Squash vs squash & Courgette vs Marrow

[karadekoolaid]

I'm not understanding the squash correlation?

"Squash" in the UK is a drink, usually made from oranges. Could be an orange syrup, which you pour into a glass then add water, or a bottle ready prepared.
As a kid, I never had fresh orange juice; it was always orange squash.
I'm amazed that it's still produced, but it is:
Orange squash
I distinctly recall a friend from uni going to the US on holiday and asking for squash and biscuits ( UK translation: orange drink and cookies) and wondering what the heck had happened when he got pumpkin and scones.

 

[karadekoolaid]

Orange squash as I think you may have already worked out, it's a type of flavoured, coloured sugar in liquid form filled with preservatives and E numbers, fed to kids to make them hyperactive...

That explains it all. I was brought up on it.

 

[JAS_OH1]

I distinctly recall a friend from uni going to the US on holiday and asking for squash and biscuits ( UK translation: orange drink and cookies) and wondering what the heck had happened when he got pumpkin and scones.

Wwll that's odd in that no one here calls a pumpkin a squash. If you were to ask for squash you'd likely get yellow summer squash.

 

[karadekoolaid]

Wwll that's odd in that no one here calls a pumpkin a squash.

That was way back in the 70s. My buddy had probably never seen anything like a summer squash, so whatever he was given, he identified as "pumpkin" !

 

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

That was way back in the 70s. My buddy had probably never seen anything like a summer squash, so whatever he was given, he identified as "pumpkin" !

Squash was late onto the radar in the UK wasn’t it!

 

[TastyReuben]

That was way back in the 70s. My buddy had probably never seen anything like a summer squash, so whatever he was given, he identified as "pumpkin" !

Yep, I do remember a couple of the locals using “pumpkin” as a generic term for squash, and that was the ‘90’s. Used to throw me during the potlucks.

 

[JAS_OH1]

That was way back in the 70s. My buddy had probably never seen anything like a summer squash, so whatever he was given, he identified as "pumpkin" !

They didn't have courgettes in the UK in the 70s?

Yep, I do remember a couple of the locals using “pumpkin” as a generic term for squash, and that was the ‘90’s. Used to throw me during the potlucks.

I always heard the term "gourds" growing up.

 

[TastyReuben]

They didn't have courgettes in the UK in the 70s?

I think it’s just hard, winter squashes that get lumped into “pumpkin.”

 

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

They didn't have courgettes in the UK in the 70s?

I can’t remember as far as I can dredge the memory banks we always had ratatouille so maybe we had courgette then too.
Brits also grew a lot of marrows back then, much to my chagrin.

 

[JAS_OH1]

I think it’s just hard, winter squashes that get lumped into “pumpkin.”

They were always gourds in our house except for the softer squashes.

Pumpkin means something entirely different in rural areas of some states. Jerry Lee Lewis knows what I'm talkin' 'bout.

 

[JAS_OH1]

I can’t remember as far as I can dredge the memory banks we always had ratatouille so maybe we had courgette then too.
Brits also grew a lot of marrows back then, much to my chagrin.

Okay, in my world marrow is inside of bones. Could you please not make me giggle it?

 

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

Okay, in my world marrow is inside of bones. Could you please not make me giggle it?

It’s a type of great big courgette (zucchini) that IMO does not benefit from being grown to the size they’re grown to.

 

[JAS_OH1]

It’s a type of great big courgette (zucchini) that IMO does not benefit from being grown to the size they’re grown to.

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Oh yes indeed. The seeds are horrible and they're very woody. People here make a sweet bread loaf out of them with cinnamon and brown sugar. I'm not a fan of zucchini bread.

 

[karadekoolaid]

They didn't have courgettes in the UK in the 70s?

Probably, but most people thought "vegetables"were potatoes, parsnips, swede, marrow, carrots, green beans and those lovely foreign things, peppers.

 

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

Probably, but most people thought "vegetables"were potatoes, parsnips, swede, marrow, carrots, green beans and those lovely foreign things, peppers.

Don’t forget good ol’ cabbage and cauliflower.
Although I’m pleased to see peas are missing from the list

Edit: Oh and turnip, Baldricks favourite!