently Halloween pumpkins are vile). I bet the vast majority of people would just throw the flesh away anyway, even if it did taste nice.

Just seems mad to have all the resources dedicated to grow and distribute pumpkins in this day and age where people are skint and hungry and have to use food banks. Just to make lanterns for one day.

I've never seen a big field of pumpkins.

Are they all imported?

the flesh can be useful

God knows.

Can you Imagine a great big truck of them falling over and a whole massive consignment of pumpkins rolling and bouncing down a hill.

That would cheer me up for the rest of my life if I ever saw that.

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Haha, that would be funny.

Imagine the headline in the Daily Mail.

Foreign pumpkins cause chaos.

We don't tend to throw the flesh away - use it in soups etc... but have found from experience that even fairly ginormous pumpkins don't really yield that much flesh to cook with once one's disposed of the seedy bits....

A Thai restaurant in town do amazing watermelon carvings - they ball the watermelon flesh out so its not too wasteful. Not seen them do a Halloween one - might be a new market for them!

The seeds in the middle make my skin crawl.

All clumped together

With the pumpkin seeds, do you eat the hulls or do you have to pick them out like sunflower seeds?

I'm going to try making pumpkin beer this year and try to remember to wash and dry the seeds, I see where you're coming from OP, I felt a bit the same when I saw them for sale last week. It just seems wrong at the moment.
Spicy pumpkin soup is quite nice as long as you like korma type sauces.DH swore blind that I'd just made watery korma sauce when I made it

You eat them whole Bala, no husking required.
Not sure where they grow them all, certainly haven't seen any out in the fens or Cambridgeshire. Mostly just corn left round here.

I chuck the flesh into soup. Very nice with coconut milk, chilli, ginger and garlic.

We make pumpkin pies with the flesh of our halloween pumpkins.
Lovely with cream.

I would like to know why we can only buy pumpkins in October.

IF we get a pumpkin (or a swede, as that is what's traditional!) this year, I'll use the flesh in my beef stew.

juule I don't think you can grow them very well out of season as you can other veg, I may be wrong though, it's something I seem to remember reading.

So what bit of the pumpkin do you eat then apart from the seeds. Is it the horrible gloopy stringy middle bit or is it the actuall flesh? I cant believe I don't know that

You cut up the hard flesh (get rid of the stringy stuff, it's vile) and cut the skin off. It's easier to roast the flesh first then just slice off the tough skin.

Make a pumpkin cake just so you can punch it?

I bet you twenty pence that the vast majority of people will not use the flesh of the pumpkins.

"A pound says you won't kill her."

People need food banks because of rises in the prices of essentials food and energy) without rises in incomes at the litter end of the scale. Nothing to do with the growing of a vegetable with generally isn't eaten. In fast the more well-off people buy things like pumpkins the fewer will need food banks.

Its still a good idea to donate to your local one though.

Will you have a Christmas tree this year?

If we are going to go on about pumpkins, what about Christmas trees? Lots of them grown year after year just for a couple if weeks with baubles on at Christmas.

Oh yes I turn those into soup too....

Good point Twatty I was considering a real one this year because ours is 20 years old and looks drunk when I put it up, it's the cost that's put me off really but the environmental waste isn't good either. We're going to try and get one more year out of ours I think then look at a growing tree next year.