Tigsnona wrote:

Our dinner was similar. I used fresh cranberries for some great
sauce, but I used canned pumpkin for my pies.


Why would anyone can pumpkin? And if so, who would buy it?

You seem to think that your ignorant and incurious behavior should be
the standard for everyone. Let me answer your questions. People would
can pumpkin because it can be canned. It saves work of peeling,
seeding, cooking and pureeing it for culinary use. Who would buy it
are wise people who recognize good food and don't have prejudices
predicated on ignorance, general stupidity and an intransigent mindset
stemming from a profound xenophobia and limited intelligence.

Where I came from in England pumpkin was never available as a
vegetable or anything else. It was grown as winter food for cattle.

Where you come from in England is hardly to be considered a culinary
standard for any civilized kitchen. I ate every single good dish that
wasn't a uniform gray in all of English cuisine one Wednesday between
lunch and supper.

The fact that you and your neighbors *only* used it for animal food
shows the depth of your ignorance about food. The fact that you strut
your pride about knowing virtually nothing about food is finally the
beginning and end of the story for you.

Whether or not English people now eat pumpkin or not I cannot say. I
certainly never have.

And you're the less for it. The vacuum of your culinary knowledge is
inspiring to us all. And, as all good vacuums, it sucks.

However, it seems to be almost a staple in the
USA. Perhaps they feed their cattle something else in winter.

We feed cattle crisp new dollar bills because we have so many of them.

As for pumpkins, they're a new world food. You Brits still haven't
gotten over being outdone by the Spanish, Portuguese and French in the
new world. Hell, Luxembourg probably could have done it if they even
bothered to try. And to get thrown out of what turned out to be a
spectacular colony because the king was a bumbling fool who sent
incompetent and bumbling military people to fight a lost battle. Well,
one can understand your pique and dissatisfaction with the US. One
humiliation after another for you and, of course, it would rankle. And
then to be outdone in every single index of economic, technological,
scientific, industrial, athletic and every other measure of success.
One can certainly appreciate your distress at such onerous weight
being put upon you. Shithead.

EOFS

Pastorio