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    Default Pumpkin/squash question – 09-25-2011,02:49 PM


    Ok, we bought two of the smaller pie pumpkins, one for roasting and one for a pie. Quartered one tonight and roasted it with apples. It was good, only it was nothing like pumpkin. The flesh was just like spaghetti squash and more towards that flavor. Does anyone know what kind of squash that is? I mean it was sold and marketed as a pumpkin, but the taste and flesh was nothing like it.
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    Default 09-26-2011,04:16 AM
    Hmm, I think the taste you're looking for might be with sugar pumpkins?
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    Default 09-26-2011,07:51 AM
    Quote Originally Posted by BR1MSTON3 View Post
    Ok, we bought two of the smaller pie pumpkins, one for roasting and one for a pie. Quartered one tonight and roasted it with apples. It was good, only it was nothing like pumpkin. The flesh was just like spaghetti squash and more towards that flavor. Does anyone know what kind of squash that is? I mean it was sold and marketed as a pumpkin, but the taste and flesh was nothing like it.
    I think that's called a "Feels weird tastes weirder because the bad weather didn't let it grow properly" squash.
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    Default 09-26-2011,08:07 AM
    Quote Originally Posted by Xane View Post
    I think that's called a "Feels weird tastes weirder because the bad weather didn't let it grow properly" squash.
    LOL, you know that came to mind. It was really like someone shoved a spaghetti squash into a sugar pumpkin casing. Knew the weather was a problem on crops, didn't know if it actually affected the ones that grew. Thanks.
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    Default 09-26-2011,08:34 AM
    Quote Originally Posted by BR1MSTON3 View Post
    LOL, you know that came to mind. It was really like someone shoved a spaghetti squash into a sugar pumpkin casing. Knew the weather was a problem on crops, didn't know if it actually affected the ones that grew. Thanks.
    Either that or it's some strange hybrid. Most squashes taste the same (what they call "pumpkin" in a can is closer to "a hardy hybrid of butternut squash that's easier to grow than sugar pumpkins" but since "genetically" it's "the same thing" they can call it pumpkin). But a spaghetti squash is definitely a different taste and texture (I like spaghetti squash!). Maybe it got pollinated by the neighboring field.
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