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The variety of pumpkins we get in the UK around Hallowe'en really aren't good for eating. They are largely tasteless and useless for either sweet or savoury recipes so personally I would use butternut squash in pumpkin recipes. It's available most of the year round and reasonably cheap. When pumpkins are grown in private gardens and allotments in the UK it's mostly for size and to win competions

I suspect that over here we don't eat much pumpkin because we've never needed to. I believe it was Engels (Karl Marx's buddy) who said the the British would never have a revolution because we eat too much meat (ie even the poor were reasonably well fed - at least by 19th century continental and Russian standards)!