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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