And at the other end of the spectrum...

This last Wednesday (Sept. 5), I watched a documentary on people who grow giant pumpkins. Even as I was getting emotionally involved with the different growers (the documentaries in this series are predictably manipulative), I couldn't help thinking: "What a waste! All that land, all that water, time and effort for a single fruit." And it was, as far as I could tell, just for show and bragging rights. I mean, no one even mentioned making pies from them.

Then, the next day, I thought of the rhyme:

Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater
Had a wife and couldn't keep her,
he put her in a pumpkin shell --

Dried guords make great bird houses... if the same could be done with the shell of one of these pumpkins, you'd have a two-adult sleeper, easy...

Still, too much of a waste of energy and resourses, if you ask me...

So, how much pie can you make from a half-ton pumpkin? ;-)