Locale: This was another grab from a random travel plaza en route when we stopped to stretch our legs, but I’m sad to say that I was a little more excited about the find itself than its actual quality when I bit into it a while later…

Description: I don’t really know how old it was, but the piece that I got actually tasted kind of stale, and a little bit dry. It was certainly dense, and the crumbled pumpkin seeds on the top seemed like a nice touch, but I honestly couldn’t even find/enjoy any real flavor because it tasted like it should’ve been thrown out at the end of yesterday’s shift.

Pondering: Perhaps this is simply an issue of rest area Starbucks not keeping to the same standards of regular, stand-alone stores? Either way, for this particular attempt the nod goes to Seattle’s Best for making the better pumpkin bread…