Let us blow your mind: Pumpkin doesn’t taste like pumpkin, at least, not the pumpkin that supermarket shelves and
coffeeshop conglomerates are selling you. Instead, the saccharine desserts, coffees and snacks billed as “pumpkin-flavored”
this fall—and just in time for
Halloween—are really just spiced with cinnamon, cloves and crushed souls. Before you go off on your own to pumpkin-pick at the grocery store, we’ve come up with a handy list to ward you from the grossest goodies of pumpkin-spice season. Are you ready to count down pumpkin "treats" in our slideshow below, from the merely bad to the truly obnoxious? Here we go!