Oh I have to tell you this…
Mid October I made pumpkin soup from a ‘culinary pumpkin’ and it was really sweet… [I have to say at this point I don’t ‘celebrate Halloween so I just used the seasonal food for my own purposes…a bit early] It was a bit too sweet actually… but nice all the same… then my sister who does celebrate Halloween with her children, bought a ‘carving pumkin’, carved it…and made soup…
She said to me a few days later…“I know you like soups Lynne and I have some if you want it…because my lot don’t like it”... thinking nothing of it… said “of course!...it’s probably too sweet for them…” So she gave it me… God…bless her soul it was awful… tasted like soap :-/ ...hadn’t the heart to tell her at the time… but I must slip it into a conversation between now and next year surreptitiously so she doesn’t realise… bless her…I love her so much and she’s such a good mother and woman and cook!!...it just one of those things… so YES there IS a difference! :-D xxx
I feel quite guilty now… but you just reminded me and I needed to tell someone!