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On Friday, April 12, 2019 at 10:30:19 AM UTC-10, cshenk wrote:
> dsi1 wrote:
>
> > On Thursday, April 11, 2019 at 1:52:55 PM UTC-10, cshenk wrote:
> >
> > > I am talking use of pumpkins which you deleted from your reply.
> > > Pumpkin is a specific orange squash (and sweet potatoes are
> > > unrelated tubers).

> >
> > So you're talking about it. What's it gotta do with me?

>
> You deliberately deleted the relevant information then replied wrongly
> without it as a reference.


I have no idea what "relevant information" you are squawking about. You could have taken action and quoted the part that's so important. My guess is that you prefer to bitch and moan rather than taking care of what needs to be taken care of. I quote my previous post and maybe you can make an effort to give me a clue about this matter - or you can just continue to act like a batty old witch:



On Wednesday, April 10, 2019 at 1:03:09 PM UTC-10, cshenk wrote:
> dsi1 wrote:
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> > 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.

>
> They are here at Thanksgiving. Christmas is a bit off the main season
> but I think I have seen them then.
>
> Remember, what you see for sale in Hawaii, is not representative of the
> mainland.