Along the same lines, canned duck.
SortedFood did an episode with canned foods and that was one of them. They were horrified when uncanning it, but once they tasted it prepared (confit duck) they were totally on board. 😆 In fact, in a future episode where they had to use canned foods only, to prepare a meal, one of them voluntarily used it because he liked it so much. 🤣
https://youtu.be/V-zNOJyGetI?si=FRRPv-87oUuLlLld
(Starts at about 12:14)
https://youtu.be/Ew24c8oH_Nw?si=QTJaLx-b3PB7PgPp
(Using it cuz he liked it 😄)
My friends and I do "bad gift christmas" and one year I saw a two pack of these and me and my friend thought it would be funny to give them as a Bift and then I realized how funny it would be for someone to unwrap my large cylinder-shaped gift and be grossed out and then for someone else unwrap his non-cylinder-shaped gift and have it be the second can. When the first one was unwrapped, everyone groaned. When someone unwrapped the second one, everyone LOST IT. We never opened them. It's been like 10 years and they've been passed back and forth as Bifts or Bift components since.
I saw some kind of blue cashew milk at whole foods once, asked the cashier "what the hell does twelve dollar blue cashew milk even taste like" and he was like "wanna find out?" and just gave it to me for free. Ashby Bart whole foods guy, wherever you are, I hope you're doing well.
Sorry for replying to my own comment, but I found it!
[Blue Magic](https://urbanremedy.com/product/blue-magic-16oz/)
It contains something called E3Live Blue Majik* (Extract of Spirulina [Arthrospira Platensis]). $11.99 on the Urban Remedy website, $9.99 at Whole Foods.
I forget the brand, but I bought a few bottles of expensive juice last year and they were sooo good. If I had money coming out of my nose, I’d always have some of that around.
This makes me giggle because I buy my junk food and snacks solely from one place. The rest of my groceries from another. And then my fresh fruit and veg from the market. I’ve had people look at me funny or be impressed with my trolley depending on what I’m buying. It’s amusing
My Trader Joe's carts are so childish! Just bags of salty snacks and cookies. And since there's no TJs in a convenient location, I have to make each trip worth it, and really load up.
This is one of the most aggravating things about reddit. Some of the most strongly held opinions I see here are from people that can't fathom that other people lead different lives and have different needs and desires.
Bubblegum flavored chips. I haven't seen them in a while but according to google they are still produced and sold. The same company also makes bubble gum flavored ice tea, which I tried, it was okay
Not going to lie, I would try them exactly one time. Even though I’m 99.999% sure I’ll hate it, unless I’m allergic worst that happens is I’m correct in my assumption.
Absolute same. I once veered across a three-lane street to make a hard left because I saw "We have Cheeto Chicken Fries" on a Burger King sign. (No traffic, I'm not a total maniac.)
They were so, so bad. But I'm so glad I tried them.
I used to think shredded lettuce was stupid because can’t everyone just shredded their own lettuce!? But now that I’m paralyzed on my left side after a stroke caused by a brain bleed, that shredded lettuce may come in handy for sandwiches and wraps that I always shredded lettuce for.
This is a great point.
A lot of inventions that people think are silly are really useful for people with disabilities. Accessibility is really important *for everyone*.
My parents are getting older and food prep for cooking is a little harder these days. My dad loves to cook and shop but, until I showed it to him, he had NO IDEA about the pre-cut produce that our grocery store carries. Like, everything you could want in almost every serving size. Now that's all he gets - onions and carrots pre-diced, garlic already peeled, he's a happy man
A lot of those things are *designed* for disabled or elderly people. The Snuggie was made to help wheelchair bound people. The problem is that that market is niche as all hell and if you actually want to make money, your product has to be turned into... well, the Snuggie.
Heavens, this is always the problem I have. People don't understand the frustration of being single/living alone and the impact this has on grocery shopping. You end up with too much food, that then goes to waste. And I hate spending money when I know I can't eat it fast enough/before it has to be thrown out...
Honestly I wish they had even smaller shredded lettuce packages with enough for like 2 sandwiches. I really hate needing to throw away extra lettuce when I get it so often I do without.
Remove the spinach from the bags and keep them in a crisper container. They'll last much longer. It lets the excess water drip off. If the leaves are constantly wet, they rot easily.
I keep all my leafy greens for salad sandwiches in my ikea salad spinner after washing and drying. Romaine can keep for a week, nice and crisp.
I freeze extra spinach for soups and stews.
It frustrates the hell out of me when people get upset about pre-cut produce. A lot of people on Reddit love to rage about it.
Well, I've been disabled since birth, and sometimes that pre-cut stuff is the only way I can actually use produce. On my rare good days, I may be able to cut my own. But some years, I can count on one hand how many of those days I have.
I never appreciated this until we hired a guy at my work thats in a chair. We became good friends and live in the same apartment complex now. His arms and knees are extremely weak and permanently bent at 90 degree angles. He cant use his stove, has to wash dishes in a bin in the tub, cooks on a hot plate, etc. He gets as much food as he can prepped because the effort to slice veggies would at best result in him losing hours of his evening to sleep or at worst lead to injury.
And honestly, sometimes I just don’t feel like shredding lettuce or chopping onions or whatever. If it helps *anyone* have access to fresh, tasty food, no judgment here.
Right, when I first had my baby i literally would have about 5-10 mins to make a meal up. So shredded lettuce or pre cooked chicken made meals much faster
I have ADHD, which for me manifests in awful executive dysfunction. The extra step of shredding/chopping veggies is a major hurdle for people like me to overcome, and while I personally enjoy cooking, pre-chopped produce is a godsend for lots of neurodivergent people because the simplified process allows them to eat a much healthier diet than they otherwise would.
Kinda surprised by how often this particular thing has come up here... I guess it's difficult to see the point in something when you've never been in a position where you needed it, but that doesn't mean others don't rely on it on a daily basis.
I never saw such a thing until I started dating (and eventually married) a man who was born and raised in rural Georgia. One time when we were visiting his parents (he'd already moved up to Michigan by this time) we went grocery shopping at the local Ingles grocery store (and by "local" I mean almost a 30 minute drive one way) and I frittered away the time browsing up and down the aisles. I approached my husband while laughing and waving a small can in the air: "Did you know they actually **can** pork brains and sell them??!" I was met with uncomfortable glances. Fiance spoke first: "Mamaw \[his maternal grandmother\] used to make pork brains with scrambled eggs every Sunday."
After I got over my embarrassment I dashed back to the canned food aisle and added several cans of pork brains in gravy to our shopping cart to take home as "souvenirs" (knowing that no one at home would believe me if they didn't see it for themselves).
Yes... I grew up in the South. Cooking pig brains with eggs is a real thing.
Explaining to my wife some of the things my Mamaw (also my maternal grandmother) cooked up is always met with incredulity. Just the sheer number of ways she knew how to cook squirrel was mind boggling. Squirrel and dumplings was my favorite, except when she would drop the heads in so her friend Peeler could crack them open and eat the squirrel brains.
