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Your pumpkin pie is a lie
Always leave room for dessert, especially when it's served with a little business history on the side. In her new cookbook, "BraveTart: Iconic American Desserts," Serious Eats senior editor Stella Parks tells how some of the most all-American desserts became so popular in this country. A lot of times, it's because a corporation made it happen.
From the interview:
Ryssdal: But if I go to the store and I buy a can of pumpkin, it says on the outside 100 percent pumpkin.
Parks: Yeah, there's no rule about what pumpkins are.
Ryssdal: Really?
Parks: The Food and Drug Administration has no legal distinctions between pumpkins and squash. They're all in the same botanical family, and it's just a game of semantics. And the FDA was like, it doesn't matter, and it doesn't. I'm pro-squash.
Our government at work... Probably the result of some lobbying to remove the distinction.
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