In article >,
Julia Altshuler > wrote:

> jmcquown wrote:
> >
> > 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.
>
>
> Around here, they're unavoidable. Supermarkets have big displays of
> them. Even smaller stores have them piled up in big boxes. They get
> carved for Halloween, but if you're not into that, they still turn up
> everywhere as holiday decorations as you describe-- pumpkin, decorative
> gourd, and some corn. Pumpkins are the cheap food this time of year.
> They sell for pennies, are easily cooked, and feed a crowd.
>
>
> --Lia

They make good mash, soups and pies!
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