C'est la Vie by Jennifer Babcock for December 03, 2022

Americans would try to eat anything. Amazing…

An eggplant, I think. Excellent when properly prepared, but Mona and Donna might as well forget it.

My opinion the best way to eat squash is slices, sautéed, baked for 1 hour then put it in the dog’s dish.

Bake, butter, slice, sprinkle with cinnamon sugar.

Looks like Butternut squash to me. Very popular in New England, but I’m not sure about the rest of the country.

[ M. Smokey’s lewd, chauvinistic comment has been redacted. —The Editors ]

Squash soup!

If that’s a butternut (based on shape), she’s lucky all her teeth are still in place.

Best to bake them in the skin because it is a pain to remove. Even if you don’t bake all the way, put it in long enough to loosen it, scoop it like an avocado, then do your soup or puree or other non-chunky version. Personally, it’s great baked with some brown sugar, cinnamon and butter, with a bit of fresh nutmeg grated on just before it’s done.

Donna’s toothy rebuttal squashes the theory that this squash is edible raw. And pizza is always a viable option for a tasty alternative! Go for the pizza, girls!