dsi1 > wrote:
> 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.
>

Youre probably right. I wont argue that fresh is better than canned
pumpkin anyway because I like the canned pumpkin just fine in pies. I no
longer make pies myself because I cant eat more than a bite anyway.