This is my 100th post after 2 years and 5 months! The last time I blogged was 33 days ago... which was last year. Chuck out the 7 posts in 2008 and you could say last year was a non-blogging period. So, this being another comeback, one might assume I'd write something... special? Umm, no. 
But what's really grand is this fine day! Today is MY BIRTHDAY and my pal Jim Caro celebrates his wedding anniversary as well as his cousin's birthday. Oh, so maybe you're wondering the post title's relation to today's festivities? Well, not much. Today, I'm going to turn you on to the humble... pumpkin. Did you know that in a botanical context, pumpkins are fruits? In botany, a fruit is the ripened ovary - together with seeds - of a flowering plant. Pumpkins have seeds inside, so pumpkins are fruits. (I know, I know. Have patience. Read on, please.)
Don't worry, "Barnyard" and "B-Cat" didn't get their kitty paws on my sister's yummy frosted Pumpkin Pocket Cookies and Pumpkin Pancakes (recipe by Martha Stewart)! They were outside in the backyard garden porch, behind the closed sliding glass door. (I prefer food photography done outdoors in natural lighting or near sunny windows.) Kitties always seem to know when I'm taking photos of food and come running, LOL.
Pumpkins... as food. You either love 'em or hate 'em! I mean... unless they're mixed with spices or sugar or salt or cream or broth, who really wants to eat a steaming pile of plain pumpkins? Not me. But by the end of this post, I'll turn you on... to pumpkins.
"Today is the greatest - Day I've ever known - Can't live for tomorrow, - Tomorrow's much too long - I'll burn my eyes out - Before I get out - I want to turn you on" 
The post title refers to the song "Today" by Smashing Pumpkins, but it's mostly about the delicious parade of pumpkin porn in this post. I axed the original title "Pumpkin Porn" after imagining the search engine traffic from weirdos with deviant sexual proclivities for gourd smut. (Did you land here via those search terms? Congrats, you're a pervert.) 
The song sounds upbeat, but the dark lyrics actually tell a tale of depression. Lead vocalist Billy Corgan wrote the song about a day in which he was having suicidal thoughts. Oh, relax. I don't mean I'm feeling sad today. OK?
Hover your mouse cursor over any image to read its description. To cycle through all thumbnails, click on first thumbnail to view the full-size image. Pumpkin goodies:
Info on the last 10 photos of pumpkin desserts, etc. above (from top row, left to right):
- B-Cat begs for my sister's soft, moist cakey Pumpkin Pocket Cookies (with cream cheese vanilla frosting) and stalks a tin box of non-frosted cookies. Yum!
- My sister's Thanksgiving Pumpkin Cheesecake Pie (pumpkinlicious!) and a steaming hearty bowl of my delicious Jamaican Pumpkin Beef Noodle Soup.
- Tim Hortons' Pumpkin Spice Tea, Pumpkin Spice Donut, and Pumpkin Spice Muffin (seasonal items, sold for a limited time last Fall). Pumpkin Ice Cream from Ed's Scoop ice cream store in Toronto (OMG, tastes like pumpkin pie)!
- My sister and I went to a mall where this cute guy (Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!) flirted with sis while she ate her first ever A&W burger (long funny story), then we went to Bailey's Farm in Caledon, Ontario (beautiful pumpkin patch).
- More photos of my sister's frosted Pumpkin Pocket Cookies! Nom nom nom!
Lastly, have you seen the PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) ad called "Veggie Love" that NBC banned from airing during this Super Bowl Sunday? Racy! It features scantily clad female models clutching, no... molesting various vegetables, promoting "STUDIES SHOW VEGETARIANS HAVE BETTER SEX. GO VEG." Oh, really? NBC e-mailed PETA a list of reasons for AD FAIL, e.g. "licking pumpkin". This video is NSFW (Not Safe for Work and Not Safe for Vegetables everywhere, LOL):
Oh yeah, did I mention that I'm going to return to writing more food porn memoirs? 
Adieu,
Massa P aka "fruity" sugar 'n spice 'n everything nice
P.S. Happy New Year & Chinese New Year! *smashes sad pumpkins of yesteryear*
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I thought that this post was about the band and then you started talking about real pumpkins. I was like... WTF?! But you actually brought up the band, yay! I play "Today" on Guitar Hero all the time!
