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    Your Pumpkin Pie Probably Has No Pumpkin In It At All

    -If you love everything about these flannel-filled autumn months — the warmly colored trees, a nip in the air — you may want to sit down for this one. As it turns out, the canned pumpkin pie filling that’s inspired everyone’s favorite seasonal desserts isn’t exactly what we thought it was. Just look.

    This is a variant of Cucurbita pepo, beloved and time-honored symbol of fall.

    In other words, it’s a pumpkin. But you won’t find it in most of your favorite “pumpkin” dishes unless, of course, you’ve got your own secret recipe that doesn’t involve a can opener.

    And THIS is a variety of Cucurbita moschata, the sole ingredient in most canned “pumpkin” sold in the U.S.

    The Dickinson variety of squash pictured above was developed specifically by Libby’s, the brand responsible for selling about 85 percent of canned pumpkin pie filling sold in the U.S. As you can see, it bears a lot more resemblance to a butternut squash than anything you’d think to carve a face on. Indeed, butternut squash and Dickinson gourds are part of the same species, which is different from the species most jack-o-lanterns come from.

    So if you’re a longtime fan of pumpkin pie, chances are you’ve actually been enjoying something more along the lines of butternut squash pie Seasoned with “squash spices.” Which coffee chains use to make seasonally appropriate “squash spice lattes.” Yes, squash spice lattes...

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/1...n_5941122.html


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    I hate it when that happens! Where can one get authentic pumpkin other than buying one a cooking it yourself..?

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    Snopes says Huffington Post is wrong?

    http://www.snopes.com/canned-pumpkin...ually-pumpkin/

    WHAT'S TRUE: As much of 90 percent of pumpkin sold in the U.S. (and 85 percent worldwide) is a proprietary cultivar known as a Dickinson pumpkin, which are less photogenic than the type of pumpkins commonly used for display purposes.
    Now when Huffington post and sopes are at odds one has to wonder...what's in the world's going on!

    According to botanists, however, asserting a clear distinction between "pumpkin" and "squash" is difficult because there is no strict botanical definition for pumpkins. Semantically, pumpkins are a type of squash, and the Dickinson cultivar is listed as a pumpkin, as are other c. moschata varietals:
    Actually they are not really that far apart...Potato or Pototo...

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