Julia Altshuler wrote:
> Pictures of white pumpkins he
> http://www.johnnyseeds.com/catalog/p...in&item=2 666
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>
> Information he
> http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/...in983978.shtml
>
>
> Important point:
> "They still have orange flesh beneath the white rind."
>
Just like acorn squash, I suppose. Let a picked acorn squash sit for a
month and the formerly green rind will turn completely orange, with no ill
effects to the sweet already orange flesh on the inside

> I'm surprised to see that they're considered a new thing. I don't
> think it's my imagination. I've been seeing them in stores for a
> several years now.
>
I simply don't go looking for pumpkins. I used to do a fall display outside
my front door consisting of fun shaped gourds, a small pumpkin and a sheaf
of cornstalks. I never saw white pumpkins even then. It probably depends
on where you live. Or, as with the OP, what the store is having shipped to
them.

Jill