Like every food in America, every chest thumping idiot decides that if xxxx food is
known for using XXX spice, mine will have more!
That's why you get sausage dominated by sage.
Pumpkin pie that tastes like spices. (Hell p-pie spice has become a taste)
Apple pie where you can't taste apples........
Amen to that. My criteria which I told my wife of 34 years when discussing how to use spices is that if you do spices right then the food tastes good without tasting any of the spices.