Pumpkins are used for food (pies, desserts, toasted seeds), and as decorations, whether or not they are carved as at Halloween.
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pumpkin soup or rissoto
Pumpkins can be used for many things like pumpkin pies, and are even associated with Cinderella, but what is the main use of pumpkins? Jack-o'-lanterns of course! It is said that 99 percent of pumpkins are used to carve jack-o'-lanterns for Halloween!
there's a rumour that people use pumpkins as decorations to keep vampires away from houses during Halloween
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Halloween lanterns are traditionally made from pumpkins; some people use plastic imitation pumpkins.
for Halloween they use them for jack-a-lanterns
The Irish used pumpkins for Halloween but when they went to America they did not have pumpkins so they used onions instead. Gradually the use of pumpkins or jack-o-lanterns have become more popular.
Turnips.
Yes, that is why there are JackO'laterns at Halloween using pumpkins. When the Irish immigrants came to the colonies they began to use the pumpkin instead of a turnip for the lantern as they did in Ireland.