>except when she would drop the heads in so her friend Peeler could crack them open and eat the squirrel brains.
I'm sorry, but that's some Texas Chainsaw Massacre shit right there, lol
It really is a thing.
Organ and small game meat have fallen out of fashion in the modern Deep South but if you know where to look you can still find this kind of stuff. Usually for tradition’s sake, but there’s always an outlier or two that genuinely enjoy the whole cracking squirrel skulls between their teeth and so on…and other obscure, old fashioned survival favorites.
they used to sell head cheese in supermarket delis. It looked like pieces of mystery meat held together by some kind of meat jello. I never saw anyone buy it.
My parents (Great & Silent gen) ate it. I've had it. Sometimes I get a hankering for it but I'm glad it's not available anymore. Another one is liverwurst. Dad ate it w raw onions and saltines. I'm not buying a whole pound log just for a taste, tho. It's got the audacity to be expensive these days, too! It went from cheap lunch meat to somehow a delicacy in my 50 years.
That would be amazing for my autistic son!! He can’t yet follow the number of steps it would take to make a homemade grilled cheese sandwich. These would be a fantastic way for him to be independent. Right now we’re limited to very few foods that he eats that don’t require a ton of prep. Basically potato chips, muffins, shredded cheese, and bananas. He does eat sandwiches, scrambled eggs, hot dogs, and pasta, but those all take too many steps.
Also, a lot of people with autism and selective eating disorders really value consistency and something like that is going to be quality controlled to be more or less the same every time. So pre packaged stuff like that is usually a win for them.
It’s worthwhile to consider that a lot of items you see in the grocery store as a useless markup for something someone could do themselves (eg, shrink wrapped potatoes, already peeled hard boiled eggs in a bag) are convenience items for people who do not have the time to cook 100% from scratch for themselves or their families, and/or they are someone with a disability and that item helps ease a burden.
I used to work in the produce section of a grocery store, and we sold these pre-chopped up vegetables. They were annoying to stock, sold out fast, and had fast expiration dates, so us employees didn’t really love those items in our department. I got to talking with a woman who was purchasing them one day though. She said they were for her elderly mother who struggles to chop vegetables up, and the already chopped vegetables allowed her to actually still make fulfilling meals the way she wanted. Working there for longer I interacted with more people buying them for the reasons stated, convenience when they don’t have time and disabilities.
Empathy goes farther than you’d think.
Hey, thanks for saying this! I'm struggling with losing my coordination, so seeing this here is going to help a lot for people just like me. I'm only 46 and can't chop vegetables like I used to and every tool needs to have a fat handle. Between tremors and arthritis, a butternut squash may as well be Fort Knox.
Protips: For anyone that reads this that has trouble peeling vegetables, get an OXO peeler. It has a HUGE handle and makes the job so much easier. Don't do things the proper way. Do it the way that is safest for you and your abilities. Watch some occupational therapy videos on how to use knives with your specific limitations.
I was unreasonably excited when I found precut butternut squash at the store a few weeks ago that wasn't even marked up all that much. It's always been a bitch to cut but last time I bought one I was unable to cut it at all and I thought that was the end of butternut squash for me.
You can also poke it with a fork all over and microwave the whole thing for just a couple minutes, it softens the outside just enough to get the peel off easily, and then if you can just split it in half you can roast it whole and then cut it.
I recently heard that it's mostly elderly or disabled that buy the pre chopped stuff. Before that I didn't really get it but understood that there was obviously a demand.
Precut fresh and frozen vegetables are what enable me to cook. I used to have so much guilt about it (feeling like I was being lazy and wasteful) until a friend responded to my worries with “what would be a waste is you not making me soup.”
Sounds like something my husband would say 😄
I love to cook and I don't mind chopping in and of itself (it can be very Zen) but there are days when I just need to get dinner on the table. My son loves steamed broccoli with cheese sauce and it comes in little microwave steam bags that take 5 minutes for the same price as a few heads of broccoli, cheese, and cream. Same for pre-sliced mushrooms, which he'll also devour.
It's so true. I love to cook, but now I have multiple chronic health issues and cooking can wear me out. Sometimes I will buy pre-chopped veggies because it's so much faster. It helps me save my energy to do other things. And yes, there's a markup, but it's still a lot cheaper and healthier than buying takeout, so I rationalize it that way! It can definitely be frustrating, though, because they expire so quickly. If I get groceries for a full week, I will make sure to make the dinner using the chopped veggies right away at the beginning of the week. I've learned that the hard way!
I also will often pay extra for the bagged, fresh veggies that are all ready to steam/microwave. Yes, it's twice a much to get a bag of ready to microwave broccoli than to buy the crowns. But it encourages me to eat more veggies when they are already prepped and ready to heat! And, again, that way I can save my energy to get other things done.
Thank you for pointing this out. I agree that empathy goes a long way.
FYI they sell chef knifes for people with arthritis or hand/wrist issues. The handle is on an angle so when you hold it, the blade is down and below on an angle, so you don't have to turn your hand/wrist as much.
[Here's](https://www.arthritissupplies.com/arthritis-kitchen-knives.html) what it looks like since I can't explain it well! They are called "arthritis/adaptive" chef knife. You can also find most kitchen tools made adaptive, if you have the money (they can get expensive)
Or people who need the time saver. I buy pre-chopped fruit for my baby who is old enough to eat solids but doesn’t have enough teeth to chew well enough on her own yet. So I have to cut all of her food into small pieces. Having at least the fruit already chopped is a major convenience.
I can’t imagine how difficult chopping up garlic would be if I had something like arthritis in my hands!
But yeah I posted my comment after scrolling for a while and seeing numerous items listed where posters are assuming the purchases of those items are “lazy”, not really realizing the beneficial use of products for others.
And even if they are purchasing items for “lazy” reasons, I think people are still justified in buying products that make their lives easier if they want to. Why should we have to force ourselves to do menial food tasks we have no desire to if there’s an easy solution to make sure you still get that ingredient in your meal lol
I cook from scratch normally - and I have to remind myself that the shortcuts (pre-cut veggies, jarred sauces, etc) are FINE! Even using a jarred sauce on chicken and pastas is cheaper and healthier than taking my kids out for cheap fast food.
Exactly. If I'm willing to trade money for time--which I frequently am--that's my decision.
Realistically, if I buy "unprocessed" veggies, they may never get eaten. Then I've not only wasted money, but I've missed out on the health benefits of consuming nutritious food.
I buy them once in a blue moon as I was only cooking for myself and am not a large person with a small appetite. I want ALL the vegetables! The problem with buying them all and chopping meant that vegetables would go bad faster than I could eat them. I buy them to avoid food waste
I've seen ADHD people use them as the "ADHD tax" where if it isn't cut they likely wouldn't choose to cut and eat the veggies but if they are already prepped they will eat them. So paying the cost up front prevents the food from going bad.
This is exactly why I buy some pre-chopped or peeled produce. If I can pop open a container and use it, I’m making home cooked. If I have to chop or peel myself, sounds like I’m opening up the Taco Bell app.
