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Yes?
I mean, I donβt think we need to tiptoe around voicing opinions about things, especially in context (in a coffee shop that sells the thing) as casual conversation. Things like βIβve never understood the appeal of pumpkin spice, and how is went from a corporate marketing flavor to an inescapable and pervasive social phenomenon that assaults my senses everywhere I go in public starting in September and persisting through to Christmas.β Put that in your comic speech bubble.
But, yeah, mocking people who are buying sugary caffeinated drinks is as silly as mocking people for drinking hot cocoa. My objection to pumpkin spice is that people drinking them are may as well be walking around with thuribles; itβs as stinky as second-hand smoke.
So now people arenβt allowed food that smells a bit? The puritan fun police element on lemmy is really getting out of hand.
TIL people love their Pumpkin Spice.
It doesnβt smell βa bit.β It pervades a space. You canβt smell someoneβs coffee, or their caramel macchiato, or their OJ, unless you stick your face in their cup. But if someone comes into an office with a pumpkin spice, you know it because it stinks up there entire room.
It wouldnβt be so bad, by itself. What makes it aggregious is that stores start pumping out the pumpkin spice scent around October; itβs everywhere. Itβs inescapable. Itβs like a crowded Austrian bar in the 1980βs, where thereβs a literal cloud ceiling of cigarette snake at a meter high and an impenetrable haze that limits visibility to 2 meters. Candles. Infusers and incense.
βSmell a bit.β Thatβs like calling a nuclear holocaust βa little fire.β
Maybe they do it differently where you are? Or maybe youβre just desperate to justify your hate because actually you hate it because you hate the people who enjoy it not the thing itself?