I have an allergy to people who have allergies. Basically, my allergy is to the receptors which lack the antigens (or have an abundance of them, I don’t remember which). So I am allergic to allergies.
JOY
All of my female relatives love pumpkin spice. My male relatives (and me) don’t really see the draw all that much.
I have to wonder if there’s a difference in male and female taste buds. Much like women see reds better than men (on average), perhaps there’s a sensitivity to certain flavors women have that men don’t. Both make sense from the perspective of hunter/gatherer evolution. Women gathered plants and small animals, and those can be poisonous sometimes. A better eye for color and flavor can also help when determining nutrients and ripeness.
Or maybe it’s gender norms and how over the years, women have seen more and more women getting these lattes and thought they should, too. But your explanation sounds legitimate.
It’s marketing. Five years ago, “women and pumpkin spice latte’s” wasn’t a thing. Basically a marketing scheme for pumpkin spice lattes targeted women specifically, and so associated the taste with femininity. Then other advertisers noticed the trend, and attempted to appeal to women who were then developing a taste for pumpkin spice (which, ironically, doesn’t include pumpkin, it’s spices often used to spice pumpkin, but now they’re being used to spice -everything- which means it’s no longer pumpkin spice, but just spice). Basically, it’s an advertisement/PR feedback loop. Same as how about 70 years ago, they turned blue into a boy’s color and pink into a girl’s color (go back a hundred years, and more women’s clothes were blue and more men’s clothes were pink.)
HamCat
Traditionally, Pink and Purple were incredibly hard to get (you had to get it from certain plant extracts which were often found in the far east and India, making them a big deal in Europe), so they were deemed colors of Royalty. Thus the association with the patriarchies of the time and with men as opposed to women.
Blue was also fairly rare, but wasn’t used in clothing as much because deadly metals.
Pumpkin Spice Fairy: Hey! Listen! Buy me at Starbucks!
Me: Hate to break it to you, fairy, but you die in December
PSF: Wh-Why?
Me: That’s when everything becomes Peppermint flavored!
I’ve tried the pumpkin spice latte before. Although it wasn’t bad, I prefer the vanilla and caramel.
P.S: What are you all being for Halloween? I’m the Night Guard from FNaF.
Hard to find/make costumes that work for a guy my… ahem.. size. So I try to stick to larger characters from things I enjoy. Yard Work stores made it very easy to put together a pretty good looking Mario costume. I usually go with that.
wel you could do kingpin from batman, or maybe do a random relative from chouji from naruto or just make a teddybear costume with a big heart on the tummy :)
ChaosSorceror_Davidicus
Not a huge batman fan (but the Penguin does have merit), I can’t stand Naruto, and the notion of a fat balding near-30 year old giving candy to children on halloween as a big fluffy teddy bear with a heart on its tummy fills me with the kind of sadistic joy one can only achieve through tormenting the escorting parents.
AlyxVixen
Umm… Kingpin is a Marvel character, usually facing off against Daredevil or Spiderman. Though he has been in a couple of Marvel/DC crossovers.
The GaMERCaT 2.0
nice picture
sorry had to say it is really good
ChaosSorceror_Davidicus
Ah. Should reflect my knowledge of comics then. *whistles offkey as he walks away*
I’m being a bumble bee and my girlfriends being a ladybug! :3 Also, @Rain that’s not your costume! You must of forgotten. You’re gonna be a person who can push through their troubles! ;w;
Harry Potter. Also @I’m a fan girl, We don’t do CALM, love that name. I’m a fanboy- of homestuck. IT’S JUST TO FLIPPING AWESOME! ESPECIALLY ON Act 6 Act 5 (no, that’s not me double typing, that’s a thing Andrew starts doing in Act 4 or 5)!! CLICK MY NAME!!
Blueberry Duet
It’s okay, but the fanbase is crazy and…well…there are better things out there. It has its merits, but so do many other things.
Kind of nice to see Pixel getting overly into something and GC the voice of reason. It’s a neat little role reversal. Also, love her eyes in the last panel.
Also, i luv what they said in the last panel, gamercat was like “how much of this stuff have you ingested so far?” Pixel “lets just say that my blood type is pumpkin spice now” i shortened what pixel said
Some use allspice instead of cloves. I sometimes go for all five.