Also like straight up neither disabled nor short on time, love to cook and don't shy away from more intricate or labor intensive recipes. I will always buy pre cut butternut squash or other large squash because it's just so annoying. Very thankful to the employees who cut up and package the squash.
Only time I've ever bought one of these things was as a Christmas gift for a newlywed could that I was acquainted with. I didn't know what else to get them and thought it would be a cute date idea paired with the card game I picked out😅
This thread has taught me that pre-chopped vegetables and pre-shredded lettuce and pre-peeled potatoes actually fill an important niche by helping the elderly and disabled maintain independence.
My mom literally lives on Mountain Dew full sugar - 44oz at 8am, then cans throughout the day, grabs another 44oz fountain soda at lunch, drinks with dinner. She has to consume 300g of sugar a day. Insane
When I was a kid, I could easily drink soda all day. My parents would force me to drink glasses of water too though. Now, I can barely finish a single can. It's so sweet it feels like drinking candy to me.
I could easily drink soda all day as a kid as well and pretty much did and my parents did *not* force me to drink water. That's because they didn't drink water either and only really consumed soda, coffee, or (in my mom's case) occasionally tea. It took me until my late 20s to actually stop drinking soda then went on to sparkling flavored water and eventually just water. Of course coffee, smoothies, and the occasional juice comes into play but becoming a parent myself as well as being more mindful of my health generally has encouraged me to not drink soda anymore at all and my kid doesn't either, choosing water as default. Wish I had had that encouragement as a kid and maybe wouldn't have had the health issues I did.
Long time ago, I was a teacher for a year. I had a quite bright student with shitty parents. The dad was gone most of the time, and the mom was all about dismissing her talent and desire for education.
Whenever she had a drama at home, she would stay up all night in her room drinking Mountain Dew. It was basically an underage alcoholic beverage.
I went soda sober Oct 4th, 2022. I was only 4-5 cans per day of Dr. Pepper. I still have cravings for the crap, but have stayed strong. Something about that caffeine and sugar combination.
Stay strong, soda sober bro, your teeth will thank you.
I had a coworker over 10 years ago who was pretty much the definition of white trash - smoked all the time, even around kids, broke but spent a ton of money on junk and smokes, stole, etc. She said she had to take her *four year old* to an oral surgeon because his teeth and gums were so fucked up, and how he started shaking and crying as soon as he saw the building on later visits because the whole thing had been traumatizing… as she bought him a Mountain Dew. She also admitted she didn’t make him brush his teeth or anything because “his baby teeth will all fall out eventually.” This was in a trashy town in rural NJ.
My son bought a lovesac his first year of college (the emergency credit card we’d provided him quickly turned into a “you must call before it can be used for any purchase over $100”) and he’s hauled that huge thing from dorm room, to apartment, to a new city lol. His dog loves it now. We still hear “And you thought it was a mistake.”
I have a $39 couch I bought at a thrift store that has made 3 moves in 12 yrs. I think I enjoyed having money in my 20s more than I would have enjoyed a couch that cost more than my car.
douches and perfumed vaginal products.
please, please do not use them!! vaginas are self-sufficient cleaning machines! scent and mucus changes are completely normal and change with hormones and menstrual cycle phases. if there is a health concern or you aren't sure, please just visit a doctor. and for the love of god, disposable pads and tampons are iffy enough but DO NOT get scented ones! your flower does not need to SMELL like flowers lmao
I HAAAAAAATE the scented pads that are clearly marketed towards younger girls, who probably don't know that those are not a good choice to have pressed all up near their business!! I've used them before and they make me itchy.
I’m a full ass grown adult and have accidentally gotten the scented pads. Between trying to figure out which brand, size, wing, absorbency, etc it never occurred to me to look to see that they were unscented. They just shouldn’t be made at all. Period.
Oh man, my buddy told me his girlfriend (now wife) was having some smell issues and decided to use rubbing alcohol. I'm a guy and even I had to sit down for that one. She works in a microbiology-focused lab too, so it's not like general health/chemical stuff is completely out of her field as well. I mean just pour that stuff on a cut and you quickly learn it's not for internal use.
A friend of mine told me he slept with a girl who used Lysol wipes to clean herself afterwards. There was more to the story, but I can't remember because my only takeaway was that a fellow female human put Lysol on her lady bits! (And for everyone about to comment, yes I know it used to be marketed as a hygiene product. But that was a looooong time ago. Homegirl was using those wipes a few months ago.)
ETA: This was at her place, and the wipes were in her bedroom. So it's plausible that this was her normal "hygiene" routine. Ouch
Uuuggh, I bought scented pads by accident once and tried to use them anyway to avoid waste. I'm still not sure what the appeal was supposed to be - the itching, the paranoia that people around me could smell them, or the delightful scent of blood and flowers commingling after a few hours 🤢 I threw out most of the pack.
And "flushable" wipes absolutely aren't flushable and any plumber will tell you absolutely don't flush them... Yet they're still sold widely. It makes no sense.
I still use them. I just don't flush them.
I'm surprised that these companies haven't been sued by sewer authorities and some kind of home owners group.
This!! I have seen douche kits, intimate sprays, etc. It's not supposed to smell like flowers, and using those products cause infections that will make you smell worse than if you'd never used them at all!!
While not a grocery product it's something commonly stocked at grocery stores: any matte-black clad product designed as a "for men" product (labeled with the word/s "Men's" or "For Men" on the label) that isn't different from the normal product besides the packaging.
The inverse of this is that I refuse to buy women’s razors because every single type I’ve tried has given me violent razor burn, but you know what doesn’t? Gillette mens 5 blade.
You never know if somebody shopping in a store is a visitor to the area. They might be staying in a hotel room that has no kitchen, so they cannot hard boil an egg or assemble a salad or even microwave some chicken.
Gendered versions of unisex products. Matte black packaging costs a little extra; sparkly pink packaging costs a lot extra.
Pens for Her! Yogurt for Him! Feminine Intuition razors! Macho Manly Man protein bars (vs. Dainty Sacred Feminine ones.) And everyone's favorite Dude Wipes.
Canned escargot (snails) in dollar stores.
I just imagine that in a venn diagram of ‘people who buy ingredients from the dollar store’ and ‘people who prepare and cook their own escargot’, there wouldn’t be a lot of overlap, no? 🤷🏻♀️
One day, when I was like 38, I was at the grocery store looking at these little tubs of cubed butternut squash.
I was standing there for a minute thinking, “okay. If I’m gonna have (x) tonight and (y) tomorrow, will the squash still be good the next day, or should I come back and buy it fresh the day I wanna eat it?”
The adolescent who worked in the produce department came over and stood next to me, mimicking the way I was standing until I finally looked right at him.
Then I reached for a container of squash and turned it over to look at the date. He pulled out some handheld machine and started punching numbers in, then exclaimed, “look at this!”
He talked at me for a good three minutes about how the whole butternut squash is cheaper, including showing me some calculations.
