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.
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.
Ive managed the effort to do around 5 pumpkin carves in my life. I never, not once, thought about this.
Thanks, but damn.
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.
Nah, these comics are often actually witty.
I thought the joke would be that he just makes pumpkin soup and doesn't carve any lantern.
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
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.
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.
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