I came home today to find the most disgusting waste of a good Oreo. To be fair, I did not taste the cookie. Frankly, I did not even go near the package except to take the picture. I have an aversion to anything pumpkin spice. At one time, I may have had a pumpkin spice drink from Starbucks, but that was it. Why must we have pumpkin spice everything?
One my favorite pies at Thanksgiving is pumpkin pie, I truly love it. However, that does not mean I will automatically like pumpkin spice, coffee pumpkin spice bread, or pumpkin spice Oreos. Please leave the Oreos as they are—chocolate or vanilla. They don’t need to be made more creative. I have gotten to the point of disliking Pumpkin Spice candles.
Pumpkin Spice does not say “It’s Fall!” to me. What it signals is the beginning of a season where everything has a pumpkin flavor to it. It is the beginning of the season where all of the cool people dictate what a marketer found to be a great idea to make more money because somebody else added pumpkin to raise their sales. I was even at the PX gas station the other day where they were offering Pumpkin Spice to the gas station coffee—if the coffee wasn’t bad enough!
There is my venting on pumpkin spice. I am completely over the trend. Can the companies selling the flavors take a break next year? Can the Pumpkin Nightmare be over? At least after thanksgiving, I won’t have to see it again until next September.