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Canned pumpkin shortage?
"Bruce" > wrote in message
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> On Mon, 04 Apr 2016 09:24:51 +1000, Jeßus > wrote:
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>>On Sun, 3 Apr 2016 16:12:10 -0700 (PDT), "
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>>>On Sunday, April 3, 2016 at 3:25:56 PM UTC-5, Jeßus wrote:
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>>>> I've never seen canned pumpkin in my entire life.
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>>>WOW! You need to get out more!
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>>I'm honestly not sure if it is sold in Australia?
>>A bit presumptuous of me, but I think most Australia's would regard
>>canning pumpkin to be odd thing to do. We treat it more as a fresh
>>vegetable.
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>>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 
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> Maybe it's a cultural difference. Maybe when an American wants to eat
> an apple, they order one canned, from Amazon.com.
Hardly.
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