As the cold and rainy season approaches, we’ve continued to see the return of ghastly fall flavors, including pumpkin spice.

I believe that this fall favorite is extremely oversaturated in today’s society. There are other, more fruity alternatives that I’d prefer over this excessively hyped annual shit show of a flavor.

Practically anything, and everything, is turned into a pumpkin or pumpkin spice product these days.

There was even a can of spam released with the repulsive flavor, according to an Aug. 16, 2019 Food and Wine magazine article. 

Hormel Foods dropped a Pumpkin Spice Spam flavor after teasing its development in an October 2017 Facebook post, making canned food more unbearable than it already is, according to the Food and Wine article

The flavored spam was released on Sept. 23, 2019, after several people tried searching for the product, according to the same article.

I don’t like the taste of pumpkin spice.

Rather than making me feel cozy and ready for the holiday season, pumpkin spice overwhelms my senses, irritating my sinuses and straining my throat.

The flavor is annoyingly popular and has an extremely disorienting taste.

I like more fruity flavors including blueberry and grape. I’m especially a sucker for artificial grape flavoring.

Whether artificial or not, I believe that grape is a delicious flavor that doesn’t feed its own undeserving popularity with stupid and annoying millennial humor that is often used in ads for pumpkin spice.

After doing some research, it becomes apparent that most flavoring in today’s products don’t really share much with their real-world counterparts.

Despite this I’ve found that artificial grape flavor is closer to the original source material than other artificial flavorings like pumpkin spice.

It’s also a taste that doesn’t routinely irritate my throat and hurt my taste buds into oblivion.

The artificial grape flavor most people have come to know was developed in the 1800s, after scientists found a grape-smelling chemical from what was formerly known as orange blossom extract, according to a May 15, 2020 article on Mashed, a food news website.

This substance could actually be traced back to the contents of the actual fruit according to the same article.

Grape flavoring has more in common to its original source and is more real than other flavors like pumpkin spice.

Case in point, grape flavoring doesn’t exist as just a man-made fad-like movement, plagued by people aiming to be artificially comfy for the holidays.

More fruity flavors, particularly grape, can be used to better society as well.

The artificial grape flavor is commonly used to mask the taste of medication for children, according to a 2022 listing on the Drugs.com website, a common encyclopedia website for medicine and disease.

Take it from me, this artificial grape flavoring in medication has been a life saver, after being born with a congenital heart disease and spending the first four years of my life in the hospital with several routine visits for both my heart and routine sickness around this time of year.

Grape flavoring contributes to our society by acting as a nice substitute to repulsive tasting medicine.

In its entirety, I hate pumpkin spice and will always prefer less-irritating fruity flavors over the fall favorite. 

Grape should be the new fall fan favorite flavor. People should hype flavors like grape up much more for its usefulness and its superior taste because it unleashes a blast of fruity flavor throughout your entire mouth.