why do i hate that artist thing that people keep posting on my facebook so much? why am i such a jerk?

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libby's and mccormick deserve our ire not the innocent pumpkin.

mattresslessness, Tuesday, 16 September 2014 21:47 (nine years ago) link

word. 'pumpkin' is code for cinnamon now basically.

Bitterer than Bitter (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 16 September 2014 21:48 (nine years ago) link

pumpkin curry can be wonderful. i like food.

― mattresslessness, Tuesday, 16 September 2014 22:45 (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

pumpkin makes cats poop

― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Tuesday, 16 September 2014 22:46 (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

food...dope...shit...yowl...nah sorry can't make this work

Branwell with anNe (wins), Tuesday, 16 September 2014 21:51 (nine years ago) link

xp orange cinnamon. really though i like it too :(. supermarket pumpkin chocolate chip cookies are 50/50 super gross and yet i buy them like 10 x every year, they're always on the cute table at the edge of bread territory, irresistible.

mattresslessness, Tuesday, 16 September 2014 21:54 (nine years ago) link

freshly made feel-better garbage

mattresslessness, Tuesday, 16 September 2014 21:55 (nine years ago) link

ravioli di zucca (pumpkin-stuffed ravioli) is the sickest

also roti with pumpkin rules

socki (s1ocki), Wednesday, 17 September 2014 22:53 (nine years ago) link

pumpkin spice lattes are fucking weird and gross tho

socki (s1ocki), Wednesday, 17 September 2014 22:53 (nine years ago) link

srsly. gingerbread or gtfo.

resulting post (rogermexico.), Thursday, 18 September 2014 06:55 (nine years ago) link

wait so all this time I've been thinking you freaks drink pumpkin flavored coffee and it's just cinnamon and allspice? huh.

the Bronski Review (Trayce), Thursday, 18 September 2014 08:01 (nine years ago) link

Ikr
Took me a while to figure that one out when I moved over there in Halloween time

kinder, Thursday, 18 September 2014 08:06 (nine years ago) link

Pumpkin spice latte

carl agatha, Thursday, 18 September 2014 11:35 (nine years ago) link

It should probably be called pumpkin pie spice latte though. I wonder why they didn't?

Anyway, I know there are Starbucks in London, at least. Do they not offer the pumpkin spice latte? It's really good.

In closing, I've had pumpkin beer that was just pumpkin, not pumpkin spice, and it was grrrrrross.

carl agatha, Thursday, 18 September 2014 11:42 (nine years ago) link

Lol Starbucks are on every high street in the land. I dunno if they do pumpkin anything, haven't ever seen it iirc but they do do gingerbread etc. they also do Tazo brands tea which is weird bc you don't really get that anywhere in the UK. Luckily Tazo 'awake' was my default in the U.S anyway because it's half-decent.

kinder, Thursday, 18 September 2014 12:20 (nine years ago) link

I know there are Starbucks in London, at least. Do they not offer the pumpkin spice latte?

For all I know it does, but I would hazard a guess that it doesn't, as nobody would know what it was. Calling it pumpkin pie spice latte wouldn't help either, as I am pretty sure I know precisely 0 British people who have ever eaten a pumpkin pie. Calling it "cinnamon and allspice" might help. But you've been able to have cinnamon on coffee for ages, what makes it so weird and on-trend and "stuff white girls like" right now?

emil.y, Thursday, 18 September 2014 12:33 (nine years ago) link

pumpkin pie isn't a thing in the UK?

Mordy, Thursday, 18 September 2014 13:00 (nine years ago) link

squanto gave it to us

j., Thursday, 18 September 2014 13:01 (nine years ago) link

No, we don't eat pumpkin, as a rule. Starbucks does the pumpkin lattes, though.

Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Thursday, 18 September 2014 13:01 (nine years ago) link

you poor things

Mordy, Thursday, 18 September 2014 13:07 (nine years ago) link

We are simple folks, happy with butternut squash.

People carve pumpkins and generally throw the insides away.

Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Thursday, 18 September 2014 13:09 (nine years ago) link

there is some kind of indoctrination aspect to how much americans like pumpkin pie. the insidious pumpkin lobby at work for decades no doubt. i mean, it's not bad - it's pie after all - but the list of sweet pies i would rather have before pumpkin is approx all of the pies. if you are at thanksgiving and you have the choice between pumpkin and pecan pie and you choose pumpkin, someone has fucked with your brain. that is scientific fact.

Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 18 September 2014 13:13 (nine years ago) link

idk it's not like anyone says "as american as pumpkin pie"

Mordy, Thursday, 18 September 2014 13:14 (nine years ago) link

pumpkin lobby is smarter than that, cmon mordz

Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 18 September 2014 13:16 (nine years ago) link

I just eat both pies tbrr xp

⌘-B (mh), Thursday, 18 September 2014 13:20 (nine years ago) link

that is also scientific fact tbf

Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 18 September 2014 13:21 (nine years ago) link

I am not fond of pumpkin pie.

