You are the not the only person who thinks canned cranberry sauce is legit.
The Libby's plant near Morton, Ill., makes 85% of the world's canned pumpkin, enough for over 90 million pumpkin pies each year.
The factory churns out cans 24 hours a day from mid-August through October, when it closes for the season. Get Libby's pumpkin pie recipe here.
Libby’s even has its own special hybrid variety of pumpkin, which is actually looks more like squash.
It is a hybrid of the Dickinson pumpkin (pictured above) called Libby’s Select. The inside is indeed orange, but the outside is beige, meaning it looks more butternut squash than jack-o'-lantern. The company still calls it a pumpkin, though, because “Pumpkin inspires feelings,” explains Pumpkin, a book about pumpkins, “that squash does not.”
Almost three quarters of Americans serve store bought cranberry sauce rather than homemade at Thanksgiving.
“The log” makes up 75% of all cranberry sauce sales.
About 200 cranberries are used to produce each can of jellied cranberry sauce.
Also, Ocean Spray set up a temporary cranberry bog in NYC's Rockefeller Plaza earlier this year.
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