In my mind's eye there's Qiviut chasing down squirrels and crows with a baseball bat sized cucuzza.
I made cucuzzoodles with my cranky zoodle thingie today. Because the cucuzza is softer in the middle, and has lots of seeds the entire length.. they didn't work as good as a trombetta in which the long neck has no seeds.
I did some of the noodle shaped cucuzza, but most I diced so I can do that Italian stew.
I gave some of the noodle thingies to my gunsmith, and he was going to try them on a pizza..I would not have thought of doing that with them.
The Trombetta necks are really ‘quality’ squash - I’ve gotten so I cut the bottom rounded part off and just use the necks. The Cucuzza definitely has more of a seed issue - my baseball bat sized one was really too big - should harvest them smaller (assuming I ever get another one - two ‘babies’ have appeared, one bloomed, but not sure if it was pollinated).
You would have gotten a laugh seeing me chase that squirrel who was doing his best to make off with a very large tomato. He was a ‘cheeky’ fellow .... dropped it, overran it a bit, came back and picked it up again! Once he got in the apple tree, he immediately started eating green apples - I didn’t scare him at all. The squirrels we get are truly ‘wild’ ones that filter up from the woods - generally, if they see you, they’re gone in a hurry. This one .... must have been hanging out at a neighbor’s bird feeder or something because he didn’t run when I walked by - just kept munching that apple. I’ll see if I can post you a picture - got a pretty good one of him.