#StopPrematurePumpkinSpicing

If you live in America, you know about Starbuck's Pumpkin Spice Latte, and the food industry's obsession with all things pumpkin when it gets anywhere remotely near fall. Most of us are used it by now because our consumer-driven world loves to push things on us before it's really appropriate (like putting out the Halloween stuff in August and the Christmas stuff in October). It's  thing like this that we've just become accustomed to.

Starbucks launched its Pumpkin Spice Latte on September 6th this year, and apparently that was just too darn early for people like Sean Bauer. Sean Bauer took matters into his own hands and has started a revolutionary movement against the Pumpkin Spice. He has protested in front of Starbucks and other coffee shops in Philadelphia for the past two years sporting a sign the read: "Stop Premature Pumpkin Spicing".

According to Bauer, the Pumpkin Spice movement is ruining peoples' sentiments of fall. Instead of thinking of warm fires, flannel shirts and hot cider, they think of bright orange artificially flavored drinks and sweets. On the flip side, many people enjoy these pumpkin flavored treats and would be heartbroken if they didn't return every year at the first sign of fall. I imagine there will always be a deep divide among those who love and hate pumpkin spice, but it will just have to be a hardship we live with.

You can love it or leave it but regardless its coming!! Happy fall!