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Parents know how difficult it is to take their kids to the store because they always want the cereal with marshmallows in it or that box of “Star Wars” shaped macaroni. These are gimmicky foods and they may have started out okay at first. However, they are everywhere and we are realizing we just don't need all this stuff!

Some Gimmicky Foods That Have Gotten Out Of Hand Are:

Single-serving coffee pods
Sometimes, people are in a rush and don't have time to brew a whole pot of coffee. Sometimes, they just don't want a whole pot of coffee! But that's what coffee shops were made for, or instant coffee, or the microwave oven and yesterday's pot. There's no excuse for the single-serving coffee pod , especially since it just has to waste as much packaging as possible.
Wrong-colored food
When Heinz needed to entice more children to eat their — ketchup, they decided to ignore things like “normal” and “not weird-looking” and made their product green and purple. Why? Because kids like bright colors!

Candy breakfast cereal
Another gimmick targeted at kids is breakfast cereal that contains candy. The logic of it is straightforward, if not cold and calculating: kids love candy, breakfast cereals are boring, breakfast cereal with candy is not boring, put candy in cereal, sell more, and retire early. It's worked so well, it's now nearly impossible to find a sensible box of cereal on the shelf.

Pumpkin-spiced everything
Pumpkin-spiced stuff has become as much a part of Halloween as candy and pumpkins themselves. That's fine when it's done to entertain the kids, but when it starts corrupting perfectly good, non-pumpkiny adult foods, it becomes a problem. Potato chips don't need to be pumpkin spiced. Coffee doesn't need to be pumpkin spiced. BEER DEFINITELY DOESN'T NEED TO BE PUMPKIN SPICED! The only things that should taste of pumpkin are pumpkin, and pumpkin pie.

Freeze-dried ice cream
Astronauts are pretty cool. So it's not surprising that stuff astronauts use and eat might become of interest to the public, but freeze-dried ice cream? The theory for its development was sound: space is expensive, so reduce the weight and increase the shelf life of this nice food so the astronauts have something fun to eat after they do all that dangerously uncomfortable floating. But on Earth? There's no need to freeze-dry your dessert, especially if doing so makes it even slightly less delicious.

Do We Really Need These Gimmicks? 

Now that you know how bad these food gimmicks have gotten, you might decide to stop buying so many of them. Have you bought any of these food gimmicks before?

Let Us Know How You Feel About Them!

Article & Photo Source: Grunge