It's an international holiday when Starbucks rolls out its annual Pumpkin Spice Latte and pumpkin-flavored products. Well, not really, but it certainly feels that way to those of us who wait patiently all year for the first sip of fall-in-a–cup. Though many , nothing rivals a piping hot cup of the original from the to-go window on a chilly morning.
This year, Starbucks announced the return of its beloved pumpkin spice line at the end of August, just in time to ease customers out of the summer season and into fall. The drink may seem iconic as it is now, but the adored pumpkin beverage looked very different when it was first introduced to the public some 20 years ago. The original Pumpkin Spice Latte (or PSL, for short), didn't even contain real pumpkin.
These days you'll find 3 tablespoons of Starbucks' Homemade Pumpkin Spice Syrup in each of the lattes, which does, thankfully, contain a whopping 4 tablespoons of real pumpkin puree, but back in the day, the pumpkin part of a PSL was simply imaginary. How Starbucks transformed Fall with pumpkin in every sip In 2015, Peter Dukes, director of Espresso and Brewed Coffee at Starbucks at the time, commented in an on the Starbucks website announcing that "this season, PSL [will be] made with real pumpkin, and without caramel coloring." This was the first big change to the PSL recipe since its introduction in 2003.
The Pumpkin Spice Latte was an immediate hit and was also a revolutionary idea at the time, with Starbucks being one o.
