Stopped by Starbucks yesterday to meet a friend. They had a big display up celebrating twenty years of the pumpkin spice flavor. I remembered the first time I ever had one. My wife and I lived in Half Moon Bay, California. Relatives from the eastern US were visiting. An oddly chilly, damp day, we went to the Tech Museum in San Jose. Not far away was a Starbucks. We walked to it to get a hot coffee drink and on a whim, several of us had pumpkin spice lattes. The flavor surprised and impressed me.
But they or I changed in the intervening time. I had a sampler they’d put up; after a sip, the tastebuds said, “Oh, god, no.” I tossed it.
Michael Seidel, writer 
I don’t get the pumpkin spice craze!
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‘Craze’ is the right word. Enjoyed it that first time; never again. It seems like it’s getting worse IMO, more artificial tasting every time I try one. Been years since the last attempt; it’ll be years before the next, I think. Cheers
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