"Nancy Young" > wrote in message
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> Today we took a sight seeing ride up north jersey, not that the
> leaves are changing or anything. Bad summer. Among other
> things, we stopped at this farmers market to get some apples
> and whatever else caught my eye.
> Aha, a nice gooseneck gourd, they amuse me and they make
> a cute fall decoration. The cashier admired the gourd and we made a
> couple of comments about them, then she told me that last
> week, a Chinese couple came in. They'd bought one of those
> gourds and it tasted horrible, they wanted their money back!
>
> That just struck me as funny. You're not supposed to eat them!
> Go find a squash! I didn't find out if they returned their money.
> Even if it was edible, I thought $5 was a lot to pay if I did think it
> was some squash. They are very light.

I always wondered if you could eat them, but looking on the Internet showed
that you could not. We used to grow them when I was a kid but I always
wondered why. I've seen them made into things like birdhouses and ladles
but we never did that.