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How Old Is Pumpkin Beer? (2 Pretty Cool Things) · The Cubby and Christine Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: Okay. I need to tell you two things.
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  Speaker 2: Cubby and Christine's. Two pretty cool things. Here's a cool thing,
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  Speaker 2: a Halloween fact that sounds made up, but botanically speaking,
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  Speaker 2: a pumpkin is a berry. Scientists classify fruit by how
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  Speaker 2: it develops, and pumpkins meet the botanical definition. Even though
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  Speaker 2: they're much bigger and tougher.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, put it next to a cherry.
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  Speaker 2: They're bigger and tougher than berries. They're berries, basically. So
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  Speaker 2: this weekend, when you're carving a pumpkin, you're carving a
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  Speaker 2: giant berry.
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  Speaker 1: What? Okay.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that'd be a very ambitious fruit salad.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Or I guess it kind of makes sense. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you make pumpkin pie, you're making fruit pie.
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  Speaker 2: Fruit pie.
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  Speaker 1: Hmm. Berry pie.
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  Speaker 2: Confuse people the next couple days. I don't know. Look
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  Speaker 2: at that big berry on your doorstep.
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  Speaker 1: My brain just kind of exploded there. But I'm talking
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  Speaker 1: about pumpkins, too.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah? Yes. It's Battle of the Pumpkin Talk?
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  Speaker 1: Sort of. Did you know pumpkin beer became really popular
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  Speaker 1: in the 1980s, but it was actually early American colonists
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  Speaker 1: who brewed pumpkin ale because they didn't have enough barley.
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  Speaker 1: So pumpkin spice beer is technically older than the United States.
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  Speaker 2: Wow. That's a fun trivia question.
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  Speaker 1: Did those guys make pumpkin spice lattes, I think is
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  Speaker 1: the big question.
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  Speaker 2: We like pumpkin spice everything. And it's all going to
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  Speaker 2: be gone soon. And it'll be replaced with all the
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  Speaker 2: mint stuff, right?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, peppermint mocha. Yes, that's happening very soon.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Happy Halloween weekend.