This is a quote i have to share:

[highlyeccentric]

Although pumpkin is readily available in many countries, Australia is the only one to consider it seriously as a vegetable.

- The Women's Weekly Cookbook, 1970-something.

We not only consider our pumpkins, we consider them *seriously*. Not like the Americans, who clearly take their pumpkins lightly, appropriating them as a source of festivity and jokes.

And just in case you thought we might consider pumpkins as meat, starch, dessert, or even furniture, let us make it clear: we consider pumpkin seriously as a vegetable. Pumpkins in this country are secure and widely affirmed in their identity as vegetables!

Pumpkin: SRS BIZNIS FOODSTUFFS

Comments

[kayloulee]

*bursts out laughing*

AWESOME. I for one am always in favour of foods choosing to adopt the food-genre-category that they feel best fits them, regardless of what they are 'supposed to' do. For example, zucchini bread. Beetroot cake (yes, really).

[highlyeccentric]

Truly, Australia is a haven for the oppressed pumpkin, driven into exile by the unenlightened attitudes of other nations, who scarcely afford to the pumpkin the liberties enjoyed by biological vegetables such as the zucchini and the beetroot.

I hear that, in the past, pumpkins were even consigned to dog food in Germany! Discrimination is rife.

[kayloulee]

Smile, you've been Metaquoted!

[highlyeccentric]

Awww, shucks

[be_themoon]

lol - if you hadn't, I would have.