Is pumpkin the most seasonal flavor?
This is not a rhetorical question. I want to know what you think, dear reader. It seems to me that pumpkin crops up in early October and sticks around before eventually giving way to cinnamon in early December.
Maybe when Linus from Peanuts was anxiously awaiting the appearance of the Great Pumpkin he was searching for the wrong type of entity. Perhaps instead of expecting the physical manifestation of a pumpkin being, he should have recognized the spirit of the Great Pumpkin in the various pumpkin flavors of fall.
It's also possible that I've gone off the reservation here. I never can tell the difference between being imaginative, goofy and completely deranged.
So let me go a different direction. This is the second day in a row that I've written about a pumpkin flavored thing. On Monday, I promoted Oso's Oh So Good Yogurt's pumpkin froyo.
On Tuesday, I went just next door to The Olive Branch and ordered a hulking, icing indulged, pumpkin-greatness of a cupcake.
Now I know I need to go for a workout.
Not just because of the cupcake, though. So far today, I've breakfasted with an Americano and an El Crucero breakfast burrito at Common Grounds, scarfed a Santa Fe sandwich at Olive Branch and then part of the cupcake. I split it. But you know what? Sometimes you have to treat yourself. And going face first into that cupcake, not caring whether I got icing in my beard, on my nose and perhaps even in my eyebrows — that's a treat.
Hey, pumpkin, I wonder what you taste like in February. Let's make a date to find out.
