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