When it's autumn, our thoughts naturally turn to how many things we can buy that have a pumpkin taste, smell, color or health benefit. I like pumpkin pie made from canned pumpkin, preferably well past the expiration date and pumpkin bread, but that's about it. I hate cleaning out a pumpkin to make a jack-o-lantern. So, I really don't get the insane popularity of pumpkins. It seems to me they have been taken a little too far.
I'm sure there are many more merchandized pumpkin themed products. Enough so that by Thanksgiving there will be more than one person who has orange skin.
