Danielle Husband
Every year, it seems Houston’s holiday season gets a little bit longer.
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Halloween is still around the corner, but stores are already filled with winter seasonal decorations; driving around the city, you can also spot the beginnings of Christmas lights and festive red bows.
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Even our beloved BlueBell ice cream is joining in early this year, releasing three holiday flavors just in time for trick-or-treaters:
Starting this week, you can pick up BlueBell’s newest additions, Christmas Cookies, Peppermint and Peppermint Bark, from your local grocer.
A release by BlueBell describes the Christmas Cookie flavor as including chocolate chip, snicker doodle and sugar cookies swirled in a sugar-cookie flavored ice cream, while the Peppermint flavor features crumbled peppermint pieces.
The peppermint bark reportedly includes mint ice cream swirled with white and dark chocolate chunks.
Christmas is just around the corner, but our Christmas Cookies Ice Cream is in stores beginning today! #bluebellicecream pic.twitter.com/vDIBO03uOz
— Blue Bell Ice Cream (@ILoveBlueBell) October 23, 2017
Sure, they sound delicious, but on this early holiday track, they’ll be gone long before the actual holiday arrives.
Some Houstonians, like those Tweeting below, seem thrilled to skip Halloween and Thanksgiving in favor of egg nog and reindeer:
https://twitter.com/TexasCzar_/status/922186971539222528
Houston TX
2017-10-14
92 Degrees F
It feels like Christmas to me! pic.twitter.com/wIZ6QIzTTq— Colin Nelson (@orthros_) October 14, 2017
But not everyone is on board:
Houston, Christmas decorating before HALLOWEEN is a bridge way, way too far. pic.twitter.com/rSzHVoABA5
— St. John Barned-Smith ⚔️ (@stjbs) October 25, 2017
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen is playing this very second at my coffeehouse.
It's 74° in Houston (Christmas weather) so it's obvi appropriate
— Dan Roche (@danrocheca) October 16, 2017
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Christmas is here, folks — whether we like it or not.
October Christmas Comes to Highland Village https://t.co/UDvFpxmnpA pic.twitter.com/JkxJ01yVVk
— swamplot (@swamplot) October 23, 2017
DAMN!!! It's Oct. 19 and #RiverOaks is putting up #Christmas lights already! pic.twitter.com/rqWuD5x9xe
— Aaron Raybould (@aaronisblitzed) October 19, 2017
Yeah and according to @phyllisthebuzz #MemorialCityMall is decorated already too pic.twitter.com/bFoUfKIG5d
— Aaron Raybould (@aaronisblitzed) October 19, 2017
