It's the Great Pumpkin Photo Contest!
 

Driving down the road in upstate NY, late afternoon sunlight, couldn't resist the urge to stop and take pictures!

Let's see more pumpkin shots here!

those photos...they look strangely...sexual...

excellent seasonal desktop image.


brianna, you're just horny. go rub one out.

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oh, cool.... i was just telling mike about them. thanks.

WOW....are they real Jinx?

Yeah, of course, lol

The hubbard squash may not last long out there... I wanna eat it.

Imagine when it comes time to eat those huge pumpkins. You'd really have to like the stuff wouldn't you.

Oh, I just dont see pumpkins like that over here.

We just have pumpkins about LJ's head size.

I like the green one, never seen one like that.

What do you guys *do* with so much pumpkin?

You're looking at it. They'll sit there till they start to rot.
We get the LJ-head pumpkins to carve. They're not good for much else, good pie pumpkins are smaller (and its easier to use canned).

Is pumpkin pie a sweet thing or a savory or what?

Sweet, but more savory than sweet potato pie...

I dont get pumpkin pie, how can pumpkin be sweet?

Do you like have it mashed for dinner as well? or roasted? or soup?

I made pumpkin soup a couple years in a row for Thanksgiving. My daughter wants to make it this year and serve it in little pumpkins.... she must have been watching Martha Stewart or something...

Occasionally soup - mostly just the pie though. It's sweet because you put lots of sugar (and cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger etc.. in it).
It's pretty common here to roast squash with brown sugar, maple syrup etc.. You guys don't do that?

It's disgusting, that's what! They do some weird shit to food over here. :lol:

Jin's comment about pumpkin pie being more savory that SP pie made me wonder if she's interprreting the question the same as I am. When I've commented on sweet/savory here (meaning main course (not sweet)/dessert (sweet) ) several people have taken savory to me tasty/flavorful/not bland rather than not sweet. maybe something to do with maple syrup being considered an natural accompaniment to sausages and bacon, carrots in jello being viewed as a classic dish and potatoes with marshmallows and other stuff a must-have at thanksgiving. (sorry guys, love you and your country and all, but mixing the sweet and savory foods -eeeeewwww. ;) )

I think you've summed up every outsiders view of the stuff Americans eat Monster. lol I know I've thought exactly the same thing.

Of course, this is comming from someone who likes vegemite, so it may not carry too much weight.

I never knew they ate these things when I moved here. At the first pot-luck beest's bosses wife went to (they shipped his whole department over), she took a sherry trifle and watched in horror as people blobbed it on the plate next to the lasagna and ate -and enjoyed- the two together.

Life would be boring if we all liked the same things, though (and maybe they were just better at being polite).

YUCK YUCK YUCK YUCK YUCK!!!

That is just so wrong on so many different levels. Unless you're trying to save on washing up I suppose.

Noooo, we like our main meals of the non sweet variety.

About as sweet as it would get is Stewed Apple with Pork and Honey added to Carrots with garlic....or honey chicken etc.

Adding sweet stuff to things like potatoes and pumpkin just seems really weird to me.

I made a chicken curry with banana the other week and every one near had a pink fit!!

paper plates. but sometimes you have to snag the good desserts at the beginning or they'll be gone. It's just a matter of keeping the two sides of your plate apart -a berlin wall of veggies from the dip tray works well

banana is good in a curry. so are sultanas sometimes.

but yeah, marshmallows and potatoes? Triffle and lasagne? No way! It's making me want to hurl just thinking about it.

Why don't they put the main course out first, and then serve the desert with tea and coffee? That's what happens here. That way no one can accidentally have triffle with lasagne. ;) And no one will miss out either.

you come in, dump your dish on the table, grab a plate and load up. not everyone arrives at the same time or eats at the same speed....

That all sounds very weird. We have pot luck dinners over here too, but still the deserts get put out after. If you're late, you might miss out on first course. That's an extra incentive not to be tardy. ;)

My family have a lot of those dinners. We're experts. We all take twice as much as anyone could eat and then take half home, or swap stuff and eat someone else's left overs the next night for dinner.

We always roast and eat the seeds. After that we toss them off a ladder or off the roof of the house and smash them in the driveway.

