Welcome to the festive world of pumpkin! Pumpkins might not be a popular choice when it comes to favorite cuisines, but their health benefits and associated festivals are famous worldwide. Let's have a glance at 3 popular stories related to pumpkins!
Festivals, Feasts, and Competitive Activities
Pumpkins are undeniably associated with various national and regional festivals and shows such as:
- Barnesville Pumpkin Festival
- The Virginia Pumpkin Festival
- Half Moon Bay Art and Pumpkin Festival
- Circleville Pumpkin Show.
1. Pumpkin: A Component of Thanksgiving Meal
Thanksgiving is a national holiday to show gratitude. Various nations including Canada and the United States celebrate it with great joy, in which Pumpkin Pie is a commonly served dish as a part of the traditional meal of the day (especially in North America).
2. Halloween Pumpkin
Earlier this was known as All Hallows’ Eve and was celebrated to remember the martyrs, hallows (saints), and dead. Associating with its story, later it became a secular festival where various activities are performed as trick-or-treating, arranging costume parties, experiencing haunted attractions, etc.
One of these is to carve pumpkins and make jack-o-lanterns.
Pumpkin bread, roasted pumpkin seeds, and pumpkin pie are associated with the celebration as Halloween food.
3. Pumpkin Chunkin
This activity relates to a competition of throwing the pumpkins as far as possible by mechanical devices as catapults, trebuchets, slingshots, and centrifugal. Pumpkins are bred and grown in special conditions to improve their survival for the competition.
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