@@sweetlikechocolate437 Nope, no pumpkin in that. Checked their website and while they don't have a full ingredients list, they don't list pumpkin under the allergens.
I was about to comment this. Liked your comment instead lol. Interestingly I don't usually care for pumpkin or pumpkin spice flavored stuff, but I love pumpkin pie.
But it claims pumpkin spice not pumpkin itself. wasn't there a huge internet shock a few years ago(mainly by "the food babe" when people realized that there was no actual pumpkin in these things and most manufacturers responded "well yeah, its pumpkin SPICE......not pumpkin"
If you have the Safeway/Tom Thumb/Randall’s grocery chain in your area, a lot of them have pumpkin spice chocolate chip cookies during Fall in their bakery section. They’re THICC with an almost cake-like texture, and sooooooo very very good.
Out on our family farm we have a stand of Sassafras trees. Usually pull up a medium sized one with the tractor and cut chunks of root for the family. Some make a tea, some make root beer, others like to leave it out and scrape it with a knife every week as fragrance. Handy plant.
I feel like the pumpkin spice craze has only been in the United States for about 15 or 20 years. I certainly don’t remember it being in my childhood during the 80s and 90s
I used to get the Uber-sweetened gas station cappuccino in pumpkin spice flavor on my to middle school; don’t judge my mom for letting me get these sugar bombs!! But this was the late 90’s; I loved the stuff and now I feel ashamed to admit it, but I love fall spices; I just make my own mixes at home now; but it was available, just not overhyped at that time (in Michigan at least)
You are correct, be we should realize that "pumpkin spice" doesn't mean "pumpkin flavored." Actual pumpkins are quite bland and the spices that people associate with pumpkin pie (nutmeg, allspice, etc.) are what they are really thinking of.
Another neat thing about Sassafras is that when the branches fall off they can turn white or orange. They make the best firestarters as they burn when freshly cut or dried. When you break the twig it will smell really good. The leaves when you crumple them right off the tree smell like lemon fruitloops. It is a favorite tree amongst campers. When I was a camp counselor I was so good at locating fallen branches or twigs...that I earned the Nickname, Cassafras (My full name is Cassandra)
My grandfather said his parents taught him to break off a twig of sassafras and fray the end to make a sweet tasting toothbrush! Guess he could brush his teeth while walking through the woods to school!
@@nicholaskarako5701 Some years ago Alton Brown made an episode of Good Eats featurng gumbo . You might want to look up that episode or look up Alton's recipe .
@@victorwaddell6530 that episode is what inspired me to look up a couple recipes online and help create my own recipe. I just asked because you were saying gumbo is not complete without it. Like does add a strong or mild sassafrass flavor? I would have to buy it online if I were to try it with the next batch, because I've not see it in any grocery store in my area. They are both flavor/ thickening agents. The first time I made seafood gumbo I didn't brown the roux anywhere near what I did the second time around. There was a huge difference in taste if you don't use a dark roux was the lesson learned.
Sassafras is what "root beer" used to be made from. The real stuff is no longer sold commercially due to over anxiety of the FDA, but some homemade root beer can at times be obtained, if you know someone, the real stuff.
Social media needs the Snicker’s hole. It like the British mixed spice no cardamom, in it but we have coriander seed in it as well, it’s around Christmas time we use it a lot, Christmas cakes, mince pies, Christmas pudding, biscuits,
The important thing about sassafras, is that the bark is used to make beverages, including sassafras tea, and a sweetened carbonated version called "root beer".
Every year it seems there are 10 more pumpkin flavored items to add to the list that you find while grocery shopping. Some stores make it easy on you and just make an entire end cap of an aisle all of pumpkin flavored foods/drinks, kinds like your one stop shop for all things pumpkin or apple cider flavored.
End caps? I've seen entire aisles -- both sides -- dedicated to pumpkin spice and other "autumnal items." This is different than the usual seasonal aisles, like Halloween or Christmas goods; it all seems to be artificial pumpkin stuff. It's kind of fascinating how many options there are, but it's also horrifying how many foods are being butchered because of it. That said, I kind of dig the apple cider infusion during this time of year. Pumpkin spice, though, scares me.
@@sluttymctits4496 actually i probably have too but often they group them all in one area. However if you don't like it don't buy it, what you call butchered others may really like, its just a flavor after all like strawberry or blueberry etc. To each there own.
