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And actually butternut also makes great pie (and soup and anything else you do with pumpking. Also, most commercial canned pumpkin is actually a mixture of pumpkin and various squash)

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Again, he ain't got nuffin' on sprouts.

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OK, don't @ me. I see my error.

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Oh I will, too. But in fairness, Lincoln was only formalizing a long running celebration of a massacre which happened so the settlers could steal land. Enjoy.

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Pancetta and sun-dried tomatoes, among other things.

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Agreed. I use butternut squash in place of pumpkin when I make a "pumpkin" roll.

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Droooooooool.

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Plus the price of olive oil has come down. Thank you, Rome!

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"Hi. May we come in and smoke a bowl and tell you about the Book of Mormon?"

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That explains why one drumstick is longer than the other-- that's the downslope leg.

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But mountain-grown turkey is "da richest kind."

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You like Gilbert and Sullivan?

https://www.youtube.com/wat...

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I'll bet you're a lot of fun at parties.

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We had to memorize that bit of Julius Caesar 10th grade, but I don't remember it sounding so stupid.

People are saying, though, that Shakespeare is being recognized more and more.

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Royal Navy libelz!1!1!1 A tot is about twice as big as a shot and the rum should about 55% also, too. Alas the rum ration was stopped in the 1970s, but sodomy and the lash are apparently still available.

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