dsi1 > wrote:
> 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.
>
> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec....4/xiyg2QmWR2gJ
>

And yet, here people are, talking about how they made a pie with a damn
jack-o-lantern pumpkin. Regardless, complaints about watery and stringy
pie pumpkin just tells me the baker didnt know what the hell he was doing
to begin with.