I like a lot of vegetables, and I should really eat a lot more of them instead of junk food. Brussels sprouts are a favourite.
Jack, I'd heard that Americans don't eat pumpkin except in pumpkin pie. It's maybe one of those funny urban myth things. If I'm cooking up a roast I will throw potatoes, pumpkin and orange sweet potato in the oven and the pumpkin is maybe my favourite out of those. Maybe Americans are just averse to eating boiled, mashed or roasted lumps of plain pumpkin.
In the Philippines they have a lot of purple sweet potato (ube) flavoured everything. Cake, ice cream, candy. At the airport you used to see Filipinos heading overseas (for work presumably) with boxes of ube ice cream packed in dry ice, not sure if they put them in cargo or carry on or what.
While pumpkin and pumpkin spice are highly marked flavors during the holidays, in home cooking it probably isn't commonly eaten plain as a vegetable, more generally used for sweet baked goods, pie, bread, muffins, cheesecake, pancakes, and what not.
