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As a child in the 80s UK - a gourd was the commonly used word for all squashes - and gourds were pretty rare to find in a shop. If you saw a gourd it was often
by ljf 3y ago
As a child in the 80s UK - a gourd was the commonly used word for all squashes - and gourds were pretty rare to find in a shop. If you saw a gourd it was often an ornamental dried gourd that someone would have as a gift from the states. 'Squash' was a real Americanism, and wasn't wildly used in the people I knew until the late 90s. I remember my bother working as a farm hand an bring some squashes home with hi to eat, and him having to explain them as gourdes to family/neighbours who were interested in how 'ugly' they looked.
Pumpkins were always the orange, large and round ones - and back in the 80s we still carved turnips or swedes in the North of England, as pumpkins were too expensive.
- ImprovedSilence 3y agoIm from US, and we always had a vegetable garden growing up. Names were much the same from my point of view. Gourds were mostly hard and ornamental, squash is an edible gourd, and they weren’t really too much of a thing until the internet made everything popular.
- zoky 3y agoBeing from the US, I’d say a gourd is any “hollow” squash, especially one you don’t normally eat in its normal form. So a pumpkin is both a gourd and a squash. Butternut squash is probably a gourd but definitely not a pumpkin. Zucchini is neither a gourd nor a pumpkin, but is decidedly a squash.
- rob74 3y agoIn German, all of the above are simply called "Kürbis" - except for the zucchini, which is a Zucchini...