On 5/22/2021 1:25 PM, Sheldon Martin wrote:

>
> Canned pumpkin tastes like canned sweet potato because they are both
> actally canned butternut squash. Pumpkin for butternut squash is
> legal because they are botanically the same. Fresh pumpkin contains
> too much water for making pie filling and sweet potato is too dry for
> pie filling... butternut squash flesh is just right for either.
>

Dickinson squash/ Same family

https://www.motherearthgardener.com/...in-zmaz12fzfol

When Elijah Dickinson moved from Kentucky to Illinois in 1835, he didnt
know he was carrying with him the seeds of a billion-dollar pumpkin, one
of the most valuable heirloom vegetable crops in history. Yet the
pumpkin which finds its way into most pumpkin pies today is not really a
pumpkin.