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When people first begin to carve Jack-O-Lanterns what did they use instead?

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∙ 15y ago
Updated: 11/22/2022

The English and Irish used potatoes and beets to carve scary faces on. Once they immigrated to America, they discovered the pumpkin (native to America) and found it was much better suited to carving.

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