How dedicated I am vs. Waste: Nauseating squash.

Like over a year ago, back when my one hippie friend from Michigan was doing a lot of volunteer work with this one socialist group, she'd get free bags of half-rotting produce that they'd scavenged from wholesale distributors in the city, and occasionally she'd give some produce to me.

One of those pieces of produce was a squash, oddly okay and not half-rotting.

It sat on top of my fridge for over a year, and though there were a few new blemishes that appeared on it, it never seemed to quite start rotting.

So, when I was on my multi-week cleaning binge the other week, I finally decided to cook the squash up, and halved it, scooped out its (dry) guts, threw some butter on it, and put it in the oven to cook.

By the time it was ready, I was ready for bed, so I let it cool overnight and then threw it in the fridge in the morning.

A few days later, I microwaved it and scraped out the flesh with a grapefruit spoon.

It was very pumpkin-y, and I had to put a lot of salt and pepper on it to disguise the taste.

By the end of it, I could barely get a spoonful down.

The things I do for the environment.