Alarming Vegetable

 
I love my local vegetable stand—the green beans are wonderful this time of year—but I'm not sure they could pay me $3.75 to take this bad boy home!

It was huge, too. (That's a peck basket.) Yikes. I had never seen one of these before. That is one radical vegetable.
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Mike

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Featured Comment by Ed Buziak: "Och aye...I can just see one of these wee beasties being tossed into Lock Ness in Bonnie Scotland...and then the curious crowds a'gathering with their picture-taking machines...och aye, into the early hours the bars will be full of Sassenachs, the amber nectar will be flowing to gently help the non-believers...and there will be pictures of the Monster to prove it exists!"

Comments

[Julian]

That's no vegetable; it's obviously a large snake attempting to digest a pig.

[Maarten B.]

Godzilla is not far away anymore.....

[Richard Man]

Nessie lives!!

[Richard]

Funny you put the picture of the black swan there (presumably your association?). My first thought was mutant vegetable snake!
In any case, definitely an alarming vegetable...

[Jeffrey Goggin]

You should have bought it and started a series of gourd photos a la Weston and his peppers.

(I also couldn't help but notice the photo has a 4:3 format ... nice!) ;-)

[Nick]

And I see a snake!!

[Bryce Lee]

Off with its head!

Then pierce body with fork numerous times.

Cook on a metal tray in medium oven until
outer skin is soft.

Remove from oven, peel outer skin, remove inner seeds...eat meat with a bit of butter and brown sugar.

Freeze balance in zip lock bag

[Andreas Sakka]

Looks like http://blog.newsok.com/smokeandmirrors/files/2009/04/loch-ness-monster2.jpg" target="_blank">Nessie the Loch Ness Monster to me...

[Mike Johnston]

"(presumably your association?)"

Richard,
Enlarge the picture (by clicking on it) and look at the little sign on the left. I think you can make it out.

Mike

[David]

Are you familiar with 'The Day of the Triffids' ?

The book cover in the sidebar of the Wikipedia page shows a triffid that bears an uncanny resemblance to your gourd.

Where did you say you saw it?

[Adrian]

"Man-eating plant" was my first thought.

[Paul]

Actually, Weston made at least one photo of these gourds, it's in a small Phaidon book I have.

[Nic M]

How about Nessie the swan?
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"(presumably your association?)"

Richard,
Enlarge the picture (by clicking on it) and look at the little sign on the left. I think you can make it out.

Mike

[Peter Klein]

I once bought an eggplant that had some extra material that that ran partway down down one side and then protruded out. Viewed in "profile," was a dead ringer for Oliphant's caricatures of Richard Nixon.

P.S. It was delicious.