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Honestly, many of them mean pumpkin flavored. They think they're getting a pumpkin flavored coffee. Because they never actually eat pumpkin without the spices, they don't know what pumpkin tastes like.
Like some people taste caraway seeds and say "oh, this has rye in it!"
No, I mean when does it go away forever? When does the country get tired enough of this seasonal miseria shoved down our throats by Starbucks and Trader Joe's that we never have to hear the term "pumpkin spice" again? It can't happen soon enough for me.
Starbucks and such have certainly jumped on the bandwagon big time, but I was first exposed to Pumpkin Spice coffee by On the Run (a gas station store chain) years ago. I would get it in the morning when I stopped for gas on my way to hunting. Because of that it has become a tradition of sorts. Makes me think of my favorite hobby and time of year.
I'm definitely not ashamed to say that I LOVE pumpkin spice coffee!
No, they're ordering a pumpkin spice flavored drink, and getting a pumpkin spice flavored drink.
It's fine if you don't like Starbucks, but that doesn't mean those who buy their coffee there are idiots.
What the hell are you talking about? I love Starbucks. I've never said, or even suggested, that people who buy their coffee there are idiots. But there ARE people who think they're getting pumpkin flavored coffee.
Last year as a joke with my friends, I took a page from Morgan Spurlock's "Supersize Me", which I called "Superspice Me." I committed to trying every pumpkin spice-flavored food-like product I came across. I had pumpkin spice lattes, pumpkin spice Cheerios, pumpkin spice Kit Kats, and a host of other products I have mentally blocked myself from remembering. I gained 7 pounds, and decided I never need to consume another pumpkin-spice flavored comestible again in my life.
I always laugh when PSL time rolls around. All these girls who get excited and say "Yay! Pumpkin Spiced Latte time!!! I love everything pumpkin flavored!!"
They get really confused when you tell them that PSL isn't pumpkin flavored. There is a difference between pumpkin and pumpkin spice.
On a related note, taco seasoning does not contain tacos.
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