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Originally Posted by Quoth
Worse than pineapple on pizza or red wine with fish.
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That's objectively wrong. These are assaults on your palate; a hollowed out berry with a candle in it doesn't compare.
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Jack O'Lanterns are Irish and made hundreds of years before Americans adopted pumpkins.
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We're a nation of immigrants; we borrow, we adapt. And if the olde country doesn't like it, they don't have to follow suit.
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From the American Encyclopaedia that killed off the paper & CD versions:[
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We can't put a foot right, can we?
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And at least the scooped out "neeps" tastes of something and has nutrition. We simply used a table knife and spoon at about age 6. No need for sharp knives.
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The innards of a pumpkin are inedible strings which are scraped out and discarded plus seeds and the seeds are highly nutritious and tasty.
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Also the other Celtic tradition is that it's a goblin's head. A pumpkin is not like a head and doesn't last as well and is more fragile.
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Huh. IMO, pumpkins are more head-shaped than turnips. And which is it? Soft and easy to scoop or needing a sharp knife? You can't have it both ways. Pumpkins are sturdy stuff.
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Such a waste of resource growing them here as almost no-one in Ireland eats pumpkin.
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If they're grown for decoration rather than eating, that's their purpose. No one here eats decorative pumpkins; they're nasty. Canned pumpkin for eating.