Frazz by Jef Mallett for October 07, 2023

Its been called Pumpkin PIE Spice for years and was made up by the people who brought you Pumpkin Pie Filling, and Thanksgiving!

Clever kid?

Kid nailed Frazz and Frazz nailed the source. Another artificial construct aided by the you ain’t cool if you don’t buy it ad hype. Yeck.

Most of these kind of things are at least partly about marketing: How can they (as a person or company) take advantage of this particular thing?

Worse use of pumpkin spice – in beer.

All I know is it would be nice to be able to enjoy it year-round when the mood hits, instead of having it rammed down our throats until we’re sick of it. What boneheads decided you can only sell pumpkin spice in the fall? Ditto peppermint ice cream.

I guess that one never sees a pumpkin in an obvious summer scene.

I can do without the Pumpkin Spice Preparation H, thank you very much.

Cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves and ginger. Nutmeg actually has hallucinogenic properties. This concoction was featured in an episode of Elementary.

ELEMENTARY: SEASON 3, EPISODE 7 – The Adventure of the Nutmeg Concoction

In our area grocery store the scented pine cones dispel the smell of pumpkin spice.

As along as it has caffeine, people will go for anything that coffee companies will put out.

See the Babylon Bee article, “Ships Arrive From The Orient Laden With Pumpkin Spice”.

Whatever happened to apple cinnamon being the scent of fall?

Start pumpkins plants from seeds in the spring, by mid autumn, you’ll have full-grown, fully ripened pumpkins.

All produce is seasonal.

“Pumpkin pie spice is similar to the British and Commonwealth mixed spice. It is generally a blend of ground cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, cloves, and sometimes allspice.” Wikipedia

There is not even any pumpkin in it.

My husband had pumpkin beer some years ago.. though I don’t know if it was plain pumpkin, or pumpkin spice!

Why pumpkins in the fall? Ever see them in the spring? They’re either tiny seeds and unremarkable or leftovers from the previous fall and thus disgusting.

It goes in pumpkin pie, which is traditionally served at Thanksgiving, and then somebody got the bright idea of marketing it as a flavoring for other things seasonally, and voila, a trend was born.