What is this?

@TheHorse (238268)
Walnut Creek, California
July 19, 2016 8:24pm CST
OK, for this evening's post I'm going to show you a photograph and ask you what it is. Your task is to do nothing, say it's disgusting, be literal, or be creative. I took this photograph last Friday.
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20 responses
Reine25
@Lucky15 (37391)
• Philippines
20 Jul 16
Zucchini? Yellow oblong squash? Butternut squash
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The Horse
@TheHorse (238268)
• Walnut Creek, California
20 Jul 16
I just took a sip of Scotch, and it looks like a banana slug kissing a garlic clove.
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The Horse
@TheHorse (238268)
• Walnut Creek, California
20 Jul 16
@Lucky15 Does it sing "I Hope You Dance"? No, wait. That's "Little Mermaid 2."
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Reine25
@Lucky15 (37391)
• Philippines
20 Jul 16
@TheHorse i try.to close a part of my eyes...i am seeing that peacock in kung fu panda 2
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (381760)
• Rockingham, Australia
20 Jul 16
More importantly, do YOU know it is? I think it is a squash or gourd of some sort.
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The Horse
@TheHorse (238268)
• Walnut Creek, California
20 Jul 16
I'm worried that it may be alien. What is a "triffid"? I've heard the word but don't know what it means.
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (381760)
• Rockingham, Australia
20 Jul 16
@TheHorse Just act normal. Forget to water it.
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vanny
@vandana7 (102698)
• India
20 Jul 16
@JudyEv .. So you are the gang leader...and Pony obeys you?
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sofs
@sofssu (23660)
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20 Jul 16
An unfertilized summer squash female flower.. or maybe an alien flower that eats up humans who post them.
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vanny
@vandana7 (102698)
• India
21 Jul 16
He survived. So it is not an alien that eats up humans for sure...
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sofs
@sofssu (23660)
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21 Jul 16
@vandana7 I like that.. Would have been sad if 'The Horse' did not!
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The Horse
@TheHorse (238268)
• Walnut Creek, California
20 Jul 16
I think both suggestions have merit. I'll see how they're doing tomorrow and report bac...aargh...umph...glub.
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Jekca
@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
20 Jul 16
I was going to say seed pod, but let's go with Poison Ivy's newest flower bomb.
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Jekca
@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
22 Jul 16
@TheHorse that is apt and terrifying at the same time
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The Horse
@TheHorse (238268)
• Walnut Creek, California
20 Jul 16
Oh, that would be interesting! Perhaps they grow legs and can invade your house, leading to itchy families everywhere.
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The Horse
@TheHorse (238268)
• Walnut Creek, California
20 Jul 16
Oh, that would be interesting! Perhaps they grow legs and can invade your house, leading to itchy families everywhere.
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crazyhorseladycx
@crazyhorseladycx (39503)
• United States
20 Jul 16
ah, one'f my favs! i adore yellow squash any way such can be fixed...'r jest eaten right off the vine when young, sweet'n crunchy :)
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ARM
@responsiveme (22923)
• India
20 Jul 16
A baldy with a beard. Those tests are scary, our friends who were majoring in psychology would catch us and take us to the lab and use us in their experiments.....then they would come up with all sorts of things you never knew you had inside you The bonus was the dept would give us food coupons..."guinea pigs" being fed
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The Horse
@TheHorse (238268)
• Walnut Creek, California
20 Jul 16
You can call me anything you want if you give me food.
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Anna
@LadyDuck (502148)
• Italy
20 Jul 16
It looks like a zucchini, or a squash at a very early stage. What a shame the flower is gone, they are delicious battered and fried. I plant zucchini just for the flowers.
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Anna
@LadyDuck (502148)
• Italy
21 Jul 16
@TheHorse I think you can munch it without cooking, I have seen the flowers added to salads.
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The Horse
@TheHorse (238268)
• Walnut Creek, California
20 Jul 16
Interesting! I hadnt realized you could eat the flowers. Can I munch one without cooking it? I have a few yellow squash plants growing right now.
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Jabo
@jaboUK (64346)
• United Kingdom
20 Jul 16
It looks like what we would call a marrow, but I'm not sure.
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The Horse
@TheHorse (238268)
• Walnut Creek, California
20 Jul 16
What's a marrow related to? Here we call them (what I've planted) yellow squash.
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Jabo
@jaboUK (64346)
• United Kingdom
20 Jul 16
@TheHorse I just looked it up and it's a courgette which has been left to grow.
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Lenore Plassman
@sallypup (69157)
• Centralia, Washington
20 Jul 16
Yellow summer squash. A baby summer squash.
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Lenore Plassman
@sallypup (69157)
• Centralia, Washington
20 Jul 16
@TheHorse Oh wait. I just put my glasses on. Its a yellow purple people eater.
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The Horse
@TheHorse (238268)
• Walnut Creek, California
20 Jul 16
Shhhhhhh.
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James Higgins
@JamesHxstatic (29410)
• Eugene, Oregon
20 Jul 16
Oh yes, that tasty squash I like a lot!
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The Horse
@TheHorse (238268)
• Walnut Creek, California
20 Jul 16
I hope we get to harvest some. I have three plants going at Ground Squirrel Gardens and one nice one at the preschool.
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S George
@shshiju (10342)
• Cochin, India
21 Jul 16
Pumpkin flower
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The Horse
@TheHorse (238268)
• Walnut Creek, California
21 Jul 16
Very similar! Mine are yellow squash of some sort.
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ElizabethWallace
@ElizabethWallace (12069)
• United States
20 Jul 16
Crookneck squash, of course. Yummy
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Valerie J. Routhieaux
@just4him (323168)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
20 Jul 16
It's a yellow squash that is forming very nicely and your garden police will not have any trouble with you on that one. Well done!
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Bella
@Bella128 (2471)
• United States
20 Jul 16
It looks like a squash that still needs a lot of growing!
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The Horse
@TheHorse (238268)
• Walnut Creek, California
20 Jul 16
Yeppers, baby yellow squash.
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patgalca
@patgalca (18481)
• Orangeville, Ontario
20 Jul 16
I see a wilting flower on the end of it. I didn't think it was a vegetable but the stem of a flower.
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ElizabethWallace
@ElizabethWallace (12069)
• United States
20 Jul 16
Squash plants flower, then a bulb (the squash) forms and grows. This one is a baby still.
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vanny
@vandana7 (102698)
• India
20 Jul 16
It is gourd of some sorts... Creative? hmmm... Ok..mace of Lord Hanuman.
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Juliaacv
@Juliaacv (56195)
• Canada
21 Jul 16
That is a viney plant, perhaps a pumpkin, squash plant. Will you reply and let me know if I was close?
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DE
@DaddyEvil (174208)
• United States
30 Jul 16
@TheHorse is still gone on his vacation, so I will tell you it is a baby crooked neck squash, Julia. You were very close to the correct answer!
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DE
@DaddyEvil (174208)
• United States
30 Jul 16
Okay, pony.... You have been gone too long...... Take my word for it, okay? Believe me, you don't want to know what I wrote here, then erased and wrote this response instead!
Marsha
@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
21 Jul 16
Although I've never grown these, I've eaten a lot of them for breakfast. It looks to me like summer squash which is similar in taste to a zucchini.
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Sophie
@SophieY (891)
• South Africa
27 Jul 16
its a pumpkin wilted flower - I think
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