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.

They are here at Thanksgiving. Christmas is a bit off the main season
but I think I have seen them then.

Remember, what you see for sale in Hawaii, is not representative of the
mainland.