- Few drinks get people as excited as pumpkin spice lattes.
- We decided to pit the pumpkin lattes at Starbucks and Dunkin' — the two biggest coffee chains in the US — against each other.
- Starbucks was way more expensive than Dunkin', but also better. The PSL uses real pumpkin purée, and was less sweet.
It's officially fall — though Dunkin' and Starbucks have been selling their signature fall drinks since August.
Few other flavors incite more outrage — or devotion— than pumpkin spice.
As part of an ongoing taste test series at INSIDER — we've tried fast food chocolate chip cookies, coffee, and apple pie, to name a few — we decided to pit the two biggest coffee chains in the US against other, and sampled pumpkin lattes from Starbucks and Dunkin' (formerly known as Dunkin' Donuts).
While the latte at Dunkin' was substantially cheaper, Starbucks is still the reigning pumpkin spice champion.
Keep scrolling to see why we prefer the PSL from Starbucks over its Dunkin' counterpart.
You know what October means: sweater weather, apple picking, Halloween... and pumpkin-flavored everything.
Some say the pumpkin craze has gone too far.
We decided to pit the pumpkin lattes at Starbucks and Dunkin' (née Dunkin' Donuts) against each other.
Starbucks and Dunkin' are, in fact, the two biggest coffee chains in America respectively, according to Technomic's Top 500 Chain Restaurant Report. There are 13,390 Starbucks locations in the US, and 9,141 Dunkin's.
To face off these coffee rivals, I bought a medium pumpkin latte from Dunkin' and a grande Pumpkin Spice Latte from Starbucks.
The famed PSL made its return this year on August 28, the earliest launch by Starbucks ever.
Dunkin' had an even earlier launch of its fall products: pumpkin coffee, plus maple pecan coffee, apple crisp donuts, and pumpkin donuts and muffins all made their debut on August 27.
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