As my LJ has pointed out IT'S BIOLOGICALLY A FRUIT! In Australia, we affirm pumpkin in it's desire to cross food-genre boundaries! Pumpkin's identity as a vegetable is performative and we do our best to help pumpkin adopt the role of vegetable in our kitchens, without restricting it to normative vegetable functions - some might say that its popularity in scones belies it's origins as a fruit, but we in Australia believe that vegetable is as vegetable does, and sometimes, vegetable does as fruit!