Someone need to find that post about the gal-pal of a 'catter who tried roasting the pumpkin whole and it blew up on and all over her and her family. It's funny and utterly horrifying all at once. I remember reading the post a couple of years ago and telling the story at a dinner party as "the true and terrible story fo the great pumpkin massacree" ala Alice's restaurant. Nobody believed it really happened.

I do hope that gal and her baby who got sploshed by the evil hot pumpkin guts were eventually totally fine. Does anyone know? I worry about that every time I cut open a fresh pumpkin to saute.