Pumpkin Spice

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What Grinds Our Gears: Why does flavour innovation stop at the pumpkin patch?

Gabrielle McLaren October 26, 2019

Before Starbucks takes me in the dead of night and disposes of my body with such corporate efficiency that it’s never found, hear me out. I get it, pumpkin spice is delicious. I hear you: I had a pumpkin scone as soon as those little orange fucks made their way into pastry cases across campus. I’m not opposed to pumpkin spice: it signals the arrival of my favourite season to the extent that it provokes a Pavlovian reaction deep within me.  But why stop there?  Why are we all assuming that our palates peaked at pumpkin? Where are my other…

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The horrifying reality behind your pumpkin spice

EIC September 28, 2015

If an ethical crisis occurs at roughly the same time each year, and no one chooses to address it, does that crisis make a sound? Close the other tabs on your Internet browser, put your phone on silent, and tell…

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