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Peter Peter pumpkin eater,
Had a wife and couldn't keep her!
He put her in a pumpkin shell,
And there he kept her very well!
American
origins...
The lyrics of this nursery rhyme (unlike so many others) are not
based in Europe, but in America. This rhyme is known of by British
children but is only in recent years that it has become clear
exactly what a pumpkin is! As it is not indigenous to the British
shores the vast majority of the British population have never
eaten pumpkin! The tradition of dressing up for Halloween (and the
subsequent use of the pumpkin for making lanterns) together with
'Trick or Treat' |
