On Tue, 9 Apr 2019 14:17:36 -0700 (PDT), dsi1 >
wrote:

>On Tuesday, April 9, 2019 at 11:06:26 AM UTC-10, Bruce wrote:
>> On Tue, 9 Apr 2019 13:35:53 -0700 (PDT), dsi1 >
>> wrote:
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>> >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:
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>> >> >> I've had very nice pumpkin dips.
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>> >> >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.
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>> I guess that's because they use the canned version, as Ed says.
>> Although you'd think fresh pumpkins last from late October to
>> Christmas easily.
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>I have made pie out of fresh pumpkins. You think how great it's all going to be and then it turns out watery, stringy, and just plain weird. I would never try that again.

This may be the only case where canning improves the product then.

>Fresh pumpkins don't last very long - probably because we like to cut holes in them for Halloween.

lol