The One With Pumpkin Spice Caskets

we're in a little bit of a transitional time.

It's seasonally transitional.

It's flavoristically transitional.

Is it time for pumpkin spice? Is it not time yet for pumpkin spice? What does this time of year

even mean? Do you live under a cave? Under a rock, even? Do you live in a cave under a rock? I, too,

live in a cave under a rock, yes.

Because if you have been out grocery shopping as I have, you know that July is pumpkin spice season.

I'm not talking about what

is popular on the shelves of

the Safeway, which is where I know you shop.

I'm talking about people trying to live a mindful, curated, analog life.

What's the tasteful choice? Is it tasteful to drink alcohol? Or is it far more chic to delay one's inevitable seasonal indulgence in a pumpkin spice beverage until, say, October...

October definitely feels like the natural pumpkin spice month.

Yes.

However, this year, 2026, the year that hot takes have died.

You were saying this is that hot takes aren't hot anymore.

No,

people don't like hot takes anymore.

I think you're wrong, unfortunately.

I think that that, first of all, that itself is a hot take.

So you are negating like a hot take about hot takes is like inherently it's an Ouroboros of like self-negation and bullshit.

But also, I think you're just demonstrably wrong.

I think hot takes have never been hotter.

Well, in the year that hot takes have died, pumpkin spice latte too has died.

This was a great story that we ran on spreadge.com, which is a coffee website.