Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for October 22, 2024

Needs an ampersand: Pumpkin & Spice. FIFY, Madison Ave.

Bert needs to talk to Sam, the grammar police.

Sam will set him straight.

I just checked the McCormick web site, and they do have a pumpkin spice. I didn’t believe it either.

That’s not the problem, it’s the deification

Pumkin spice? Bacon flavored?

Pumpkin IS a berry, however.

Linus was misinformed. It’s actually the Great Pumpkin Spice that rises a month before Halloween (at your nearest Starbucks)

It is technically a spice that goes in pumpkin pie, and a load of other things that some seem to have gotten addicted to.

Oh I’m sure Pumpkin could have joined Baby, Ginger, Sporty, Scary, and Posh if that girl group was still active.

Is Bert the alter ego of Obviousman?

“Pumpkin spice, also known as pumpkin pie spice, is a mixture of cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, allspice, and cloves. It contains no pumpkin."

Now let’s address “boneless buffalo wings”. Not made from buffalo, not wings, so why should we believe they’re boneless?

Okay … Pumpkin is not a spice.

If pumpkin were a spice saying “pumpkin spice” would be redundant.

It all depends on whose dox is gourd.

The ubiquitousness of the use of pumpkin has reached new Asian cuisine: a sign at an Asian restaurant in Germany advertised pumpkin (kurbis in German) curry.

And licorice has only one flavor.

Come to think of it, I would like to know just exactly what ingredients they use, to make “pumpkin spice.“

Every time I try to comment, I get a message “Hold on. Your comment includes word(s) on our banned list. Please edit your message and try again.” As far as I can tell, everything I say is innocuous. I can’t tell you what that is, because you keep blocking it.

I have been trying to post a comment regarding the pumpkin many of us use in making pumpkin pie to the effect that many brands use varieties of winter squash in place of or in addition to actual pumpkin. But the censor keeps banning it. I still can’t figure out what word is the culprit.

Better latte than never, Burt.

Bert never moved past pooh pooh and pee pee jokes either.

If pumpkin were a spice, it wouldn’t be very popular …

There is a variant of the pumpkin spice gimmick now that contains pumpkin purée.

Disinformation is in the eye of the liberal.

T*rkey is not a gr*vy, either. It’s just cinn*mon and nutm*g, the sp*ces you put in p*mpkin pie… My goodness! Which one of these words in on the banned list.

Some people just gotta see problems where there aren’t any.

Atta boy Bert!!!

I hate pumpkin spice anywhere but in a pie.

Bless you, Bert!!

Pumpkins are more of a seasonal thing. Thankfully seasons end. Old pumpkins are orange on the outside, hollow and rotting on the inside, and must be thrown out in early November.

Bert: “Now GET OFF OF MY SIDEWALK!”

Amen to that,Bert…..you tell’em!

Obligatory pedantry: Pumpkin spice is the spice that makes pumpkin tolerable to eat and does not include not actual pumpkin.

Bert is the salt of the earth…..

A pumpkin is a squash.

Considering the number of likes has passed 300 I get the feeling that the anti-pumpkin spice crowd gains a lot more members with each passing year.

Wonder if it is the same general group that also thinks it is a really ugly habit when stores mix Hallowe’en, Thanksgiving, and Christmas stuff on store shelves in late September.

SALLY FORTH cornered the market on this subject years ago.

Now,let’s discuss “spaghetti squash”…..

No, but Ginger, Sporty, Posh, Scary and Baby are…

Nobody ever said it was.

oh i don’t have thyme for this today

I prefer Chai Tea to pumpkin spice whatever, although I guess you could say pumpkin spice coffee is kind of like chai coffee.

The spice flavors the pumpkin. Not the spice being pumpkin flavored.

Put the cinnamon in Pumpkin Spice is.

He’s not wrong

Pumpkin spice used to be Apple pie spice.

Technically, the pumpkin becomes a spice when other ingredients are added to it. But you are correct that the pumpkin itself is not a spice.

It needs a change of venue. How about Winter Tea Spice? Or just Tea Spice so the stores can sell it year around.

Ginger, Sporty, Posh, Scary, Baby…..

Yep, no pumpkin.

Oh, if that were all that Bert had to worry about …

Bert! Coffee Cafe?