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Alternate O'-Lanterns
Irene ruined this year's pumpkins, but she doesn't have to ruin produce-carving or Halloween entirely. For instance, here's how to make apple-o'-lanterns, watermel-o'-lanterns (swap in cantaloupes or honeydews), grape-o'-lanterns, squash-o'-lanterns (amazing), and tomat-o'-lanterns. What else? I know from experience that strawb-o'-lanterns are tricky but not impossible (use LED lights). Hard boiled egg-o'-lanterns? Banan-o'-lanterns? Mylant-o'-lanterns?!
fact: we made fruit salad-o'-lanterns one halloween. including a banana-o'-lantern.
it was another pumpkin shortage year.
@Lucia Martinez Tell me about the banan-o'-lantern, Lucia!!!
@Edith Zimmerman here is a picture, banana included. and pineapple. and sweet potato.
@Lucia Martinez OMG YAY. The pineapple!!
@Lucia Martinez I just gasped!!! That is incredible.
@Lucia Martinez The pineapple is unbelievable! But that sweet potato is pretty obscene.
@Lucia Martinez And a random woman on the Internets logged on to tell you how much the banana-o'lantern made her smile.
@Yankee Peach yay!
Can I smoke weed out of this?
Strawb-o-lanterns?! Please tell me you took pictures! Alternate o'-lanterns = coolest things ever.
Edit: What about potato-o'-lanterns? I feel like that was a traditional Irish thing? Or maybe I just made it up, I'm not sure now.
@area@twitter I've made potat'o'lanterns! It's kind of hard to get the center of the potato out, but an apple corer helps get it started.
Orange-bell-pepper-o-lanterns are a natural. A friend and I were bored one night in college, and thought pepper jackolanterns would be the rational solution to this. They kind of were!
@BlueberryFranklin YES!!!
The little apple-o-lantern (app-o-lantern?) is so cute I want to make a whole army of them.
@backstagebethy Be careful, though, because then they will come alive and eat you while you sleep.
@Ophelia: Or at least give you the runs.
@backstagebethy They'll probably look really cool as they rot.
Strawb-o-lantern souds like both a symptom and a cause of insanity.
I can't Youtube at work, but I'm pretty sure this neglects X-Entertainment.com's epic contributions to the alternolantern canon. Shrunken apple heads!
@Valley Girl X-E! I forgot about that website! Oh my god, how did I forget about Matt and his weird shrunken apple heads? He's on YOUTUBE??? The original apple head article will forever have my heart:
http://x-entertainment.com/articles/0837/
I stole this idea of another blog (now I can't remember which one) but I am particularly proud of last year's jack-o-lantern:
[IMG]http://i52.tinypic.com/acd5bt.jpg[/IMG]
@Tuna Surprise
Sigh. The internet is hard. http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=acd5bt&s=7
@Tuna Surprise hahahahhahahahaha. nice.
@Tuna Surprise Baaaaaarf! [Spoiler alert!]
True stuff – the original vegetable-object lanterns were made in Scotland and Ireland for All Souls (and whatever it was called back in pagan times) out of turnips (swedes). I used to do this as a little girl (I'm a crumbly 28 now) – and we didn't go trick-or-treating, we went 'guising' as in disguise. We had to perform a little song or poem or funky dance move at each house we went to, in return for the delicious things. Sometimes in return for boxes of raisins. We didn't go back to those houses.
For those who want to attempt authentic, old world hallowe'en, just bear in mind, turnips smell like dog farts, and take a great deal of strength to scrape out, all while emitting that smell. The discovery and importation of pumpkins was greatly appreciated.
@feartie I was just about to write about neeps as jack o lanterns! I can't imagine the wrist strength and patience involved. My husband assures me it really wasn't worth it AT ALL.
Did I already tell you guys about the one where you hollow out the pumpkin, paint on eyes and a nose, and only cut a hole for the mouth? (Okay, that sounds gross, I know. Jokes, whatever.) BUT THEN! You take the bag out of a box of wine and put it inside the pumpkin and put the spout through the mouth hole. Wine-o-lantern? DRUNK-O-LANTERN!!!
@punkahontas: Aaaah, genius. You could get one of those white pumpkins for white wine…
@laurel Now THAT would be classy!
@punkahontas DUDE I am so doing this at my halloween party! Pure class!
@punkahontas One year we took boxed wine bags (red wine) and tried to make them look like blood transfusions. Mostly we just suspended them poorly from a metal contraption that looked nothing like an IV stand. And it didn't work at all. And we we ended up just cutting a hole in a random cardboard box we found in the closet. But this! This could work!
You can always reuse your Whitney's morning sex melon-o-lantern. If you don't want to be wasteful.
@carolita WISE!
"The best time I showed my dear friend from overseas how to carve pumpkins"
challenge: accepted. i found that carving out the innards with a spoon worked nicely. tiny top hat and pumpkin ale optional! http://tinypic.com/r/20sd755/7
@onedumbbunny AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH! That is WAY too cute!!!
@wee_ramekin
The thing that made me laugh the most about this post is that the link in "Mylant-o-lantern" is just a link to the Mylanta website. But then I saw that there's a recall of Mylanta liquid products! From November 2010! Girls! Do NOT drink your Mylanta-liquid-products-o-lantern before checking this website.
Tip o' Lanterns! Turnips!
So I feel like the heading should be "Altern-o' Lanterns"? At least, that's what I keep saying in me head. Pretty catchy.
I love the idea of an apple-o-lantern because the smell of pumpkin guts is VILE. Apples smell like yummy!
qream o'lanterns? y/n/m/hy?