If pumpkin is served in desserts during winter, why do so many people believe it can only be eaten in fall?
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SirenSong asked:
Not to mention, you can buy frozen pumpkin pies year round, and some grocery stores even sell pumpkin pies in their bakery all year. So why is it considered a strictly fall-only food when the evidence points otherwise?
Even with the invention of refrigerators and freezers, you even have the younger generations who say “you can’t eat anything with pumpkin unless it’s fall”. Why is that? Everyone I know in the older generations think that is a silly concept.
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Not to mention, you can buy frozen pumpkin pies year round, and some grocery stores even sell pumpkin pies in their bakery all year. So why is it considered a strictly fall-only food when the evidence points otherwise?
Even with the invention of refrigerators and freezers, you even have the younger generations who say “you can’t eat anything with pumpkin unless it’s fall”. Why is that? Everyone I know in the older generations think that is a silly concept.
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January 1st, 2009 at 11:43 pm
well its tradition cause in the olden days when no one had refridgerators or means of preserving like they do now.. they used what available fruits/vegetables they had on season.. pumpkins ripened during the fall..
now that we can purchase frozen, and canned pumpkin year around, it can be eaten anytime.. but you wont find fresh pumpkins rarely during spring or summer…
January 2nd, 2009 at 6:34 am
Personally, I think people only eat pumpkin in the fall because it’s a *festive* thing to do.
Same reason why you would typically only eat like, IDK, a fruitcake in Christmas time.
I’m actually allergic to pumpkin, so I can’t carve them, or eat them.
Also, pumpkin season is in the fall. Like Straberries are in the late spring/early summer.