On Tuesday, April 9, 2019 at 5:27:06 PM UTC-10, Jinx the Minx wrote:
> 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.

That fact has been stated here a bajillion times for at least a decade. It would be rather hard to miss. You must really be jinxed.

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