Do you judge people who obsess over pumpkin spice? (1 Viewer)

[tomwaits]

In Soviet Russia, Pumpkin Spice judges you.

 

[Optimus Prime]

2 months too soon but whatever
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Ready or not, pumpkin spice season is here!

On Wednesday, Oreo announced that the fan-favorite pumpkin spice cookie will hit grocery shelves later this August. The returning flavor will be available starting Aug. 15 and marks the end of the summer (albeit, a bit prematurely!) with the autumnal flavor.

The limited-edition cookie is made with pumpkin spice-flavored filling sandwiched between two golden Oreos.

The onset of fall-flavored treats in the middle of summer is nothing new, of course...........

Oreo Rushes in Fall with the Return of Pumpkin Spice Cookies

The fan-favorite pumpkin spice cookie will be available nationally on Aug. 15

people.com

 

[superchuck500]

Aw fork off Oreo.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

2 months too soon but whatever
======================
Ready or not, pumpkin spice season is here!

On Wednesday, Oreo announced that the fan-favorite pumpkin spice cookie will hit grocery shelves later this August. The returning flavor will be available starting Aug. 15 and marks the end of the summer (albeit, a bit prematurely!) with the autumnal flavor.

The limited-edition cookie is made with pumpkin spice-flavored filling sandwiched between two golden Oreos.

The onset of fall-flavored treats in the middle of summer is nothing new, of course...........

Oreo Rushes in Fall with the Return of Pumpkin Spice Cookies

The fan-favorite pumpkin spice cookie will be available nationally on Aug. 15

people.com

it's AUGUST!!!

 

[zatsnzapps]

it's AUGUST!!!

It's almost time for Christmas stuff in stores!

 

[Cage1]

it's AUGUST!!!

Okay, but something that's delicious in October is similarly delicious in August. I mean, if you don't like the flavor, you don't like it. But August vs. October should be irrelevant.*


*dependent on crop and material availability.

 

[Madmarsha]

it's AUGUST!!!

It's also ARTIFICIALLY FLAVORED! I am staging a protest.

 

[buzd]

It's also ARTIFICIALLY FLAVORED! I am staging a protest.

Don't tell anyone, but pumpkin is a squash and doesn't really taste like anything.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

Okay, but something that's delicious in October is similarly delicious in August. I mean, if you don't like the flavor, you don't like it. But August vs. October should be irrelevant.*


*dependent on crop and material availability.

To everything (turn, turn, turn)
There is a season (turn, turn, turn)
And a time to every purpose, under heaven

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

It's almost time for Christmas stuff in stores!

Ow my forehead

 

[Eeyore]

It's almost time for Christmas stuff in stores!

Costco had Christmas ribbon on sale last week.

Walgreens and Jewel (Chicago grocery store) have been selling Halloween candy and pumpkin spice stuff since just after the 4th of July.

 

[Optimus Prime]

....It’s important to remember that Pumpkin Spice is not only a highly divisive flavor, but that the “pumpkin” part of Pumpkin Spice is almost beside the point. “Pumpkin doesn’t really taste like much,” professional flavorist Marie Wright told The Takeout last year.

“But pumpkin spice is a comfort flavor, a nostalgic flavor... cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, cloves, and good pumpkin spice has allspice as well.” In short, Pumpkin Spice is all about how the pumpkin is dressed—if there’s any pumpkin present at all, which isn’t necessarily the case.

When it comes to this latest heat-and-eat product, it’s clear that “Pumpkin Spice” aims to supply a general feeling more than any specific flavor profile. In a list of more than 30 ingredients on the Pumpkin Spice Nissin Cup Noodles nutrition label, both sugar and brown sugar pop up as ingredients well before anything else we associate with Pumpkin Spice flavor. In fact, the unspecified ingredient “spice” shows up third to last in the list, and “powdered pumpkin” is only slightly ahead of that.

In our eager discussion of what these noodles might taste like, our staff was split on whether the product would attempt an all-out sickly cinnamon-y sweetness in an uncanny impersonation of a Starbucks #PSL, or take a more culinary approach, marketing itself as “Pumpkin Spice” while aiming instead for the flavors of a more savory pumpkin curry. Neither guess was right—but also, both were.

Nissin has, it seems, attempted to split the difference between the two. If you’re really focused, you can detect the onion power, garlic powder, and paprika peeking out from the jumble of ingredients with every bite, colliding with the pumpkin and the sugars to form a confusing licorice-like note that hangs around as an aftertaste.

Cinnamon isn’t present on the label, but the idea of cinnamon comes through via some combination of sweet tapioca starch, corn syrup solids, and, I dunno... the egg white? There’s a lot of alchemy inside this cup that I’m not qualified to speak on............

Pumpkin Spice Nissin Cup Noodles Get Exactly The Wrong Things Right

Pumpkin Spice noodles, a gimmick that leaves us lost in thought

thetakeout.com

 

[Sailorsaint]

....It’s important to remember that Pumpkin Spice is not only a highly divisive flavor, but that the “pumpkin” part of Pumpkin Spice is almost beside the point. “Pumpkin doesn’t really taste like much,” professional flavorist Marie Wright told The Takeout last year.

“But pumpkin spice is a comfort flavor, a nostalgic flavor... cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, cloves, and good pumpkin spice has allspice as well.” In short, Pumpkin Spice is all about how the pumpkin is dressed—if there’s any pumpkin present at all, which isn’t necessarily the case.

When it comes to this latest heat-and-eat product, it’s clear that “Pumpkin Spice” aims to supply a general feeling more than any specific flavor profile. In a list of more than 30 ingredients on the Pumpkin Spice Nissin Cup Noodles nutrition label, both sugar and brown sugar pop up as ingredients well before anything else we associate with Pumpkin Spice flavor. In fact, the unspecified ingredient “spice” shows up third to last in the list, and “powdered pumpkin” is only slightly ahead of that.

In our eager discussion of what these noodles might taste like, our staff was split on whether the product would attempt an all-out sickly cinnamon-y sweetness in an uncanny impersonation of a Starbucks #PSL, or take a more culinary approach, marketing itself as “Pumpkin Spice” while aiming instead for the flavors of a more savory pumpkin curry. Neither guess was right—but also, both were.

Nissin has, it seems, attempted to split the difference between the two. If you’re really focused, you can detect the onion power, garlic powder, and paprika peeking out from the jumble of ingredients with every bite, colliding with the pumpkin and the sugars to form a confusing licorice-like note that hangs around as an aftertaste.

Cinnamon isn’t present on the label, but the idea of cinnamon comes through via some combination of sweet tapioca starch, corn syrup solids, and, I dunno... the egg white? There’s a lot of alchemy inside this cup that I’m not qualified to speak on............

Pumpkin Spice Nissin Cup Noodles Get Exactly The Wrong Things Right

Pumpkin Spice noodles, a gimmick that leaves us lost in thought

thetakeout.com

Ummm....yuck.

 

[CapitalCitySaint]

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

See that’s the thing - I want to run up to middle of October then pop it in to neutral and coast to March
This early Xmas stuff just gives so much momentum that we just plow through the best months