Why do we have to put pumpkin in everything?

88keys

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Aug 24, 2012
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Okay, pumpkin spice lattes aren't bad, overrated but not bad. And I live McDonald's pumpkin pies but this it taking it way too far. Do we really have to take everything to such ridiculous extremes? I saw this on Facebook and at first I thought it was an onion article. Not it's actually a local store chain promoting a recipe for pumpkin chili. WTF? I'm pretty open minded, but I really don't that working out. Chili if it's anywhere even close to tasting how it should would drown out any trace of pumpkin flavor so it would have to be pretty bland in order to taste pumpkin anyway. And besides who the fuck was eating chili and thought to themselves 'you know this would taste so trendy if I put pumpkin in it. It's like we live in an age when all you need to do is add some trendy ingredient to an otherwise common and ordinary recipe and suddenly you've become a culinary genius. Hey I know how I can one up them. I'll add sriracha sauce, acai berries, avocado, quinoa, to peanut butter and jelly, but instead of calling it peanut butter and jelly, I'll call it 'beurre de cacahuète et gelée' and serve it on artisan bread so people will think it's fancy and pay $20 for it. It'll even come with an edible rfid chip that automatically posts to Facebook upon consumption.
 

Mayne

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I only eat stuff I like. I could care less what the flavour of the month is.
 

poofyhairguy

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It's like we live in an age when all you need to do is add some trendy ingredient to an otherwise common and ordinary recipe and suddenly you've become a culinary genius.

You forgot the part where you put it in a mason jar.
 

nakedfrog

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Apr 3, 2001
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I'd rather put my johnson in a pumpkin than pumpkin flavor in any food.
 

BurnItDwn

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Oct 10, 1999
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The great vast majority of things do not have pumpkin added to them. Most years, I manage to make it through the entire fall season getting exposed to pumpkin once or twice, usually pumpkin pie the mother in law makes. And its good, so I dont mind it. I had a pumpkin ale once, never again!
 

BoberFett

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Oct 9, 1999
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All the pumpkin recipes are pretty tasty. I don't mind.

Although a lot of "pumpkin" flavored things actually use various types of squash instead of pumpkin, I believe. And pumpkin beers often use yams. The meat of a pumpkin isn't really all that flavorful, so other vegetables are used instead. Plus it's as much about the common spices used in pumpkin recipes as it is the pumpkin itself. So it's not really even about pumpkin, it's about nostalgia and marketing.
 

lord_emperor

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Nov 4, 2009
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1. Pumpkin is delicious.
2. There is an overabundance of pumpkin at this time of year.
3. Pumpkin spices (cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger) are also delicious.
 

cronos

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Everyone is carving all kinds of Halloween pumpkins in the past few weeks. Where do you think all the pulp go.
 

BoberFett

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Oct 9, 1999
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Everyone is carving all kinds of Halloween pumpkins in the past few weeks. Where do you think all the pulp go.

Presumably the garbage. I for one am not going to eat a pumpkin that sat out on the front step for a week rotting away. I'm assuming most pumpkin food is made with fresh pumpkin, not nasty week old carved pumpkins.
 

Red Squirrel

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The funny thing is anything mass produced wont actually have pumpkin in it, it will be some kind of artificial flavouring and in 10 years from now we'll find out that it causes cancer or other health risk.
 

disappoint

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Dec 7, 2009
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The funny thing is anything mass produced wont actually have pumpkin in it, it will be some kind of artificial flavouring and in 10 years from now we'll find out that it causes cancer or other health risk.

Oh I'm afraid it's much worse than that. They will probably discover that artificial flavors causes lawyers.
 

Red Squirrel

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Oh I'm afraid it's much worse than that. They will probably discover that artificial flavors causes lawyers.

I can just see the TV ads now.

"If you bought pumpkin spice products between the year 2010 and 2020 you may be at risk of lawyers. Ask your doctor. If you have been diagnosed with lawyers you may qualify for a settlement. Call the number on your screen now, trust me, I'm a lawyer."
 

ViperXX

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Because people like to see and taste the season (including me). Taste's are attached to memories and we are taken back to a moment in our lives that makes us feel good.
 

Eli

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Oct 9, 1999
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Yeah, it's getting a little ridiculous. I was joking with the wife-like-figure that she is single handedly driving the pumpkin craze numbers.

We've had pumpkin spice bagels, coffee cake, scones, cream cheese, peanut butter, M&Ms, and yogurt come through the house in the last month... and that's just what I remember. D:
 
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