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

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[be_themoon]

heee!

AS A VEGETABLE.

[damned_colonial]

(here via metaquotes)

You don't want to know what Americans do with pumpkins. And sweet potatoes. Seriously. *Shudders* They treat them as dessert. Now, I'm not dessert-ist, but that's just not right, you know?

(Also, in passing... you seem to have done something to your journal style that hides the Dreamwidth top nav bar. This annoys me as I can't easily see information about our relationship, switch your journal "light" style, etc. Please consider not doing that.)