Just when I thought nothing more could be ruined by pumpkin spice

This atrocity is from a respected local sausage company! 😉🤭😂

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Pumpkin Pies or the spice is not known in Australia ….well ..I’ve never seen it …or know anyone who uses it

I’m guessing it’s used for making pumpkin taste better ? , I’m not a fan of pumpkin ....I’ve tried pre baking for making soup but no not my tastes at all …I’ll eat it with a roast ( lamb dinner ) and I grow it in summer , so what I grow lasts me from one season to another ….
 
WheatenLover said:
Am I right, there isn't any pumpkin in pumpkin spice? No one has distilled a pumpkin so they can put a few drops of pumpkin juice in everything that claims to be "pumpkin spice" (but without the pumpkin)?
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Not only that, a can of pumpkin (like you'd use for a pie, not pie filling), isn't really 100% pumpkin even if it says it is. It can be called 100% as long as there's some pumpkin in it, but it's mostly other kinds of squash with the required spices.
 
I like pumpkin and a few of the pumpkin spice things. But I think they do tend to overdo it.
Same thing with using cauliflower as a stand in for real food. I was in Aldis a few days ago.
They had cauliflower crust pumpkin spice pizza.
I did buy some pumpkin spice cheerios. Theyre not bad.

Theres a town in Ohio that has a whole to do around pumpkin. They even elect a queen.
Circleville Pumpkin Show.
The Official Circleville Pumpkin Show Website
 
Georgiagranny said:
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Not only that, a can of pumpkin (like you'd use for a pie, not pie filling), isn't really 100% pumpkin even if it says it is. It can be called 100% as long as there's some pumpkin in it, but it's mostly other kinds of squash with the required spices.
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I know! I was surprised to find that out. Because of that, for many years I used fresh pumpkin for pies and bread and soup. But now I don't feel like going to all that trouble.
 
@Veronica There's a little town near my hometown that has a pumpkin festival every year, usually the first week of October. Craft shows, kids' parades, all manner and sort of pumpkin foods. It's supposed to be a celebration of the beginning of winter and often, right on schedule it gets the first real sNOw of the season. When it's not sNOwy, it's very, very warm! LOL

Come to think of it, here we are almost at October 1, and there hasn't even been the first frost up there this year.
 
We went a couple times to the Circleville Pumpkin show when I was a little kid. I just remember seeing the gigantic pumpkins that had been weighed to see which was the biggest.
 
We have canned potatoes in Australia, however I’ve never seen canned pumpkin …I’ll have to try googling because you’d think it would be available somewhere …

Nope Cole’s has it listed for $8.80 a can but when you go to site it’s got (not available) of course we have have canned pumpkin soup .

Flo Bejelke-Petersen who was the wife of a Queensland premier Joh Bejelke Peterson from 1968 to 1987 was famous for making pumpkin scones , whey they were hardly ever known about in Australia

Pumpkin Scone Recipe | How to Make Lady Florence Bjelke-Petersen's Famous Pumpkin Scones- Food.com
 
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Georgiagranny said:
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Not only that, a can of pumpkin (like you'd use for a pie, not pie filling), isn't really 100% pumpkin even if it says it is. It can be called 100% as long as there's some pumpkin in it, but it's mostly other kinds of squash with the required spices.
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I moved to South Aust in 1971 , and worked in a fruit and vegetable cannery , and believe me you would not touch canned goods if your knew what happens during the sorting / additives and canning process , however that applies to most processed foods not just fruits and vegetables
 
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Georgiagranny said:
@Veronica There's a little town near my hometown that has a pumpkin festival every year, usually the first week of October. Craft shows, kids' parades, all manner and sort of pumpkin foods. It's supposed to be a celebration of the beginning of winter and often, right on schedule it gets the first real sNOw of the season. When it's not sNOwy, it's very, very warm! LOL

Come to think of it, here we are almost at October 1, and there hasn't even been the first frost up there this year.
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So are you going that one. The Ohio one is Oct 15th. I went once when I was in high school.
I thought I might get to see The Great Pumpkin, but he never showed up. :D

We didnt get snow last year until November. But we did get frost in the middle of October.
 
Georgiagranny said:
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Not only that, a can of pumpkin (like you'd use for a pie, not pie filling), isn't really 100% pumpkin even if it says it is. It can be called 100% as long as there's some pumpkin in it, but it's mostly other kinds of squash with the required spices.
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My pumpkin does not have spices added. The only ingredient is pumpkin… and the label says 100% pure pumpkin.

”Libby's — the company that makes more than 80 percent of canned pumpkin in the U.S. — has their own pumpkin variety, Libby's Special Seed, which is derived from the Dickinson pumpkin, and 100 percent of the pumpkin they use in the cans of pumpkin they manufacture in their Morton, Ill. headquarters comes from these pumpkins.

Yes, some pumpkin canners could be using a mix of pumpkin and squash in their canned pumpkin. But if the label says 100 percent pumpkin, it is pumpkin — it's just not the classic orange pumpkin you're imagining. And that's a good thing.”
 
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