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.

Suggest you actually try using one. While ot optimal for pies, they
work just fine for many things. THat is why they are grown and sold.