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Well, as many people know, I work in the Starbucks kiosk at the Safeway Grocery Store. Well we just got the "Pumpkin Spice" mix that goes into the "Pumpkin Spice lattes and frapps. Funny thing is, It contains neither Pumpkins nor spices.

I really think that Starbucks should be heavily fined for selling a product and marketing it as Pumpkin or Even "Spices" when the only spice it contains is salt and the rest of it is two types of reconstituded milk product,sugar, carmel color, artificial and natural "flavors" (no specification of what kind of flavor), and some sort of preservative.

Marketing is just another word for lieing. It's one thing to put a positive spin on something, it's a whole other matter entirely to call something pumpkin when it doesn't even contain even a little bit of pumpkin. I thought we had laws against false advertising. I guess not.