It's been a while since I was last here in your blog. Pumpkin Cheesecake looks yum!!!
Hope you can share your pumpkin recipes. =)
Wow, those pumpkin pocket cookies look SCRUMPTIOUS! I gotta agree with you on the plain pumpkin. I've always thought that way until I actually tried the Pumpkin Pie which my Grade 8 History teacher bought for us to try. It tastes good with whipped cream.
It's all about pumpkins, eh?
Best wishes on your birthday! 
PSST!! Where are the new pics?
(Ooohh... cool! I have 30 minutes to edit my comment!)
Excellent commercial... haha, much better than Paris Hilton Burger King ad!
Excellent site you have here. I also have a food blog and was wondering if you would like to exchange links with me. If you are interested, please add my link and then leave me a comment so that I can also add a link back to your site. It will improve our Google PageRank since we have the same niche and will give us more visitors. Hope to hear from you soon.
Thanks,
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Hey fruity! It's been a while and I've moved since then. Please find my new blog URL.
Looking forward to hearing from you soon!
Oh yeah, I'm officially blog hopping.
I was surprised to see my name in your Top 100! Yep, with 12 comments makes this one 13th! I just remembered why I hate this blog. You're always blogging about food! And seeing photos of food and you writing about them makes me hungry. 
HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Oh wait, this post was made in January… which makes me super duper late. But I think I greeted you on Plurk. Or did I? Hmm, über belated happy birthday then, hahaha!
It's been 4 months. Time to update! Paging FruityOaty!
Hey fruity! It's me Pau from cursed-mushroom. LOL. I didn't see your latest comment on my dead LJ until just recently when I was looking around the archives.
Anyway, I just wanna tell you no it's not good-bye cuz I still have a Tumblr account. I just made it recently and I think I'm gonna stay there for a long long time cuz the features suit me. Haha. I'm pretty busy right now with school (I know you know cuz of Plurk) so a server like Tumblr makes things more easier for me as a blogger.
My Multiply and my other LJ are still alive so everything's doing good. Hehehe. See you @ Plurk!
Hi fruity! Thanks for the birthday greeting!
Ohh nasaan kana?! Ikaw pa naman ang idol ko sa mga blog posts! Kaya nga ginagaya narin kita! Minsa narin ako nag popost!
Fruity! I go visit Philippines!
Ikaw = ?!
Wow, congratulations! You've been out for a while, yet you made a huge comeback!
WELCOME BACK! I love the cookies and of course the cat, hahaha.
Hello! Kakagutom naman mga pictures. Just stumbled upon your blog since I saw it in one of the top blogs here in Philippines according to Alexa. Congrats on your 100th post and your traffic as well.
GAAD I HAVEN'T GOT MY DINNER YET and these stomach-grumbling pictures are what I've seen!!! LOL. Anyway, congratulations Massa P for reaching your 100th post. For one, this blog has this quality-over-quantity kind of a mantra!
And those pumpkins are huge and immensely disturbing. I mean, are they even normal like that?!
Congrats on your 100th post!
More to come… Your cats are so cute!!!
Hello Ms. Massa! First of all, I'd like to congratulate you for reaching your 100th post. Second, I'd have to say that you have a really cute cat. And third, those desserts look soooo DELISH!!!
Again, happy 100th… and may you be able to post a hundred thousand more! Heheh. Cheers!
Thank you for the birthday greeting… Very cute felines here.
Hahaha… love the kitties. One suggestion, compile your Plurks and post them at least once in a week.
And more kitty pics please. 
Love the kitty pics.
They do know when the food is out, don't they. So cute.
LOL, the cat pictures are hysterical… made better by, "She's teasing us again."
Wow, your sister can really bake and you almost starved me to death with those delicious concoctions of yours. How I wish you could send them via e-mail so that I could taste them.
BTW, the "pumpkin porn" title would have been cool, but perverts will surely plague your blog with their nasty comments out of disappointment if you did push through with the title, haha.
That's the first blog I had real fun reading, LOL. Poor cat on the 1st pic!!!
Congrats on your 100th post! I love that particular album, btw. Today and Disarm are classic 90's music.
Happy birthday, fruity! The grub you posted is making me hungry.
