PSA: Pumpkin existence failure
Dear writers of historical fiction,
pumpkins are exclusively a New World crop. If your story is set in the Old World before 1500, no can haz pumpkins, savvy? For dome-like structures and rolling around humorously in marketplaces, you can use melons instead, as there were cultivated plants of the genus cucurbita here, just no pumpkins and squash. Kthxbai.
- Maru
Crossposted to Dreamwidth and LJ -- comment wherever you like!
pumpkins are exclusively a New World crop. If your story is set in the Old World before 1500, no can haz pumpkins, savvy? For dome-like structures and rolling around humorously in marketplaces, you can use melons instead, as there were cultivated plants of the genus cucurbita here, just no pumpkins and squash. Kthxbai.
- Maru
Crossposted to Dreamwidth and LJ -- comment wherever you like!