@@grace7701 - You are absolutely right. The products have a purpose and are allowed to exist, and I do often opt to avoid them. I'm not opposed to pumpkin spice-inizing foods. My issue lies with the companies who take shortcuts and use really strange and artificial flavorings. I know all PS is a mix of various spices with very little (if any) pumpkin, but some foods are just too "fake" for me. It reminds me a bit of chocolate. There's the good, expensive, "real" chocolate. There's the middle-of-the-road common chocolates most of us normally buy, and then there's the cheap stuff that can't even be legally called chocolate so they resort to using "chocolatey" in the marketing, since it's not chocolate at all. The first two are fine, but the latter is an assault on the senses and standard human decency. This is all just my opinion, of course. I'm not trying to start a pumpkin spice riot here. Hope you and your loved ones stay safe and healthy. ✌️
Wow. You missed a big one. Excessive Halloween decorations. Especially in neighborhoods where most of the homes are single family. It gets almost as big as those Griswold family Christmas decorations. In the Before Times, families took great pride in making their home as spooky as possible and scaring the bijeeziz out of trick or treaters. Front yard cemeteries, jack-o-lantern lined driveways, and this stuff: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-lYAiyhiRhME.html
We have had Pecan nuts for years in the UK, I’m in my early fifties and remember them from my childhood, covered in a sugary caramel coating American pumpkin spice is the same as the British mixed spice, which we use a lot especially in Christmas goods, like Christmas cake, mince pies, and non food items like Christmas room fragrances
Yeah, also British and I think we can agree he's reaching a lot in these videos. I never usually comment because I don't want to spoil the fun/perhaps he's been out of the country for a long time.
He said it was more prevalent in the US since it’s native not that there wasn’t any in the UK. I bet Americans use pecans in dishes far more than the British.
Although it is likely that pecans are known and eaten in England, I would be surprised to find that there are any substantial number of productive pecan orchards there. The trees would almost certainly grow, but whether the fruit (nuts) would ripen other than maybe in select spots in Cornwall, seems doubtful to me. I know that maize is grown in England ... for silage at least. I wonder if peaches will ripen in southern areas.
Yes! I almost choked on the food I was eating laughing at that one!! And everyone else is talking about pumpkin spice this or sassafras that and I'm like.... Did you even catch that joke!?!?! 😂 😂 😂
2:55 I have those trees in my yard! And they grow super fast! they also can grow up to 35 feet tall or just as tall as any full grown tree. I live in a forested area and o get to see it in all its stages from the super tall old ones to the little new ones trying to creep on the side of my house lol
Ain't America grand this time of year. The Fall or Autumn, my favorite season. My birthday is September 29th & my family has a tradition of going to the mountains in October to get apples & other apple products, like fried apple pies, apple cider hot or cold, apple cake, apple bread & boiled peanuts. Yum! I try and make from scratch apple butter & apple preserves or apple jelly. Oh I left out pumpkin pie, butter. The air is so fresh & cool. I hope you all have a great Fall or Autumn!
@@lizh4933 No, actually, summer heat and humidity makes me sick. Never could take the heat, and the humidity just compounds the problem. No, I am definitely a cool weather creature. I would love to be able to enjoy the summer, but how much enjoyment can one get from headaches and barfing from heat sickness is very little. So, when it is how and muggy out side, go out and enjoy it just a little bit more for me.
Cider mills in Michigan have had the donuts for a while. I've made pumpkin cookies and soup from scratch. You can make the soup on the fly with canned 🎃 and chicken base.
Yeah, I feel like the pumpkin craze is a somewhat recent phenomenon. Maybe since like, 2010? Or maybe I just didn't pay attention before then. I just definitely don't remember seeing it everywhere like I do now in the mid 2000's.
Yes there are pumpkin spiced things but there are also pumpkin flavored items. Right now, I have pumkin flavored ravioli in my refrigerator. Last week we had a pumpkin cheese cake. He's not wrong. You can get tons of products that contain pumkin during the fall in the US.
Actually , it helps both ways - a good tummy soother , but it must be PLAIN pumpkin - NO SPICES ! ( FYI for those who didn't know this safe & useful tip )
Along with tea, I just found out that the Sassafras Leaves important to Cajun/Creole Gumbo. Many Gumbo recipes call for Filé Powder which happens to be the ground up sassafras leaves. An alternative to this is using okra but the Filé Powder is what thickens gumbo. I love the serious tone of the video and then a cat tail comes strolling across the screen.