Jeff, Thursday, 18 September 2014 13:57 (nine years ago) link

Gourds.

pplains, Thursday, 18 September 2014 13:58 (nine years ago) link

have some gourd-flavored coffee, you dumb American.

pplains, Thursday, 18 September 2014 13:58 (nine years ago) link

I figured the PSL's were to the rest of the world what Americans think when they see calimari burgers available at a Thailand McDonalds.

pplains, Thursday, 18 September 2014 13:58 (nine years ago) link

what makes it so weird and on-trend and "stuff white girls like" right now?

I don't know. It's been around for years, beloved by Americans of all genders and races. I'm guessing it's a combo of that joke upthread making the rounds, and other purveyors of flavored coffee jumping on the pumpkin spice bandwagon making the flavor seem suddenly ubiquitous.

nb: I am eating a pumpkin spice and flaxseed crunchy granola bar right now. Also pumpkin pie is easily my favorite pie.

carl agatha, Thursday, 18 September 2014 14:00 (nine years ago) link

People carve pumpkins and generally throw the insides away.

― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Thursday, September 18, 2014 1:09 PM (50 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The pumpkins sold for carving are terrible for eating. If you want to make a pie with fresh pumpkin, you need to get sugar pumpkins or pie pumpkins.

carl agatha, Thursday, 18 September 2014 14:01 (nine years ago) link

The seeds are good for roasting though!

how's life, Thursday, 18 September 2014 14:01 (nine years ago) link

Yes!

Pumpkins are great. Winter squash in general is great. brb I'm going to put on some yoga pants and whisper all of the reasons I love fall.

I'm white, btw.

carl agatha, Thursday, 18 September 2014 14:03 (nine years ago) link

i feel like this is an important piece of the pumpkin/yoga/women puzzle

http://www.bathandbodyworks.com/graphics/product_images/pBBW1-19118817v275.jpg

Mordy, Thursday, 18 September 2014 14:06 (nine years ago) link

This too:

http://fortune.com/2014/09/15/pumpkin-aphrodisiac/

how's life, Thursday, 18 September 2014 14:07 (nine years ago) link

Oh, that article doesn't actual talk about the study that shows that pumpkin pie aroma increased penile blood flow. Read the articles before linking to them hl.

how's life, Thursday, 18 September 2014 14:09 (nine years ago) link

i wonder if the backlash against pumpkin coffee is similar to the backlash against pumpkin beer. 50% ppl who genuinely think the taste is not as good as all the seasonal hype, and 50% jerks who believe *real beer* or *real coffee* is manly, and spicing it up w/ pumpkin is a move for women who may not otherwise like the normal tastes of those beverages (i've definitely heard ppl refer to like mike's hard lemonade and other sweet alcoholic beverages as 'girly drinks' and like frappachinos and stuff as 'girly coffees' so maybe it's a similar phenomenon regarding pumpkin drinks).

Mordy, Thursday, 18 September 2014 14:12 (nine years ago) link

the pumpkin spice epidemic is bad enough that I was willing to believe the pumpkin spice condom image was real

⌘-B (mh), Thursday, 18 September 2014 14:14 (nine years ago) link

Ugh I bet that pumpkin apple candle smells wretched. Just looking at the jar is giving me a headache.

Mordy, I bet you are OTM about girly drinks backlash.

carl agatha, Thursday, 18 September 2014 14:17 (nine years ago) link

I'm british, I've eaten pumpkin pie, it ranges from ok to grim. (nowhere near as good as all of our Christmas food that they don't get in the U.S., but don't tell them that)

kinder, Thursday, 18 September 2014 14:28 (nine years ago) link

but pumpkin pie isn't christmas food. it's thanksgiving food.

Mordy, Thursday, 18 September 2014 14:29 (nine years ago) link

Otoh we don't get Burmese pumpkin curry although we can buy kobucha squashes in Waitrose, which is what the curry ie actually made from...

kinder, Thursday, 18 September 2014 14:30 (nine years ago) link

Xp yeah but our Christmas season starts about now and we don't have Thanksgiving.

kinder, Thursday, 18 September 2014 14:31 (nine years ago) link

I made a pumpkin pie last year, it was somewhere between a custard tart and a treacle tart (and it's a tart, obviously, not a pie).

The confusion about pumpkin latte has come about imo due to the American idiom of calling some foodstuffs what they're used with, not what they're made from (see also Duck Sauce, which is plum sauce to the rest of the world).

and she's crying in a stairwell in Devon (aldo), Thursday, 18 September 2014 14:49 (nine years ago) link

Coffee cake

kinder, Thursday, 18 September 2014 14:54 (nine years ago) link

a pumpkin pie is a terrific pie

fruit ← ⟨“apple”, “banana”, “orange”⟩ (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 18 September 2014 15:02 (nine years ago) link

whereas I once had nachos around christmas time in london, and these london christmas nachos were awful let me tell you

fruit ← ⟨“apple”, “banana”, “orange”⟩ (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 18 September 2014 15:04 (nine years ago) link

steak fries

⌘-B (mh), Thursday, 18 September 2014 15:06 (nine years ago) link


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