photo: monique theriot
These pumpkins rot so quickly, more quickly than pumpkins from the store, like how buttercups turn to jelly after one day in the vase while a rose imported from Ecuador will remain beautiful for a whole week, even longer if you put that little packet of magic in the water.
Don't even think about taking them home in your car without laying down a towel or a piece of cardboard first. The pumpkins will look solid from the outside, but their insides will be rotten, and when you brake unexpectedly, smelly jelly will soak your floor mats.
These pumpkins are oddly shaped, ground-bruised, indented, warty in all the wrong places, and although the seeds are delicious roasted, the rinds of these pumpkins are flavorless. But you can load them in the back of a pick-up and sit upon them.
