'Sugar and spice, and everything nice': Sprinkle some cinnamon in your coffee with these pumpkin spice latte memes, perfect for an autumn afternoon

Giuliana Tiscioni • Writer

Sep 17, 2026 9:15 AM EDT

It's only five more days until the official beginning of autumn!

It's crazy to believe that we're already in the middle of September. We can smell Halloween coming, and Thanksgiving, and yes, also Christmas. It's crazy how time flies when you're having fun, and that's exactly what we came to do here: have fun and laugh at a bunch of memes. There's nothing better than getting a good laugh out of something ordinary, and what's more ordinary than drinking coffee every morning?

That's right, we basically need coffee in an I.V, to stay awake and to function throughout the day, and when this season gets here, we can't help but start combining our coffee with some of the best autumn goods. We start adding sugar, pumpkin, cinnamon, and everything that smells great. Somehow, after who knows how many tries, we got the wonder that pumpkin spice lattes are! There's nothing we enjoy more than smelling that sweet spice scent. We can have it in the morning, in the afternoon, as a dessert, as a snack, or whenever we want! No one can tell us when and how to enjoy our favorite fall drink. We might even venture to try to make it ourselves. After all, we only need some pumpkin puree, a bunch os spices, a shot of espresso, and steamed milk (I'm basically giving you the recipe here. Don't tell me that these meme lists aren't helpful too).

Of course, unless we have an espresso machine, that part can get tricky… Maybe we could replace the espresso with some other kind of coffee. It will definitely be cheaper than buying a whole espresso machine for one drink. Although if we had one of those, we would use it more than any other appliance in the house. Well, we don't have to decide on big purchases right now. We can always wait for the Christmas sales and make the most of those. In the meantime, we're going to have to get creative about our coffee for the pumpkin latte. Or better yet, let's just go to Starbucks. We can't always be the tinker fairy we want to be and make everything from scratch. We need breaks every now and then. For now, let's just stick to the pumpkin spice memes!