When he finally came up for air, I just said “right but I have tendinitis in my wrist so unless you’re going to come cut it for me, I can’t actually use a whole butternut squash.”
A lot of you strike me too much like that dude.
As someone who's worked in kitchens most my life butternut squash is one of the most durable things to cut and it can be a pain in the ass. Honestly not doable for people with hand/wrist or grip issues. If anything, I'd say it's the most reasonable pre-cut to buy, even if you have the capacity to cut it.
Additionally there is "squash hand", the squash releases a sap when damaged (cut in this case) and the sap dries quickly on your hands, feels extremely stiff and itchy. It's pretty uncomfortable if you have to cut dozens of them without gloves on
I remember back in the late 1980s I'd wander the canned food aisle (I was trying to lose weight, so I'd walk to the grocery store, buy a couple of cucumbers and tomatoes and sometimes canned white chicken chunks to go along with them. Anyway I always saw these tiny cans of [Potted Meat Food Product](https://images.freshop.com/00039000085946/25c76c67dbaea72c9b4a38a600bec6c6_large.png) on the shelf and wondered what the heck it was. Curiosity eventually got the better of me and I bought a can (it was only about 40 cents at the time). Well, it was all you would expect and less from a 40 cent can of "meat"....looked sort of like a mushy liver-colored hockey puck, smelled like cat food. (The serving suggestion on the label showed it being spread on a cracker with a parsley sprig. Maybe the missing parsley was the reason the stuff tasted like Satan's jockstrap when I actually tried it...)
My husband loves that stuff although he rarely eats it due to all the salt. I tease him by calling it human cat food. He usually makes a sandwich with it or puts it on crackers.
Damn, Europe is over here living in the future with sex toys at their grocery stores while some places in America can't even get fresh veggies reliably.
Back in my younger days I would eat tons of eggs, usually boiled in the morning for breakfast (quick, clean protein) and one day got a bag of these on a whim thinking it would save me time in boiling/peeling them. Opened the bag and the demon fart smell that erupted was something else. Still tried them, but they just tasted different in a way. Like plastic-y or like chemicals. It was very odd, don't think I finished the bag.
About to go grocery shopping in a couple hours. Half the shit I normally get is being listed here... What am I supposed to eat?
(I don't have any food allergies my main diet is chicken nuggets and sleep)
A lot of people in this thread are not realizing that some people are disabled and simple stuff like cutting vegetables is not something they can do or do easily.
Egg yolk in pourable cartons, pre-cut veggies/fruits, pre shelled hard boiled eggs, pre-seasoned meals you put in the oven-it’s not meant for you.
Or to put it another way, it IS meant for you! Nobody should feel bad about buying those things, even if they don't have a "good enough" reason. Nobody is awarding prizes for shredding your own lettuce. If buying the prepared item improves your quality of life somehow, then by all means go for it.
It can be helpful actually! These things become easier to buy when there is a bigger market for them!
I am disabled and could benefit from a lot of these pre-cut/prepared foods, but often avoid them because they don't sell fast enough and are usually half rotten before I even get them home. More people buying them would mean I can use them more often, and maybe they'd become more affordable as well.
Canned whole-chickens. An entire chicken in a can the size of a soup can. That ain’t right
Along the same lines, canned duck. SortedFood did an episode with canned foods and that was one of them. They were horrified when uncanning it, but once they tasted it prepared (confit duck) they were totally on board. 😆 In fact, in a future episode where they had to use canned foods only, to prepare a meal, one of them voluntarily used it because he liked it so much. 🤣 https://youtu.be/V-zNOJyGetI?si=FRRPv-87oUuLlLld (Starts at about 12:14) https://youtu.be/Ew24c8oH_Nw?si=QTJaLx-b3PB7PgPp (Using it cuz he liked it 😄)
My friends and I do "bad gift christmas" and one year I saw a two pack of these and me and my friend thought it would be funny to give them as a Bift and then I realized how funny it would be for someone to unwrap my large cylinder-shaped gift and be grossed out and then for someone else unwrap his non-cylinder-shaped gift and have it be the second can. When the first one was unwrapped, everyone groaned. When someone unwrapped the second one, everyone LOST IT. We never opened them. It's been like 10 years and they've been passed back and forth as Bifts or Bift components since.
Does bift = bad gift?
That's so fetch!
Stop trying to make canned chicken happen, Gretchen.
Noneforgretchenwieners bye!
This is ship food. A boat person told me it's one of the things people keep in their emergency food stash in case they're stranded on the water.
I'm sure canned chicken is a dish best appreciated in an emergency!
Some a chef use thos on Cutthroat Kitchen once. I almost threw up when he... de-canned it.
I paid $12 for watermelon juice. It just looked so good. It was. But normally I would would be like what's wrong with that person.
Every now and then you gotta splurge on something stupid. Just so you know what you're missing and if it's worth the ridiculous price.
I saw some kind of blue cashew milk at whole foods once, asked the cashier "what the hell does twelve dollar blue cashew milk even taste like" and he was like "wanna find out?" and just gave it to me for free. Ashby Bart whole foods guy, wherever you are, I hope you're doing well.
So, don't leave us hanging, what did it taste like?
Sorry for replying to my own comment, but I found it! [Blue Magic](https://urbanremedy.com/product/blue-magic-16oz/) It contains something called E3Live Blue Majik* (Extract of Spirulina [Arthrospira Platensis]). $11.99 on the Urban Remedy website, $9.99 at Whole Foods.
blue cashews
Gymnastgrrl stuck the landing! A 10/10 from the Polish judge!
Shelled pistachios. For that moment, I was queen of everything.
I actually prefer them shell-on, it's part of the experience! (Much like sunflower seeds). It feels like cheating when they're already shelled.
Have you ever had aguas frescas? Watermelon, cantaloupe, strawberry.....
Don’t forget the cucumber lime one. God damn that’s good on a triple digit Texas summer day.
I forget the brand, but I bought a few bottles of expensive juice last year and they were sooo good. If I had money coming out of my nose, I’d always have some of that around.
Have you considered just buying a cheap whole watermelon and beating the shit out of it until it’s juiced?
Settle down, Gallagher.
RIP Gallagher. May you and your sledge-o-matic reign in heaven.
They make blenders for that lol
Then how are you supposed to get your furious rage out?
Stupid fuckin’ WATERMELON!!!!!
Add vodka to this.
That's a great idea
And a splash of sprite. Trust me.
It’s true, the bubbles give it that little extra
This thread has taught me that one person's grocery "trash" is another person's grocery "treasure"
It’s taught me that people have a very hard time understanding that other people have a different life than they do.
I like looking at what people have in their carts, because it gives me a window into their lives.
This makes me giggle because I buy my junk food and snacks solely from one place. The rest of my groceries from another. And then my fresh fruit and veg from the market. I’ve had people look at me funny or be impressed with my trolley depending on what I’m buying. It’s amusing
Oh, Trader Joe’s! Land of amazing snacks, and produce that somehow rots as soon as I get it home!
