Has anyone noticed that there's Pumpkin Spiced everything these days? Seriously, every time I turn around this month, I'm presented with another pumpkin-flavored something. Pumpkin coffee, pumpkin cookies, pumpkin gum (no joke), pumpkin ice cream, pumpkin coffee creamer, pumpkin donuts...the list goes on forever.
I can get behind the pumpkin craze to a degree. I'm a fan of using canned pumpkin as a substitute in baking. I love pumpkin pie and pumpkin seeds. And I have three pumpkin spiced products that I do look forward to every year (which I'll show in a second). But do I really need a pumpkin scone and a pumpkin biscotti to go with my pumpkin spiced latte while I'm putting on my pumpkin eye shadow (did you think I was kidding)?
However, since pumpkin is all the rage right now (it is October after all!), I thought I'd share my three favorite Pumpkin Spiced items on the market right now.
(1) The Pumpkin Spice Latte from Starbucks. It's the classic. It's what I blame for the pumpkin spice ALL THE THINGS trend we've got going on. And it's orange (a fact I only recently discovered since I normally get these bad boys hot and never see the liquid...),
(2) Blue Moon Harvest Pumpkin Ale. I'll admit, I'm not a big flavored beer fan. Beer is beer; let's leave it at that. But this is like a stereotypical autumn night in a bottle. Even if you're a SoCal native like me and the closest you come to fall foliage and hay bales and actually needing a scarf is a trip to Julian (where, admit it, you're still mostly faking it), this is everything that's promised on TV holiday specials.
(3) Eggo Seasons Pumpkin Spice. The item that made me go "seriously? are we going to Pumpkin Spice EVERYTHING now" and that I threw into my cart as a joke (they were on sale that year) is now the must-have, can't wait until I see it in the stores "Fall treat" that I long for every year. But feel free to ignore the eggnog ones at Christmas. Those are gross.
So what about you? Are you crazy for the Pumpkin Spice trend? Ready for it to go away? Wish there was a different flavor that was sprinkled into everything this season? Share your thoughts with us!
