Pumpkin Everything!!!!

After a cold, wet hike up the drinking horse, I sit here watching some Netflix. My good friend suggested watching the comedian ILiza Shlesinger. About 10 minutes into the show she talks about how to all girls love fall and are required to love fall. This is hilarious because on my hike I was just talking about how much I love fall and that it's my favorite season. What a terribly stereotypical girl thing to say (I hate being a sterotypical girl but I don't care when it comes to fall, fall is the best). She goes on to talk about Pumpkin everything. 

Wow, before our hike we had to go get a pumpkin latte. Another terribly stereotypical girl thing to do. Pumpkin spice season started about a month ago. Every food establishment has to have some kind of pumpkin on their menu. Dennys takes full advantage of the women's (gay men and secretly straight men too) obsession with pumpkin with their pumpkin pancakes. McDonald's has always had pumpkin pies during the fall but only 38% (approximately 5500 stores) of McDonald's have their pumpkin spice lattes. That's okay we'll just wait for the shamrock shakes ;).  I can not even count how many hash tag pumpkin this or that have seen on Facebook or Snap chat.

http://www.popsugar.com/food/Pumpkin-Spice-Flavored-Products-2015-38165340?slide=27 here's a list of the worst and best pumpkin spice flavored products for 2015. The obsession with pumpkin seems to me to have just turned into a "thing" in the last five years. In fact, sales of pumpkin-infused foods and drinks are up 79 percent since 2011, according to Nielsen data.
Of course you never see pumpkin anything when it isn't fall. Maybe being a limited edition, seasonal trend keeps the pumpkin spice trick a strong way to boost sales year after year.
But what about the bacon trend? Bacon is everything too nowadays but it's not a seasonal trend. Maybe it's just because bacon is amazing and now we are not ashamed to be fatties and admit out obsessions with bacon.