Pumpkins, Pumpkins...Everywhere are PUMPKINS!!

Why do establishments think everyone LOVES pumpkins? I don't like pumpkins. I don't like pumpkin pie, I don't like pumpkin seeds, I don't like any kind of gourd (personal tastes). So why is it that restaurants, at this time of year (fall), think that they need to add pumpkin to EVERYTHING??

I just seen an add for "Starbucks", making claim they've added pumpkin to their products: Pumpkin spice latte; pumpkin pastries, etc. There's more food to this time of year, than just pumpkins. There's also apples.

I love Tim Hortons this time of year because they have my most FAVORITE beverage...Apple Cider (alongside pumpkin cookies and donuts). I love hot apple cider, especially from Tim Hortons (I've tried buying other brands of apple cider, but they don't compare, and Tim Hortons does not offer packages of apple cider mix, as they to with like teas, coffee or hot chocolate). Why do pumpkins get all this special treatment this time of year?

When I think of fall, Halloween and Thanksgiving, my first thought is NOT to pumpkins...but to apples and corn. I think of delicious apple pie, and corn on the cobb, with a nice Ham dinner. But no...I'm bombarded with pumpkin cakes, pumpkin pies, pumpkin spiced coffees, pumpkin pastries, pumpkin this, pumpkin that...I'm beginning to think I'll turn into Cinderella's chariot soon, with all these pumpkins.

The only think I like about pumpkins is making jack-o-lanterns. I love scooping out all the goo and seeds from the inside of the pumpkin, and then thinking intently on the kind of image I want to carve from the front. Perhaps the only thing I like about pumpkins. Last year my mother came for a visit and instead of carving pumpkins, she brought home small pumpkins and we painted them (my mother can be rather creative).

I just think that to focus on one vegetable this time of year is to miss out on lots of other things that are out there. I think that establishments should also think of those who do NOT like pumpkins and offer other fall harvest foods. That would be a nice thing to do.





Ma’iingan