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

No one loves pumpkin flavored sweets more than me when Fall rolls around. I absolutely live for my Mom’s pumpkin pie on Thanksgiving, and I love the pumpkin ice cream at Marble Slab. I even make a pretty mean pumpkin cookie with cinnamon frosting, so naturally, I’ve done my research on everything pumpkin spice.

Yummy Fall Treats

Since the advent of the pumpkin spice latte, people have started to really take advantage of our obsession. It seems like everything we already loved took a turn for the festive and was suddenly offering a version filled with pumpkiny goodness, such as the following:

Classic PSL

Candles

Cheerios

Godiva

Cookie Straws

Products That Have No Business Being “Pumpkin Spice”

While some of the brands and products have gotten the whole pumpkin thing spot on, others have gone a little over the top. The pumpkin spice craze has touched some things that are honestly better off as their original versions.            

Protein Powder

Tortilla Chips

Pumpkin Spice Chips (Like chocolate chips, but they look like pumpkins and taste like fake pumpkin flavoring)

Roasted Garbanzo Beans

Fettuccini

Pringles

Burnett’s (Now come on, this is just making a bad thing worse)

 

Hong Kong born and raised, Manishka is widely known for two things – her clumsiness and her ability to spend hours laughing at her own jokes! When she’s not busy trying to find out how she got her latest bruise, she can usually be found eating an avocado, while re-watching Gossip Girl for the 6th…no… 7th time! Her hobbies include raiding the fridge, stalking Doug the Pug on Instagram and trying to find out the secret ingredient in Krabby Patties.