This is the pumpkin most of us make our pie with

[Kaleva]

It's a Libby's Select variety. The meat of a pumpkin most of us think of is too tough to use as a pie filling.

[Tobin S.]

1. Cool!

Learn something new every day.

[Brother Buzz]

2. Wow, I've seen fields of them in my area; vines dead and the squash just waiting to be harvested

I just assumed it was a weird variety of butter squash

[rurallib]

3. My daughter used to live where they made the pies

Morton Illinois (right near Washington that just got leveled).
The smell of that town every fall was quite delightful.

[lumpy]

4. By George, I've cooked those (boiled) thinking they were squash, didn't tell the difference.

[Art_from_Ark]

5. I grew my own pumpkins one year

I heated one or two in the oven, scooped out the meat, pureed it with a food processor, followed the recipe and made a couple of decent pumpkin pies. They looked a little different from the standard pumpkin pie, but they were quite yummy.