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  • LorinaLynn
    LorinaLynn Posts: 13,247 Member
    I'm a little tiny bit a food snob, when you can actually taste the difference. For instance, Pop Tarts are far superior to Toast 'Ems. But sometimes the store brand is just as good as the name brand. I like Pepsi, but not enough to pay $5 for a 12 pack when the Wegmans brand is half that price.

    I'm a total snob about toilet paper, though. Charmin Ultra or Cottonelle only.
  • TribeHokie
    TribeHokie Posts: 711 Member
    Nah, I still like the same "crappy" food that tasted good before I started, but I do feel like a bit of an ***hole when I turn down certain things or try to suggest healthier options when around my friends. If I haven't planned for it I'm not eating it, and I definitely used to judge that kind of person : /
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    I feel like I'm becoming a food snob.

    Since I embarked upon my 'fitness' journey, I've tried to eat healthier food options and change up my diet and now I feel like every time I'm offered 'cheap' hotdogs or 'low-priced' ice-cream, it just tastes gross. I'd prefer to spend a little more quality on a better product and enjoy every bite.

    There is the occasion I actually crave some of these foods (like Little Caesars cheese pizza) but otherwise I like to just wait and get something with better ingredients.

    Anyone else feel this way?
    I've always been a food snob. I grew up on some really, really good food (authentic Mexican, my great-grandfather was an Italian chef -- that sort of thing) and I find that what most people think is really good usually is really crap. It's tough where I live to find a local restaurant that's even passable because of that. But I agree, spend a little more on quality.

    Since discovering Green & Black's 85% cocoa dark chocolate, milk chocolate tastes like plastic to me. Not worth it!
  • FakingFitness
    FakingFitness Posts: 325 Member
    I'm a total food snob. I want name brand captain crunch and chips!
  • clbowman91
    clbowman91 Posts: 32
    Yes I'm like that sometimes.
  • zagon_the_ultimate
    zagon_the_ultimate Posts: 115 Member
    I feel like I'm becoming a food snob.

    Since I embarked upon my 'fitness' journey, I've tried to eat healthier food options and change up my diet and now I feel like every time I'm offered 'cheap' hotdogs or 'low-priced' ice-cream, it just tastes gross. I'd prefer to spend a little more quality on a better product and enjoy every bite.

    There is the occasion I actually crave some of these foods (like Little Caesars cheese pizza) but otherwise I like to just wait and get something with better ingredients.

    Anyone else feel this way?

    Funny you should mention that, because I was raised like that. My dad worked R&D in the food industry for 40 plus years; in fact a lot of you eat some of the stuff he had a hand in inventing. He taught me from an early age to enjoy food, pull out the different flavors. What’s a real flavor, and what came from a bottle of flavoring. Most of the stuff made today I can tell you what the ingredients do, and how they affect taste, texture, color, everything in-between.

    Be proud of the fact you are developing and refining a sense of taste, cause this is where the good foods are.
  • SoDamnHungry
    SoDamnHungry Posts: 6,998 Member
    I think the dirt cheap food tastes the best. =) Though I'm sure my taste buds are inclined to like it from the amount of exposure.
  • JuantonBliss
    JuantonBliss Posts: 245 Member
    I became like that when I became a vegetarian, and I feel like it gets on my mothers nerves alot lol Especially when I refuse to eat crummy food, but it's whatever. I'd rather eat dirt eat leaves off a tree, which I've once just for fun, then feed my body crap anymore and if it bothers anyone then there's the door.
  • ALKNica
    ALKNica Posts: 50
    I feel like I'm becoming a food snob.

    Since I embarked upon my 'fitness' journey, I've tried to eat healthier food options and change up my diet and now I feel like every time I'm offered 'cheap' hotdogs or 'low-priced' ice-cream, it just tastes gross. I'd prefer to spend a little more quality on a better product and enjoy every bite.

    There is the occasion I actually crave some of these foods (like Little Caesars cheese pizza) but otherwise I like to just wait and get something with better ingredients.

    Anyone else feel this way?
    I've always been a food snob. I grew up on some really, really good food (authentic Mexican, my great-grandfather was an Italian chef -- that sort of thing) and I find that what most people think is really good usually is really crap. It's tough where I live to find a local restaurant that's even passable because of that. But I agree, spend a little more on quality.

    Since discovering Green & Black's 85% cocoa dark chocolate, milk chocolate tastes like plastic to me. Not worth it!

    I love Green & Black's 85%!! I can't have Lindt or Ghirardellis because they just taste waxy. I'm a foodie up to a point. Generally, I think higher quality items just taste better. Nothing beats TALENTI gelato either.
  • poohpoohpeapod
    poohpoohpeapod Posts: 776 Member
    yep. I admitted it when I bought a vegan tart for 5 bucks, this was one serving size of dark chocolate coconut oil deliscousness! I buy good quality food. especially chicken and meats and I pay for them. I buy organic cage free eggs. Organic milk grass fed beefQuest bars at 3 bucks a pop. I also take a few supplements such as reveratrol and megared they are pricey as well. I look at it as an investment. Eating crap put me in the hospital and almost killed me. small price to pay. I am also picky about ice. I buy fresh ice every other day. I love Evian water but settle for spring water usually Arrowhead..
  • poohpoohpeapod
    poohpoohpeapod Posts: 776 Member
    oh forgot about Noosa yogurt. A shame to even call it yogurt, I call it yumminess! Other people feel the same, their facebook page has obsessive fans:laugh:
  • AllyCatXandi
    AllyCatXandi Posts: 329 Member
    Can't really afford to be too much of a snob, but when I'm in the grocery store it basically goes like this:

    If I'm going to buy it, I'm going to eat it.
    If I'm going to eat it, I'm going to enjoy it.