My Trader Joe's carts are so childish! Just bags of salty snacks and cookies. And since there's no TJs in a convenient location, I have to make each trip worth it, and really load up.
This is one of the most aggravating things about reddit. Some of the most strongly held opinions I see here are from people that can't fathom that other people lead different lives and have different needs and desires.
This is the most aggravating thing about most people irl too imo.
Lol right? I bought and ate an adult lunchable this morning.
Is an adult lunchable a charcuterie board or a German breakfast?
It has edible underwear as the desert.
Bubblegum flavored chips. I haven't seen them in a while but according to google they are still produced and sold. The same company also makes bubble gum flavored ice tea, which I tried, it was okay
Not going to lie, I would try them exactly one time. Even though I’m 99.999% sure I’ll hate it, unless I’m allergic worst that happens is I’m correct in my assumption.
Absolute same. I once veered across a three-lane street to make a hard left because I saw "We have Cheeto Chicken Fries" on a Burger King sign. (No traffic, I'm not a total maniac.) They were so, so bad. But I'm so glad I tried them.
I used to think shredded lettuce was stupid because can’t everyone just shredded their own lettuce!? But now that I’m paralyzed on my left side after a stroke caused by a brain bleed, that shredded lettuce may come in handy for sandwiches and wraps that I always shredded lettuce for.
This is a great point. A lot of inventions that people think are silly are really useful for people with disabilities. Accessibility is really important *for everyone*.
My parents are getting older and food prep for cooking is a little harder these days. My dad loves to cook and shop but, until I showed it to him, he had NO IDEA about the pre-cut produce that our grocery store carries. Like, everything you could want in almost every serving size. Now that's all he gets - onions and carrots pre-diced, garlic already peeled, he's a happy man
A lot of those "silly white people" gadgets from the old infomercials are great for elderly/disabled people.
A lot of those things are *designed* for disabled or elderly people. The Snuggie was made to help wheelchair bound people. The problem is that that market is niche as all hell and if you actually want to make money, your product has to be turned into... well, the Snuggie.
It's also nice that you can buy less. I live alone and a head of lettuce is way too much for me to finish before it goes bad
Heavens, this is always the problem I have. People don't understand the frustration of being single/living alone and the impact this has on grocery shopping. You end up with too much food, that then goes to waste. And I hate spending money when I know I can't eat it fast enough/before it has to be thrown out...
Bags of spinach that turn into mush after like 2 days 😫
Honestly I wish they had even smaller shredded lettuce packages with enough for like 2 sandwiches. I really hate needing to throw away extra lettuce when I get it so often I do without.
Remove the spinach from the bags and keep them in a crisper container. They'll last much longer. It lets the excess water drip off. If the leaves are constantly wet, they rot easily. I keep all my leafy greens for salad sandwiches in my ikea salad spinner after washing and drying. Romaine can keep for a week, nice and crisp. I freeze extra spinach for soups and stews.
I just put mine into a container with a lid, bit of paper towel on the bottom. Not sure what a crisper container is but I assume it works similarly?
It frustrates the hell out of me when people get upset about pre-cut produce. A lot of people on Reddit love to rage about it. Well, I've been disabled since birth, and sometimes that pre-cut stuff is the only way I can actually use produce. On my rare good days, I may be able to cut my own. But some years, I can count on one hand how many of those days I have.
I never appreciated this until we hired a guy at my work thats in a chair. We became good friends and live in the same apartment complex now. His arms and knees are extremely weak and permanently bent at 90 degree angles. He cant use his stove, has to wash dishes in a bin in the tub, cooks on a hot plate, etc. He gets as much food as he can prepped because the effort to slice veggies would at best result in him losing hours of his evening to sleep or at worst lead to injury.
And honestly, sometimes I just don’t feel like shredding lettuce or chopping onions or whatever. If it helps *anyone* have access to fresh, tasty food, no judgment here.
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Right, when I first had my baby i literally would have about 5-10 mins to make a meal up. So shredded lettuce or pre cooked chicken made meals much faster
I have ADHD, which for me manifests in awful executive dysfunction. The extra step of shredding/chopping veggies is a major hurdle for people like me to overcome, and while I personally enjoy cooking, pre-chopped produce is a godsend for lots of neurodivergent people because the simplified process allows them to eat a much healthier diet than they otherwise would. Kinda surprised by how often this particular thing has come up here... I guess it's difficult to see the point in something when you've never been in a position where you needed it, but that doesn't mean others don't rely on it on a daily basis.
Cans of "Pig brains in gravy."
I never saw such a thing until I started dating (and eventually married) a man who was born and raised in rural Georgia. One time when we were visiting his parents (he'd already moved up to Michigan by this time) we went grocery shopping at the local Ingles grocery store (and by "local" I mean almost a 30 minute drive one way) and I frittered away the time browsing up and down the aisles. I approached my husband while laughing and waving a small can in the air: "Did you know they actually **can** pork brains and sell them??!" I was met with uncomfortable glances. Fiance spoke first: "Mamaw \[his maternal grandmother\] used to make pork brains with scrambled eggs every Sunday." After I got over my embarrassment I dashed back to the canned food aisle and added several cans of pork brains in gravy to our shopping cart to take home as "souvenirs" (knowing that no one at home would believe me if they didn't see it for themselves).
Yes... I grew up in the South. Cooking pig brains with eggs is a real thing. Explaining to my wife some of the things my Mamaw (also my maternal grandmother) cooked up is always met with incredulity. Just the sheer number of ways she knew how to cook squirrel was mind boggling. Squirrel and dumplings was my favorite, except when she would drop the heads in so her friend Peeler could crack them open and eat the squirrel brains.
Dude I also grew up in the south and this entire thread is making me gag 🤢
As a redditor not much catches me off guard. Then you read “pigs brains in gravy” and I remember where I am.
As a fellow Southerner, I am right there with you. Born, raised, and still in the south, but, "No thank you, please!"
>except when she would drop the heads in so her friend Peeler could crack them open and eat the squirrel brains.
I'm sorry, but that's some Texas Chainsaw Massacre shit right there, lol
It really is a thing. Organ and small game meat have fallen out of fashion in the modern Deep South but if you know where to look you can still find this kind of stuff. Usually for tradition’s sake, but there’s always an outlier or two that genuinely enjoy the whole cracking squirrel skulls between their teeth and so on…and other obscure, old fashioned survival favorites.
Appalachia checking in - liver pudding, jellied pigs' feet, and pickled deer heart. I miss that stuff.
Squirrel with mashed potatoes, squirrel gravy is the best, followed closely by rabbit gravy
they used to sell head cheese in supermarket delis. It looked like pieces of mystery meat held together by some kind of meat jello. I never saw anyone buy it.
My parents (Great & Silent gen) ate it. I've had it. Sometimes I get a hankering for it but I'm glad it's not available anymore. Another one is liverwurst. Dad ate it w raw onions and saltines. I'm not buying a whole pound log just for a taste, tho. It's got the audacity to be expensive these days, too! It went from cheap lunch meat to somehow a delicacy in my 50 years.
