FOOD HUMOR
Move Over Pumpkin Spice, It’s Almost Banana Weather
It’s barely even September and everything’s already pumpkin spice this and pumpkin spice that. I saw Halloween decorations on somebody’s lawn today — one of those 70-foot-tall skeletons and three inflatables.
Today is August 31st. Everybody needs to just CALM DOWN.
When I was a kid, we didn’t even have pumpkin spice. We had cinnamon. None of this hoity-toity pumpkin spice. We had cinnamon and we were grateful.
Back then, we took muffins from strangers and didn’t ask stupid questions like, “Is this certified organic?” or “Does it have gluten?” or “Who are you and why are you giving me a muffin?”
And we were blissfully unaware of pumpkin spice.
I’m going to tell you a little secret: pumpkin spice is just cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, cloves, and allspice. And you better take it easy on the cloves. Trust me on this.
You can make your own pumpkin spice. You don’t need to pay $8.99 for 1.12 ounces. It’s not a state secret.
The recipe for pumpkin spice isn’t written on a scrap of paper in your grandmother’s handwriting and stored with the nuclear codes.
