@Background Pony #F33E
 
 
best explanation of the thing. I spent years trying to understeand the “pumpking taste=/=pumpking spice” dilemma

@Background Pony #F33E
 
If it doesn’t work for you, OK. We’re not all living in your individual body though, are we?

The moment you remember you can actually eat those things. XD

@Lawful Girly  
It’s an especially great excuse to load up on whipped cream.

@Background Pony #F33E  
Pumpkin pie is the greatest thing ever made, though.

@TJPones  
I work with someone who was just saying the same thing about it. Doesn’t mind the candles but can’t stand the taste. Me, I’m kind of ambivalent about it all.

Pumpkins are great. Pumpkin spice is garbage made for idiots who think Starbucks is good coffee.

@TJPones  
UNSUBSCRIBE, UNFRIENDED, UNDONATED UNARTISTED!

@TJPones
 
OK. I wonder if the spice in Canada differs to the Pumpkin Pie Spice sold in North America?
 
@Background Pony #6365
 
It seems to me that grocery stores can be a big source of cheap “Bluh” food. I know cooking fresh food may not be the most popular thing in America anymore but just a few generations ago (before cars were widespread) I expect food bought from the right place was intensely more fresh and delicious, especially since things had to be kept local for the most part. I expect there were poor foods then too but you could generally tell the difference easily.
 
On topic of Pies, I made a Parsnip Pie once last year. Although I liked it, I can understand why people don’t make them a lot; even after putting the parsnips through a food processor the pie was stringy.

@TJPones  
>I hate pumpkin spice
 
You are dead to me.

Genuinely got a chuckle out of me. Thanks, man.
 
…and I would also observe that “pumpkin spice” varies from family to family, at least in those families where people still cook stuff, and if the premade, pre-mixed pumpkin spice does not appeal, maybe try some old cookbooks.
 
Oh. Readers in Europe may or may not be aware that in the US and Canada we have an autumn tradition of making pies from a mixture of mashed cooked pumpkin and sweet custard, spiced with cloves and allspice. (my mother’s recipe was actually more cinnamon and ginger than cloves and allspice, with just a pinch of nutmeg, and a bit of vanilla). Similar pies can be made from sweet custard and mashed cooked yams.

@TJPones  

@BarryFromMars  
Its the spice mix. I hate it. I hate everything pumpkin spice. I like pumpkin

@Background Pony #F9D1  

@BarryFromMars  
Why would you cook perfectly good pumpkins?

She likes pumpkin but hates pumpkin pie? OK.
 

@Background Pony #86E4  

@Cyborg_pony  
Horse looks like a %$&# zombie nightmare once it’s done with ’em, too.

Raw pumpkin…. gross! D:

Ugh, I hate gourds.
 
I hate Halloween too. Oh well.

I love a good bait and switch

@DarkSpeed  
Oh yeah, beef cattle’ll go to town on pumpkin and watermelon rinds.

@TexasUberAlles  
So will cows. However, while orange pumpkins are safe, not all squashes and pumpkins are.

Horses will indeed eat the everlovin’ buck out of pumpkins if they figure out the things are edible.

Never change, Brownie Bun!