Although I haven't really tried anything but pumpkin soup, all that orange-y goodness is making my mouth water. Anyhow, Smashing Pumpkins is the bomb!
Hope you had a good one!
Belated Happy Birthday!
Hi ya. Belated happy birthday! Pumpkin porn… yeah, keep it coming.
I hope you had a super duper fantastic birthday with lots of presents!
I'm not a pumpkin lover, but you've got me converted. The soup looks yum. Beautiful pics!
LOL, I too did not come here through a Google search for Pumpkin Porn. Those all look deeeeelish! And I don't even like eating pumpkin!
I think PETA went a little overboard with the ad. There are a lot of kids that watch the Super Bowl including ones at our party and I'd feel a little weird watching that with all them in the room.
Happy happy happy happy birthday sweetie!!! I'd kill for those Pumpkin Pocket frosted cookies. The same goes for the to-mah-to that is actually a member of the berry family, like cranberries and blueberries.
So fruity oaty! Glad to see you back.
Hey fruity!
It's me from cursed-mushroom@LJ. I moved to public-based blogging again. Woohoo, LOL. I decided to keep my LJ for friends only. That way, every blog I have has its sole purpose. 
Anyway, here's my new URL.
Nice comeback with a very informative entry.
Squash is fruit too, but in the Philippines it is a vegetable, hehehe. Happy birthday fruity. 
100th post?! How come I have less than 100 comments? Hmm… I should find those posts I did not comment and comment on them. LOL!!! FOOD PICS! WHOO-HOO! Cute B-Cat. Where's Max? And happy b'day Aquarius girl! (When's the BBQ? LOL!)
You always have time to upgrade your blog but less time to update posts?
Happy New Year Oaty! Congratz on your 100 posts!
I like your archives in years. Which plugin are you using?
Puss Fendi
OH.MY.GOD! The pictures are indeed porn for a fattie like me, haha.
Happy B-day fruity!
Congratulations on your 100th post! May you have more to come.
Happy B-day! Again. We greeted each too much this year. LOL. Congrats on your 100th post!
I never knew sexy vegetables existed. You have enriched my life once again. LOL. BTW, I think your cats hate that you're such a (food) tease. Careful, they might jump on you one of these days.
Here's to less sad pumpkins and more of the yummier stuff.
It's okay that you don't blog that often as long as you blog and don't let your blog die.
Belated Happy Birthday to both of us! Cheers!
Food pRon lives! Ha ha
Your posts really make me hungry…
Wow ang cute ng pusa at yung cookies! Grabe naka 100 posts ka na. Congrats! Yiheeeeeeeee… Welcome back to the blogosphere!
And oh… happy 100th BIRTHDAY! Hehehe.
Oooh, I just hate you for teasing me and the cats with foodies, haha… Lots of pumpkin food, eh? Is it the new birthday food? Haha, anyway belated Happy Birthday. Have a blast!
The gist, guessing - you blog when you're happy and stay away when you're sad. Now you're smashing the sad pumpkins and replacing them with sexy ones? Huh?
WTF. I love you. And I so totally miss your head-scratching posts.
I really enjoyed this post! You're so mean teasing the cats with all that food. Good thing they didn't drool! Will wait for your future "food porn post"!
Thanks for the greetings. The celebration went well, we all had a blast. I guess my cousin also did, I hope.
Wow! 100th post! And boy, I'm looking forward to your food porn posts.
PUMPKIN PIMP!
PUMPKIN PIMP! 
PUMPKIN PIMP!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! Congrats on your 100th post, SLACKER!
I'm turned on by tomatoes. Would you write about tomatoes? Tomatoes are fruits!
Wow. That's a pumpkin feast.
Yummy. You can celebrate early Halloween. 
Thanks for the shout-out.
Pumpkins look strange without faces carved into them. Happy birthday!
LOL, I actually looked up "pumpkinporn" to find this. Not because I'm a perv but that's my YouTube channel name.
Happeh birthday, though that was yesterday. I have my eyes on your sis's Thanksgiving Pumpkin Cheesecake Pie.
Your post actually sounds like a longer version of your Plurks.
Happy birthday fruity! I did not get here through "pumpkin porn" in Google; I just followed an announcement you made on Plurk.