Pumpkins - a memory
@allknowing (136369)
India
March 7, 2023 6:12pm CST
I was holidaying in the US one year and got to experience Halloween. I saw heaps and heaps of pumpkins on road sides with no takers and this was on the next day of Halloween.
I felt sad for those poor pumpkins as I knew they would sure be dumped. I even checked about those pumpkins that were carved in so many homes and was told they too would be dumped.
What a waste!!!
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@wolfgirl569 (106226)
• Marion, Ohio
8 Mar 23
If they are dumped in the country they become food for many animals. Birds and deer both love them
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@allknowing (136369)
• India
8 Mar 23
That will be good but I think most are wasted.
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@popciclecold (38721)
• United States
8 Mar 23
@allknowing I worked at a fast good restaurant, we fried chicken, and every 2 hours we had to cook fresh, wr had to throw out the older. We could not give it to poor.
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@allknowing (136369)
• India
8 Mar 23
I am a witness. I spent a few days in different houses including family and friends Their pantries were loaded and they did not even know what products were loaded in there.
Milk cans are returned with plenty of milk in them as they get fresh cans.
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@allknowing (136369)
• India
8 Mar 23
I hope those sellers are animal lovers and take that trouble
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@allknowing (136369)
• India
8 Mar 23
@LadyDuck But what about those carved pumpkins? My niece just threw it out.
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@LadyDuck (471500)
• Switzerland
8 Mar 23
@allknowing - I hope too, I know that the stores here donate to the animal shelters the vegetables that are no more good for humans at the end of the day.
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@allknowing (136369)
• India
8 Mar 23
There could be some households who may be making that soup.
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@sallypup (61088)
• Centralia, Washington
8 Mar 23
This has been my gripe forever. Too many folks in the US want artificial processed food. Too many folks here see pumpkins as just something to play with. IF they want pumpkin pie they will either buy it or use a can of pumpkin. I am not a fan of food waste so this really bugs me about the US and I live here.
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@allknowing (136369)
• India
8 Mar 23
Talking about food I have seen garbage bins in the US laded with food. The food portions in the US are large and most cannot get through them.
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@allknowing (136369)
• India
8 Mar 23
@sallypup The first State we touched on our US package tour was New York We were taken to a restaurant for breakfast - my first experience I saw how huge the portions were. Later when I visited family I saw how huge the size of pittzas were. We took the left overs home but no one ate them Same with milk cans - milk wasted
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@sallypup (61088)
• Centralia, Washington
8 Mar 23
@allknowing Very true. Like I said, I hate waste. When we first moved to my current house we ate breakfast out. I ordered pancakes and good grief they were the size of my plate. I ate one and brought one home and since we were kind of camping out for the first few days, my husband and I ate that blueberry pancake at different times, calling it bread.
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@RebeccasFarm (89882)
• Arvada, Colorado
9 Mar 23
Yes many go to waste indeed..sad.
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@RebeccasFarm (89882)
• Arvada, Colorado
9 Mar 23
@allknowing Yes they should indeed.
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@allknowing (136369)
• India
8 Mar 23
That is if sellers take the trouble to send them.
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@peachpurple (13962)
• Malaysia
8 Mar 23
Who dump the pumpkins by the side of the road? Here, we sell them, because cannot grow pumkins here
@allknowing (136369)
• India
8 Mar 23
They are kept there for sale but no one will buy them after the Halloween
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@Beestring (14554)
• Hong Kong
8 Mar 23
What a waste. Hope some animals get to eat the pumpkins.
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@allknowing (136369)
• India
8 Mar 23
And this happens every year. So many households carve pumpkins
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