Pumpkin spice ALL THE THINGS!

Anyone who follows me on social media knows that I love me a pumpkin spice latte. I love them like it’s nobody’s business. I seriously just love them. I remember trying one the first time I went to America in 2009, and thought not that much of it, but then in 2013 when I first started going to LA for work and tried one again, well, I guess my taste buds had matured because I stood on the footpath outside a Starbucks and just stared at my cup, thinking to myself ‘where have you been all my life?’ and savouring the spicy, pumpkin-y flavour swirling around in my big gob.

Pumpkin spice goodness AND Disneyland?! *brain explosion*

Ever since then anytime it is fall (or autumn for us Southern hemisphere dwellers) in the US and I am there, I must have a Starbucks pumpkin spice latte. They’re just addictive. Apparently they’re super bad for you and pack a whole lot of calories and actually have no pumpkin whatsoever in them, but I don’t care. I love them.

They also come in iced frappucino form because a hot pumpkin spice latte isn't awesome enough

Seems like the rest of America does too. I think Starbucks started a trend, because everything you buy to eat or drink between roughly the end of August and November in the US seems to be pumpkin spice flavoured. For reals. I bought a pumpkin spice biscuit the other day. I tried pumpkin spice flavoured Snickers.  You can get pumpkin spiced bread and pumpkin spiced bagels. Pumpkin spiced Oreos and pumpkin spiced Krispy Kremes. And every other conceivable place that makes coffee has a pumpkin spice latte on offer.

It’s fantastic.

I know it’s all very white trash of me, and I have seen so many little memes on Instagram and such that are all like ‘How do you know when it’s fall? Honey, it’s when Starbucks starts serving pumpkin spice lattes’ or ‘If you look in the mirror and say pumpkin spice latte three times, a white girl will appear in ugg boots and yoga pants and tell you everything she loves about fall.’ It cracks me up. And just quietly, I haven’t met anyone who doesn’t like to wrap their paws around a grande pumpkin spice latte when it’s chilly outside.

 

So that was all this blog post is about. My love of pumpkin spice lattes. That’s it. Just had to get it out. I will be sad when fall is over in the US and Starbucks stops serving this deliciousness.

But then I guess I can just take up drinking the gingerbread lattes they start serving at Christmas time instead.