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What the fuck? Irish Central?
Trust me bro, it’s just… we love you so much, we wanna know more about you.
Don’t worry it’s just 900 local pumpkin and turnip farmers trying to make an honest living
Gotta be honest, pumpkins where a clear devolution.
As a kid trick-or-treating in 1980s’ N. Ireland, we used turnips. Carving those fuckers was an insanely dangerous and difficult thing for a child to do. They’re rock solid all the way through. Brutal. And ugly as fuck, which is at least in keeping with the spirit of things!
If you don’t wanna read Irish Central and have 20TB of cookies stored on your system, the Wikipedia article is better:
Turnip for what?
Also doing the Apple News crossword this morning are we
I had heard that it was part of the Samhain celebration. They carved gourds and placed candles in them to ward off spirits during that time.
Average wealthy white kid in their early 20s and a backpack full of dreams
I prefer Paddy O’Lantern
