SC - Re: Pumpkins down under
Susan Laing
gleep001 at hotmail.com
Thu Feb 22 16:01:52 PST 2001
Pumpkin in Comparative Cultures 101...
Okay - Australia was founded by the British in the 1770's....
Pumpkins are pretty much regarded as "dinner vegetables" here - exception
being (in Queensland at least) Pumpkin Scones (a la Lady Flo) The notion of
using them as a sweet has always been an intriguing one (and peculiarily
*American* in my zone.... but that could be the Comic Offworld Alien in me
speaking.... :-p)
Just an aside - I thought the tradition of eating Pumpkin pie (or Squash
pie) devolved from the 1st Thanksgiving meal when the Native Americans
brought their produce to share with the Pilgrims.... Or should I give up on
comparative culture history and go back to cooking??
Mari
Brisbane, Australia
Mmmmmm Mel Gibson! Pity he's lost his accent.... :-p
>Adamantius penned...
>Late eighteenth & early nineteenth centuries? It may have been
>introduced by settlers before it lost favor in England, or it may >have
>evolved in parallel (you know, like the offworld aliens in comic >books
>that look exactly like humans?), or it may even have been >introduced by
>Americans. I would guess Australia is about on a par >with the USA as a
>cultural melting-pot and a gracious host for >immigrants, some of whom have
>been Americans. Including Mel Gibson, >BTW ; ) .
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