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18 Products that will Make You Love (or Hate) the Pumpkin Spice Craze

This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Maryland chapter.

It’s that time of year again! The leaves are changing, students are actually studying, girls may stop wearing crop tops (just kidding), and Pumpkin Spice Lattes are back at Starbucks, yay! So what does this mean for the rest of the consumer population? Not only are pumpkin spiced products in your local coffee shop, they are hauntingly everywhere. From your favorite organic supermarket to the sketchy gas station where you buy late night munchies, pumpkin spice is dominating the market this season. So for your convenience, we picked out 18 of the weirdest, most useless, and perhaps down right disgusting products you can try for yourself before time runs out on these limited edition delicacies.

  1. We’ll start off a little normal, for your sake. Our first look into the overly flavored world of pumpkin is Cheesecake Factory’s Pumpkin Cheesecake, like I said, a little normal. The only horrifying piece of information you need to know about this slice of certainly not heaven is the 31 grams of saturated fat this baby brings in, enjoy! 

  2. Want to add a little spice to your morning coffee? Well at 35 calories a tablespoon, you can!

  3. I can see my mom’s Italian family hearts breaking over Rossi Pasta’s pumpkin spice lasagna.

  4. Mmm, just like grandma used to make when she got a little too wine drunk. 

  5. It may not taste like pumpkin spice on its way down but maybe Pumpkin Spice Burnett’s will when it comes back up! 

  6. Puff, puff, pass this bad boy over. Who wouldn’t want to be inhaling the wonderful mix of nicotine and fall flavors with Vapage e-cigarettes?

  7. Ok Wrigley’s, this Pumpkin Spice Gum is almost as “appetizing” as the Mint Chocolate Chip Gum you once sold, and that may not be a good thing in this case.

  8. Because you didn’t puke enough from the vodka, introducing Four Loko’s Pumpkin Spice flavor to try your luck again! Caffeine, booze, and pumpkin…mmm… good?

  9. For those tough guys who didn’t think the vodka and Four Loko were enough, try your luck with Corsair Pumpkin Spice Moonshine. 

  10. What’s next Sally Hansen, pumpkin scented acetone? 

  11. Do you want to make your dorm or apartment smell like the delectably artificial flavors or autumn? Well now you can with Glade’s Maple Pumpkin air freshener!

  12. Because it isn’t enough for just your house to smell like fall, but now you can too with pumpkin scented body soap. 

  13. A new twist on the brunch favorite.

  14. Corrupting your favorite bagel condiments, in stores now! 

  15. I don’t think bubba would approve of this with my bagels and lox. 

  16. Once you pop, you probably will stop

  17. I’m all for trying new M & M’s, but that face just says it all- great marketing! 

  18. As for marketing goes, Starbuck’s pumpkin spice Christmas ornaments has no shame in the pumpkin game.

Whether you’re prepping a pumpkin feast for Thanksgiving or just want to go out and give some of these exceedingly convenient products a try, remember they’re only here until eggnog season, giving us something new to be thankful for.

Sophomore Communication major with a passion for beads and Diet Coke.
Jaclyn is so excited to be a campus correspondent with Her Campus! She is a sophomore at the University of Maryland, double majoring in Journalism and American Studies. Jaclyn hopes to work as an editor at a magazine in the future. She loves following fashion, attending concerts, traveling, and photographing the world around her.