Pluggers by Rick McKee for October 02, 2023

Even Gold Bond now…..but not Heel Balm…..

This should not be. It better come with a very strong warning label:

This product is not to be consumed. Do not drink it, eat it, or even smell it. Keep out of the reach of anyone who loves everything pumpkin.

I love pumpkin pie, but I cannot stand anything else that is “pumpkin pie spice” flavored.

Pumpkin Pie Spice should be for Pumpkin Pies only .

I luv Kroger Pumpkin Ice Cream

I only remember two ways you smelled pumpkin when I was growing up. One was the aroma of pumpkin pie, and the other was the smell a pumpkin had when its inside was being burned by a candle on Halloween.

Saw a garage with a sign saying “Pumpkin Spice Oil Changes.” Last time I saw it, it said, “I went to the paint store to get thinner. — It didn’t work.”

My wife began the everything pumpkin spice phase of the year 3 or so weeks ago. She usually starts around the time when the first farmer’s markets start happening at the courthouse lawn.

YUCK!

I went to Krispy Kreme this weekend for some donuts for a meeting. Half the case was filled with pumpkin spice donuts.

Most Pluggers would squash this idea.

Yesterday I had my first slice of pumpkin pie for the season, at my grandson’s 6th birthday party.

EVERY.STINKIN’.YEAR. (Like the holidays now,startin’in AUGUST!)

My late wife loved pumpkin spice everything. There was a photoshopped image of “Pumpkin Spice Charmin” going around on Facebook. I used to tease her that I was going to buy that for her.

Visiting Tucson this week, my wife saw a car wash advertise their pumpkin spice car wash. Is that rediculous or what?

From today’s Comics Curmudgeon:

They say there’s no such thing as bad publicity, but I think headlines like “Dozens of simple, down-home working-class Americans die after incorrectly parsing Pluggers panel” will not do this feature any favors.

There is a price bump in the fall when the refineries switch over from summer blend to pumpkin spice gasoline.

saw an ad for a pumpkin spice mattress sale… I think that’s taking it too far

Neither toxic compounds nor medicines should be altered to smell like treats. Look up the horrible child poisoning statistics, if you have doubts.

…even pumpkins!

Just baked up some choco-chip pumpkin cookies from our local milk delivery dairy. Not bad actually, once a year. Baked goods yes, other wise nope nope nope.

Bedrock Landscape Supply in Colorado once advertised Pumpkin Spice Compost.

I will bake him a pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving (canned pumpkin, packaged pie shell). Other than that – no pumpkin in the house. It is the symbol of something I hate – my Halloween birthday. (It is the day – not the years.)