What trendy foods do you refuse to purchase?

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  • renae161
    renae161 Posts: 334 Member
    https://youtu.be/jW0FHk_VmVk
  • roamingtiger
    roamingtiger Posts: 747 Member
    Kale.
  • Hornsby
    Hornsby Posts: 10,322 Member
    janejellyroll wrote: »
    RAinWA 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?
  • Need2Exerc1se
    Need2Exerc1se Posts: 13,575 Member
    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.
  • Hornsby
    Hornsby Posts: 10,322 Member
    lemurcat12 wrote: »
    Hornsby 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.
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    extra_medium wrote: »
    quiksylver296 wrote: »
    cqbkaju 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.
  • AllOutof_Bubblegum
    AllOutof_Bubblegum Posts: 3,646 Member
    Seaweed "chips". They taste like ocean-rot.
  • CorneliusPhoton
    CorneliusPhoton Posts: 965 Member
    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_ಠ
    I 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.

  • quiksylver296
    quiksylver296 Posts: 28,439 Member
    cwolfman13 wrote: »
    extra_medium wrote: »
    quiksylver296 wrote: »
    cqbkaju 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.
  • CSARdiver
    CSARdiver Posts: 6,252 Member
    Anything "organic", non-GMO, green, or other woo and quackery.
  • Akrunr49
    Akrunr49 Posts: 21 Member
    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!
  • Noreenmarie1234
    Noreenmarie1234 Posts: 7,492 Member
    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.
  • TrishSeren
    TrishSeren Posts: 587 Member
    Coconut oil, coconut water, salted caramel, my flatmate buys all of this stuff and it seems like he's just trying to be trendy.
  • ryry_
    ryry_ Posts: 4,966 Member
    Steak Garnish
  • fitmom4lifemfp
    fitmom4lifemfp Posts: 1,572 Member
    joshperson195 wrote: »
    Me? Hummus. Can't stand the stuff.

    I love hummus...but only Sabra. Nothing else even comes close.
  • fitmom4lifemfp
    fitmom4lifemfp Posts: 1,572 Member
    Wetcoaster wrote: »
    I don't refuse to purchase anything. If I like it I buy. Who care what anyone else thinks.

    That^^.
  • PaulaWallaDingDong
    PaulaWallaDingDong Posts: 4,647 Member
    ereck44 wrote: »
    Lite beer. Why, just why?

    I'll tell you the same thing I told my dad when I ordered a bud light and he said "*scoff* That's not beer." me: "Right. And I don't like beer."
  • DisruptedMatrix
    DisruptedMatrix Posts: 130 Member
    edited October 2016
    Sloth2016 wrote: »
    Coconut oil.

    I don't use coconut oil for cooking, i use it for moisturizing my hair <3 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.
  • _dixiana_
    _dixiana_ Posts: 3,262 Member
    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
  • _dixiana_
    _dixiana_ Posts: 3,262 Member
    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... :D

  • dragon_girl26
    dragon_girl26 Posts: 2,187 Member
    DisruptedMatrix wrote: »
    I'm sorry but kale "chips" are disgusting.
    +1
    Pretty much kale anything is disgusting.

    Same with Quest bars.
  • fishshark
    fishshark Posts: 1,886 Member
    CSARdiver wrote: »
    Anything "organic", non-GMO, green, or other woo and quackery.

    organic isnt woo its a way to grow things.
  • canadianlbs
    canadianlbs Posts: 5,199 Member
    fishshark wrote: »
    is greek yogurt a trend?

    yeah, it is. tastes like spackle though. i'm not at all into it.

  • renae161
    renae161 Posts: 334 Member
    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 hahaha
  • renae161
    renae161 Posts: 334 Member
    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 cents
  • CooCooPuff
    CooCooPuff Posts: 4,374 Member
    CorneliusPhoton wrote: »
    dbanks80 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.
    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.
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,699 Member
    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. :)
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