The Truth About Pumpkins
Most people have no idea of the evil that dwells within a pumpkin, although any non-American who has eaten pumpkin pie may well have suspected it. Its flesh is that of the Devil, and its seeds are the seeds of damnation. Remember that the next time you come to fill your bird feeder. Never put a pumpkin outside your door, you may forget it's there and trip over it. God hates pumkins: verse something or other somewhere in the Bible clearly tells us that pumpkins are an abomination upon the face of anybody who puts one over their head. Jesus tells us that whenever we encounter a pumpkin, we must cast it down upon the ground with mighty force, and stamp upon it for good measure.
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People who paint walls orange, wear orange T-shirts and generally idolise orange are clearly posessed, possibly by the 70's.
Just saying
The acreage planted to supply jack-o'-lanterns in the US alone could feed a 3rd World country.
In my defence, it said "Moroccan Flame" on the tin.
I don't like pizza and I don't like pumpkin pie. Never have.
To me pumpkin pie tastes like what I would imagine eating dirt tastes like.
I've never actually eaten dirt. So, I'm not sure.
However, on two occasions much separated in time, I have sampled pumpkin pie.
Each time one small bite was more than enough.
I have no further interest in eating it. At Thanksgiving, I'll be reaching for the cherry, blueberry, or apple pies.
"It’s thought that the orange fruit originally came from China – the German word Apfelsine and the Dutch sinaasappel (Chinese apple) reflect this. Historians believe the fruit made its way to Europe either by Italian traders or Portuguese navigators around 1500. In fact, ‘China apple’ is still a synonym for orange in a number of languages, including Dutch and Ukrainian.
Before orange (the fruit) made its way from China to Europe, yellow-red was called simply that: yellow-red, or even just red.
The English word ‘orange’, to describe the colour, ultimately comes from the Sanskrit term for the orange tree: nara?ga. It’s thought that early Persian emperors collected exotic trees for their gardens, which likely included orange trees. Arabs later traded the fruit and spread the word all the way to Spain; the Spanish word for orange is naranja. In Old French, the fruit became orenge, and this was adopted into English, eventually becoming ‘orange’, to describe the fruit as well as the colour.
Oranges beat the likes of pumpkins and carrots to name the shade of the colour itself. This most likely has to do with timing. Pumpkins weren’t discovered until later, and carrots didn’t become orange until the 16th century when Dutch farmers bred them that way. Before that, they were various other colours, including yellow, white, purple, and red, but rarely orange.
Today, orange trees have become the most commonly grown fruit trees in the world. It’s a popular crop from the Far East to the Mediterranean area. However, Florida, in the United States, leads in world production of the fruit, having an annual yield of more than 200 million boxes."