I think the pumpkin thing started...
... Because pumpkins were more available in 'merka land rather than turnips so they used them. It just spread over here.
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vix0r was not Matthew on, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 21:38,
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Yeah
i was an avid fan of the peanuts comic strip in my youth, which was full of pumpkin/trick or treat japery. This, to me, is proof of the adage that merkin culture filters through to the uk in about 10 years
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kfk I get all my everything right here, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 21:46,
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