I can't imagine being drunk enough to try this.
Posted on 11/26/2014 9:37:38 AM PST by cyclotic
It used to be easy for people like Kristen D’Amico, who can’t stand the taste of pumpkin pie. She merely had to say no to a slice of it on Thanksgiving Day.
Not anymore.
A rising tide of products flavored with pumpkin pie spice has flooded grocery store shelves and restaurant menus, and not just near her home in Deltona, Fla. Friends tease the 34-year-old stay-at-home mother with gleeful photos and text messages about pumpkin lattes, coffee creamers and pies. Relatives mock her, she says, at Thanksgiving dinner for shunning pumpkin in all its forms.
The pumpkin craze “really is an epidemic,” she says, adding that she must have missed the indoctrination session where people “were brainwashed, and I’m like, ‘What’s wrong with these people?’ ”
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I don’t much like pumpkin pie and never buy pumpkin spice anything. But I can imagine using small pumpkins like squash, cut in chunks, roasted in the oven with olive oil, garlic, and basil.
Will Starbucks make garlic and basil coffee?.
That reminds me, I hope Michael’s is finally done with those cinnamon soaked pine cones this year. Those things smell nasty, and that big bin of them they keep putting out makes half the store smell gross. I don’t know about the smell of Christmas, but self defense spray density synthetic cinnamon I can live without.
Well, there ya go!
“MODERATION” LOL!
Except none of the things on your list are actually using pumpkins. Pumpkin pie mix is almost all squash (you’ve got to work hard to find actual pumpkin pumpkin pie mix, it’s good for bowel health), and all the “pumpkin spice” stuff uses the spices you put in pumpkin pie but no pumpkin (or even squash). So we still don’t have any actual use for pumpkins other than temporary art.
Yes, there are 4 Starbucks all within one block of my office.
When I want coffee, I walk two blocks to a very good independent coffee shop. They have signs up there ridiculing the Pumpkin Spice craze.
My wife makes an excellent pumpkin bread- although I do like her zucchini bread even better. Pumpkin is a winter squash variety, while zucchini is a summer squash, so technically pumpkin bread is more appropriate to the season.
I can't imagine being drunk enough to try this.
It’s just chemicals. Do you really think they are adding actual pumpkin to any of this stuff?
You would change your mind after trying my pumpkin muffins ;P
The chef is here. Good eats for everyone.
"Ceterum censeo 0bama esse delendam."
'La bonne cuisine est la base du véritable bonheur.' - Auguste Escoffier
(Good food is the foundation of genuine happiness.)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
My husband also hates Pumpkin he calls it a “Vile Weed”. I on the other hand love it but never sip any artificial coffee drinks from Starbucks.
Re-read number 12.
A legitimate use for Pumpkins.
That’s like the other one I heard. A golf course is a waste of a good rifle range.
For awhile, back in the mid-sixties, a DC cop told me Vitalis and Squirt was the cocktail of choice among the sidewalk connoisseurs being cheaper than Gallo Tawny Port.
I like my coffee to taste like coffee, so I agree! :-)
Pretty tasty, that.
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