Fun Pumpkin Facts.
The Irish brought the tradition of pumpkin carving to America. It started with the carving of turnips. When the Irish immigrated to the U.S., they found pumpkins a plenty and they were much easier to carve.
Colonists sliced off pumpkin tops: removed seeds and filled the insides with milk, spices and honey. This was baked in hot ashes and is the origin of the pumpkin pie.
Native Americans flattened strips of pumpkins, dried them and made mats.
Pumpkins are a fruit and their flowers are edible.
The name pumpkin originated from “pepon” – the Greek word for large melon.
Total U.S. pumpkin production in 2008 (in major pumpkin producing states) was valued at 141 Million Dollars.
The largest pumpkin pie ever made weighed over 350 pounds. It used 80 pounds of cooked pumpkin, 36 pounds of sugar, and 12 dozen eggs, and took six hours to bake (no report on the time it took to eat)…But I bet it was a lot less than 6 hours.
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