Pumpkin spice season gets a lot of flak and...
we . Every year, the hits the shelves earlier and earlier, and each year, the number of things that become pumpkin spice-infused that shouldn’t be . But clearly, there are a good number of people who can’t get enough of this stuff; it’s not some conspiracy put on us by Big Pumpkin.
But if somehow we were able to eliminate every single pumpkin spice product from market shelves and cafe menus except for one, what would it be? You thought “pumpkin pie,” right? Because any other answer is wrong. Pumpkin pie is the best pumpkin spice-infused food and it’s not even close. It’s a top-five Thanksgiving dinner staple, and if you’ve been tasked with pie duty this year, you’re probably going to want to show up to the dinner with the very best.
That’s why — each November — we round up all the grocery store pumpkin pies we can find every year and put them to the blind taste test. So here they are, the best grocery store pumpkin pies blind taste tested and ranked to help you win Thanksgiving. Methodology: To make this blind taste test as useful as possible, we targeted pumpkin pies from market chains with a multi-state presence.
We did hit up one local So-Cal chain, Vons, but Vons’ parent company is Safeway, which is scattered across 16 states and carries the same products. So consider Vons, Safeway! This year, Target unfortunately didn’t have a bake case pumpkin pie, so we picked up a Marie Calendar’s frozen pie .