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I am still holding on to an Atlantic Giant pumpkin. It's not what you would call show worthy, it's only 8 kg, or 16 lb! But It grieves me to have it sitting around in the cellar - is it actually edible? Or worth eating is maybe the term. I heard if they are about a foot wide then they are Ok to eat. I would like to cut it up and give slices away but I don't want to give away tasteless c**p.

What do you squash eaters think?

While living in Gibraltar, each greengrocer had a huge pumpkin in the shop and all the customers were given a piece to give texture to the soups.     Cheers,    Tony.

Yep..I did eat mine last year and it was perfectly good...and mine was about same size as yours.
I made mine into puree and used it as pie filling and some amount that puree I mixed with lemon curd..it was really yummy desert like sauce ..almost apricot like flavour..to go with ice cream or greek yogurt. I still have one pot in freezer to finished off... ;D
On its own it is rather bland so it needs 'beefing' up with something else to give it a bit of 'kick'. I think I did have some mashed with potato too..it was ok..

Soup... esp with chilli :)

Of course the obvious answer would be "taste it"! But once it's cut, if I want to give it away, it's got to be done quickly.
Wondering if roasted it would be OK, if it gives some water, maybe it would evaporate in the oven?  Or mashed, if you steam it and let it drain after mashing... (love love love mashed pumpkin, esp butternuts)

We give our massive ones to a local Sikh temple and have never had any complaints.  I wouldn't bother eating them myself because I find them to be watery and tasteless but maybe they are ok in curry.  If you like curry.

On its own it is too watery for making mash...it don't roast neither..it just goes into sloppy mess..so yes..soup is good one..

Ok I will tell everyone that I am giving away a soup pumpkin then :)

I blend anything like that and use it as soup base.