I return from Thanksgiving holiday. I ate so much pie that if my body mass was to be measured right now, it would be 25% pumpkin.
On the train to the Holy City, I drank most of the way. I was seated with a family of 3 Australians, and they were fun. Mom, dad and 20-year-old daughter, who said "my parents are alcoholics". (I think it was a joke.) They were from Sydney, but were still really funny and nice. (Really, susie, they were!) When my sister met me at the train station, I said "It's 3:00 in the afternoon, and I'm drunk". Damned Aussies.
In other news, Paul Krugman won the Nobel Prize for Economics! Whoo hoo. I'm a big Krugman reader and I think this is very cool news indeed.
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Ah, that dry Aussie humour!!! I do believe there are some decent people in Sydney, but I did hear they were away on holidays at the mo....
Thanksgiving in Canada? Who knew!!!
mmmm! Pumpkin Pie...it don't get tastier than that...my mother gave me a homemade one a couple of weeks ago...I ate the whole thing in two days...again, mmmmm!
JAW fan
How weird is pumpkin pie - out here, pumpkin is a vegetable, not something you put in a pie.
Here it's a vegetable AND something you put in a pie. It has been my fave my entire life. Pumpkin soup is good too, but it's no match for pumpkin pie.
...and the reason it is so delicious is because we are physically deprived of it 11 months out of the year...if we could eat P-pie every day, would we be as obsessed? who knows? Until that day, October will remain synonymous with colorful leaves, Hallowe'en, and Pumpkin pie.
JAW fan
drunk by 3 pm? what's wrong with that?
As a kid (and even as an adult) I ate pumpkin pie year-round. Well, at least 3 or 4 times a year. Because I was spoiled and my mother made it for me. Did that make me less obsessed? Nope. This year I was even thinking about trying to bake my own home-made p-pies. Perhaps I will attempt this during the long cold winter months when I need comfort food...
Nothing "wrong" with being drunk by 3 p.m. It just put me about 4 hours ahead of my brother-in-law.
Am not certain if this is really Anonymous...sounds more like Mrs. Anonymous...in any case, whoever it is, I do have to second that sentiment.
I've also done the train to TO for work. First class keeps you well liquored-up with free booze...so like you, I too have also gotten off the train three-sheets-to-the-wind. It's the best way to experience Toronto.
JAW fan
I'm all for pumpkin pie year round too tho this year it was apple pie and smoked meat (long story)
man, she just can't get off the pumpkin pie kick! Here's the thing with pp, it's easy to get all the ingredients (note: evaporated milk is just as disgusting in my coffee now as I remember it years ago)but I defy you to find the bloody canned pumpkin anywhere outside of a week before/after thanksgiving. I tried to make a pie for Rosh hashanah (ohhh yeeaaah, you read that right!) but after visiting 3 supermarkets, gave up on the canned stuff. I did however, pick up a store-bought pie (gasp!) at provigo and man was it delish. Maybe I don't need to bake one after all...but what to do with my 2 cans of evaporated milk? am open to suggestions...Mrs. A.
Use that milk to fatten up OC.
We used to be able to get canned pumpkin year-round in V'field, but perhaps that was only in the glory days of my pie-eating youth.
Well, here, we have pumpkin all year round - no one puts it in pie - it can be mashed like potato, turned into soup or (my favourite) roast pumpkin!
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