Our son doesn't understand that pumpkin is a "flavor" not just one of the seasonal icons of Halloween

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Summary

A father shares a humorous anecdote about his toddler son misinterpreting seasonal pumpkin-flavored items as Halloween-themed flavors like "skeleton spice" and "bat flavored ice cream."

Structure

1Introduction of the toddler's confusion
2Example of the skeleton spice coffee
3Example of the bat flavored ice cream

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Our son doesn't understand that pumpkin is a "flavor" not just one of the seasonal icons of Halloween...so when my wife said her latte was pumpkin spice flavored he said his (fake) coffee was "skeleton spice" or today when we got ice cream and I got pumpkin flavored he said he wanted "bat flavored ice cream" 😂

Transcript

Our son doesn't understand that pumpkin is a "flavor" not just one of the seasonal icons of Halloween...so when my wife said her latte was pumpkin spice flavored he said his (fake) coffee was "skeleton spice" or today when we got ice cream and I got pumpkin flavored he said he wanted "bat flavored ice cream" 😂