Pumpkins are a newish thing in the UK. When i was a kid in 80s Yorkshire we'd carve Swedes(large Turnips) not Pumpkins. I don't recall seeing Pumkins in the shops,just on TV.
Everyone picking on Lawrence for his pecan pronunciation. Meanwhile, has no one else encountered the pumpkin spice cat litter? Just me? I took pictures, because no one believes me. 🤣
You know what's weird too? None of this stuff was around when I was growing up. We had pumpkins 🎃 & mums for decoration on the front stoop. Carved jack o lanterns on the patio. No pumpkin spice anything.
First time I have seen this channel pop up, but this won't be my last video, very amusing. Love the cat. Now, I am truthfully eating my Chobani Yogurt in Pumpkin spice, and I checked, it has real pumpkin in it, albeit in puree form. Happy Autumn.
From Iowa, here. My family always said puhKAHN (emphasis on the last syllable). So that's the southern pronunciation? It's the only elegant way to say the word.
as I've always been told, 'puh khan' is the nut, 'pea can' is where you do your business out in the middle of the swamp, when ya really really gotta go :)
Damn it it is YOU ALL. We Northerners have been trying to get all of you on board for a very long time. Please make a concerted effort, you can do it if you really try. ;)
Connecticut here, and I'd never heard the name either, but as soon as he flashed the picture, I remember them all over my parent's backyard. And I remember being 14 and getting an urge to squash the berries all over my hands and having bright purple hands for a day or two....
I normally don't have too many pumpkin flavored items, but the pumpkin muffins at Walmart are very good. I also enjoy salted caramel this time of year.
I love your sweater! And what a nice, fun, fantastic video. I needed something pleasant and Fall related to think about, instead of so much negative stuff! Even if I’m not a huge fan of pumpkin flavored stuff, there are a COUPLE things I like!
The whole pumpkin spice craze didn't really start until after the latte which Starbucks released in 2003. Growing up as a kid in California it used to just be pumpkin pie at the holidays and sometimes a weird recipe your mom came up with to try and use the one can of pumpkin puree left when everyone was sick of pie.
Yay! You mentioned pumpkin flavored everything! Which annoys me. Except for pumpkin pie, made exactly to the Libbey's can recipe. All separate spices. No pumpkin pie spice in my house, only cinnamon, ginger, and cloves.
@Nicky L I love nutmeg in Alfredo sauce as well. Adds a bit of something special to the taste...just realized that Alfredo sauce Is a cheese based sauce. Sorry...having a tired blonde moment! 😴
Public service announcement! Make sure to be careful when identifying Chokeberry, because there is a similar-looking plant called Pokeberry which is extremely poisonous and is also around in late summer/fall.
Here in Montana we have Chokecherries. One seed, sour, makes great jelly. We give our dogs pumpkin all year. They love it. You can make rice pudding with pumpkin spice and leave the pumpkin out though 😊
The amount of pumpkin spice flavored items is unreal!! (Interesting, but incredible.) Also, random Kafka sightings, in your videos are always a welcome surprise! Meow!👍😁🐱
@@BethanySchmidtEsthetics Don't forget about mulberries... they look a lot like blackberries, plus their stain is permanent if the stuff lands on your clothing. Greetings from New Bern, NC!
Don't get the chokeberry confused with the chokecherry. Chokecherries if eaten directly off the tree will cause severe illness or death due to the cyanide in the seeds of the fruit. The juice itself without the seeds is safe since we've made jelly from it for years with no problem.
Website explaining the difference: aroniainamerica.blogspot.com/2011/03/is-it-chokeberry-or-chokecherry.html#:~:text=Chokeberry%20(Aronia)%20fruit%20has%20five,as%20a%20stone%20or%20pit.
We grew up drinking Sassafras Tea. I was born and raised in Texas and still live her but someone introduced it to my Dad and he would make us some from time to time, especially if we were having tummy troubles.
I love your videos! I just stumbled across them and have found them amusing and informative. However, as my mom likes to say, a “pee can” is where you go to the bathroom. It’s a puh kon. I love how you just went with it and threw a pelican in there for good measure.
Pumpkin spice allegiance only started here in the US with the coffee flavoring disease spread from buying cups of brew from Starbucks. Previously, pumpkin spice was only experienced when eating pumpkin pie in November on the holiday of Thanksgiving.
