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On Oct 7, 5:14=A0pm, JMF <j...@favaro.net> wrote:
> On 10/7/2012 23:44, Curmudgeon wrote:
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> >> On 10/7/2012 8:02 AM, Curmudgeon wrote:
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> >>> I'm afraid we part company on this one - IMO pumpkin pie is not worth
> >>> making, either from scratch or from a can, or even getting one
> >>> pre-baked or ordering a piece at a restaurant. If PP did not exist
> >>> there would be no reason to create it! =A0;^)
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> >> You're the first guy that I've ever heard say that! Most of us have de=
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> >> associations that we acquired at an early age of home and the holiday
> >> season buried deep within our brains. It's the ultimate comfort food!
> >> You better change your name to Scrooge - just kidding. :-)
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> >> OTOH, I remember the great pumpkin shortage way back in the year 2011.
> >> In those dark days, we couldn't get no pumpkin pie and had to make do
> >> with pies made from sweet potato flavored like pumpkin pie. The weird
> >> thing is I couldn't tell the difference between the two. My guess is
> >> that you could add cinnamon, cloves, ginger, and nutmeg to practically
> >> anything and it would taste like pumpkin pie.
> > I do have deep associations - my grandmother used to make (from
> > scratch) both pumpkin and mincemeat pies at the holidays, and neither
> > I nor any of my 4 siblings liked it. Fortunately, it was covered with
> > deep drifts of homemade whipped cream, so it wasn't a total loss. We
> > just stopped eating when we reached the bottom of the first layer.
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> Here in Italy, they are amazed that we Americans use pumpkin to make
> sweet dishes. They know it almost exclusively in savory dishes -- like
> ravioli with pumpkin. It's absolutely foreign to them to see it used in
> a sweet dish.

Here, pumpkin is used once per year in honor of Squanto. It is baked
into a sweet pie, and ritually passed around the table on the last
Thursday of November. It is then stored in the refrigerator until
Christmas. Then we throw it in the trash to make room for the fruit
cake