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

[adelheid]

Technically accurate, but one eats the candied sweet potato as part of the main course. It is NOT a dessert. :-)

Also, as much as I love pumpkin soup and pumpkin curry, and on rare occasions, roast pumpkin, pumpkin pie is the bestest thing in the whole WORLD. (And sweet potatotes cooked with lots of butter and brown sugar are not that far behind.)