sf wrote:
> On Sat, 09 Sep 2006 19:00:57 -0600, Jack Schmidling >
> wrote:
> >
> >The book series "No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency" (Botswana)make frequent
> >references to pumpkins as some sort of "food of the gods". Little kids
> >go bonkers when they learn there is pumpkin for dinner.
> >
> >What on earth sort of "pumpkin" could they be talking about?
>
> I have decided that people "on the other side of the pond" call every
> squash "pumpkin", but mostly they are talking about butternut squash.
> >


Butternust squash is referred to as calabaza here in Honduras - that is
the Spanish word for pumpkin. It seems any orange fleshed, hard shelled
squash is given that title.

-SD-