Ambrosia Slaad |
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Cos'damn it! All my pie-eating life has been revealed as a lie. I just discovered I have never eaten an actual pumpkin pie, because that canned pumpkin used for pumpkin pies is actually squash!
taig RPG Superstar 2012 |
Treppa |
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I tried to make real pumpkin pie by baking my own pumpkin and pureeing it in the blender.
The blender lid popped off because I wasn't holding it.
Hot cooked pumpkin shot 12 feet into the air. I know it was 12 feet because that's how high the white popcorn ceiling was.
And what goes up must come down.
>_<
Aranna |
Cos'damn it! All my pie-eating life has been revealed as a lie. I just discovered I have never eaten an actual pumpkin pie, because that canned pumpkin used for pumpkin pies is actually squash!
Well that explains a lot.
Celestial Healer |
Cos'damn it! All my pie-eating life has been revealed as a lie. I just discovered I have never eaten an actual pumpkin pie, because that canned pumpkin used for pumpkin pies is actually squash!
Growing up my mother always sometimes made pumpkin pies that started with a whole pumpkin.
*Edited for truth. The real pumpkins were once or twice a year. There would also be one or two per year with the canned stuff as a shortcut. She occasionally takes shortcuts on the fillings, but never the crusts. Her short crusts are the stuff of legend.
David M Mallon |
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Cos'damn it! All my pie-eating life has been revealed as a lie. I just discovered I have never eaten an actual pumpkin pie, because that canned pumpkin used for pumpkin pies is actually squash!
"Pumpkin" has no scientific meaning-- it merely refers to similar-looking large cultivars of two or three different species of winter squash. Technically, pumpkin pie (using canned pumpkin) is made from both squash and pumpkin, and neither are mutually exclusive.
Also, upon further research, cucurbita pepo, the most common species of winter squash bred for pumpkins, is also the same species that is bred for acorn squash, summer squash, spaghetti squash, and zucchini.
Aberzombie |
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Morning, all. What did I miss?
Well, Max's plan to make a delicious zucchini pie was halted, when the market he normally busy from was shut down due to infestation of parakeets. Meanwhile, Gary's annual viewing of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory was interrupted by a city wide power outage caused by a rogue cow. And, across town, Scott noted with some concern the growing number of wild ducks......No, wait! That's my soap opera!
Ambrosia Slaad |
I am wearing new shoes today and they are not broken in :(
My poor feet...
Hmmm, a new start-up where you can Uber/Fiverr other people to wear your new shoes just long enough to break them in.
Edit: Evil?
Edit: I wonder if Steve Martin would license an instrumental version of one of his songs for the commercial.
David M Mallon |
Celestial Healer wrote:So all this time I could have been making pumpkin pie with zucchini?I'm not your GM, but I'd ding your alignment Evil points for that.
I grew up in the country, and my folks keep a huge squash garden (probably 10-20 separate plants spread over half an acre). One time when I was a kid, instead of dividing up the garden into separate plots, my dad decided to plant five or six zucchini plants in the same area. We had zucchini everything for about a year after that.
Freehold DM |
Cos'damn it! All my pie-eating life has been revealed as a lie. I just discovered I have never eaten an actual pumpkin pie, because that canned pumpkin used for pumpkin pies is actually squash!
so what they told you was true.
From a certain point of view.
Patrick Curtin |
I first learned about the interesting properties of squash miscegenation when I planted several varieties too close to one another. You end up with some freaky-looking squash.
David M Mallon |
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Zucchini-cheese pie is delicious. So is zucchini bread.
If I lived somewhere that both blackberries and zucchini were weeds, I'd be in heaven.
So... anywhere in northwestern New England or upstate New York? Zucchini doesn't grow wild there, but if you plant one, it'll be a weed before you know it.
Ambrosia Slaad |
I first learned about the interesting properties of squash miscegenation when I planted several varieties too close to one another. You end up with some freaky-looking squash.
I have seen similar things happen with different strains of heirloom tomatoes presumably cross-pollinating. At least until the voracious tomato bug hoards arrive.
Treppa |
I first learned about the interesting properties of squash miscegenation when I planted several varieties too close to one another. You end up with some freaky-looking squash.
Kinky.
Hedley Lamarr |
Patrick Curtin wrote:I first learned about the interesting properties of squash miscegenation when I planted several varieties too close to one another. You end up with some freaky-looking squash.Kinky.
Dang it.
Ragadolf |
Patrick Curtin wrote:I first learned about the interesting properties of squash miscegenation when I planted several varieties too close to one another. You end up with some freaky-looking squash.I have seen similar things happen with different strains of heirloom tomatoes presumably cross-pollinating. At least until the voracious tomato bug hoards arrive.
Ah, THAT'S what those bugs are!
Around here that's one of the bugs kids call stink bugs.
Darn you Treehouse! I'm learning stuff! Stop it! My brain is full! ;P
Sharoth |
Ugh. My brain is full. And tired. Learning how to use a law library that is obsolete in this age of WestLaw and LexisNexus makes me grumpy.
It is not obsolete, just not always needed. Not everything is on the internet or in digital form. And since laws go back a long time, sometimes you have to look them up. Remember that the internet and digital media is still young.
Sharoth |
~sighs~ It will be a busy weekend. I am on call and I hope that I am busy because I could use the extra money. But besides that, I have to replace the water shut off valve for my toilet, play some Diablo III, vacuum the living room, annoy my cats, mow the lawn, pet my dogs, do laundry, watch Luke Cage, get my car battery charged up so I can move my car from my Mom's house to mine, annoy the wife, and anything else that needs to be done.
Patrick Curtin |
Patrick Curtin wrote:Ugh. My brain is full. And tired. Learning how to use a law library that is obsolete in this age of WestLaw and LexisNexus makes me grumpy.It is not obsolete, just not always needed. Not everything is on the internet or in digital form. And since laws go back a long time, sometimes you have to look them up. Remember that the internet and digital media is still young.
When my teacher as we learn it confesses he hasn't used the books in a decade, it kind of makes me wonder about the usefulness of the skill.