Isn’t that what Trumpers do just before heading into battle a rally?
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They make pumpkin scones in Queensland; the rest of us think that Queenslanders are weird.
Carrot cake is common across the country, though. People are weird.
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I have genuinely seen strawberry-scented two-stroke oil for sale. Intended for scooter riders.
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Pumpkin cake is the shit.
Pumpkin-garlicked toast is OOH-MAMI.
Pumpkin encrusted bird is the word.
Say pumpkin, I say yum, kin. Cook that shit up gud.
Have you had pumpkin salad? Glad I did.
Even vinegar makes pumpkin sugars shine.
To pickle said pumpkin…
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Could I get donuts in space in a different flavor, please?
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Yes. 
How about All Space donuts? 
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“We ride to Valhalla, shiny, and orange!”
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Seriously? We grow decorative pumpkins and sell them at the farm stand every year. It’s like printing money. People will pay a buck a pound for them, and they cost pennies to grow. If we had more room I’d grow twice as many. Not very edible, though.
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Fffwwwhhhhaaaaattttt?
Very edible. Delicious, really.
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For what it’s worth, the pumpkins used in Australia are a different breed from those in America, and not suitable for pies etc. Presumably there’s some taste difference between the two.
You can get the American pumpkins in stores in recent years, although only around October in a mercantile effort to import Halloween. They cost about $20 each as well 
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Oh yeah. It’s just custard. The stuff that won’t fit in our pies go into a smaller pan all by itself.
Of course, the decadence index is a bit lower that way . . .
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100% Pure Pumpkin brand canned squash?
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Something something pumpkin spiced latte.
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PFFT. Everyone knows you need a bag to huff paint. Unless you’re drinking it. Then you’re GOLD.
Most cultures that grow pumpkins as staple crops grow them as animal fodder. Eating them is a result of poor people having to eat animal fodder. Same reason why Ireland and Scotland are the two countries most associated with oat meal. Poor folks gotta eat what the horses done eat.
You do see sweet applications of pumpkins in most places that grow them far as I can tell. But that’s because the good ones have a pretty good sugar content. So the same poor folks who couldn’t afford sweets had pumpkins (among other crops) to use in place of refined sugar. So far as I’ve been able to sus out anyway. The US, the North East in particular, ended up with a big pumpkin affinity because of lack of access to other crops with the early English colonies. We started making beer out of them. The pumpkin, before we got corn handled, was a sort of fix all American crop in the early colonial period.
At the farm stand. And the eating pumpkins here go for more, 2+ bucks a pounds potentially. And yield isn’t much different. But in terms of commercial crops, my farmers tell me they make more off green beans. If they could be shipping those more expensive eatin’ pumpkins as a specialty item in higher volume they’d be much better off. Though I think if they were the default/cash crop that ornamentals are the price would drop.
ETA: And the bug in the forums hits me again. Apparently every over long thing I’ve written today was directed at Shuck. And @Shuck doesn’t deserve that!
Edited to correct that last one to @RatMan. I’m never sure if anyone sees these thing when I got to fix them so I’ll keep throwing @@@@@@ until i summon the right demon.
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We were never at war with Oceania!
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Lobster used to be throw-away food.
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And its still dirt cheap where we catch it! I can still get 4-5 pound and a halfers for $35 around the block from my house. Local lobsterman is back, down to increased water quality in our regional watersheds! And/or his son took over his pots and was able to catch something for once.
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