What the Living Hell???

​TODAY WE WILL PLAY: WHAT IS THESE VEGETABLES?

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​THESE ARE ROMA TOMATOES. THEY ARE DOING WELL. NEED A TRIM, BUT SUCH IS LIFE.

​THIS IS A CHEROKEE PURPLE HEIRLOOM TOMATO. DOING QUITE WELL.
​DON'T WANT TO SPRAY FOR BUGGIES, BUT MAY HAVE TO SPRAY. 
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​THESE ARE JOAN CRAWFORD AND MERCEDES MCCAMBRIDGE BOTH FURIOUSLY OVERACTING IN THE 50'S WESTERN, "JOHNNY GUITAR."
​(I OFFER THIS MERELY AS AN EXAMPLE OF HOW I CAN STILL TELL THINGS APART, DESPITE MY ADVANCED AGE, RIGHT DOWN TO THE FACT THAT JOAN HAD ALL HER CLOSEUPS SHOT BACK AT THE STUDIO TO CONTROL HER LIGHTING AND MAKEUP, WHILE MERCEDES HAD HAD TO HAVE HERS SHOT ON LOCATION. BIT OF A JARRING EFFECT, BUT THE MOVIE IS SO DAMNED WEIRD YOU JUST GO WITH IT.)
​(ADDED NOTE: THE CREW WOULD APPLAUD MERECEDES' SCENES OF OVER THE TOP HISTORONICS JUST TO PISS JOAN OFF. AND JOAN WAS PISSED. JUST LOOK AT THAT LEFT EYEBROW!)

​OKAY, NOW WE COME TO THE MEAT OF TODAY'S PONDERINGS:

​WHAT IS THIS VEGETABLE?

​IT IS SUPPOSED TO BE AN ACORN SQUASH. IT WAS GROWN FROM OUR ACORN SQUASH SEEDS.  AT LEAST I THOUGHT IT WAS. BUT IT DOES NOT LOOK LIKE AN ACORN SQUASH.
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​IN POINT OF FACT, THIS PLANT, AS WELL AS HIS BRETHEREN AND SISTEREN, LOOK A LOT LIKE ZUCCHINI. AND ONLY ONE PERSON IN THE HOUSE LIKES ZUCCHINI, AND THAT IS BECKY.
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​​THEN AGAIN, I'VE NEVER SEEN A ZUCCHINI WITH RIDGES LIKE THIS -- RUFFLES HAVE RIDGES, AS DO ACORN SQUASH, BUT I'VE NEVER SEEN A ZUCCHINI THIS SIZE WITH RIDGES. 
​I'VE NEVER SEEN A ZUCCHINI ANY SIZE WITH RIDGES.
​IF I HAD MY WAY ABOUT IT, I'D NEVER SEE A ZUCCHINI.
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​THIS IS A CUCUMBER. IT IS NOT A ZUCCHINI, EVEN THOUGH ZUCCHINI'S OFTEN TRY TO PASS THEMSELVES OFF AS CUCUMBERS AT GROCERY STORES AND FARMER'S MARKETS. 
​KNOW YOUR CUCUMBERS!!
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THIS TOO, IS A CUCUMBER.
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​BUT THIS ... THIS I JUST PLAIN DON'T KNOW.
​CUTTING INTO ONE TONIGHT TO FIND OUT.

​BOTH FURIOUS AND BITTERMAN ARE CONVINCED WE HAVE A STRANGE ACORN SQUASH HYBRID.
​(I HATE IT WHEN FURIOUS DOES THAT WITH HIS EYELIDS, CREEPS ME OUT.) 
MR. BITTERMAN HAS VOLUNTEERED TO BE THE TASTER THIS AFTERNOON.
THE QUESTION SHOULD BE SETTLED BY DINNER TIME.
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