24 November 2022
Today is the second pumpkin festival of the year that celebrates this cultivar of the New World squash Cucurbita pepo. On Halloween we carve pumpkins. On Thanksgiving we eat them.
I am very fond of pumpkin pie. It’s a good excuse to eat lots of whipped cream.
Happy Thanksgiving!
(photos from Wikimedia Commons; click on the captions to see the originals)
Happy Thanksgiving, Kate, to you and yours! Yummy looking pumpkin pie, and agree about the whipped cream.
I hope you and your husband had a wonderful Thanksgiving, Kate.
Thank you!
Happy Thanksgiving Kate!
In the northwest of England we’d carve turnips (rutabagas) instead of pumpkins. And only recently learnt the history behind this:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/when-people-carved-turnips-instead-of-pumpkins-for-halloween-180978922/
Way cool! I found this information about it in 2016: https://www.birdsoutsidemywindow.org/2016/10/31/whats-this-thing-about-pumpkins/