Happy Halloween! Pumpkin spice is racist!
Sorry to start your day off on such tragic news, but The Washington Post let us know this month that you can’t even enjoy the most basic of “basic white girl” treats without a side of white guilt.
You, like I, probably thought “Oh, The Babylon Bee has gotten a little TOO on the nose with this one” before you realized that, no, this is a genuine story from one of the nation’s most prestigious newspapers.
In 2023, WaPo discovered the cutthroat spice trade of previous centuries and has now decided that we, who had nothing to do with it, should probably feel bad about it and drink our PSLs (Pumpkin Spice Lattes) with a hint more bitterness.
“Some spices are part of a natural course of trade,” said Sarah Wassberg Johnson, a food historian. “It just happens that the main spices in pumpkin spice are fraught with colonizer histories.”
“Fraught with colonizer histories” is journalist/academic code for the history of evil white people (the only evil people there are or have been).
Because nutmeg used to be rare and the Dutch East India Trading Company conquered an island for access to the spice in the 1600s, it “complicates” our enjoyment of pumpkin spice, which includes nutmeg, today.
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Slavery has existed for all of human history, so all food came from slavery, migration, and conquest/colonization in some way. Go read this history of pasta sometime. Foods like sweet corn, tomatoes, and potatoes were taken to Europe from the Americas. Do I need to profess an “acknowledgement” every time I eat sit down to dinner, WaPo?
I guess it’s important to acknowledge it when it comes to pumpkin spice ESPECIALLY.
They don’t say explicitly what those reasons are, other than being a pop culture phenomenon.
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Enjoy your fall treats, you racist!
Continued…
Approved ~ MJM
