Showerthought: My neighbor Sal said never put beer in a pumpkin, and now my porch smells like a bar at 7am
Sal, who has grown 200 pound pumpkins in his yard in Modesto for 20 years, told me to skip the beer and just use a bleach wipe on the inside of my carved pumpkin. I ignored him and poured half a can of cheap lager in there, and by day 3 the whole thing slumped into a brown mess with three slugs living in it. What do you all use to keep carved pumpkins from turning to mush, or is Sal just right?