pumpkin pie isn't a thing in the UK?
― Mordy, Thursday, 18 September 2014 13:00 (nine years ago) link
squanto gave it to us
― j., Thursday, 18 September 2014 13:01 (nine years ago) link
No, we don't eat pumpkin, as a rule. Starbucks does the pumpkin lattes, though.
― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Thursday, 18 September 2014 13:01 (nine years ago) link
you poor things
― Mordy, Thursday, 18 September 2014 13:07 (nine years ago) link
We are simple folks, happy with butternut squash.
People carve pumpkins and generally throw the insides away.
― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Thursday, 18 September 2014 13:09 (nine years ago) link
there is some kind of indoctrination aspect to how much americans like pumpkin pie. the insidious pumpkin lobby at work for decades no doubt. i mean, it's not bad - it's pie after all - but the list of sweet pies i would rather have before pumpkin is approx all of the pies. if you are at thanksgiving and you have the choice between pumpkin and pecan pie and you choose pumpkin, someone has fucked with your brain. that is scientific fact.
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 18 September 2014 13:13 (nine years ago) link
idk it's not like anyone says "as american as pumpkin pie"
― Mordy, Thursday, 18 September 2014 13:14 (nine years ago) link
pumpkin lobby is smarter than that, cmon mordz
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 18 September 2014 13:16 (nine years ago) link
I just eat both pies tbrr xp
― ⌘-B (mh), Thursday, 18 September 2014 13:20 (nine years ago) link
that is also scientific fact tbf
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 18 September 2014 13:21 (nine years ago) link
I am not fond of pumpkin pie.
― Jeff, Thursday, 18 September 2014 13:57 (nine years ago) link
Gourds.
― pplains, Thursday, 18 September 2014 13:58 (nine years ago) link
have some gourd-flavored coffee, you dumb American.
I figured the PSL's were to the rest of the world what Americans think when they see calimari burgers available at a Thailand McDonalds.
what makes it so weird and on-trend and "stuff white girls like" right now?
I don't know. It's been around for years, beloved by Americans of all genders and races. I'm guessing it's a combo of that joke upthread making the rounds, and other purveyors of flavored coffee jumping on the pumpkin spice bandwagon making the flavor seem suddenly ubiquitous.
nb: I am eating a pumpkin spice and flaxseed crunchy granola bar right now. Also pumpkin pie is easily my favorite pie.
― carl agatha, Thursday, 18 September 2014 14:00 (nine years ago) link
― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Thursday, September 18, 2014 1:09 PM (50 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
The pumpkins sold for carving are terrible for eating. If you want to make a pie with fresh pumpkin, you need to get sugar pumpkins or pie pumpkins.
― carl agatha, Thursday, 18 September 2014 14:01 (nine years ago) link
The seeds are good for roasting though!
― how's life, Thursday, 18 September 2014 14:01 (nine years ago) link
Yes!
Pumpkins are great. Winter squash in general is great. brb I'm going to put on some yoga pants and whisper all of the reasons I love fall.
I'm white, btw.
― carl agatha, Thursday, 18 September 2014 14:03 (nine years ago) link
i feel like this is an important piece of the pumpkin/yoga/women puzzle
http://www.bathandbodyworks.com/graphics/product_images/pBBW1-19118817v275.jpg
― Mordy, Thursday, 18 September 2014 14:06 (nine years ago) link
This too:
http://fortune.com/2014/09/15/pumpkin-aphrodisiac/
― how's life, Thursday, 18 September 2014 14:07 (nine years ago) link
Oh, that article doesn't actual talk about the study that shows that pumpkin pie aroma increased penile blood flow. Read the articles before linking to them hl.
― how's life, Thursday, 18 September 2014 14:09 (nine years ago) link
http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/pumpkin-pie-smell-stimulates-arousal-men-scent-sexy-aphrodisiac-study-article-1.451682
― how's life, Thursday, 18 September 2014 14:10 (nine years ago) link
i wonder if the backlash against pumpkin coffee is similar to the backlash against pumpkin beer. 50% ppl who genuinely think the taste is not as good as all the seasonal hype, and 50% jerks who believe *real beer* or *real coffee* is manly, and spicing it up w/ pumpkin is a move for women who may not otherwise like the normal tastes of those beverages (i've definitely heard ppl refer to like mike's hard lemonade and other sweet alcoholic beverages as 'girly drinks' and like frappachinos and stuff as 'girly coffees' so maybe it's a similar phenomenon regarding pumpkin drinks).
― Mordy, Thursday, 18 September 2014 14:12 (nine years ago) link
the pumpkin spice epidemic is bad enough that I was willing to believe the pumpkin spice condom image was real
― ⌘-B (mh), Thursday, 18 September 2014 14:14 (nine years ago) link
Ugh I bet that pumpkin apple candle smells wretched. Just looking at the jar is giving me a headache.
