The Colour Orange

Pumpkins, pumpkins, pumpkins everywhere! Have you noticed it too?
It’s a vegetable that’s easier to grow then other vegetables and once it’s harvested it’s able to be stored for months. This leads to an over supply of pumpkins and low prices – 68 cents per Kg – what a bargain! Yet I don’t see many people buying them. So what’s happening to all the pumpkins??

There’s a special time of year when the world gets crazy. Monsters and ghosts rise from their hiding places to walk the streets. Children run wild screaming. People give out free lollies to keep the terrors at bay. The town is painted Orange and Black with fake spider webs and blood. October 31st – Halloween.

An eventful day in the calendar where consumers have been brainwashed into spending. I blame the farmers or rather I congratulate them. They’ve devised a plan – a day – a mindset – an event that tells consumers they need PUMPKINS. They need to hollow them out and cut menacing faces into them. They need to buy more and more pumpkins regardless of the inflated prices. For it keeps the terrors away. The one day in the year where the unthinkables of the world walk the streets to prey on us – for lollies. And our only defense? – A pumpkin.

I blame the farmers for not spinning the story more to get it recognised as a public holiday.