Re: Another good thing to come out of Australia...
Baader, Cecilia (cbaader@casecorp.com)
Thu, 11 Nov 1999 09:50:46 -0600
Amazing. You repeat the same argument, almost to the letter, that your
fellow countrymen made with me last July, when at a seaside restaurant I
exclaimed, "How strange! Pumpkin soup!" The entire table erupted into the
pumpkin-as-vegetable diatribe and demanded that I sample a bowl. They also
made me order roast pumpkin for my vegetable, which was also surprisingly
good.
So when I got back to the States and mentioned Pumpkin Soup to all and
sundry, only one person had ever heard of it. I'd love a recipe, though.
Pumpkins are in season over here. (After that last sentence, I suddenly had
this vision of a man in a hunter's cap, gray streak through his hair,
shotgun poised at an enormous pumpkin. *grin* Even got an ObSal reference
in this one...)
Regards,
Cecilia
(My vote is still cast for the Tim Tam, however... A Tim Tam and a hot cup
of coffee on a cold day. Nothing can beat it. And I say this despite
Matt's resounding recommendation of the Branston Pickle.)
> -----Original Message-----
> On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Camille Scaysbrook wrote:
>
> > You talk as if pumpkin is a *sweet* food. Pumpkin is not a sweet food.
You
> > have roasted pumpkin with a baked dinner. You have it in scones (or
whatever
> > you call them out there, biscuits or whatever). It is a *vegetable*.
Apples
> > and lemons are not. Do you go having potato pie for dessert? No. Do you
have
> > a cauliflower pie for dessert? No. Yet you have pickles in your
hamburgers.
> > Strange, strange race ...