odd wording to call them rare and extinct in the same paragraph but still a pretty cool story. They may be rare today in that they just started growing them but if they were extinct then they were a bit past rare.
Well, this is taken from a site called ' Wimp '. LOL...
Not exactly the NYT, which would have put some reference to global warming is the reason they were extinct in the first place..
They were rare because they were man-eating squash. Whatever you do, don’t plant any! Oh, wait....