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That turkey looks good!

Did you know that pumpkin pie and pumpkin flavoring is not really pumpkin? It is squash. Real pumpkin tastes horrible, so everyone in the food industry uses squash instead.

That turkey looks good!

Did you know that pumpkin pie and pumpkin flavoring is not really pumpkin? It is squash. Real pumpkin tastes horrible, so everyone in the food industry uses squash instead.

Khajiit doesn’t consume anything with the word “pumpkin” in it. Pumpkins are for carving jack o’lanterns at Halloween, not for making pies or spicing and putting in your late. Subbie’s fun fact about squash standing in for pumpkin proves this!

Well, I'm enjoying a wonderful slice of pumpkin squash pie with coffee this morning. Just thankful I don't have any beaver butt ice cream in the freezer.

Happy Thanksgiving to all! Like mALX, I'm very thankful for the wonderful friends that grace Chorrol.

So, speaking of squash and such... Americans tend to call those round orange jack o lantern things pumpkin and most everything else in the same family squash of one sort or another. Mrs Acadian, being an Australian, informs me that down under, there is a particular small vegetable they call pumpkin. Everything else in the same family there is generically called pumpkin. So when she buys acorn, butternut or various types of squash here, they are all pumpkin to her. Who knew the pumpkinology was so vexing?

It's all a conspiracy by Big Pumpkin. They don't want us to know The Truth...

Most interesting. I wonder how long this (about Pumpkin Pie) has been true? My mom made pumpkin pie for T-day, and possibly a few other times during the year, when I was a lad. My first thought is that she used real pumpkin back then (1950s/60s). But I might well be wrong. Also, what happened back before canned food was a thing? Did they use real fresh squash even then, and for some reason call it pumpkin?

*snip*
I had real pumpkin pie from one of those when I was young, and wanted to spit it out it was so awful. Of course that was just me, everyone else seemed to like it. I am a picky eater. I don't like onions either.

Of course technically pumpkins are squash. They are part of the same family. I think that is why they can get away with substituting butternut squash or whatever type they actually use for pumpkin flavor these days.

Another flavor horror: Vanilla flavoring is not made from vanilla beans anymore. It is beaver anal gland extract. Just remember that they next time you are eating vanilla ice cream. It is really beaver butt juice ice cream.
*snip*

It's all a conspiracy by Big Pumpkin. They don't want us to know The Truth...