Big Ag Is Ruining Everyone’s Canadian Thanksgiving
Though we’re still six weeks away from its American counterpart, today is Canadian Thanksgiving—which, much like our Yankee rendition, is typically celebrated with a massive feast of turkey, potatoes,...
View ArticleBritain Is Joyously Ruining Halloween
These are dark days for pumpkins everywhere: as Halloween draws near, countless numbers of the sweet, starchy squashes will be eviscerated, their innards hacked away at with hammers, screwdrivers and...
View ArticleEvil Irish Turnips Were the Original Jack-O’-Lanterns
Halloween is an odd one. It’s the festival with a thousand faces, the holiday equivalent of the fidgety guy at school who changes his interests every week in the hopes that something will stick. That’s...
View ArticleWe Asked Salem’s Official Witch What to Eat at a Pagan Sabbat
If Laurie Cabot sends you a crow feather in the mail, you’ve done something very, very bad. But don’t worry—she’s much more likely to offer you advice on how to use spell bottles or try to fix your air...
View ArticleAmericans Will Eat Anything Pumpkin Flavored—Except Pumpkins
Who in the fuck first opened Pandora’s Box and began the walking fever dream that is our reality post the invention of “pumpkin spice”?Can we push off the blame on the so-called “basic bitches”? How...
View ArticleApparently We Should Be Making Jack-o-Lanterns with Turnips, Not Pumpkins
We know it’s nearly Halloween and you’ve got a cut-price pumpkin, umpteen tealights, and a whole Pinterest board of lol-tastic Jack-o-Lantern designs (how hard can it be to replicate the praying hands...
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Mangelwurzels Make the Creepiest Jack-o-Lanterns
It’s that time of year again. Supermarkets, coffee chains, and seemingly unrelated food brands are ramming all things pumpkin down our throats. We’ll be spewing orange from now until Christmas.But our...
View ArticleHumans Are the Only Reason Pumpkin and Squash Aren’t Extinct
Among the many things you should be thankful for this Thanksgiving are the humble pumpkin and the trusty squash. No, seriously.A new study, carried out by researchers at Penn State and published today...
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