A tip for those going to carve pumpkins this year, make your hole to scoop out the insides from the bottom. Not only will it look nicer but you can easily put it right on top of a candle instead of trying to balance it inside the pumpkin.
this post was submitted on 09 Oct 2025
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Ive managed the effort to do around 5 pumpkin carves in my life. I never, not once, thought about this.
Thanks, but damn.
Alternative idea, cut the hole in the side and use the stem as a nose.
cut the hole in the side
Not gonna lie I thought this was going a different direction after the recent furry threads.
note that this will speed up rotting on the bottom if it is exposed to water
to slow down rotting, spray all the cut edges and the inside with hairspray. let dry before lighting candle.
Whoever makes this comic definitely read Perry Bible Fellowship.
War and peas. Their style isn't as sardonically macabre, but I expect they would take that as a complement.
if i were making comics i'd love to get the comparison
If it’s the comic I’m thinking of it was supremely fucked up.
I thought the joke would be that he just makes pumpkin soup and doesn't carve any lantern.
Good ending
Turning food into an inedible decoration left outside to rot seems like a stupid tradition.
Same with chopping down trees to put presents under them.
I'd actually argue that if you're going to decorate, pumpkins and trees are some of the more responsible decorations
They're renewable, easily biodegradable, and (especially if you grow your own pumpkins in a suitable climate) have a pretty minimal if not helpful environmental impact
we are using the same artificial trees we've been using for the last, uh we got the last big one about 15 years ago and the last tabletop one 10 years ago. got a big bag in the garage for each tree to take it apart and not have to put all the decorations on each year (two decades of running a christmas tree festival takes all the magic out of decorating)
I'd rather grow and cut down fifty trees than have one plastic tree, personally. Forever trash is a big deal for me.
Grow pumpkins, you'll understand why they thought it wasn't such a bad idea. Also don't throw away the flesh, use it.
Humand don't normally eat the rind of a pumpkin. Its the ooey gooey guts everyone is after. And the seeds. Besides, pie pumpkins are generally smaller and have more guts than the ones desired for lanterns.
The flesh of the pumpkin is the part we eat, not the stringy bits, baking pumpkins have very little of the goopy part
The seeds are good tho =)
maybe there's recipes for both idk i don't like pumpkins as food
They turn into fertilizer fairly well.
After Halloween, kick them into the nearest garden bed and they'll rot into the ground.
People are irrational animals, and having dumb little traditions like that is the least malign way of expressing that irrationality.
Møøse eat them.
Mynd you, møøse bites Kan be pretti nasti…
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I'll enjoy my moose at a distance or juuuust a little pink on the inside. There is no inbetween.
It kind of is. Like, I imagine back in the day before we had refrigeration and other methods like canning it was something to do with excess turnips and then eventually pumpkins, but it is weird.
The one that really bothers me, though, are the mini pumpkins and gourds. Folks might have one, maybe two, jack-o'-lanterns, but they'll waste dozens of those mini gourds on decoration. Those things are delicious! And if you're buying them every year, not carving them, they always look basically the same... That's a pretty good use for something like plastic or glass, and save the food for, like, food. The pumpkins I get people want to do something creative and different with each year, but the mini gourds? They just sit there like lumps!
I'd say that a cultivated gourd is a way more responsible decoration than anything made of plastic. Think of it less as a waste of food, and more as making decorations out of materials that are renewable and biodegradable
i think of it less as a waste of food and more as getting durable equipment.
Carving pumpkins and pie pumpkins are different varieties of pumpkin; you don't really want to eat a jack-o'-lantern
How do I tell the difference when at the grocery store? I was thinking of buying one to eat it — I now realize I might have been about to make a mistake.
Actual pie pumpkins are generally smaller, and labelled as such. Many of the decorative-but-not-for-carving varieties are also good for pie, but you'd want to google the variety to check
Thanks!
That's because you're forgetting about the earlier parts of the tradition in both cases.
The Christmas one used to be about bringing a bit of green into the house, originally a pagan custom, it was considered good luck because green plants were associated with spring and spruce was one of the few plants in that was green all year round. That ended up getting merged with the Christian Christmas and the giving of gifts symbolises the wise men giving gifts, originally it was symbolic the value of the gift was basically zero but then they invented the PlayStation.
Halloween is also a pagan myth, coupled with the practicality of October being the time of year that you tend to have an awful lot of pumpkin husks lying around. You're supposed to eat the pumpkin although I'm aware a lot of people don't these days, because people don't really see pumpkins as food anymore.
not all pumpkins can be food. most are actually poisonous to humans.
I don't get it? You eat the inside, not the shell
