Making them eat all those pumpkins is pretty unpleasant punishment. Field pumpkins of the sort used for carving are bred for aesthetics, size, and shelf life; they're frankly terrible as culinary pumpkins, as anyone who has ever tried to DIY a pumpkin pie out of a standard grocery store Jack O'Lantern pumpkin has likely learned to their great disappointment. They're usually flavorless at best, hollow, fibrous, and in some varieties even the seeds are bitter and unpleasant-tasting. Having to chew through a mountain of them would be a pretty awful experience, and if you were really concerned about wasting the flesh of your decorative gourds you should really be canning it, not nomming it in a marathon dining session like you're trying to train to beat Joey Chestnut.
Anyway, if you're eating a pumpkin you should get a pumpkin bred to be eaten and not one bred to be stabbed by an elementary schooler for a ritualistic arts and crafts project then forgotten on your front porch until it rots. Sucks for the foxgirl, miko, and chuuni that chuuni's mom didn't know that.