On 10/29/2014 12:18 AM, sf wrote:
>
> Without reading what the label clearly said what was inside, I grabbed
> a bag of precut vegetables that looked like the butternut squash that
> I usually buy. It turned out to be pumpkin, "sugar" pumpkin to be
> specific. I decided that since I see so many UK recipes that call for
> an unspecified "pumpkin", I would soldier on. News flash: Sugar
> pumpkin turned out to be anything but sweet. OMG, it was truly awful!
>
(snippage)

I thought the term "sugar pumpkin" simply referred to smaller pumpkins
more commonly used in cooking? This would be opposed to the larger,
stringy, decorative Jack-o-Lantern type pumpkins. (No need for anyone
to get into specific genus. I'm not a gardener.)

Jill