I think the profusion of pumpkin products at this time of the year is pretty hilarious. It makes me smile, even though for the most part I don’t partake (I do like a pumpkin beer once in a while). And I think we can all use more smiling and laughing.
Do you look at that list and think - some of these are not regular products and I wish they had a normal version the rest of the year?
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Also. pretty sure that is not even a complete list (i noticed a bottled pumpkin curry that I thought would save me some trouble making dhansak - then it struck me that it’s probably overloaded with cinnamon and put it back).
You’re right! They left the pumpkin curry sauce out of the flyer. As it happens, that’s the one thing I DID buy, but haven’t tried yet. I figured I’d add applesauce to make it a soup.
And I see that while skimming the flyer, I missed one I’d sooner vomit than try: Non-Dairy Pumpkin Oat Beverage.
even with a mask, it was overwhelming. thankfully for the employess at my tjs, the cinnamon brooms were relegated to the entrance way, and not in the store proper.
Someone gave me one of those brooms one year, I could not get it out of my house fast enough! We put it outside and it kept the squirrels off the pumpkins.
Pumpkin ravioli really should just be available year round. If butternut squash can be year-round, why not pumpkin. I haven’t tried the TJ varieties, but Costco once had a pumpkin pasta sauce that was amazing. It was seasonal, and I have yet to see it since (been a good 5 yrs). If the TJ autumn harvest pasta sauce is anything like that, I’m in.
and seems like the regular chicken and veggie samosas are not available (at least in the store on Masonic in SF), during pumpkin samosa season. I was a bit disappointed to see them not there on the shelf, and did not want to try the pumpkin samosas
Pumpkin ice cream is delicious! I haven’t tried TJ version, but I’ve had locally Pumpkin and Oreo cookie ice cream Yum! The other thing that is missing from this list? Pumpkin whoopie pies.
The seasonal Stop&Shop/Peapod pumpkin ice cream is excellent. I know that I found TJ’s pumpkin cheesecake to be rather chalky but can’t recall if I’ve ever had the ice cream. The long-defunct Betty Crocker Pie Shop chain had a pumpkin chiffon pie that was celestially good. As is Hood’s seasonal pumpkin eggnog.