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

[protege]

Am I the only person on the planet that *doesn't* enjoy pumpkin?

[notalwaysright]

Am I the only person on the planet that *doesn't* enjoy pumpkin?

lol, no Protege you aren't, but I get how you feel. I think I'm the only person who doesn't like sparkling water. Everywhere I look there's that water, LaCroix or whatever. I don't like heavily carbonated drinks. I would prefer my water flat, so it doesn't hurt my mouth. I don't like water to be "infused" and I don't even care for herbal teas. They smell so good, and then you drink it and it's such a let down. It's like my brain smells it and thinks "juice!" but then it's... just not strong enough. I love cold, plain water.

I don't like pumpkin pie, but I like pumpkin spice. The pie has a texture that I don't like. I've made pumpkin bread and liked it. I like nutmeg and cinnamon and cloves. Actually, I keep a spice container with sugar and spices to shake on my toast. I like me some pumpkin spice lattes as much as the next person, though I don't go crazy about it. I also like the salted caramel mochas, and hot apple cider. Oh, cranberries, too. And other winter squashes like butternut and acorn.

[Victory Sabre]

Am I the only person on the planet that *doesn't* enjoy pumpkin?

One of my closest friends hates pumpkin. So, I'd say, no.

[Nunavut Pants]

I think I'm the only person who doesn't like sparkling water.

No, you're not. I think they taste nasty, even the ones that "don't have any flavor at all, honest!" (According to people I know who drink them.)

I like many herbal teas, and I love pumpkin pie with whipped cream. (Has to have whipped cream, dammit, and there has to be some sugar and hopefully some vanilla in the cream!)

Never tried any of the trendy pumpkin spice things, though.

[XCashier]

I make pumpkin chocolate chip cookies with fresh pumpkin. They're quite delicious. Even my veggie-hating son loves them.

[Seanette]

Am I the only person on the planet that *doesn't* enjoy pumpkin?

Nope. DH and I both dislike the stuff.

[BrenDAnn]

Like I said, I nejoy pumpkin only very briefly. I'll have a slice of pumpkin pie (with whipped cream of course) at the holidays, and I'll have a pumpkin cake donut at work, but that's about it. Beyond that, pumpkin doesn't tempt me at all. As a random sidenote, thank you, notalwaysright. Now I want cinnamon sugar toast.

[dalesys]

... tell fall is almost here?
The bottom of the pool keeps getting carpeted with acorns, leaves and drowned earthworms, as well as rolly-polys.

[Racket_Man]

2 weeks ago we had temps in the high 70's to mid 80's and humid as hell.

2 days ago, with temps only reaching the mid 50's I had to turn off all of my fans, take 2 of them out of the window, take the bedroom A/C unit out of the window and store it, close ALL of my windows, and turn up my water bed to almost winter levels.

and the rest of the week is not going to be much better

YUP Fall is here here in Cheeseheadland Central

[Food Lady]

This morning on the way to work I noticed some orange leaves. So it begins.

[Racket_Man]

This morning on the way to work I noticed some orange leaves. So it begins.

I have had yellow and orange leaves ( in tree and on the ground) since August when the heat and humidity wave hit and NO rain fell for quite a while.

BUT with all of the rain the last 2 weeks I still have to cut the grass *&^%^&%^&%&*%&&*^%^&%^^& it (hint did that today).

[EricKei]

Fall is here in the Deep South...We know because the local high temperature has finally dropped to below 90F. I mean, it was only 3 days ago that this started, but we'll take what we can get.

[Food Lady]

It's cool and cloudy. I love it. I need a cappuccino.

[Racket_Man]

When my mind turns to this Halloween video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUAV_1jBJB4

[bloo]

I used to enjoy the novelty of pumpkin spice flavored whatever when it was limited to lattes at the local Mocha House or Starbucks or even Panera. But since I started working at the world's largest retailer six months ago (sob)there's:
Pillsbury Pumpkin Cinnamon rolls
Pumpkin white choc chip cookie dough
Pepperidge Farm pumpkin swirl bread
Thomas pumpkin English muffins
Thomas pumpkin bagels
Pumpkin yogurt (Chobani, Yoplait, Noosa and every variation of those brands- Whips, Oikos, Flips, etc.
Little Debbie Pumpkin rolls
Pumpkin spice flavored donuts

Those are just the items in the sections I stock. Finding out there was pumpkin pop tarts and cheerios was the last straw.

Turning in my White Grrl* card as I'm officially sick of pumpkin spice.

(I'm half Asian but it's not easy to guess my ethnic background, especially in the midwest where I'm apparently Mexican).