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

Gourds.

have some gourd-flavored coffee, you dumb American.

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.

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.

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.

The seeds are good for roasting though!

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.

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

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

This too:

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

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.

http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/pumpkin-pie-smell-stimulates-arousal-men-scent-sexy-aphrodisiac-study-article-1.451682

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).

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

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.

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)

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

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...

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

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).

Coffee cake

a pumpkin pie is a terrific pie

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

steak fries

Trader Joe's now has Austrian pumpkin seed oil. If you do not know it, buy it and put some on a salad on maybe a fresh mozerellaCaprese salad kind of thing or put it in a soup. That stuff rules.

PUMPKIN

http://wac.450f.edgecastcdn.net/80450F/wgna.com/files/2012/11/Picture-307-630x472.jpg

pubkin pie dispender

My mother-in-law bakes us pumpkin pies all year.

what a delightful woman. please send her my regards.

http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/hecho-en-illinois/Content?oid=923678

Almost all the canned pumpkin in the U.S. comes from downstate Morton. Most of the people who pack it come from the tiny Mexican town of La Soledad.

worth a read

pumpkins are great, they taste great and also make cats poop

https://scontent-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xaf1/v/t1.0-9/1921955_10152348946710827_4836573905466567455_n.jpg?oh=a949063807e96e36acb099ae399e69ac&oe=54CECE90

quality drop shadow there on garfield, glad they took the time for that

had no idea garfield was from the south, this changes everything

Davis is from Indiana, which is definitely one of the souths of the north.

prove it

anyway I am from very northern indiana and I balk at indiana being southern

i was at a bus stop in gary once, gary is a p southern name

birthplace of famous country & western musician michael jackson

gary is the dumbest name for a city. the rest of the names have to be named bruce and carl and stuff or else.

Wilson Pickett was from Alabama, Sufjan.

had no idea there was an alabama in sufjan

Works oddly well to the ''Gary, Indiana'' tune actually

Sufjan, Alabama. Born and raised.

sweet potato pie >> pumpkin pie, mostly b/c of texture.

no idea about sweet potato lattes tho

you can eat as many pies as you want

helps cats poop

my cat eats too many envelopes sometimes and then needs help with that

she's stopped eating the pumpkin unfortunately and still isn't pooping :(

http://i.imgur.com/3QGXJYo.jpg