I haven't had any trouble finding it. I actually eat canned pumpkin with cinnamon as a snack on most days. It's packed with fiber and vitamin A.

It's pretty available still. But, the day before TG could be another story!

It's like snow in the forecast. Now everyone is going to run out and buy pumpkin! It's a must have in the fall at my house for pumpkin pancake Saturdays. Forget pie.

Shortage, huh?

Canned pumpkin sales must be down so they concocted this 'shortage' ruse to create a mass hysteria to drive the demand (and thus, the price) for pumpkin up as people rush out to buy it (in October) so that they won't be without in November. But hey! There's a shortage so better pick up twice as many cans because... you never know! We might need it!

Genius. The gourd business is laughing all the way to the bank...

FYI. A friend of ours with a 40-acre farm has traditionally grown corn into summer, pumpkins into fall and Christmas trees into winter.
They have given up all three crops in the past two years because of decline in the profit margin. No more corn, pumpkins, trees. Get used to it. You're gonna have to find a way to make canned sweet potatoes do the trick for pumpkin.

Three different grocery stores here in Baltimore did not have any canned pumpkin yesterday. Today I was in Annapolis and found some at a Safeway. Tonight I got an email from a friend who lives in Arnold and she had gone to three grocery stores yesterday in her area (we were separated at birth) and was unable to find any.

It is my understanding that most canned pumpkin is really butternut or some other kind of squash.

Really? That's legal? (Assuming it says pumpkin in the ingredients list.) EL

Apparently, we are now feeling the wrath of the Great Pumpkin for not believing in him!

I've been wondering about this for a while now. The fist to go was the 15 oz size which makes one pumpkin pie (a staple in my son's diet - serving size, 1!) or one batch of Israeli pumpkin soup -- my wife's favorite take for office pot-luck lunches. Last week I was on my knees at Redners market in Hickory rifling through the bottom shelf looking for more.

target in timonium has tons of canned pumpkin!

I wonder if some hedge fund that has a bunch of futures in pumpkins isn't just putting out this shortage story to help their investment.

Giant in Timonium only had one very dented can of pumpkin on Saturday. Bought it anyway for pumpkin mushroom soup.

The boundary between squash, pumpkin and gourd is thin. This isn't the best source, but it summarizes it well.

Libby uses a type of pumpkin that is cross fertile with butternut squash. In Germany, canned pumpkin is Hubbard squash.

Elizabeth! Stay tuned. I have a pumpkin shortage story in tomorrow's Sun!--Susan Reimer

Last week I was on my knees at Redners market in Hickory rifling through the bottom shelf looking for more.

(Mental picture of The Canon in full litergical dress...)

and Turkey Breast that you cook is also hard to find. I'd like to eat something besides pork.

I've been looking for the canned pumpkin in my local Giant for a couple of weeks now with no luck. I assumed I was just early looking for it.

Canon - go back to the Redner's. There was a healthy supply when I was there on Saturday. It was at the end of an aisle just sort of piled there...

There are three things I have learned never to discuss with people: religion, politics and The Great Pumpkin.

Frodo, sweet potato pie is wonderful! My mom always made sweet potato pie rather than pumpkin. I'd kill for a sweet potato pie as good as Mom's ... it was that good! I adapt the standard pumpkin pie recipe for sweet potato and it's good, but not as good as Mom's.

Lissa, I seem to remember reading years ago that much canned pumpkin is actually hubbard squash ... something about hubbard meat being less watery than pumpkin.

Patty, I was in the Parkville Super Fresh today and saw quite a few frozen Shady Farms turkey breasts.

Dottie:
You go girl on that sweet potato pie. God bless Mom. Yum yum gimme some!

Does the US Dept of Ag recognize Hubbard squash as pumpkin? Is a kiwi a starfruit?
Is a leak an onion? What's going on here? Where's Owlmeat when you need him/her (it).

Something about the name "Shady Farms..." I'm sure at one time that sounded quaint and bucolic. Now...

After seeing the stacks of cases of Pumpkin beer at Wine World, I think I know what has happened to a lot of the supply. There must be eight or ten different breweries doing it this year.

There was plenty of Libby's canned pumpkin (both 15 oz and 29 oz) at my local Giant this evening.