Is New Jersey The Biggest Pumpkin Spice State In America?
All we hear about in New Jersey this time of year is pumpkin spice, but the results of a recent study may get you off the Garden State pumpkin spice bandwagon.
Let's start by saying pumpkin spice is more than just coffee. Just about everything comes in pumpkin spice these days.
How Much Does New Jersey Love Pumpkin Spice?
There's pumpkin spice coffee, pumpkin spice cereal, and pumpkin spice spice. This is starting to sound like a scene from Forrest Gump.
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There is also pumpkin spice tea, pumpkin spice creamer, and pumpkin spice ChapStick. Seriously, you can't make it up.
The question that was being posed to people all over America, is if you're apt to buy pumpkin spice products, and the results for New Jersey may surprise you.
New Jersey Is In The Middle Of The Pumpkin Spice Pack
Despite our love affair with pumpkin spice coffee, New Jersey residents are 13% less likely than the national average to buy pumpkin spice products.
The report at AllRecipes takes into account many more products than just our favorite pumpkin spice coffee, so that may explain it.
If you're wondering which state loves pumpkin spice the most, it isn't even close. West Virginia takes the cake.
In Virginia, residents are 122% more likely than the national average to buy pumpkin spice products.
And not surprisingly, the state that is least likely to purchase a pumpkin spice product is Hawaii, where the weather is never really pumpkin spice weather.
In Hawaii, residents are 65% less likely than the national average to buy pumpkin spice products.
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