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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when I was younger I used to think pumpkin and watermelon were related (not sure why I thought this, maybe cuz they look similar growing) and I found out it came from Africa w/slavery and the light bulb went off for the origins of the racial stereotype
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They are related, they're technically both cucurbita. The watermelon thing has always been weird to me, considering the "came from Africa" thing happened over a millenium ago and they were in Europe before Europeans ever got to America.
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Tbf pumpkins lend themselves much better to being made into lanterns than turnips...
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