"Oh, are you from the past too?" She was from the past as well, sort of. There was a definite difference between 1988 and 2014.

"It's a type of gourd. Americans like making food out of it and during Halloween they scoop out its seeds and carve a face into it." Again, not a British custom, or if it was, it wasn't one she's done before, but it was one she'd like to try herself sometime.

"Would you like to see?"