The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

[CleverNickName]

I'm eating a slice of apple cider cream pie I made for the office right now.

How long until Starbucks ruins this pie for everyone?

If by "ruin" you mean "popularize it so much that it becomes a cultural touchstone and nets them millions of dollars of profit annually," probably never. They already have a cash cow for autumn. They're still looking for one for spring, though...those mint-flavored milkshakes for St. Patrick's Day just aren't taking off.

 

[eyeheartawk]

If by "ruin" you mean "popularize it so much that it becomes a cultural touchstone and nets them millions of dollars of profit annually

Yeah, that's what I mean.

 

[Gradine]

Pumpkin spice is basically just cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, and ginger, which are all relatively benign if not well loved spices for many a warm sweet treat.

But like all things that teenage girls love in excess it must be treated as literal poison and/or as the death of culture

 

[Thomas Shey]

If by "ruin" you mean "popularize it so much that it becomes a cultural touchstone and nets them millions of dollars of profit annually," probably never. They already have a cash cow for autumn. They're still looking for one for spring, though...those mint-flavored milkshakes for St. Patrick's Day just aren't taking off.

Huh. I couldn't care less about anything pumpkin-spiced, but I'm all on board mint milkshakes...

 

[J.Quondam]

I'm eating a slice of apple cider cream pie I made for the office right now.

This sounds intriguingly tasty.

 

[prabe]

Pumpkin spice is basically just cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, and ginger, which are all relatively benign if not well loved spices for many a warm sweet treat.

But like all things that teenage girls love in excess it must be treated as literal poison and/or as the death of culture

Eh. We do one or two pumpkin pies a year, but we do a lot of pumpkin beers, and I use pumpkin pie spice in things where I want something more than just cinnamon but I don't want to get out and measure four or six different spices. Oddly, I don't much like pumpkin-spice coffee drinks--the flavors don't work together for me.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Pumpkin spice is basically just cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, and ginger, which are all relatively benign if not well loved spices for many a warm sweet treat.

But like all things that teenage girls love in excess it must be treated as literal poison and/or as the death of culture

Yeah, the initial backlash was largely gendered or even sexist. That doesn't mean anyone tired of it now is sexist -- it's become so omnipresent, that "help, help, everything smells like pumpkin spice" is a perfectly rational response.

Similarly, the initial backlash against disco music in the late 1970s and 1980s was because of who popularized that music. (Not straight White dudes from the Midwest.) Regular people tired of a music genre that saturated the airwaves were independent from the people who staged burnings of LPs popular with the LGBT community and minorities living in cities, though. (The culture war is a lot older than we sometimes realize.)

 

[eyeheartawk]

But like all things that teenage girls love in excess it must be treated as literal poison and/or as the death of culture

I'm aware of that trend, it's why I'm very careful to couch my criticism against it a specific way. Like, pumpkin spice ramen noodles are gross, no matter how we got here.

This sounds intriguingly tasty.

Here's the recipe I used

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I'm aware of that trend, it's why I'm very careful to couch my criticism against it a specific way. Like, pumpkin spice ramen noodles are gross, no matter how we got here.

Sturgeon's Law always applies.

I did make some pumpkin spice Pillsbury sweet rolls for my kids this weekend and, no surprise, sweet rolls made with an all-star team of baking spices is delicious.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Pumpkin spice is basically just cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, and ginger, which are all relatively benign if not well loved spices for many a warm sweet treat.

But like all things that teenage girls love in excess it must be treated as literal poison and/or as the death of culture

Sure, and teenage boys like Axe Body Spray.

Ima still make fun of Axe Body Spray AND Pumpkin Spice.

I can practically smell the Lax Brah / Taylor Swift crossover.