Cool Weird Awesome With Brady Carlson

Summer is through, which means the start of our annual time to consume and/or complain about products flavored with pumpkin spice. It was in the mid-90s that this blend of cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, allspice and cloves started its rise to power, and there's no stopping it now, really. Plus: did you know that hundreds of years ago pumpkin spice may have given us New York City?  The origins of pumpkin spice and how it became the flavor of fall (Washington Post) The Dark And Murky History Of Pumpkin Spice (Chicagoist) How Did Pumpkin Spice Become So Popular? And Why Do We Hate to Love It So Much? (Cooking Light) ‘Pumpkin Spice’ Has Been a Thing for 3,500 Years (History.com) Backing Cool Weird Awesome on Patreon costs less than a PSL and lasts even longer --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/coolweirdawesome/message