Types Of Squash And What They Mean To Us All

Turban Squash

She's beauty, she's grace, she's Mrs. United Turban Squash.

This beautiful and most amazing squash pictured above is the Turban squash. It is truly amazing in the vibrancy of it's colors and patterns, to the beauty of it's odd shape.

This squash also known as the "Turk's Turban" or the "French Turban" is actually quite closely related to the butternut squash. They are both cultivated from Cucurbita maxima. It gets to around 6 pounds  and are not the best for eating.

They do not taste good and have a horrible texture. It's like that one hot person at your school who was such a horrible and unintelligent despite their amazing looks. Like seriously this tastes like trash.

This squash is from the northeastern United States.  This is not important, but just some back story for this particular squash.  It comes in a variety of beautiful squashy colors. This coloring comes from it being an ornamental squash. This explain it's bad taste, even though since it's creation selective breeding has improved it's taste.

Turban Squashes are a good craft squash because of their odd shape. For a good summer or fall activity gather these materials: hot glue gun, hot glue sticks, tape, lighter, scissors, construction paper, glitter, pipe cleaners, and googly eyes. First take two turban squashes and hot glue them together, where doesn't matter.  Then around where you glued the two squashes together glue pipe cleaners. At the ends of the pipe cleaners glue glitter and 158 googly eyes. then on the edges of the squashes glue pipe cleaners to act as legs. At the bottoms of these legs bend the pipe cleaners into feet. Now the final step is to cut a hole into the top of the turban squashes and fill then with strips of construction paper. Finally set that paper on fire. Now you have your own box. Good job.

Sometimes I think, "why am I doing this?" and, "what is my life?". I still do not have an answer for that question. Do you ever just think about how your life sucks and the only consistent and untainted thing in your life is a book about squash? My friends ditched me, my parents are fighting, my room is so small, and weird things are always happening that are in-explainable except for someone having a personal vendetta against me. I become constantly obsessed with something or another and these obsessions destroy my life. I just can't bro, I just can't.

Anyway... Back to the squash.

The Turban squash is interesting because you never see it, until you see it. By this I mean that I had thought I had never really seen turban squash before in a normal place. Then after doing research and paying attention to my surroundings I have seen them in everyday life. I was in the grocery store and happened to be in the vegetable section. I was looking for ginger, but instead I found an entire vat full of turban squash.

This experience made me really think about my priorities in life and what I need to do to be a better person.

A turban squash can be medicinal. This a fact that I recently learned, from an non-peer reviewed source that I found online. There is a woman named Alexa who lives in Chile. She was not born there, but tries to fit in. She told me, when I met her on one of my trips, that squash turban squash is how she keeps her hair growing well. She mixes the pulp from inside of the squash with butter and cow liver plus a bit of fresh water and rubs her hair with it every day. That is why, she said, her hair is so lustrous. 

I am not quite sure that I can trust Alexa, but maybe you will. To clarify she has no hair and lives alone in the mountains. I guess she could be trust worthy, but I really wouldn't know. Visit her and figure it out for yourself. She didn't harm me. I just had a bit of a buzz after our meeting.

And now, the moment you have all been waiting for... 

What does this squash mean to you?

The shape of a turban squash is irregular and strange, yet this shape has a purpose. You knew this purpose. I, the writer, do not. You took this squash far away to your family in Turkey. They knew what to do. You opened the squash and then used the strings of it's insides to spell out the word "moreanhd". This was important to the use of the squash. You lit candles and you melted the skin of an apple onto the moreanhd. This changed the composition and turned the words backwards. I made the letters fuse and move off the ground. The sky shoot with orange thunder as the pale yellow being of string ascended. We don't know where it went, neither you nor me, but we do know that it went somewhere that no one wanted it. Somewhere that hated the likes of the moreanhds and wanted them to burn. It went as an avenging angel to save those it has never met, but instinctively knows are theirs. It will not return and it will never be happy.

Was I right or was I wrong. The world may never know, but thank you for reading this book of squash and I hope to see y'all again in the future.

Best wishes,
𝐸𝒶𝓉𝓈𝓆𝓊𝒶𝓈𝒽

P.s. remember to eat squash.