    So if I'm not going to enjoy it, I'm not going to buy it. But if it's something that tends to be expensive (like strawberries), I'm waiting until they're on special. And if it's non-perishable (like almond milk) I am stocking up like the apocalypse is on the horizon! :laugh:
  • EliDC
    EliDC Posts: 18 Member
    I've become more of a food snob too - I weigh the calories in a food with the enjoyment I would get out of eating it.

    For example, just tonight I was at a party with a dessert buffet with small portions. The old me would have tried one of each kind of dessert. But I could tell they weren't going to very good by the look of them, so I just didn't partake. Wasn't worth the calories.
  • corgicake
    corgicake Posts: 846 Member
    I misread that as 'cream cheese pizza' and made the mistake of imagining such an animal. WANT.
  • mspoopoo
    mspoopoo Posts: 500 Member
    I figure if I am going to eat something, it had better be good.

    Especially a splurge. I want something really good.


    Not freezer burnt fish sticks
  • pseudomuffin
    pseudomuffin Posts: 1,058 Member
    Nothing wrong with liking quality :)
  • EDesq
    EDesq Posts: 1,527 Member
    You are NOT a Snob. You just crave higher priced JUNK FOOD because You think YOU deserve it...Kinda like a Dude who is into Hookers, when he was in college he got the Street Walker, when he got the big time job and had to work 11-12 hrs a day he figure he deserves a BETTER Treat, so he buys a Call Girl. Same Shyt, looks better so it costs more; in the end EITHER can give ya a STD!
  • TheBraveryLover
    TheBraveryLover Posts: 1,217 Member
    Not a snob in so far as price or quality, but if I am going to eat something high in calories, it better be GOOD!
    Exactly. Like, I used to eat food I only like an average amount, just because. But now, if I'm going to eat something high cal (and trust me, I only eat 2 meals a day so I have high cal meals all the time) I have to REALLY enjoy it. Things I'm not a fan of (cakes, pies, other sweets) I used to eat sometimes, but now that my calories are working towards a goal, I tend to only eat things that I love - cheese, meat, etc. If I'm eating something that I only like at an average rate, it's because I need it to meet my macros while still being under a certain calorie goal.
  • VBnotbitter
    VBnotbitter Posts: 820 Member
    I guess Ive always been a food snob. I've never liked most of the major chain fast food cos it's just too greasy and salty for me and I prefer home cooked, fresh ingredient stuff. I still make burgers, pizza and mexican though.

    I am very snobby about cheese though. If its not twenty years aged and strong enough to open the fridge by itself then Im not interested
  • zagon_the_ultimate
    zagon_the_ultimate Posts: 115 Member
    I am very snobby about cheese though. If its not twenty years aged and strong enough to open the fridge by itself then Im not interested



    I like you!
  • CookNLift
    CookNLift Posts: 3,660 Member
    I ate three stadium hot dogs at the concert on saturday.....and a corn dog....they were awesome! I found them better tasting since I haven't had them in a while.
  • Alex_is_Hawks
    Alex_is_Hawks Posts: 3,499 Member
    I'm a foodie...

    I want a new experience.

    That's all.

    I want to put something in my mouth, that is new and interesting and see what it tastes like, what it feels like, what the flavor profile is like.

    it doesn't have to always be the best of everything, but it has to be an experience.
  • SuperSexyDork
    SuperSexyDork Posts: 1,669 Member
    I'm a foodie...

    I want a new experience.

    That's all.

    I want to put something in my mouth, that is new and interesting and see what it tastes like, what it feels like, what the flavor profile is like.

    it doesn't have to always be the best of everything, but it has to be an experience.

    One of the reasons we're friends, lol!

    This describes me almost perfectly.
  • tifferz_91
    tifferz_91 Posts: 282 Member
    I wouldn't call myself a food snob.

    I just personally prefer to make & eat organic non-gmo food majority of the time.

    I'll occasionally eat any of my favorite fast/junk "foods" at least once or twice a month though.
  • mommy3457
    mommy3457 Posts: 361 Member
    This reminds me of "Throw it on the Ground" by Lonely Island haha.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAYL5H46QnQ

    It is totally fine to eat what you want though! :)
  • LoosingMyLast15
    LoosingMyLast15 Posts: 1,457 Member
    i was a food snob until my grocery bill skyrocketed to $200/week for 2 flipp'n people. i am a food snob when it comes to dining out. i'd rather save my money and go to an amazing restaurant once a month than go to a fast food place or chain restaurant once a week

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