It’s sad that so many people rely on spice mixtures to do their work for them. That said, I’ve never ground my own cinnamon, cloves, or allspice or grated my own nutmeg or ginger. I know that it makes a huge difference, but I don’t do it. I do grind my own chili powder, cumin, and coriander, though.
116 thoughts on “Fall Flavors”
Luna
I too have an allergy. but it’s to pumpkin
JontheWonton
Also a pumpkin spice latte in my hand and call me basic
JontheWonton
*slap a pumpkin spice latte in my hand and call me basic
JontheWonton
*slap
NotAPumpkin
I have an allergy to people who have allergies. Basically, my allergy is to the receptors which lack the antigens (or have an abundance of them, I don’t remember which). So I am allergic to allergies.
JOY
Gggg
Notice how she says in tooth paste….
GameMaster01382
*mind explodes*
fdshfudh
i would like to see pixels owner!!!
Robyn
I love panel 4! Especially like her mount is a little heart <3
Kevin
I didn’t notice that until know xD
Kevin
now * :/
HyperKittyGamer
Now I’ll never look at that panel differently.
Andy
theHiPSERCaT.com?
Brick
All of my female relatives love pumpkin spice. My male relatives (and me) don’t really see the draw all that much.
I have to wonder if there’s a difference in male and female taste buds. Much like women see reds better than men (on average), perhaps there’s a sensitivity to certain flavors women have that men don’t. Both make sense from the perspective of hunter/gatherer evolution. Women gathered plants and small animals, and those can be poisonous sometimes. A better eye for color and flavor can also help when determining nutrients and ripeness.
HowAboutNachos
Or maybe it’s gender norms and how over the years, women have seen more and more women getting these lattes and thought they should, too. But your explanation sounds legitimate.
Meamoi
It’s marketing. Five years ago, “women and pumpkin spice latte’s” wasn’t a thing. Basically a marketing scheme for pumpkin spice lattes targeted women specifically, and so associated the taste with femininity. Then other advertisers noticed the trend, and attempted to appeal to women who were then developing a taste for pumpkin spice (which, ironically, doesn’t include pumpkin, it’s spices often used to spice pumpkin, but now they’re being used to spice -everything- which means it’s no longer pumpkin spice, but just spice). Basically, it’s an advertisement/PR feedback loop. Same as how about 70 years ago, they turned blue into a boy’s color and pink into a girl’s color (go back a hundred years, and more women’s clothes were blue and more men’s clothes were pink.)
HamCat
Traditionally, Pink and Purple were incredibly hard to get (you had to get it from certain plant extracts which were often found in the far east and India, making them a big deal in Europe), so they were deemed colors of Royalty. Thus the association with the patriarchies of the time and with men as opposed to women.
Blue was also fairly rare, but wasn’t used in clothing as much because deadly metals.
raifield
Pixel, we need to talk. I think you have a problem.
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GaMERCat is addicted to videogames. Pixel is addicted to pumpkin spice
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Maybe there is a little pumpkin spice fairy
Switcherland
Pumpkin Spice Fairy: Hey! Listen! Buy me at Starbucks!
Me: Hate to break it to you, fairy, but you die in December
PSF: Wh-Why?
Me: That’s when everything becomes Peppermint flavored!
RandomCommenter#1437
No, she’s a girl, there’s no pumpkin spice fairy.
Sammy the Gaming Wolf Girl
I’ve tried the pumpkin spice latte before. Although it wasn’t bad, I prefer the vanilla and caramel.
P.S: What are you all being for Halloween? I’m the Night Guard from FNaF.
I like trains
I wanted to be Imperfect Cell form Dragon Ball Z, but I can’t find a costume.
Scarrien
Where’s Waldo for me
EviTheCat
Im being a witch. So r both of my sisters
ChaosSorceror_Davidicus
Hard to find/make costumes that work for a guy my… ahem.. size. So I try to stick to larger characters from things I enjoy. Yard Work stores made it very easy to put together a pretty good looking Mario costume. I usually go with that.
nespa
wel you could do kingpin from batman, or maybe do a random relative from chouji from naruto or just make a teddybear costume with a big heart on the tummy :)
ChaosSorceror_Davidicus
Not a huge batman fan (but the Penguin does have merit), I can’t stand Naruto, and the notion of a fat balding near-30 year old giving candy to children on halloween as a big fluffy teddy bear with a heart on its tummy fills me with the kind of sadistic joy one can only achieve through tormenting the escorting parents.
