On the Overthinking It Podcast, we tackle Pumpkin Spice Latte season, which comes earlier and earlier every year, and explain the essential qualities of pumpkin-ness.

Episode 637: Perhaps We Can Carve Out an Exception originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]

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Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather don their Yoga Pants and undertake their annual pilgrimage to Starbucks for Pumpkin Spice Lattes. Just kidding, we don’t do any of that. But we do talk about what the pumpkin spices are, and carve into and excavate the seeds from the essence of pumpkin-ness — a fruit (!) phenomenon which is in equal parts comforting and confounding.



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Further Reading

“The Pandemic Is No Match for the Pumpkin Spice Latte” from Eater
“Yes, pumpkin spice season is creeping earlier every year — and this chart proves it” from MarketWatch
Cucurbita on Wikipedia
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Episode 637: Perhaps We Can Carve Out an Exception originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]