Pumpkin, Squash or Kalabasa??!

Before, I thought pumpkin was just a fantasy vegetable used for Halloween and that it was just derived from our very own Kalabasa(squash)..:) now that I've seen a real pumpkin, again I thought it was a miniature man-made for display for Halloween...well, it's my first time to see this pumpkin, I was like, is this real? :)hahaha and I didn't realize that they grew as big as this ...:)since I used to just seeing this in pictures and thought that they just exaggerated the size of this vegetable in pictures.
But really, why is pumpkin, becomes part of the symbol of Halloween?

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Some people here in North America, uses pumpkin to decorate their garage...which I had fun lookin...and also enjoys the different pumpkin foods available like cake,soup,cookies, pie, candies...name it...and even tried Pumpkin Cafe Latte in Starbucks...:) it only shows the abundance of Pumpkins around here ...
So, maybe they still believed the old saying that pumpkin was originally
associated with harvest time in general here in America. So, maybe that's the reason why up until now they still use to relate pumpkin to harvest time. Not really for Halloween. Hmmm...just a thought...

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But, I'm really amazed how this vegetable can be so huge and can be so tiny...:)

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