The seeds, the pumpkins or the people who ate the seeds?

roasted pumpkin seeds rock. srsly.

The "name of town" roll at a local fusion restaurant consists of white tuna, avocado and cuke, with banana tempura on top. I haven't tried it yet, but I'm going to now... just cause I'm a crazy american...

That sounds yummy.

I'm gonna make a pumpkin pie, will google some recipes.

Last time I was in MO, we went to Pizza by Stout (I think?) and Oh.my.god is was fanfuckentastic!!

They had this weird dessert, which was like Maple Syrup pudding or Golden Syrup Bread Pudding and I thought I had died and gone to heaven.

I like crazy American food.

Took some kids & adults to a local pumpkin patch on Saturday, beautiful weather and lots of sunshine.

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If you can see where the "corn stalks" are with the little building in the center - that is their "corn maze" in the evening it becomes the "haunted corn maze"


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Punkin'Burger?

Here's something else we do with pumkins.

Great pumkin sandwhich Charlie Brown!

Pretty pictures jester - do you have any "after"s yet?

I am so much a product of this country.
Looking at Jester's pics my first reaction was, "Ha! Look at those pumpkins just lying around in a field, how funny!"

I don't think we grow pumpkins here - or if we do I have never seen them growing. I don't know what I expected!

SG, pumpkins grow on trees. In America, the custom, after the Pupmkins have been harvested from the pumpkin orchard, is to then put them in a cleared field for people to have 'pumpkin hunts' on. it's deemed too dangerous for anyone other than professionals with the proper equipment to pick them from the trees. they're so heavy, and it's so easy to hurt your back doing it. sadly, another product of our litigous society. I used to love pumpkin picking when i was a lad.

Thanks LJ, now I won't make a fool of myself next time I have a pumpkin-centric conversation!

well....the important thing about pumpkin-centric conversations is that you are very adamant and firm about what you say. pumpkin people can sense weakness. so no matter what they say to try and trip you up.....just push on full steam.

Don't really have any "after's", I'm assuming you mean for display. The kids pretty much picked a pumpkin for their own home. It was just a day to get out of the house and enjoy the sunshine.

lj is full of punkn' seeds.

SG, pumpkins grow on vines which lay on the ground. Jimbo is just being a dick as per usual.

BTW, I'm a pumpkin person Jimbo. I smell your weakness! (and it stinks to high heaven...like old pork chops)

ch'yeah.....next thing you'll tell me is that there's no tooth fairy. damn lying aussies.

plus, I'm quite sure Sundae knows pumpkins don't grow in trees. I'm sure she won't be insulted by your thinking she'd fall for that, too.

Now.......Who wants to go on a Snipe hunt?!

Psh...aussies don't hunt snipes...they hunt drop bears.

SG, please, before you make a dangerous mistake, please be aware that lj misspoke when he said "pumpkin", when he meant to say "durian".

srsly, people *do* die when the get hit with one of these monsters.

Thanks, chrisinhouston for the first pictures. The top one has been my desktop background lately.

That's right Razz. They're fearsome creatures...much scarier that pumpkins.

The best way to deal with drop bears is to stick a fork in your hat band, at the back, tines upwards. Then when the drop-bear leaps onto you with it's blood-curdling shriek, it impales itself and is ready for immediate roasting, using the fork as a spit.

OR simply repel them with a bit of vegemite behind the ears...duh

Hey...that's what we use to 'scent' them out of their hiding places!

It's very alluring to drop bears...and small children.

Oh, sorry..

My American is showing.

haha...that's ok. I'll forgive you that one little thing. Aside from that, you're perfect you know. ;)

If you go hiking in Australia, as well as having a fork in your hat band, be sure to wrap spiked collars around your ankles.

Trap-door wombats.

PS I made one of my classes eat vegemite a few weeks ago. The language skill that day was polite refusals... to teach, you have to motivate.

Indeed.
Coconuts are also killers. I've read that during WWII several US soldiers were killed in the Pacific by falling coconuts - including one who was wearing his steel helmet at the time.
How the hell do you break that news to the folks back home? "No, ma'am, it wasn't the enemy. It was ... a ... a ..."

I still maintain BANANAS are the real killer fruit.

In Germany, you could be eaten by a Pumpkin Crocodile.

holy shit, that thing is awesome..

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