Ever think about how the clearest sign that Thanksgiving is a manufactured holiday is that the post-Abe Lincoln "Thanksgiving feast" is this carefully generalized version of American cuisine that *contains no seafood* Even though the original one happened in *Massachusetts*
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Compare how the actual character of "Jack O' Lantern" -- the damned soul who wanders the Earth on Samhain because Hell spat him out -- was an *Irish* legend, and he was supposed to have his eerie lantern made out of a *turnip*
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The pumpkin lantern was just adapting the legend to the local flora of North America, and then took over the iconography Somehow in the Old World no one thought the legend made turnips this general symbol of the macabre and unsettling
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Which is, generally, how we eat squashes most of the time, at least. here in the UK and the rest of Europe. Roasted pumpkin goes great with a roast dinner .
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We're in the U.S. but we (just my spouse and I, we're not spreading the plague) literally had a roasted squash with our dinner tonight and it was fantastic
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