Pumpkin Bacon

 

Logical Fallacy?



The Pumpkin Bacon is a lie.  I apologize, my title is based on an article I read in NY Magazine comparing the seasonal pumpkin craze to the zealot like nature that people have adopted towards bacon.  Not that I don't enjoy a cripsy, salty, smoky strip of bacon fried in its own lard, but a Bacon Martini?  I'm not sure if even I'm that adventurous. 

The article does bring up a valid point that it is not the pumpkin itself that drives consumers gourd-crazy, or even the spices and sweet nature that pumpkin based foods entail, but the limited nature itself.  The reemergence of the Pumpkin every fall can be compared to the short period of time that McDonald's offers their McRib, that rib shaped pressed pork patty.

Kinda looks like ribs?

McDonald's has actually found they can make more money by offering the McRib for a limited time that by putting it on their permanent menu.  By withholding a product an even higher demand for it is created; people always want what they can't have!

I'm a big believer in the whole pumpkin experience: as much as I enjoy spiced, sweet treats to ignore all the other savory and textural aspects of the pumpkin would be cruel to this noble fruit.  For example, I would especially love to see some innovation taken in the commercial use of pumpkin seeds.  In fact i'll be attempting to make Pumpkin Seed Milk later, keep on the lookout for that post.

Do yall have seen anything or have any good ideas for moving pumpkins out of their traditional sweet-spiced regime?  Let me know.

Get The Pumpkin Rolling

Alright everyone, time to step up the game!  We've gotten the easy ones on the list now to dig in and search for those obscure pumpkin treats.  I've got some Big Ideas for my favorite squash when I get back home but until then here are more opitions for a pumpkin fix:

Pumpkin Pancakes at IHOPS!  Or is it IHOPs?

Look what I found waiting just for me in the break room!

Pumpkin Pie Spice Coffee Creamer. It was good, had more of an emphasis on the nutmeg and cinnamon flavors.


So I decided to stop being a Phoney and go to Dunkin Donuts for the first time in my life.  Pretty nice place, the one I went to was a Dunkin/Baskin Robbins combined.  They had their Pumpkin K-Cups everywhere.  I had heard amazing things about their iced coffee so I got the natural choice: Pumpkin Iced Coffee and a Pumpkin Donut.

The coffee was amazing; people are right!  The Pumpkin donut was really good, had very present Allspice and Clove notes, tasted like a fried, glazed spice cake.

Pumpkin Spice JELL-O: At first I was wary, thinking this would be a translucent, orange jiggly blob, but then I realized it was JELL-O pudding...


Alright I'm gonna keep up the good fight finding more Fall foods.  If yall find anything let me know, then let me know how it tasted!