Happy Friday  folks.   Chip here, black coffee drinker since nineteen ninety something.  Yeah, I’m that guy that doesn’t put anything in the coffee…no sugar, no cream, nothing.  I was a firm believer that coffee was meant to be consumed black and anything added to it is simply coffee blasphemy.  Until recently…a while back Dunkin Donuts introduced their “Pumpkin Spice” coffee, and I didn’t think I could possibly be grossed out more.  You are going to flavor my black coffee with pumpkin, that orange goopy stuff that I scrape out of my jack-o-lantern every Halloween?  Then you are going to attempt to give it more of a pumpkin pie flavor by adding spice to it?  You must be out of your mind.

I remained skeptical throughout the entire first season that they introduced it.  My wife had purchased one with a friend and told me it was really good, but I couldn’t buy into it.  She, a person that religiously turns her coffee basically into a coffee milkshake with all of the creamer and sugar that she adds, is not going to be the person that gets me to drink a pumpkin pie flavored coffee, no sir, no way.

Last harvest season rolls around and I still had not tried this concoction.  Then I broke down and bought one.  Ok, here we go.  I was absolutely amazed by the tremendous flavor!  Still had coffee taste, but it was almost as if they had managed to liquefy a pumpkin pie and serve it hot in a Styrofoam cup.

I think on the first day that I tried this, I went on to visit several Dunkin Donuts establishments in the Mohawk Valley Region.  Wired to the gills, I thought to myself…”you’re consuming way too much caffeine”.  True, maybe I should slow down and establish some limits.

Then I hear about the availability of k-cups from the stores.  That was it.  Once I learned I could make these at home, there was no going back.  I maintained a stock of the k-cups throughout the rest of the season.  When they were gone, they were done for the season and I had pretty much forgotten about them…until today when I saw the announcement that the pumpkin spice coffee was back at Dunkin Donuts.  Well….I know where I’m headed when I get out of here tonight.  Have a great weekend everyone and try this pumpkin spice coffee if you haven’t already.  I guarantee you will be as amazed as I was.  Enjoy!

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