# Show us your Jack o'Lantern!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-us-your-jack-olantern/991798
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [October 19, 2023, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-us-your-jack-olantern/991798 "2023-10-19T17:51:27Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2023, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-us-your-jack-olantern/991798/21 "2023-10-20T14:49:50Z")
[Galeux d’Eysines Pumpkin](https://www.westcoastseeds.com/products/galeux-deysines), actually.
It translates as “Embroidered with scabs from Eysines” and it originated from Eysines, France.
Supposedly one of the best tasting squash, we look forward to roasting it!
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### Author:  [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2023, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-us-your-jack-olantern/991798/22 "2023-10-20T14:53:02Z")
> [@kayaker](#):
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> Supposedly one of the best tasting squash, we look forward to roasting it
I think I’ll have to go get one to roast later. I’ve never tried it.
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### Author:  [@Galactus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Galactus)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2023, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-us-your-jack-olantern/991798/23 "2023-10-22T01:23:08Z")
My daughter finished her pumpkins.
[ ](https://imgur.com/Uy2NNYx)
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### Author:  [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2023, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-us-your-jack-olantern/991798/24 "2023-10-22T14:05:51Z")
Super cute painted pumpkins. Love the carved and lit ones too.
Here’s a painting my youngest did in high school. The art dept auctioned it off and my kid wouldn’t let me submit a bid!
So the principal won and hung it up in the school and I took this picture of it.
[ ](https://i.ibb.co/sv559K6/IMG-0525.jpg)
I haven’t carved a pumpkin in a few years might have to this year.
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### Author:  [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2023, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-us-your-jack-olantern/991798/25 "2023-10-22T15:10:26Z")
Quite the talented artist!
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### Author:  [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2023, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-us-your-jack-olantern/991798/26 "2023-10-29T18:52:21Z")
No orange pumpkins available here, but I bought a couple and spraypainted them orange so I could carve them with my kids, aged 8 & 6.
They did the design, I did the cutting, they did the scooping out seeds, and they got to do some extremely supervised spraypainting.
I took terrible pictures, so had to apply loads of filters just to make them look like Jack o’Lanterns. But the kids loved it.
[ ](https://i.imgur.com/UrHPK9G.jpg)
Also it was my first and second attempt at carving any vegetable,
FWIW, pumpkin skin is not an ideal substrate for spraypainting, maybe I should have lightly sanded the surface. I dunno. Aside from the Beck song ‘[Loser](https://youtu.be/YgSPaXgAdzE)’ i have not heard of anyone else spraypainting vegetables.
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### Author:  [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2023, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-us-your-jack-olantern/991798/27 "2023-10-29T22:36:13Z")
Finally got around to doing this years’.
[ ](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/4/41094fd5f8685fb4638a6e47c2a80b408bc8c1d6.jpeg)
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