I blame Texas A&M

AP via CBS News:

These pumpkins look like something scared THEM.

Eerie-looking white pumpkins — naturally white, not painted — are finding their way into more and more homes this Halloween season.

The albinos are called Ghost pumpkins, Snowballs, Luminas or Caspers — presumably a reference to the friendly ghost. And the ones about the size of a baseball? Baby Boos.

White pumpkins are a little bit more expensive than their orange cousins. But parents and party planners say they are more ghoulish and offer a better canvas for drawing or painting a jack-o'-lantern face.

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Texas A&M has such an aversion to orange, the color of the rival Texas Longhorns, that they once tried to paint their radio antenna maroon instead of orange, until the FAA made them change it back. There is also the story about the attempt to make carrots maroon. Since the white pumpkins are still orange on the inside, it appears that whoever created them managed to turn them into the Longhorn road uniform.

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