On Tuesday, April 9, 2019 at 10:06:28 AM UTC-10, Bruce wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Apr 2019 12:45:58 -0700 (PDT), dsi1 >
> wrote:
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> >On Tuesday, April 9, 2019 at 9:18:56 AM UTC-10, Bruce wrote:
> >>
> >> I've had very nice pumpkin dips.
> >
> >Most Americans won't have anything to do with pumpkins except eat their pumpkin pies with Cool Whip during the holidays. Beats the heck out of me what the rest of the world thinks/does about/with these large, freaky, hollow, squashes.
>
> Wait, there could be terminology confusion. When I said "pumpkin dip",
> maybe that makes Americans think of Halloween. Maybe I should have
> said "winter squash dip".

Pumpkin or squash - it doesn't really make a whole lot of difference which word you use. Oddly enough, Americans don't associate pumpkin pie with Halloween, even though a shitload of pumpkins are sold around the end of October. Americans eat pumpkin pie during Thanksgiving and Christmas. Oddly enough, pumpkins aren't typically for sale during those holidays.