Flying Squash Reduced to Edible

Reader Contribution by Connie Moore
Published on September 14, 2015
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Last year we decided to explore the world of giant edible cucurbita maxima. Relatives to pumpkins, winter squash differ in that their shells are rock hard, able to withstand months of storage.

That’s why we resorted to a method of opening them closely related to the primitive form of punkin chunkin or tossing pumpkins as far as one’s bursitis will allow. I say primitive because today the event of flying pumpkins is sophisticated to the umph degree.

Formal and informal competitions exist in just about every state. It is a state of wild, boisterous crowds, men who are as proud of their machines as anyone at Nascar. From sling-shots to pneumatic air cannons, pumpkins shoot into the sky day and night. Tom’s Corn Maze in Germantown, Ohio, even paints the orbs iridescent orange to glow in the early night darkness. Pretty impressive as flying objects go.

But I digress. Our objects of magnitude included a 20-pound football-shaped blue Hubbard, a 2-foot long Pink Banana and a 13-pound Cushaw with a bottom bowl measurement of 28 inches. They lay nestled among 16 average to large butternut squash. Everyone who entered the kitchen stopped and stared, asking, “What’s going on here?” I answered, “My field of dreams.”

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