Why we carve pumpkins, not turnips
Thursday, October 29, 2009 - 09:56
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Big orange veggies are pretty strange as far as holiday symbols go, but there are actual historical reasons that we carve pumpkins every Halloween.
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