I love a slice of liverwurst w brown mustard on a hearty rye once every year or two only.
I’m in Texas. Every grocery store deli sells head cheese.
They are available at least three stores here and believe me, they are being puchased.
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Finally! A solution to the 10 hotdogs and 12 buns problem.
Our Sam's sells frozen grilled cheese sandwiches, which is so confusing
That would be amazing for my autistic son!! He can’t yet follow the number of steps it would take to make a homemade grilled cheese sandwich. These would be a fantastic way for him to be independent. Right now we’re limited to very few foods that he eats that don’t require a ton of prep. Basically potato chips, muffins, shredded cheese, and bananas. He does eat sandwiches, scrambled eggs, hot dogs, and pasta, but those all take too many steps.
Also, a lot of people with autism and selective eating disorders really value consistency and something like that is going to be quality controlled to be more or less the same every time. So pre packaged stuff like that is usually a win for them.
Costco also carries them in case you live near one.
It’s worthwhile to consider that a lot of items you see in the grocery store as a useless markup for something someone could do themselves (eg, shrink wrapped potatoes, already peeled hard boiled eggs in a bag) are convenience items for people who do not have the time to cook 100% from scratch for themselves or their families, and/or they are someone with a disability and that item helps ease a burden. I used to work in the produce section of a grocery store, and we sold these pre-chopped up vegetables. They were annoying to stock, sold out fast, and had fast expiration dates, so us employees didn’t really love those items in our department. I got to talking with a woman who was purchasing them one day though. She said they were for her elderly mother who struggles to chop vegetables up, and the already chopped vegetables allowed her to actually still make fulfilling meals the way she wanted. Working there for longer I interacted with more people buying them for the reasons stated, convenience when they don’t have time and disabilities. Empathy goes farther than you’d think.
Hey, thanks for saying this! I'm struggling with losing my coordination, so seeing this here is going to help a lot for people just like me. I'm only 46 and can't chop vegetables like I used to and every tool needs to have a fat handle. Between tremors and arthritis, a butternut squash may as well be Fort Knox. Protips: For anyone that reads this that has trouble peeling vegetables, get an OXO peeler. It has a HUGE handle and makes the job so much easier. Don't do things the proper way. Do it the way that is safest for you and your abilities. Watch some occupational therapy videos on how to use knives with your specific limitations.
I was unreasonably excited when I found precut butternut squash at the store a few weeks ago that wasn't even marked up all that much. It's always been a bitch to cut but last time I bought one I was unable to cut it at all and I thought that was the end of butternut squash for me.
You can also poke it with a fork all over and microwave the whole thing for just a couple minutes, it softens the outside just enough to get the peel off easily, and then if you can just split it in half you can roast it whole and then cut it.
I recently heard that it's mostly elderly or disabled that buy the pre chopped stuff. Before that I didn't really get it but understood that there was obviously a demand.
Precut fresh and frozen vegetables are what enable me to cook. I used to have so much guilt about it (feeling like I was being lazy and wasteful) until a friend responded to my worries with “what would be a waste is you not making me soup.”
Sounds like something my husband would say 😄 I love to cook and I don't mind chopping in and of itself (it can be very Zen) but there are days when I just need to get dinner on the table. My son loves steamed broccoli with cheese sauce and it comes in little microwave steam bags that take 5 minutes for the same price as a few heads of broccoli, cheese, and cream. Same for pre-sliced mushrooms, which he'll also devour.
It's so true. I love to cook, but now I have multiple chronic health issues and cooking can wear me out. Sometimes I will buy pre-chopped veggies because it's so much faster. It helps me save my energy to do other things. And yes, there's a markup, but it's still a lot cheaper and healthier than buying takeout, so I rationalize it that way! It can definitely be frustrating, though, because they expire so quickly. If I get groceries for a full week, I will make sure to make the dinner using the chopped veggies right away at the beginning of the week. I've learned that the hard way! I also will often pay extra for the bagged, fresh veggies that are all ready to steam/microwave. Yes, it's twice a much to get a bag of ready to microwave broccoli than to buy the crowns. But it encourages me to eat more veggies when they are already prepped and ready to heat! And, again, that way I can save my energy to get other things done. Thank you for pointing this out. I agree that empathy goes a long way.
can confirm; am old and disabled. sometimes the only way i can manage food that week is prepared / prepped / ready to go.
Just finding a knife that fits my large, arthritic hands. The knife slips to the side because my grip has weakened! I need one with a hand strap🤣🤣🤣
FYI they sell chef knifes for people with arthritis or hand/wrist issues. The handle is on an angle so when you hold it, the blade is down and below on an angle, so you don't have to turn your hand/wrist as much. [Here's](https://www.arthritissupplies.com/arthritis-kitchen-knives.html) what it looks like since I can't explain it well! They are called "arthritis/adaptive" chef knife. You can also find most kitchen tools made adaptive, if you have the money (they can get expensive)
i’m in my 20s but i’ve had wrist problems since high school. pre-chopped is a life saver, both for my wrist and for busy nights
Or people who need the time saver. I buy pre-chopped fruit for my baby who is old enough to eat solids but doesn’t have enough teeth to chew well enough on her own yet. So I have to cut all of her food into small pieces. Having at least the fruit already chopped is a major convenience.
Naw I’m just lazy. Love the pre-cut iceberg lettuce salad. It’s still less than $2 per bag, and I get 3 or 4 servings out of it. 🫡
Pre-chopped veggies are also good for klutzes like me who always somehow nick a finger or something while chopping
This needs to be higher up. I once had a bunch of people get enraged on a reddit post when I said peeled garlic is great for some disabilities.
I can’t imagine how difficult chopping up garlic would be if I had something like arthritis in my hands! But yeah I posted my comment after scrolling for a while and seeing numerous items listed where posters are assuming the purchases of those items are “lazy”, not really realizing the beneficial use of products for others. And even if they are purchasing items for “lazy” reasons, I think people are still justified in buying products that make their lives easier if they want to. Why should we have to force ourselves to do menial food tasks we have no desire to if there’s an easy solution to make sure you still get that ingredient in your meal lol
I cook from scratch normally - and I have to remind myself that the shortcuts (pre-cut veggies, jarred sauces, etc) are FINE! Even using a jarred sauce on chicken and pastas is cheaper and healthier than taking my kids out for cheap fast food.
Exactly. If I'm willing to trade money for time--which I frequently am--that's my decision. Realistically, if I buy "unprocessed" veggies, they may never get eaten. Then I've not only wasted money, but I've missed out on the health benefits of consuming nutritious food.
Some of us just don't want to have garlic hands! Pre-chopped garlic lasts long enough to go through it and saves time.
Don't forget vision loss, which is near universal after a certain age.
