Coles had stock of the Jack O Lantern Pumpkins for Halloween priced at $2.90/kg, later reduced to $2.00/kg and I would have expected them to get rid of them by then as they are not fit for eating.
The photo of the price label has the promotion expiry date of 31/10 in the bottom right hand corner and the photo of the display shows plenty of stock remaining.
Both photos were taken on 05.11.2019.
An uncarved pumpkin is good for 8-12 weeks. Turn it into a jack-o-lantern (eg carved) and you have about a week before it rots.
But what is the point of buying one after Halloween?
The supermarkets very quickly dump their leftover Xmas and Easter stocks, especially the perishable ones and our local Woollies and Supa IGA certainly got rid of their pumpkins very promptly.
They make really fine pumpkin pies for one thing! And they can also be roasted as another example, and that page has some links to a few other ‘American pumpkin’ creations.
Coles must have been hoping for a massive surge in the home cooked pumpkin pie market.
When we eat pumpkin, it is roasted, and I buy Jarradale pumpkin from our local Supa IGA.
American pumpkin, recognised as a jack-o-lantern pumpkin in many places, is a quite different thing than butternut, kent, and so on pumpkin we are accustomed to. They are rarely if ever interchangeable in any recipe.
FWIW Americans call ‘our’ pumpkins ‘squash’ and the jack-o-lantern pumpkin is ‘pumpkin’.