Mordy, I bet you are OTM about girly drinks backlash.
― carl agatha, Thursday, 18 September 2014 14:17 (nine years ago) link
I'm british, I've eaten pumpkin pie, it ranges from ok to grim. (nowhere near as good as all of our Christmas food that they don't get in the U.S., but don't tell them that)
― kinder, Thursday, 18 September 2014 14:28 (nine years ago) link
but pumpkin pie isn't christmas food. it's thanksgiving food.
― Mordy, Thursday, 18 September 2014 14:29 (nine years ago) link
Otoh we don't get Burmese pumpkin curry although we can buy kobucha squashes in Waitrose, which is what the curry ie actually made from...
― kinder, Thursday, 18 September 2014 14:30 (nine years ago) link
Xp yeah but our Christmas season starts about now and we don't have Thanksgiving.
― kinder, Thursday, 18 September 2014 14:31 (nine years ago) link
I made a pumpkin pie last year, it was somewhere between a custard tart and a treacle tart (and it's a tart, obviously, not a pie).
The confusion about pumpkin latte has come about imo due to the American idiom of calling some foodstuffs what they're used with, not what they're made from (see also Duck Sauce, which is plum sauce to the rest of the world).
― and she's crying in a stairwell in Devon (aldo), Thursday, 18 September 2014 14:49 (nine years ago) link
Coffee cake
― kinder, Thursday, 18 September 2014 14:54 (nine years ago) link
a pumpkin pie is a terrific pie
― fruit ← ⟨“apple”, “banana”, “orange”⟩ (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 18 September 2014 15:02 (nine years ago) link
whereas I once had nachos around christmas time in london, and these london christmas nachos were awful let me tell you
― fruit ← ⟨“apple”, “banana”, “orange”⟩ (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 18 September 2014 15:04 (nine years ago) link
steak fries
― ⌘-B (mh), Thursday, 18 September 2014 15:06 (nine years ago) link
Trader Joe's now has Austrian pumpkin seed oil. If you do not know it, buy it and put some on a salad on maybe a fresh mozerellaCaprese salad kind of thing or put it in a soup. That stuff rules.
― Three Word Username, Thursday, 18 September 2014 16:43 (nine years ago) link
PUMPKIN
― smoochy-woochy touchy-wouchy, (sunny successor), Thursday, 18 September 2014 19:15 (nine years ago) link
http://wac.450f.edgecastcdn.net/80450F/wgna.com/files/2012/11/Picture-307-630x472.jpg
pubkin pie dispender
― Malibu Stasi (WilliamC), Thursday, 18 September 2014 19:19 (nine years ago) link
My mother-in-law bakes us pumpkin pies all year.
― how's life, Thursday, 18 September 2014 19:22 (nine years ago) link
what a delightful woman. please send her my regards.
― fruit ← ⟨“apple”, “banana”, “orange”⟩ (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 18 September 2014 19:47 (nine years ago) link
http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/hecho-en-illinois/Content?oid=923678
Almost all the canned pumpkin in the U.S. comes from downstate Morton. Most of the people who pack it come from the tiny Mexican town of La Soledad.
worth a read
― cross over the mushroom circle (La Lechera), Thursday, 18 September 2014 19:52 (nine years ago) link
pumpkins are great, they taste great and also make cats poop
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Thursday, 18 September 2014 21:26 (nine years ago) link
https://scontent-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xaf1/v/t1.0-9/1921955_10152348946710827_4836573905466567455_n.jpg?oh=a949063807e96e36acb099ae399e69ac&oe=54CECE90
― how's life, Friday, 19 September 2014 10:50 (nine years ago) link
quality drop shadow there on garfield, glad they took the time for that
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 19 September 2014 12:36 (nine years ago) link
had no idea garfield was from the south, this changes everything
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Friday, 19 September 2014 22:14 (nine years ago) link
Davis is from Indiana, which is definitely one of the souths of the north.
― how's life, Friday, 19 September 2014 22:31 (nine years ago) link
prove it
― ILX preorders SPYRO for Playstation (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 19 September 2014 22:34 (nine years ago) link
anyway I am from very northern indiana and I balk at indiana being southern
― ILX preorders SPYRO for Playstation (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 19 September 2014 22:41 (nine years ago) link
i was at a bus stop in gary once, gary is a p southern name
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Friday, 19 September 2014 22:50 (nine years ago) link
birthplace of famous country & western musician michael jackson
― ILX preorders SPYRO for Playstation (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 19 September 2014 23:00 (nine years ago) link
gary is the dumbest name for a city. the rest of the names have to be named bruce and carl and stuff or else.
― flatizza (harbl), Friday, 19 September 2014 23:02 (nine years ago) link