Sassafras grows in all the wooded areas around Tennessee where I live. My grandma used to make us Sassafras Tea around the fall holidays. Yummy! You just boil the roots to make it and add sugar as you like.
You should come to the Rocky Mountains next fall to see the aspen trees! The bark is silver colored, and the leaves turn into a lovely golden color. They're so beautiful!
It's the spice, not the pumpkin. Pumpkin has very little flavour, but the spices (cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, allspice, cloves) added to it when making pies, etc. are what you might taste in all those items you mentioned.
Not "pumpkin-flavoured everything." "Pumpkin-SPICE flavoured everything." Key difference. "Pumpkin spice" does not taste like (nor is it made from) pumpkins. It is a collection of spices (cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, cloves and sometimes allspice) that are added to pumpkin purée (and other ingredients) to make pumpkin pie. About 15-16 years ago, an enterprising multinational corporation or 3 decided to produce versions of their (non-pie) products that had that spice mixture in them (most notably Starbucks with their pumpkin spice latte), and it caught on to the point where you can't find a single aisle in the supermarket at this time of year that doesn't have a pumpkin spice flavoured SOMETHING in it (and usually more than one). It is madness, and I actually LIKE the taste of pumpkin pie, as well as all of the constituent spices that make up the mixture. On the bright side, though I got incredibly tired of the pumpkin spice Cheerios I bought in September 2019, my dog still adores them (they're his favourite treat). So the four boxes that I didn't eat are going to good use.
I like your cap, Lawrence. A clover with the Chicago city flag. And yes, I have sassafras in my leaf collection book that I compiled for 6th grade thirty years ago. At the time, I lived in central Illinois, so the trees were fairly common.
Oh my. This is eye-opening. I've always cringed when I've heard people say "pe-kahhhn" since everyone around me always used "pee-can" or "pe-CAN," but I may have to change _my_ pronunciation from now on.
I was going to say right-hand drive vehicles, but there were some used by our Post Office letter carriers (mailmen or more P.C. mailpersons(?)) where curbside/kerbside mail delivery was done, so they could just reach into the mailbox/letterbox(?) without getting out of the vehicle. I believe some are still in use, although being replaced with larger parcel vans/lorries.
You can also go to the spice section at the grocery, and buy pumpkin spice.More accurate, it's pumpkin pie spice, my personal favorite place to use it. The best ratio is one part pie, 3 parts whipped topping.
I'd never heard of chokeberries. We have chokecherries here in Nebraska. I looked it up and they are slightly different. Chokecherry leaves can be toxic but the chokeberry ones aren't. But chokecherries sure make amazing jelly.
@oxy 75 and (sometimes) cloves. They have their place. Like, in a pumpkin pie. But they show up in So. Damn. Many. inappropriate other places... A local shop was offering "pumpkin spice-scented" tissue paper. Why, for the love of God? *WHY?!*
Caroline Collins, I don’t deny there are multiple ways people pronounce the word. However, if you look at the word etymology, “pecan” came from the Native American word “pakani,” which evolved into the American-French “pacane.” There is no “E” in the first syllable of either of those words, both of which would have put the emphasis on the second syllable. Pronunciation has morphed over time for various reasons, but, based on word etymology, the correct pronunciation should be “puh-kaan.” If people want to ignore the history of the word and say “pee-can,” they certainly can do it, I’m sure everyone will still understand what they are talking about. 👍🏼 😊
Born and raised in Michigan, I grew up with pee-cans. Now, after living in Oklahoma, p-khans sounds normal to me and the “yankee” pronunciation is quite weird to hear. By the way, I can’t stand “pumpkin spice” anything...
Yes, pee-cans is definitely yankee speak! I hate pumpkin spiced anything too! The best thing I've seen was a fall advertising sign at a tire shop that said "We have Pumpkin Spice Rubber". That says it all.
Also Michigan born & raised, we were more walnut people, as they are an indigenous nut there. Now on the Texas gulf coast, it's pe-kahns that are indigenous in this area. We buy them from nearby farmers. Walnuts are nearly prohibitively expensive here
Thrilled to discover your channel today. I am a Chicagoan who is the sole US employee of a company based in Surrey. Learned quickly that the term 'belts and suspenders' have COMPLETELY different meanings and should never be used on a conference call.
Pumpkin Spice Cheerios have the spices and also real pumpkin puree in it! This cereal comes out in the fall! I love it because it isn't sickening sweet!
