One of the tricks with feeding kids in my younger days was 'Yellow Potato' - mashed potato & pumpkin.

We do have different species fo pumpkin here. Favourite is 'Queensland Blue" - a blue skinned type. Also another that used to be called 'Jap' - often grown by oriental market gardeners, I believe. Butternut is also popular. Never seen canned pumpkins in Australia, we have so many fresh ones, that I doubt anyone would try canning it.

But now with the FTA, looks like we will import all our food now, not bother processing or even growing it soon.

Robin