I know, you’re thinking, “Isn’t eggnog that thick, indulgently sweet stuff you drink over Christmas? Why are you talking about it in reference to Halloween? You must have the holidays mixed up, lol!”
And yet here it is, October 1st, and not only do the stores already have their Halloween candy (appearing when summer had barely officially concluded) but today I noticed whilst in the neighborhood grocery store that there was eggnog in the dairy section, next to the milk. I was there in the morning so there’s a good chance it was actually shelved the night before, when it was still September.
It’s popular to mock and jeer the commercialization of every holiday, official or otherwise. And for good reason. This is silly. They are going to be selling eggnog for the next three months.Their initial shipment will expire before Halloween. Before summer has been over for even a month. Before some people finally stop wearing open-toed sandals for the rest of the year.
I was tempted to get some.
I remained strong, though. I don’t want to encourage further acceleration of the great merging of all holidays, even though that seems inevitable. I figure we’ll be more than 50% of the way there if Valentine’s candy shows up before Christmas. This is a real possibility.