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Default Canned pumpkin shortage?

On 2016-04-03 7:24 PM, Je�us wrote:

> Just did some googling, and there are many results where Australians
> are asking where it can be bought. So it's a fairly exotic item here.
> Then there is the small matter of definitions of 'pumpkin', because I
> know what we call 'butternut pumpkins' you guys call it 'squash', for
> example. Pumpkin pie also sounds strange to us too


What Australians and New Zealanders call butternut pumpkin we call
butternut squash. Our pumpkin is a different pumpkin cultivar. They are
orange and get very big. I don't think many people actually eat them
and that most pumpkins end up being carved up into Jack O'Lanterns at
Halloween. Most canned pumpkin is actually squash.