What trendy foods do you refuse to purchase?
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Kale.0
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janejellyroll wrote: »Any kind of nut "milk". And only because I don't believe for a minute it is "milk" of any sort. It's nut juice (which probably wouldn't sell as well).
And yes, I am aware I am being absurd, but for some reason this one has always irritated me.
So what do you call the contents of the cans of the grated meat of a mature coconut, "coconut juice"?
The difference is, coconuts produce the substance themselves, making it milk, no?0 -
singingflutelady wrote: »Just a note about the gluten free label. I know someone who is super sensitive and reacts to eggs from grain feed chickens so I am guessing there must be trace amounts of gluten in them
There are also a lot of products that you wouldn't think had gluten in them that do. Having dealt with severe food allergies for years the label doesn't seem weird to me.2 -
lemurcat12 wrote: »I live in hipsterville. Old Style beer is popular around here. It is gross. I don't get it.
Old Style is in somewhere? Weird. Kind of cool (yeah, it's absolutely terrible), but weird. There's a million old Old Style signs on genuine old dive bars around here still, but I don't think it's trendy even in hipsterville. Too much of a mainstream standby for too long.
And in Oklahoma, I had never seen or heard of it until the last few years. First I saw it on the TV show "Shameless" and just assumed it was one of those prop beers like the cans that just say "BEER" used for the show... Then all of the sudden it started showing it up in the local bars. That and Hamms... Which is also disgusting. PBR has been around here a long time but definitely has had a resurgence as of late.0 -
extra_medium wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »Sriracha.
I have been eating various hot sauces for decades before it was cool and I do not understand the hype.
I was eating "sriracha" when it was all that was available in some restaurants through the 90's but we just called it "Rooster Sauce".
Valentina (regular or extra hot) is as good or better, for about 99 cents.
Have you had Marie Sharp's? You have to get it on Amazon (unless you live in Belize). It's freaking awesome!
They have it in a few stores around here, best hot sauce I've tried.
I brought 12 bottles home with me from Belize years ago...that stuff is awesome. I can sometimes find it here at Sprouts Market.0 -
Seaweed "chips". They taste like ocean-rot.3
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jennybearlv wrote: »I grow kale every fall. It is an unfussy vegetable. Grows fast and holds up to frosts. It's earthy flavor goes well with the bean soups I make all winter. However, that is really the only thing it's good for. Kale chips taste like spicy farts. Kale salads are impossible to chew. Vegetables in smoothies in general are just... no.
ಠ_ಠI LOL'd at the comment about people brushing their teeth with turmeric. It takes me a week to get the turmeric stains off my laminate countertops when I make curry. I can imagine what these peoples' teeth and lips look like. I've gotta search YouTube for this!
Might as well make a toothpaste out of turmeric, red wine, tobacco, and coffee. Don't forget the coconut oil to kill all the toxxxxinnnnsz!Gluten-free and GMO-free labels make me cringe. I know it is just marketing, but pandering to people who don't understand science makes me sad.
I think somebody already mentioned this, but Gluten-free labels are often helpful for people with serious sensitivity to gluten because there are crops (oats, for example) that are often contaminated with wheat, rye or barley.
I don't have an issue with food labels. Let people eat what they wish to eat, regardless of whether or not anybody agrees with their reasons.
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cwolfman13 wrote: »extra_medium wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »Sriracha.
I have been eating various hot sauces for decades before it was cool and I do not understand the hype.
I was eating "sriracha" when it was all that was available in some restaurants through the 90's but we just called it "Rooster Sauce".
Valentina (regular or extra hot) is as good or better, for about 99 cents.
Have you had Marie Sharp's? You have to get it on Amazon (unless you live in Belize). It's freaking awesome!
They have it in a few stores around here, best hot sauce I've tried.
I brought 12 bottles home with me from Belize years ago...that stuff is awesome. I can sometimes find it here at Sprouts Market.
I wish I could find it in stores. When we went to Belize, I had people asking me to bring back bottles. It's seriously the best. I will pay more for it via Amazon. I think it was like $1.50 a bottle in Belize, and about $8 on Amazon. Still worth it.0 -
Anything "organic", non-GMO, green, or other woo and quackery.0
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Not necessarily a food but found in the grocery section so ... I think energy drinks are the absolute worst. They're disgusting, and nothing but chemicals. I tried them a few years back and got horrendous migraines. A friend of mine drinks them religiously and mixes them with torani syrups! Sooooo gross. Can't understand why she has daily migraines, her hair is falling out, or why she feels ill.. she's seeing a migraine specialist now and can't put two and two together. She doesn't believe me it's her drinks doing it. Ick!2
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AllOutof_Bubblegum wrote: »Seaweed "chips". They taste like ocean-rot.
