Is pumpkin spice season over?

Is pumpkin spice season, also known as fall, over yet?

Yes. It’s almost as if during the past few years, the flavor has taken over the autumn. It’s no longer about the leaves turning color.

Nope. It’s all about pumpkin spice lattes and everything else they can make in pumpkin spice flavoring.

Fall used to be a time when the temperatures would start to drop and we would trade in our flip flops for a nice pair of ankle boots, but now it’s all about pumpkin spice flavoring.

Yes. The flavor that all companies, especially coffee places, start pushing on the customers. The commercials are aimed at making one feel as though one has not truly experienced fall until one has had a pumpkin spiced something or other.

Now, don’t get me wrong. I love pumpkin spice lattes and cookies just as much as the next person, but I think this flavor is just saturating the market.

My proof, as if I need any, just look around the grocery store and you’ll quickly see you’re in a pumpkin spice commercial. However, I will provide some proof to back my allegations.

In my opinion, this year is already worse than last year. So far, I’ve seen pumpkin spiced doughnuts, Cheerios, Twinkies, ice cream, yogurt, waffles, coffee creamers, JELLO, and cookies. I’ve also seen commercials making fun of pumpkin spice flavoring. A tire company. Yes. You read that right.

A tire company called Mighty Auto thought it would also jump on the pumpkin spice bandwagon and put on their sign “They are back. Pumpkin Spice brake pads.”

I don’t think such things exist and since it was on the internet I’m pretty sure it was a joke and I admire the humor.

But this isn’t even a start, just a quick search online and a consumer will see abnormal pumpkin spice products, including toothpaste and bologna.

Bologna and pumpkin spice just don’t even sound like a good combo at all, but I’ve never tried it. There are so many pumpkin spice flavored items listed on the internet that I’m not sure which ones are real and which ones are fake products designed to make fun of the overuse of the flavoring.

The sad part about all of this is I’m not even making this up.

At some point we have to stop this madness. It seems like we as a country just get swept away by certain flavors. For awhile it was sriracha sauce and cilantro and now it’s pumpkin spice.

When will it end?

I’ll wager a guess and say probably when the next big, new taste comes in.