I have posted this on the Trader Joe’s thread as well, but the Pumpkin Brioche Bread is surprisingly good when made for French Toast. It has the perfect subtle pumpkin flavor!
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a pumpkin scone and a Pumpkin Spice Latte made with housemade syrup at an Indie Coffee Shop called Streamliners Espresso in St Thomas, Ontario . All good . They are better at baking than I am.
The Frontiersman sounds intriguing.
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I saw them again this week.
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You beat me to it. I am weary of sweet things from Trader Joe’s because many of them can be too sweet for my tastes. This brioche was very well-balanced, and made for great French toast indeed.
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Kinda love it.
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A Hot Buttered Rum Latte sounds good to me!
Here’s the BBC on the “spice” side of the pumpkin spice latte:
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The over-commercialization of everything pumpkin spice is ridiculous and over the top, but I think the article is reaching here for controversy. As an Asian, I don’t equate pumpkin spice with standalone ginger, cinnamon, clove or nutmeg, even though I know well those are components that go into the pie. Someone who enjoys PSL is dishonoring the role or history of ginger in Chinese cuisine. 
I wouldn’t be surprised if half of the Americans have never even baked a pumpkin pie in their life , let alone know what goes into it. Foods have always flowed outward and to other places where they get incorporated into local cuisines. Tomatoes are a new world crop, and how many countries have local tomato dishes?
East Asian style breads are absolutely influenced by Western breads and it’s evolved into its own taste and style. The Middle East and Western civilizations don’t claim we’re dishonoring bread with our preference for spongy, soft, slightly sweet bread you find in many East Asian bakeries. It’s also been reverse imported as tangzhong bread dough and Japanese style milk-bread, which took the internet by storm many years ago.
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A wings chain we like currently has pumpkin spice wings.
Not today, Satan. Or ever, for that matter.
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Wait until they unveil Dubai chocolate wings. 
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Bahahahahaha. With crispy kadaif filling & a milk chocolate pistachio sauce 
Reaching for sure.
And Starbucks introduced their chai tea latte (leave aside 3 drinks in 1 name there) in 1999, 4 years earlier.
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I don’t find the pumpkin spice flavour in pumpkin spice lattes or pumpkin spice treats tastes like McCormick or other pumpkin pie spice.
It has some other notes.
I grew up with pumpkin pie made with canned pumpkin or fresh pumpkin, and McCormick
pumpkin pie spice.
I also have eaten a lot of pumpkin in soups and stews.
I tried adding McCormick Pumpkin Pie Spice to my regular coffee as a trial, and the flavour was McCormick pumpkin pie spicey but not Pumpkin Spice Latte-y.
it’s that Pumpkin Spice whack that’s heavy and a little artificial, that is what I end up craving, sometimes
I buy a pumpkin pie spice flavoured ground coffee that smells like the Starbucks syrup.
I seem to remember having Chai Latte in 1998 in a Midtown Manhattan Starbucks. My Gateway drink to Starbucks.
The Coffee Frappuccino was my Gateway drink to Starbucks Coffee, in 1999 or 2000. LOL
I bought the TJ frozen pumpkin spice waffles and finally tried them. They weren’t bad for a frozen waffle. Obviously low expectations for frozen waffles to begin with, but in this case the pumpkin spice flavor works. Not overwhelming and still needs some of that butter and maple syrup flavor for maximum enjoyability.
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