You must know this by now or else you really are slow, still, there is a chance this might have gone past you; pumpkin puree for pumpkin pie that says right on the tin "pumpkin" is actually a large tan oblong squash.
What is the difference between pumpkins, squashes and gourds? They are all in the same family with cucumbers.
The pumpkins used for Jack-O-Lanterns are smaller, watery, stringy, tasteless, less meaty, vapid and less worth the effort. They are called "decorative" in the pumpkin-squash industry. They are not good for pies. Peer-ee-ud. While the larger meatier tan, not orange, Dickinson squash are significantly tastier and more productive per squash.
At harvest, the plants are a mess. A truck goes down the line and picks up the plants, chops them and flings them to the side while pushing the large squashes to the other side in a row. Then another machine comes along and picks up the line of squashes and flings them into the back of a larger carrier truck following alongside. The large tan pumpkins go flying through the air filling up the truck.
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