Thursday, May 22, 2008

Calabash



I found this at the grocery store. Why haven't I seen these before?


Also known as - cucuzza squash, Italian edible gourd, bottle gourd, long fruited gourd, long melon, long squash, peh poh, woo lo kua, hu lu gua, opo squash, New Guinea bean, Tasmania bean, snake gourd, suzza melon, or zuzza. The name given to this squash in other countries include: yugao (Japanese), po gua (Cantonese), kwa kwa or hu gua (Chinese), upo (Filipino), cucuzzi (Italian), bau (Vietnamese), and dudhi or lauki (Indian)...


...in some cultures, they make penis gourds out of these!


Now that you've had your funky squash lesson for the day.... What am I supposed to do with it?

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