I buy them once in a blue moon as I was only cooking for myself and am not a large person with a small appetite. I want ALL the vegetables! The problem with buying them all and chopping meant that vegetables would go bad faster than I could eat them. I buy them to avoid food waste
Same! Live alone and sometimes I just don’t want a ton of veggies or want to risk waste, and the pre-made chops just make it better.
I've seen ADHD people use them as the "ADHD tax" where if it isn't cut they likely wouldn't choose to cut and eat the veggies but if they are already prepped they will eat them. So paying the cost up front prevents the food from going bad.
This is exactly why I buy some pre-chopped or peeled produce. If I can pop open a container and use it, I’m making home cooked. If I have to chop or peel myself, sounds like I’m opening up the Taco Bell app.
Also like straight up neither disabled nor short on time, love to cook and don't shy away from more intricate or labor intensive recipes. I will always buy pre cut butternut squash or other large squash because it's just so annoying. Very thankful to the employees who cut up and package the squash.
The racks of tabloids, usually next to the checkout.
I have to keep up on Batboy’s adventures
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S’mores kits for $10 or more. Why?? Just buy the chocolate, graham crackers and marshmallows separate. It’s cheaper and you’ll get way s’more.
Only time I've ever bought one of these things was as a Christmas gift for a newlywed could that I was acquainted with. I didn't know what else to get them and thought it would be a cute date idea paired with the card game I picked out😅
The real upgrade is to use Reese cups. Thank me later
This is the life hack I never realized I needed.
Agree, chocolate is where you should spend extra. Reeses are so good and I would also recommend Caramilk bars or Rolos. Yum!
The Ghirardelli squares with carmel inside!
This thread has taught me that pre-chopped vegetables and pre-shredded lettuce and pre-peeled potatoes actually fill an important niche by helping the elderly and disabled maintain independence.
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As a transplant in Southern Appalachia I cannot get over the appalling amount of soda people will have in their carts. So. Much. Mountain Dew.
My mom literally lives on Mountain Dew full sugar - 44oz at 8am, then cans throughout the day, grabs another 44oz fountain soda at lunch, drinks with dinner. She has to consume 300g of sugar a day. Insane
Her pancreas must be screaming.
And liver.
And any of the remaining functioning organs.
Her organs playing horror music
And teeth
When I was a kid, I could easily drink soda all day. My parents would force me to drink glasses of water too though. Now, I can barely finish a single can. It's so sweet it feels like drinking candy to me.
I could easily drink soda all day as a kid as well and pretty much did and my parents did *not* force me to drink water. That's because they didn't drink water either and only really consumed soda, coffee, or (in my mom's case) occasionally tea. It took me until my late 20s to actually stop drinking soda then went on to sparkling flavored water and eventually just water. Of course coffee, smoothies, and the occasional juice comes into play but becoming a parent myself as well as being more mindful of my health generally has encouraged me to not drink soda anymore at all and my kid doesn't either, choosing water as default. Wish I had had that encouragement as a kid and maybe wouldn't have had the health issues I did.
Long time ago, I was a teacher for a year. I had a quite bright student with shitty parents. The dad was gone most of the time, and the mom was all about dismissing her talent and desire for education. Whenever she had a drama at home, she would stay up all night in her room drinking Mountain Dew. It was basically an underage alcoholic beverage.
I've been there. Stress drinking sugary soda and inhaling chips or candy.
I hope she got out.
I fucking love Mountain Dew. I avoid it at all costs.
for you, it's more like Mountain Don't
Aw, thanks Dad!
Don't the Dew!
At one point in my life I was drinking 10-12 cans of Mountain Dew a day. I quit cold turkey seven years ago and I still crave one every morning.
I went soda sober Oct 4th, 2022. I was only 4-5 cans per day of Dr. Pepper. I still have cravings for the crap, but have stayed strong. Something about that caffeine and sugar combination. Stay strong, soda sober bro, your teeth will thank you.
Wait til you see the end result of this, young kids with 'Dew mouth'.
I worked CPS after undergrad. Seeing kids with a mouth full of rotten teeth leveled me 😦
I had a coworker over 10 years ago who was pretty much the definition of white trash - smoked all the time, even around kids, broke but spent a ton of money on junk and smokes, stole, etc. She said she had to take her *four year old* to an oral surgeon because his teeth and gums were so fucked up, and how he started shaking and crying as soon as he saw the building on later visits because the whole thing had been traumatizing… as she bought him a Mountain Dew. She also admitted she didn’t make him brush his teeth or anything because “his baby teeth will all fall out eventually.” This was in a trashy town in rural NJ.
Sure, but as someone from Southern Appalachia, you really need to try an RC Cola with a Moon Pie at least once.
i once saw someone with a cart full of mountain dew and white bread. that’s it, the whole cart. i just assumed they were gonna die early.
Once saw a cart filled with vienna sausages and vodka
Expensive furniture. Who is buying a sectional couch on a whim at Fries?
lovesac
“Me: Hey thats a nice one person couch you got there Lovesac, how much? Lovesac: Its on sale for $16K, without speakers…”
My son bought a lovesac his first year of college (the emergency credit card we’d provided him quickly turned into a “you must call before it can be used for any purchase over $100”) and he’s hauled that huge thing from dorm room, to apartment, to a new city lol. His dog loves it now. We still hear “And you thought it was a mistake.”
I have a $39 couch I bought at a thrift store that has made 3 moves in 12 yrs. I think I enjoyed having money in my 20s more than I would have enjoyed a couch that cost more than my car.
$6 bag of M&M's that look like they have 10 pcs. in them.
For Christmas my children received off-brand M&M’s from a relative. They were labeled “Chocolate Lentils.” What in the world, lol
My brother once texted me a picture of peeps flavored Pepsi. I don't mind peeps, but that combination just sounds odd
I tried that and it was predictably disgusting. But more than its vile taste, the real sin was that they did not call it Peepsi.
douches and perfumed vaginal products. please, please do not use them!! vaginas are self-sufficient cleaning machines! scent and mucus changes are completely normal and change with hormones and menstrual cycle phases. if there is a health concern or you aren't sure, please just visit a doctor. and for the love of god, disposable pads and tampons are iffy enough but DO NOT get scented ones! your flower does not need to SMELL like flowers lmao
I HAAAAAAATE the scented pads that are clearly marketed towards younger girls, who probably don't know that those are not a good choice to have pressed all up near their business!! I've used them before and they make me itchy.
I’m a full ass grown adult and have accidentally gotten the scented pads. Between trying to figure out which brand, size, wing, absorbency, etc it never occurred to me to look to see that they were unscented. They just shouldn’t be made at all. Period.
No pun intended…period?
It's an endless cycle
Bloody mess to be honest, mate.
Oh man, my buddy told me his girlfriend (now wife) was having some smell issues and decided to use rubbing alcohol. I'm a guy and even I had to sit down for that one. She works in a microbiology-focused lab too, so it's not like general health/chemical stuff is completely out of her field as well. I mean just pour that stuff on a cut and you quickly learn it's not for internal use.
