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The Truth About This So-Called Pumpkin Shortage
Although University of Illinois professor Mohammad Babadoost was widely quoted telling the Associated Press: “I would not wait until Nov. 20 [to buy canned pumpkin], I’d buy it whenever it comes to the store,” he tells Eat This, Not That! magazine that the reporters “added their flair” and the message got misconstrued: Though there are fewer pumpkins to go around than in the past, he doesn’t anticipate that canned pumpkin will be hard to come by.
