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Re: Feijoa's in the Northern Hemisphere?

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From: Megan Farr
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 1996 00:00
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arachne@uci.edu (arachne) wrote:

>Oh Megan - I feel for you.  I lovce pumpkin soup and also can't get
>pumpkins here except at Halloween.  However, we can buy canned pumpkin
>and I have to admit that using this is MUCH easier than cooking the
>whole damn pumpkin and then struggling to remove the skin.  Also, the
>water content seems to bne about right for thingsa like soup and
>pumpkin pie.

>Try searching for the canned stuff.

>mj

No luck, but my parents in law are talking about buying a 'lifestyle
block' (good kiwi term!) and guess what they are going to have to
grow!  Isn't it strange you can't get the canned stuff here either.
There seems to be no tradition of eating anything pumpkin in Britain,
at least not in the north!  No doubt if I were in London...











Megan Farr
Calderbridge
Cumbria
England

megan.farr@ukonline.co.uk
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From: megan.farr@ukonline.co.uk (Megan Farr)
Subject: Re: Feijoa's in the Northern Hemisphere?
Date: 1996/08/13
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