Just an FYI - do NOT leave a 10lb butternut squash in the fridge for 6 months

[LynneSin]

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I was at my friend's beach house last weekend. We were part of a group planting beach grass at our local beaches here in Delaware. She almost had it closed for the winter in October but a last minute request she left them use it for the weekend. Only thing she would have to do afterwards is turn off the water and she had a local plumber take care of that.

So this was the first weekend we were at the beach house. I opened the fridge to put some beverages in there and there it was - a cross between an alien baby and a two week old placenta

:scared: :scared:

I guess the last people there bought this giant butternut squash and then didnt' use it. Instead of taking it with them or tossing it they left it in the fridge - even though they were told they would be the last people in there until next spring.

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Seriously - does anyone think a large pulpy vegetable will keep for 6 months in the fridge.

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[hifiguy]

1. Every so often I find a "mystery container"

that got pushed to the back of a fridge shelf and forgotten for, um, an extended period of time. Inevitably there is something long past identification and a smell, make that STENCH coming off of it that makes mustard gas come to mind.

But a ten-POUND squash? Egads, what a hellacious and stinky mess that must have been.

[MiddleFingerMom]

2. A little milk, ice cream and nutmeg & a blender -- you mighta had something real therapeutic there.

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I assume YOU simply wasted it.
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[LynneSin]

3. Well we were thinking of making my famous Moldy Butternut Squash Soup

but there simply was not enough time so we tossed the thing.

[GoCubsGo]

4. I never have that problem with winter squashes.

They get eaten long before then, mostly because I LOVE winter squash soup. Even if I don't get to it right away, I have to endure the dirty looks of my geezer cat, who adores the stuff.

[MiddleFingerMom]

5. I used to have this incredible recipe for Pumpkin-Apple Soup...

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...that was often "requested" ("DO IT!!!!!") when I'd give dinner parties.
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Once, having served the soup and gone back to the kitchen to continue working
on the rest of the meal, I heard a LOT of whispering and giggling and one REALLY
loud burst of prolonged laughter. I peeked out and saw hardly any of the soup
had been eaten.
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I tasted MY portion. I never did figure it out, but I had done SOMETHING terribly,
terribly wrong somewhere in the last step or two and it was HORRIBLE!!!!
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I found out later that the prolonged burst of laughter came when someone tried
to pawn theirs off on Brandy, this big ol' goofy sweetheart of a yellow Lab who,
mind you... loved to roll around in moist, smelly, putrid things for fun.
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She had turned up her nose QUICKLY and walked away from the, ahem... treat.
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(S-EWWWW-P)
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[struggle4progress]

6. I used somebody's vacation home one week a few years back

Me: I'm gonna the grocery. Anything else we need? How about eggs?
Other: There are already eggs in the fridge
Me: Might be old. Are we sure they're still good?
Other: Eggs keep

<off to grocery and back. clock hands spin. time to make dinner>

Other: These eggs are kinda strangely light

<cracks egg>

Other: Whoa! Never seen this before

<shows me cracked egg: yolk and white have completely dried into flakey film on inside of shell>

Me: I'm gonna the grocery. Anything we need besides eggs?

[LynneSin]

7. ewwwwww

:puke:

[taterguy]

8. Thank you for that valuable public service

[Dappleganger]

9. We just tossed the two pumpkins on our front porch last weekend.

Instead of carving them, our daughter painted them ala Jack Skellington and they lasted from the middle of October.

In the Florida sun.
On our front porch.

B-)

[krispos42]

10. You know it's bad when...

...the squash yells "Hey! Close the door!" at you.