On 2019-04-09 4:49 p.m., Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> On 4/9/2019 4:35 PM, dsi1 wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>
> Pumpkin pie is usually made with the canned stuff.Â* Halloween pumpkins
> are mostly used for decoration.


It will be here. I once made one from scratch. I baked the pie and
scrapped it out, pureed it and added the fixings. I thought it was
delicious. My wife objected to some stringiness in it. That was a lot of
extra work for negative feedback, so it was back to the canned stuff for me.