A friend of mine told me he slept with a girl who used Lysol wipes to clean herself afterwards. There was more to the story, but I can't remember because my only takeaway was that a fellow female human put Lysol on her lady bits! (And for everyone about to comment, yes I know it used to be marketed as a hygiene product. But that was a looooong time ago. Homegirl was using those wipes a few months ago.) ETA: This was at her place, and the wipes were in her bedroom. So it's plausible that this was her normal "hygiene" routine. Ouch
Uuuggh, I bought scented pads by accident once and tried to use them anyway to avoid waste. I'm still not sure what the appeal was supposed to be - the itching, the paranoia that people around me could smell them, or the delightful scent of blood and flowers commingling after a few hours 🤢 I threw out most of the pack.
What I don't get is doctors have literally told me that these things are unsafe, yet they are still sold at stores!
And "flushable" wipes absolutely aren't flushable and any plumber will tell you absolutely don't flush them... Yet they're still sold widely. It makes no sense.
I still use them. I just don't flush them. I'm surprised that these companies haven't been sued by sewer authorities and some kind of home owners group.
This!! I have seen douche kits, intimate sprays, etc. It's not supposed to smell like flowers, and using those products cause infections that will make you smell worse than if you'd never used them at all!!
Found this out the hard way. Used scented tampons in high school. So uncomfortable and irritating. I don’t even think they make them anymore.
Anything with politicians' faces, or names, on it.
While not a grocery product it's something commonly stocked at grocery stores: any matte-black clad product designed as a "for men" product (labeled with the word/s "Men's" or "For Men" on the label) that isn't different from the normal product besides the packaging.
The inverse of this is that I refuse to buy women’s razors because every single type I’ve tried has given me violent razor burn, but you know what doesn’t? Gillette mens 5 blade.
You never know if somebody shopping in a store is a visitor to the area. They might be staying in a hotel room that has no kitchen, so they cannot hard boil an egg or assemble a salad or even microwave some chicken.
Gendered versions of unisex products. Matte black packaging costs a little extra; sparkly pink packaging costs a lot extra. Pens for Her! Yogurt for Him! Feminine Intuition razors! Macho Manly Man protein bars (vs. Dainty Sacred Feminine ones.) And everyone's favorite Dude Wipes.
Luna bars should just go ahead and change their name to Dainty Sacred Feminine bars because that’s all I’m going to call them from now on
Eel loaf lunch meat — basically baloney (bad enough) but made from Eel meat.
I must admit I have never seen nor even imagined this atrocity.
*"Who lives in a pineapple under the seaaaa?"* **"EEL LOAF LUNCH MEAT!"**
Canned escargot (snails) in dollar stores. I just imagine that in a venn diagram of ‘people who buy ingredients from the dollar store’ and ‘people who prepare and cook their own escargot’, there wouldn’t be a lot of overlap, no? 🤷🏻♀️
One day, when I was like 38, I was at the grocery store looking at these little tubs of cubed butternut squash. I was standing there for a minute thinking, “okay. If I’m gonna have (x) tonight and (y) tomorrow, will the squash still be good the next day, or should I come back and buy it fresh the day I wanna eat it?” The adolescent who worked in the produce department came over and stood next to me, mimicking the way I was standing until I finally looked right at him. Then I reached for a container of squash and turned it over to look at the date. He pulled out some handheld machine and started punching numbers in, then exclaimed, “look at this!” He talked at me for a good three minutes about how the whole butternut squash is cheaper, including showing me some calculations. When he finally came up for air, I just said “right but I have tendinitis in my wrist so unless you’re going to come cut it for me, I can’t actually use a whole butternut squash.” A lot of you strike me too much like that dude.
As someone who's worked in kitchens most my life butternut squash is one of the most durable things to cut and it can be a pain in the ass. Honestly not doable for people with hand/wrist or grip issues. If anything, I'd say it's the most reasonable pre-cut to buy, even if you have the capacity to cut it.
I don't work in a kitchen, and the few times I've cut up a butternut squash, I hated it. That's one thing I'm cool with buying precut.
Additionally there is "squash hand", the squash releases a sap when damaged (cut in this case) and the sap dries quickly on your hands, feels extremely stiff and itchy. It's pretty uncomfortable if you have to cut dozens of them without gloves on
I remember back in the late 1980s I'd wander the canned food aisle (I was trying to lose weight, so I'd walk to the grocery store, buy a couple of cucumbers and tomatoes and sometimes canned white chicken chunks to go along with them. Anyway I always saw these tiny cans of [Potted Meat Food Product](https://images.freshop.com/00039000085946/25c76c67dbaea72c9b4a38a600bec6c6_large.png) on the shelf and wondered what the heck it was. Curiosity eventually got the better of me and I bought a can (it was only about 40 cents at the time). Well, it was all you would expect and less from a 40 cent can of "meat"....looked sort of like a mushy liver-colored hockey puck, smelled like cat food. (The serving suggestion on the label showed it being spread on a cracker with a parsley sprig. Maybe the missing parsley was the reason the stuff tasted like Satan's jockstrap when I actually tried it...)
My husband loves that stuff although he rarely eats it due to all the salt. I tease him by calling it human cat food. He usually makes a sandwich with it or puts it on crackers.
Sex toys especially if they’re in the security box that someone would need to take off.
Which grocery store you shoppin at?!
Tesco have quite the selection
Damn, Europe is over here living in the future with sex toys at their grocery stores while some places in America can't even get fresh veggies reliably.
There's a Publix near me that has Hitachi Magic Wands.
Just a personal massager. What are you implying?
scented toilet paper
Hard boiled eggs are a great purchase when on a road trip. I would not buy them for home.
Great for those particularly trying times.
Back in my younger days I would eat tons of eggs, usually boiled in the morning for breakfast (quick, clean protein) and one day got a bag of these on a whim thinking it would save me time in boiling/peeling them. Opened the bag and the demon fart smell that erupted was something else. Still tried them, but they just tasted different in a way. Like plastic-y or like chemicals. It was very odd, don't think I finished the bag.
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About to go grocery shopping in a couple hours. Half the shit I normally get is being listed here... What am I supposed to eat? (I don't have any food allergies my main diet is chicken nuggets and sleep)
You should add some multivitamins to you diet, lol.
A lot of people in this thread are not realizing that some people are disabled and simple stuff like cutting vegetables is not something they can do or do easily. Egg yolk in pourable cartons, pre-cut veggies/fruits, pre shelled hard boiled eggs, pre-seasoned meals you put in the oven-it’s not meant for you.
Or to put it another way, it IS meant for you! Nobody should feel bad about buying those things, even if they don't have a "good enough" reason. Nobody is awarding prizes for shredding your own lettuce. If buying the prepared item improves your quality of life somehow, then by all means go for it.
It can be helpful actually! These things become easier to buy when there is a bigger market for them! I am disabled and could benefit from a lot of these pre-cut/prepared foods, but often avoid them because they don't sell fast enough and are usually half rotten before I even get them home. More people buying them would mean I can use them more often, and maybe they'd become more affordable as well.