SC - Canned Pumpkin

[Stefan li Rous]

Allison said: 
> Living in different parts of the world, I find that nobody but USA'ers
> seem to like pumpkin so much!  Some countries contemptuously refer to
> pumpkins as animal fodder and are disgusted that people would eat this! 
> Canned pumpkin may well be hard or impossible to find.

C. Anne Wilson in her "Food and Drink in Britain - From the Stone Age
to the 19th Century" seems to allude to this idea of the USA liking 
pumpkin pie more than the rest of the world.

p349

"The pumpkin pies enjoyed by people of substance were in the tradition
of the earlier rich pies of mixed ingredients. The pumpkin was first
sliced and fried with sweet herbs and spices, sugar and beatten eggs.
Then it was put into a pastry shell with alternate layers of apples and
currants. Pumpkin pie made on similar lines has become a national
dish in America, having been introduced there by early colonists. In
England, however, it went out of fashion in the course of the eighteenth
century."

When was Australia settled? Since pumpkin pie is apparently known
there, I'm wondering it was introduced there by settlers from Britain
before it lost favor in England, and then the interest in it continued 
independantly there.
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