Pumpkins at Morning and Pumpkins at Noon

"If fresh meat is wanting to fill up our dish
We have carrots and turnips whenever we wish.
For pottage and puddings and custards and pies
Our pumpkins and parsnips are common supplies;
We have pumpkins at morning and pumpkins at noon,
If'twere not for pumpkins we should be undoone."

~ "Guide to Plymouth", William S. Russell (1846)

Note: Mr. Russell says of this poem,
"...composed about 1630 and taken from the lips of an old lady
at the advanced age of ninety-six!"

(Image: "Autumn Cloisters" by P. Buckley Moss)