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Sat, Sep 15, 2007

Winter Squash

Posted at 8:52 pm MDT to Miscellaneous

I sold squash at the Farmers Market today for 6 hours. Some summer squash: Zucchini and patty pans. But most was winter squash varieties: scarlet Kabocha, and buttercup kabocha, and spaghetti squash, and butternut squash, and acorn squash, and white acorn squash. Also pie pumpkins, which are technically a variety of winter squash. Two dollars a pound.

I put a lot of squash on the scales. I put a lot of individual squashes on the scales more than once: winter squashes tend to be both large and dense, and people got sticker shock and bailed when they found out the prices of the squash they initially selected.

And I think a lot of people don't realize the difference between pie pumpkins, which are meant to be eaten and have thick flesh and small hollows in the center, and jack-o-lantern pumpkins which are thin-fleshed and hollow.

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