What is the fruit/vegetable that makes you feel like, "heck yeah it's fall!"
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@baconandcoconut I remember a friend casually saying "don't eat mystery squash; if two edible varieties of squash cross-pollinate and grow a mystery squash in your yard, they can poison you" and I was like WHAT that can't be true
AND IT IS
@cwebber @baconandcoconut this is true though it's not as dire as people make it out to be imo. Cucurbitacin tastes bitter, so you can pretty safely taste test the squash first. You have to actually ingest the toxin for it to cause problems https://www.poison.org/articles/toxic-squash-syndrome-if-it-s-bitter-it-s-not-dinner
@ehashman @baconandcoconut it's still a good thing I was informed because I will happily eat a terrible bitter thing for the novelty of it
@cwebber @baconandcoconut How far does a squash have to deviate from the phenotype to qualify as a mystery?
@baconandcoconut Just don't try and eat the decorative gourd! Many of them are poisonous