On Wednesday, April 10, 2019 at 4:02:31 PM UTC-10, Jinx the Minx wrote:
> 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.

I could indeed make a pie from a Jack-o-lantern pumpkin and it would be okay. What I did learn from my little experiment was that it's not worth the trouble to cook up a squash and process it to make a pie.