@autumn@null@yassie_j really?! the flavour is really about the spices more than the pumpkin imo, to the point that if i recognise some combination of cinnamon / ginger / nutmeg / cloves together its enough for me to think “oh it’s pumpkin!” for a second before noticing the lack of the actual pumpkin flavour lol. if it were actually just straight up pumpkin i would sooner think of a squash. But regardless it’s great, for sure one of my faves
@h@yassie_j@null this isn't a british thing i think this is just a me thing because my parents grow them and funny enough its never with those spices so im definitely able to pickup on it (and differentiate from squash) like the type of stuff we make from pumpkins is like soup, put them in the oven like you would potatoes, put them Into mashed potatoes. stuff like that.
@autumn@yassie_j@null that sounds great i would love to have that!! unrelatedly cause i just remembered it but around the same time of year some parts of the US have a dish thats just mashed sweet potatoes, topped with marshmallows, and then baked. not something my closer family did but when id see extended family for thanksgiving sometimes theyd do this and it was good.. theres lots of american autumnal food things
@null@h@yassie_j hows it going autumn, yeah honestly the only reason i have is because my parents grow them. i dont think we'd ever have any pumpkin anything if it wasn't for that
@autumn@yassie_j@h going hot but pretty well thanks, hows it going autumn, and ooo damn thats pretty cool !!! idk if its just a british thing or my family being weird or whatever, but i dont see much pumpkin stuff outside of like halloween or smth
@null@h@yassie_j yeah pretty well here too autumn. been pretty hot hasnt it autumn? i think its a british thing tbh like halloween is the only time you really think about pumpkins, and i don't see many people actually using them in dishes lol
@autumn@yassie_j@h thats good autumn, and yeah its been pretty hot autumn, thankfully this autumn lives in the one part of the uk that isnt super duper hot thankfully. and yeah absolutely, i wonder if theres an actual reason for that or idk we just dont use pumpkins
@null@h@yassie_j oh that's so good autumn. ive been melting lowkey but managing 🫠. and i think rather than "its not a thing here" its more like "its an american thing" where they probably developed all the awesome pumpkin based things and used pumpkin as a base because it's probably one of the only things that grew and could feed a lot of people, that type of thing. and its just been Present in culture ever since
@autumn@null@yassie_j this + non-pumpkin pie things that have the pumpkin spice flavour were made way more common by starbucks doing the pumpkin spice latte as a limited time thing for autumn every year and being massively successful so now every year in autumn every single place has an autumn pumpkin spice treat so its tradition now
@autumn@null@yassie_j it’s seasonal here too but it is in fact in dishes (mostly treats though definitely not exclusively, and more “pumpkin spice” than “pumpkin”)
