How can you tell that fall is almost here...?

[MoonCat]

...Easy.

Pumpkin spice coffee

Pumpkin ale.

Pumpkin spice Cheerios (yes this is a thing!)

Not to mention cookies, muffins, pancake mix, salsa (yes pumpkin salsa!), etc., etc., etc.

[dalesys]

Your poop smells like pumpkin spice. (BTDT)

[Aragarthiel]

You forgot cinnamon brooms. Every time I go grocery shopping in the fall I have to almost immediately evacuate the front end, those things are so potent. They burn my nose.

[Trixie]

Pumpkin spice Pop Tarts.

[wolfie]

If it were still the '90s, you'd expect to see Pumpkin Spice Girls.

[MoonCat]

Pumpkin spice Pop Tarts.

Yeah they have those too!

Also: pumpkin spice cream cheese, pumpkin flavored butter, pumpkin tea, pumpkin spice pudding (I've had that one, there's no actual pumpkin in it ), Hershey's kisses, pie, pie filling, popcorn, coffee creamer, yogurt, and beer.

Damn, we need a pumpkin smiley!

[EricKei]

MC - Aye. Pumpkin spice is what you ADD to pumpkin dishes Thus, no pumpkin in it. Just the food industry's favorite indeterminate term: "spices".

[Deserted]

Actually... I was thinking more along the lines of this:

It's only September, for Pete's sake!

Also (a rare safe page on a very NSFW site):

Everywhere
can now be seen
the red and green
of Halloween

(I'm totally serious about the NSFW thing. Graphic bloody murder, drug use, light porn... and one moving violation.)

[Racket_Man]

There are several houses on a main street near me already have their elaborate outdoor Halloween decorations up. I saw them tonight as I was delivering.

IT IS ONLY the middle of September darn it

[Dreamstalker]

You forgot cinnamon brooms. Every time I go grocery shopping in the fall I have to almost immediately evacuate the front end, those things are so potent. They burn my nose.

Yup. We had cinnamon pine cones...they were right at the front doors so every time someone came in I'd get a noseful.

After someone told Shithead "the entire front end smells like an accident at the Old Spice factory" the pinecones were moved someplace else. No idea where they went, but we can't smell them anymore which is fine.

I saw pumpkin-with-pumpkin-spice panettone at TJX last week...mom was horrified.

[BrenDAnn]

The pumpkin cake donuts are back on the production planner at work. I suspected we'll be getting them in any day now, along with pumpkin spice cappuccino for our machine. Yay. I like pumpkin stuff, for about a day, and then I'm over it. Why can't we have apple stuff in the fall, too??

ETA: I heard about the Cheerios this morning. Quite honestly, they sound disgusting to me. All in the name of making a holiday sale, I guess.

[taxguykarl]

I've been warning you.
There are layers at work we can't begin to imagine.

[dalesys]

...There are layers at work...

Layers, eh? I guess *that* explains all the chickenshit.

[Victory Sabre]

I just bought the pumpkin so we can now make pumpkin shakes and malts.

[XCashier]

Yup. We had cinnamon pine cones...they were right at the front doors so every time someone came in I'd get a noseful.

After someone told Shithead "the entire front end smells like an accident at the Old Spice factory" the pinecones were moved someplace else. No idea where they went, but we can't smell them anymore which is fine.

We get those cinnamon pine cones in huge boxes every year too. They're usually displayed in the entryway and next to the registers, and the smell gets overpowering. I told my bosses that they should display the cinnamon pine cones right by the bathrooms, to show how well they work. They laughed and liked the suggestion, but can't implement it because Corporate.