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I just wish eggnog's flavor was as celebrated as pumpkin spice.
put that shit in everything.
I wonder if all the pro pumpkin spice stuff is a backlash against all the anti pumpkin spice stuff that was going around a while back.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/when-exactly-did-pumpkin-spice-lattes-become-basic_n_59c2bad2e4b06f93538c072d
I’m not aware there has been any similar anti egg nog movement, so people probably aren’t as passionate about defending it.
Although I began making this post before I finished reading the above article, which suggests the pumpkin spice backlash was a result to pumpkin spice already being “everywhere,” so I guess if you want more people to celebrate egg nog, force egg nog into everyone’s faces, and then support the newly emerging anti egg nog movement until people who like egg nog start being more vocal about their love of it going forward.
Oh yeah, it definitely is. A lot of it is because a lot of weirdos like pumpkin spice, too. It got labeled as a "basic" thing as though being boring and enjoying simple pleasures isn't what's available to most people living in poverty, which when 60% of the US lives paycheck to paycheck... is the majority of people. Most people are boring because it's what we have access to and time for, and a lot of folks are done being vilified for it as though your choice in coffee speaks to some larger issue about you. It doesn't.
It's really in many ways an unintentionally classist dig on people who like sweets or just simple things.
Indeed, there's not as many passionate Nogg Hogs.