AlyxVixen
Umm… Kingpin is a Marvel character, usually facing off against Daredevil or Spiderman. Though he has been in a couple of Marvel/DC crossovers.
The GaMERCaT 2.0
nice picture
sorry had to say it is really good
ChaosSorceror_Davidicus
Ah. Should reflect my knowledge of comics then. *whistles offkey as he walks away*
Rain
A Failure in Life like always :(
Embodiment of Death/the Police
*pat pat pat*
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If I went with something else I’d be encouraging, but I have nothing to say like this…
LiveLifeInPositivity
I’m being a bumble bee and my girlfriends being a ladybug! :3 Also, @Rain that’s not your costume! You must of forgotten. You’re gonna be a person who can push through their troubles! ;w;
Rain
I got it! My drill will pierce the heavens!
Harrison317
Jack Frost from Rise Of The Guardians
I’m a Fangirl, We don’t do CALM.
Lapis Lazuli, from Steven Universe!
Ninsega21
Harry Potter. Also @I’m a fan girl, We don’t do CALM, love that name. I’m a fanboy- of homestuck. IT’S JUST TO FLIPPING AWESOME! ESPECIALLY ON Act 6 Act 5 (no, that’s not me double typing, that’s a thing Andrew starts doing in Act 4 or 5)!! CLICK MY NAME!!
Blueberry Duet
It’s okay, but the fanbase is crazy and…well…there are better things out there. It has its merits, but so do many other things.
ComicCat
Sees someone is cosplaying as Lapis: FANGIRL MODE ACTIVATE
Dipnderps
I was de Mario
HyperKittyGamer
I was Gamercat. no kidding.
Sammy the Gaming Wolf Girl
I wonder what it was like for you when people asked what you were.
I like trains
First!!
EviTheCat
U r way behind…
Kelly Chalmers
I love how her eyes go into Nano mode in panel 3.
I like trains
I wonder if Pixel is a reflection of the author.
HyperKittyGamer
Maybe.
He.
Ella
Since that’s a latte she’s drinking, it may be the caffeine… ;P
ROJO Y NARANJA
DAMN CRAZY!
Linebyline
Kind of nice to see Pixel getting overly into something and GC the voice of reason. It’s a neat little role reversal. Also, love her eyes in the last panel.
HyperKittyGamer
I ship.
EviTheCat
I luv pumpkin spice!!!
EviTheCat
Also, i luv what they said in the last panel, gamercat was like “how much of this stuff have you ingested so far?” Pixel “lets just say that my blood type is pumpkin spice now” i shortened what pixel said
MilostarCat
Agree,pumpkin spice is life and a blood type now.
Cavu Flyer
What is everyone going to be for Halloween. I am going to be Jason. The leather jacket and black shirt one.
HyperKittyGamer
I was gamercat X3. Litterally.
Animegx43
This might be Pixel at her most adorable.
HyperKittyGamer
You think Gamercat would think that?
(I ship them)
Harrison317
Who doesn’t!
Dune
THE SPICE MUST FLOW!
COUNT The References
Walk without rythmn to inflict CONFUSE on the Sandworms of Arrakis!
Kevin
This is quite disturbing actually..
HyperKittyGamer
Probably because she had too much caffeine.
HamCat
So does anyone actually know what Pumpkin Spice is made out of? HM?
Ninsega21
*looks it up**goes to a website* HOLY FRICK! THERE’S NO PUMPKIN IN PUMPKIN SPICE!!?? THAT’S PURE FLIPPING INSANITY! *takes sip of pumpkin spice latte*
artemi
Pumpkin SPICE is the spice that you add to pumpkin to make pumpkin pie. It’s not actually pumpkin.
Kitty
Cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, and ground cloves. Also, @Ninsega21, there’s no pumpkin in pumpkin spice because it is just the spice mixture.
Brick
Some use allspice instead of cloves. I sometimes go for all five.
It’s sad that so many people rely on spice mixtures to do their work for them. That said, I’ve never ground my own cinnamon, cloves, or allspice or grated my own nutmeg or ginger. I know that it makes a huge difference, but I don’t do it. I do grind my own chili powder, cumin, and coriander, though.