Oh good grief! 
Although I must say, as of recently (last few months perhaps??) I have seen shredded chicken in a can here in Aus. Just can’t quite wrap my head around a whole chicken.
I had the same reaction to the spotted dick in a can I ran across in the foreign foods aisle yesterday. Is this actually an imported product, or is Heinz purely trying to cash in on the Homesick Brit market?
I’ve heard a number of cooking authorities claim that pumpkin pie made from canned pumpkin tastes far better to them than a pie made from scratch. A quick google search turns up lots of articles like this.
The only made-from-scratch pumpkin pie I’ve ever (knowingly) eaten was terrible, but I think it had far bigger problems than the origin of the pumpkin. So I can’t really say I have an opinion one way or the other, simply due to lack of data.
Pumpkin pie itself is very rare here too. I’ve never tasted it.
We did it a few times and honestly if you have a good recipe it’s no better or worse, it’s was pretty much the same. We decided it was just too much work and the result wasn’t any better.
Yeah, but they aren’t as much fun to carve after they’ve been canned.
Given that winter squash* is fairly common in the US, why wouldn’t we have canned squash? It’s cooked and mashed before canning. You Oz lot don’t have canned vegetables?
*late season, long-storage squashes such as pumpkin, butternut squash, and acorn squash.
A friend of mine from the Melbourne, Australia area is currently visiting Canada and just had her first piece of pumpkin pie this week. Her review: Eh, it was okay. I wouldn’t eat it all the time.
I once made pumpkin pie from scratch, and it was pretty bad. This is one of the few cases where a canned food is better than the fresh version.
For those who haven’t tasted pumpkin pie: it’s actually a kind of custard pie with pureed pumpkin mixed into the filling. It is almost always made with a combination of “sweet” spices including cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice and ginger.
Well you better let him out!
This may be the saddest thing I’ve ever read.
Ah yes, but we havepavlova.
Yeah, but one of those counties, Montgomery, has over a million people and close to 20% of the state population.
I’ve lived my whole life in Montgomery County save a year in LA. Having to go to a government-run liquor store to buy any kind of beer/wine/liquor is totally normal to me, and when I went out to LA and saw all the alcohol at Vons and Target, my eyes almost bugged out of my head. “What, they just leave it laying around like this in the middle of the store?” was my astonished reaction.
Well, but in some states I think it can only be sold in little one-oz. servings. 
Cookbooks always admonish that one should use small pumpkins for pie. Bad scratch pie might have been mistakenly made from an enormous would-be Jack O’Lantern.
O only a man who never had pumpkin could say that. Yuck.
Well, neither do North Americans - we have it once or twice a year here (on Thanksgiving mostly). I love pumpkin pie myself - mmm mmm good.
Or sweet potato pie.
Just sayin’.
Or green tomato pie.
Or pecan pie.
Or sugar pie.
Or peanut butter pie.
Oh hey **Swampspruce **- Hill won’t let you do that nomo. Seems SOME people were buying enough for a few parties’ worth and even reselling it so there’s limits now. They still have those cute ‘STRONG BEER’ warning stickers on them, though. Precious.
Well, I don’t like eating pumpkin as a vegetable, but I love pumpkin pie. This is akin to my hating buttermilk but loving buttermilk doughnuts.