Do butternut squashes ever explode?
So, I have a butternut squash that appears to have, for lack of a better term, exploded. It’s not really an explosion in a BOOM! kind of way, so much as that it cracked open, and then would occasionally making this hissing gurgle and the insides would bubble over, much like a volcano of baking soda and vinegar. It’s been doing this for about a day and a half now.
What the hell?
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Damn, I wish this question were in Social.
Alien life form! That’s all I got. Take it to the nearest DND office!!
This seriously sounds like the asteroid out of the start of The Blob
That almost sounds as bad as this
They can. I just asked my son who used to work in a green grocers. It is bad basically. Rotten. The sound etc. is the pumpkin fermenting. I am surprised you aren’t complaining about the smell because apparently when this happens to pumpkin, watermelon etc. the smell is horrendous. Time to bin the pumpkin @Aethelflaed.
This question made my day. Can I use it as a FB status?
Of course they can. It is a mistake to leave them on the vine too long. Another cause can be insect infestation.
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ps. also is it squashes or squash?
I believe it is squeesh for the plural.
Do you happen to have a home distillery?
Sounds like moonshine in the making.
Anytime now a baby alien is going to climb out, look up at you with big googly eyes and call you Mama
@Bellatrix Huh. I can’t smell it. I thought about binning it, but then I thought that I was pissed that Sunflower Market sold me a squash that went that rotten within 12 hours of buying it, so I’m taking it back today.
@Schroedes13 Webster says it’s squashes.
@sarahhhhh Facebook it away.
@Jude ::kiss::
@Jeruba That’s a good point, I should have put it in Social. I’ll ask the mods to move it.
@jaytkay Well, I don’t really know that much about vegetables. Or rather, exploding vegetables. And you never know, someone on here could be an exploding vegetablologist, and they would be all “Oh, yes, well, that’s when Mueller’s theory comes into play, and…” and it would be this entirely perfect answer to a question you didn’t know had a perfect answer to it. So I figured, sure, why not post?
@Aethelflaed, too late for me now. All those scofflaws ^^^ got there first with their wisecracks while I was being good. Shoot. I should have just gone ahead with the alien life form theory in the first place.
I think you’re going to need a shovel and a newspaper or a plastic bag to move that thing. But take a picture of it first, why don’t you? Try to catch the bubbles.
For what it’s worth, I like to see just how long my Hallowe’en pumpkin will really last. A couple of years ago I put a Christmas bow on one in December, and then my son made me throw it away. A big, solid one sat on my doorstep from last October to about this past May, getting plenty of sun every afternoon. It got pretty soft on the bottom eventually, and it left a kind of nasty spot on the porch that had to be scrubbed off, but it never split or exploded. I wonder just how old your squash was.
Isn’t there a way to mummify a squash without cutting into it – like, let it dry out naturally from outside in?
@Jeruba I still want to hear this alien life form theory.
Sadly, it’s all cleaned up and returned to the store for a gift card.
You know, it shouldn’t have been that old; I bought it from Sunflower Farmer’s Market.
Could have been stored for a long time though before you bought it. I liked their alien theory.
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