It's one of those things that marks a change in season in America. The leaves start to fall. The weather gets colder. Pumpkin-flavored bullshit appears everywhere.
It goes beyond just the traditional pumpkin bread or pumpkin pie. Nowadays, the pumpkin fares have expanded, and they're just about always it's fodder for fat chicks- giant pumpkin muffins, tubs of pumpkin ice cream, pumpkin candies, sugary pumpkin cocktails, creamy pumpkin soup, and of course the O.G. Starbucks milkshake, the pumpkin spice latte. But don't forget about the doughboy manginas too. For them they have pumpkin beer and pumpkin donuts.
I have two issues with this. First, nobody is eating actual pumpkin. At best, these products contains as much of their main ingredient as black tar heroin does its. More often, it's just a flavoring added. For all the hype about pumpkin, most of what gets ingested is sugar.
Second, pumpkin reveals the immaturity of the American public, especially American girls. Pumpkin is a flavor of nostalgia. The message being marketed here is have that pumpkin concoction and take yourself back to your childhood days. This is the same feeling that drives the phenomenon of "the Holidays." And you can see its power. All across American, girls from age 13 to 30+ are tweeting out # PSL and instagramming their pumpkin-flavored coffee/milkshake hybrids. It's a wonder that there are any skinny chicks left in the US since weight gain season now lasts from the arrival of the pumpkin spice latte to January 2nd.
It goes beyond just the traditional pumpkin bread or pumpkin pie. Nowadays, the pumpkin fares have expanded, and they're just about always it's fodder for fat chicks- giant pumpkin muffins, tubs of pumpkin ice cream, pumpkin candies, sugary pumpkin cocktails, creamy pumpkin soup, and of course the O.G. Starbucks milkshake, the pumpkin spice latte. But don't forget about the doughboy manginas too. For them they have pumpkin beer and pumpkin donuts.
I have two issues with this. First, nobody is eating actual pumpkin. At best, these products contains as much of their main ingredient as black tar heroin does its. More often, it's just a flavoring added. For all the hype about pumpkin, most of what gets ingested is sugar.
Second, pumpkin reveals the immaturity of the American public, especially American girls. Pumpkin is a flavor of nostalgia. The message being marketed here is have that pumpkin concoction and take yourself back to your childhood days. This is the same feeling that drives the phenomenon of "the Holidays." And you can see its power. All across American, girls from age 13 to 30+ are tweeting out # PSL and instagramming their pumpkin-flavored coffee/milkshake hybrids. It's a wonder that there are any skinny chicks left in the US since weight gain season now lasts from the arrival of the pumpkin spice latte to January 2nd.