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   Pastor of Muppets (middleclasstool@phire.place)'s status on Thursday, 21-Dec-2023 03:18:48 JST Pastor of Muppets

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   @checkervest Most Americans have never had pumpkin pie. Canned pumpkin is not actually pumpkin. It's winter squash. The food canning industry lobbied congress about 100 years ago to get permission to lie on the label and call it pumpkin. And because it doesn't hurt anyone and a lot of people prefer the flavor, Congress shrugged and said "yeah, okay"

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     feld (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Thursday, 21-Dec-2023 03:18:47 JST feld

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     @middleclasstool @checkervest AllRecipes dot com is calling bullshit on this
     
     > But there's just one problem with that story: It is not exactly true.
     
     
     https://www.allrecipes.com/article/whats-in-canned-pumpkin/
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     Pastor of Muppets (middleclasstool@phire.place)'s status on Thursday, 21-Dec-2023 03:32:58 JST Pastor of Muppets

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     @feld They're...kind of right. Technically any hard-skinned squash can be called a pumpkin, but Dickinsons are closer to butternut squash than sugar "pie" pumpkins or field pumpkins. And sugar pumpkins make excellent pie -- they're right that you shouldn't use jack o' lantern pumpkins, but they're wrong that fresh is always worse.

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     feld (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Thursday, 21-Dec-2023 03:33:57 JST feld

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     @middleclasstool what a weird thing to learn after all this time, gonna go blow my wife's mind with this who is a baker