Why do white American people hate pumpkin soup?

[rareboy]

I think one of the things about pumpkin is that it pairs so well with butter and cream to round out the meat or vegetable stock and is lovely and velvety when pureed.

 

[luckynumbah7]

^ Indeed. Is it plain pumpkin or are there pumpkin spices added? Plain pumpkin tastes nothing like pumpkin pie. (Just ask my brother. His wife opened a tin of pumpkin pie filling, poured it into the pastry shell, and baked it. Apparently it didn't taste like the pies that my mother used to make.)

Pre-made pumpkin pie filling is a crime against the taste buds!

 

[gsdx]

^ I'm speaking of raw, mashed pumpkin in a can. There is no seasoning in it. My mother used to use it all the time except when we had real pumpkins at Hallowe'en.

 

[rareboy]

I have to confess that even at Thanksgiving and Christmas now we don't process our own fresh pumpkin.

Part of the issue was that it has become harder, with all the different varieties to know when you are going to get a flavourless watery pumpkin that ruins the recipe.

Since we haven't grown our own pie pumpkins for several years now...I gave up with trial and error.

 

[LoveMyPeppermill]

@Dominus, I confess to being mystified when I saw your subject line.

Have all the white people you've presented pumpkin soup to been in small-town Indiana? Certainly here in NYC, I and most people I know like pumpkin soup perfectly well when we encounter it. Butternut squash soup is even more popular.

I will say, though, that we almost always encounter it pureed, and we might be surprised when presented with a bowl of chunks in a broth. (We'd eat it nevertheless.)

 

[LoveMyPeppermill]

By the way, what are those gray bits in the soup? (I'm guessing the bits of green leaf are cilantro/coriander.)

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

^ Indeed. Is it plain pumpkin or are there pumpkin spices added? Plain pumpkin tastes nothing like pumpkin pie. (Just ask my brother. His wife opened a tin of pumpkin pie filling, poured it into the pastry shell, and baked it. Apparently it didn't taste like the pies that my mother used to make.)

that is sooooo something I would do

 

[rareboy]

BTW

We just made a fall soup that include pumpkin and kale as well as lots of other nummy things....

 

[gsdx]

Name the movie: "Birdie num-nums."

 

[Thad1527]

This review of canned pumpkin mentions, at the end, coconut curry pumpkin soup. She prefers Trader Joe's canned pumpkin to make it. Since it's pureed, maybe it doesn't receive the aversion the OP's pictured soup gets.

The Best Canned Pumpkin Puree to Buy

We tried all the canned pumpkin we could get our hands on and these are the brands worth buying for baking, savory dishes and even for people who don't love pumpkin.

www.allrecipes.com

 

[rareboy]

Sounds delicious....

 

[rareboy]

 

[pigface]

Name the movie: "Birdie num-nums."

It's P.S. isn't it? One of his early ones.

 

[gsdx]

^ Yes, Directed by Blake Edwards. Hrundi V. Bakshi.

 

[NotHardUp1]

I will say, though, that we almost always encounter it pureed, and we might be surprised when presented with a bowl of chunks in a broth. (We'd eat it nevertheless.)

I'm quite sure that a LOT of today's picky eaters wouldn't eat potato soup if it were in broth instead of cream or thickened mash.