So this is slightly weird …

I bought this pumpkin a week before Halloween.  It is now January 5.  It’s as firm as the day I bought it, without a hint of rot.  That’s got to be some kind of record, right?

I’m tempted to think it was chemically treated somehow by the seller.  But I bought another pumpkin from the same batch that soured pretty predictably.  It had to go out on the porch after a couple of weeks.  (Come to think of it … I don’t actually remember putting that one in the garbage pails.  Did a raccoon carry it off?)