I tried these once because I kept seeing them at wegmans and they "sounded" good wow only 40 calories for a pack of these "chips" but YUCK. I almost vomited they were so bad.2 -
Coconut oil, coconut water, salted caramel, my flatmate buys all of this stuff and it seems like he's just trying to be trendy.0
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Steak Garnish
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joshperson195 wrote: »Me? Hummus. Can't stand the stuff.
I love hummus...but only Sabra. Nothing else even comes close.1 -
Wetcoaster wrote: »I don't refuse to purchase anything. If I like it I buy. Who care what anyone else thinks.
That^^.0 -
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Noreenmarie1234 wrote: »Haha love this thread. For me...
kale
tofu noodles
kombucha
Water infused with veggies
Smoothies with spinach
popcorn in a bag (I don't understand why this is so popular, there is literally a whole entire aisle at my grocery store dedicated to already prepopped bagged popcorn)
Kombucha is so good though. Drinking some now GT's Trilogy 2 -
jennybearlv wrote: »I grow kale every fall. It is an unfussy vegetable. Grows fast and holds up to frosts. It's earthy flavor goes well with the bean soups I make all winter. However, that is really the only thing it's good for. Kale chips taste like spicy farts. Kale salads are impossible to chew. Vegetables in smoothies in general are just... no.
I laughed so hard at this my sides hurt...
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quiksylver296 wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »
most gluten free things taste like *kitten*.
And I don't understand peoples obsession with them. Either you have an intolerance/sensitivity or you're an idiot- because they generally are not tasty and there is 100% no reason to go out of your way to purchase gluten free. It's more expensive and tastes worse. So- don't. Unless you have an actual f*****g issue.
Exactly. And they were freaking CORN chips!
Speaking as a person with celiac disease here, items intrinsically without gluten like corn chips aren't necessarily gluten free. If a company like Frito Lay (using them as an example, Tostitos are gluten free) also makes a multi-grain chip, there could be danger of cross contamination on the line unless they go through a very rigorous process of cleaning their equipment or use separate, dedicated lines for just their corn chips.
Keeping food items safe for consumption by celiacs is a bit more complicated than just starting with gluten free ingredients.
For items like the bagged carrots or bottled water, I agree that the gluten free label is silly. But you'd be surprised where you can find gluten, and it might not even be readily apparent on the label.
While I'm a vegetarian, I know a lot of celiacs have to struggle with the issue of the Thanksgiving turkey. The solution many birds are injected with is not always gluten free, for example. Not all canned tuna is gluten free.
It can be a minefield.9 -
+1DisruptedMatrix wrote: »I'm sorry but kale "chips" are disgusting.
Pretty much kale anything is disgusting.
Same with Quest bars.0 -
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Lmao look at my profile picture hahaha. I saw the very thing people were talking about 100% gluten free, dairy free, 100% vegan chai seed acai berry super food bar just 15 min ago in the checkout stand and had to buy it hahaha1
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With that being said I did not buy it cause I like all that stuff, but because it was funny and it actually existed for a 100% dairy free gluten free vegan bar hahaha plus it was only 50 cents2
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i gave into the pumpkin spice hype and bought pumpkin spice life cereal, after one bite i had to repent to jesus for that blasphemy7
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Regarding pumpkin ...
When I lived in Canada, I knew pumpkin as a "sweet" thing. We had pumpkin pie at Thanksgiving and Christmas. That was it ... pumpkin wasn't used for anything else. And I've never been that excited about pumpkin pie.
Then I moved to Australia and discovered that pumpkin is a savoury thing. Here we have roast pumpkin with our chicken dinner. Or pumpkin and curry soup. Or pumpkin risotto. Or pumpkin and spinach ravioli. Now I like pumpkin! I really like all these things. Pumpkin is much better as a savoury food.
So I see everyone going on about spiced pumpkin lattes and things ... and that's just not appealing at all. But give me a pumpkin and curry soup, and I'm there.
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I got some for signing up for a 5k. I was looking for recipes for my dad and I admit, chia pudding sounds super tempting to me. I made myself a PB&J recipe I found on Pinterest.CorneliusPhoton wrote: »Bbeliever215 wrote: »Chia seeds. Tried it once and it grossed me out
I never tried it but I know so many people that swear by it. I just don't understand the purpose of it.
1/3 of its weight is fiber.0 -
I can't find it right now, but ...
There was a TV commercial a couple years ago where a person about my age is talking to the camera while her daughter is making a bowl of oatmeal with blueberries in the background. She says something like, "my daughter is a great discoverer of her time ... she has discovered superfoods!" Then she lists off some and indicates the bowl of oatmeal with blueberries. The daughter wanders off, and the mother continues ... "What she doesn't realise is that we've been eating these things all along."
I think the ad is for a brand of oatmeal that has been around forever.
It's funny. 4
https://youtu.be/jW0FHk_VmVk
slab it on, put on a shower cap, sleep or otherwise keep it on for five hours,shampoo it out the next day and your hair is like silk. 
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