We used to have Oreos, Reese's cups, a couple flavors of potato chips.

Now we have birthday cake, cookie dough, mint chocolate, peanut butter, inside out, ice cream, triple-decker and a whole other smattering of Oreos.

Dark chocolate, white chocolate, extra peanut butter, caramel, NutRageous and a bunch of other Reese's products.

Potato chips more or less flavored like any other kind of food including hot dogs, crab seasoning, guacamole, and like 45 different permutations of barbecue.

And it's like that for most food products (red velvet milk, anyone?)

How do you feel about this? Do you like the assorted flavors, or are you a traditionalist who prefers to stick to the basics? How far is too far?

1/24/2014 7:37:54 AM

Schweddy Balls ice cream.

1/24/2014 7:41:26 AM

Vodka flavorings and now whiskey

1/24/2014 7:46:30 AM

i enjoy switching it up, i get bored if i eat the same thing over and over

our options are nothing compared to places like japan though

1/24/2014 7:49:19 AM

I think they have the same thing going on, just with flavors that are prevalent in their culture. I doubt they have a couple dozen types of barbecue chips, but they have soy sauce and wasabi flavored Kit Kat bars and whatnot.

1/24/2014 7:51:17 AM

Real Food only comes in Real Food flavor, always the same.

I eat Real Food.

1/24/2014 10:05:49 AM

Were you in some small town piggly wiggly? growing up in a normal sized city with a Harris Teeter and Food Lion, we still had plenty of different flavors and candy.

1/24/2014 10:10:27 AM

Beer.

1/24/2014 10:23:34 AM

I don't necessarily mean this is a brand new trend. But 20 years ago there definitely weren't like 40 flavors of Oreos, either.

1/24/2014 10:35:02 AM

it's just more corporate mind control to make you eat more and buy more junk food. do not want.

1/24/2014 12:56:50 PM

People Get bored easily.

1/24/2014 1:22:45 PM

People are bombarded with messages of Dont. Eat. That. Crap. all the fucking time. Eventually they start to work, and you quit buying chips. But oh, now they came out with a new flavor and everyone says it's good. Of course extra msg and sugar sprinkled on top is good.

[Edited on January 24, 2014 at 1:28 PM. Reason : Seems like they are diversifying, but they're really consolidating. salt, fat, sweet. with spice.]

1/24/2014 1:27:26 PM

We live in a wonderful, wonderful world.

1/24/2014 1:45:00 PM

science

1/24/2014 1:45:28 PM

Seriously though, I think it's awesome. I had a butterfingers peanut butter cup the other day. It was delicious.



My two favorite candies in one? Yes, plz.

1/24/2014 1:53:59 PM

science + greed + callous disregard for health of other humans

1/24/2014 1:54:03 PM

Hey, man. I get it. You don't eat processed foods. I think that's great, and I really respect for it. No bullshit. However, I think it's tiresome for you to shit on folks' threads if only to insist on your way.

bttt: http://kotaku.com/the-delicious-world-of-japanese-doritos-1506401118

1/24/2014 1:56:13 PM

I don't eat processed foods the vast majority of the time, but sometimes I want a fucking caramel cookie peanut butter nougat cup-bar, OK?

1/24/2014 1:59:22 PM

I like the novelty of them, which is really all it's about. None of the flavored versions will stick long, and the original will always be there. So I will try a flavor that has an appeal to me.

My mom bought some gingerbread Twix for Christmas this year. I had such high hopes, but they were super gross.

1/24/2014 2:02:18 PM

i want to try the Mountain Dew Cheetos

i know they will be awful, but still

1/24/2014 2:04:33 PM

i'll drink a mountain dew code red every now and then. i had a mountain dew game fuel cherry citrus the other day. it was very similar to the code red.

1/24/2014 2:12:32 PM

That reminds me that I bought some diet cranberry Sprite a couple months ago. It wasn't very good, so naturally I mixed it with alcohol. I had 2 drinks and was super white girl wasted. That shit is its own date rape drug.

1/24/2014 2:21:42 PM

1/24/2014 2:48:25 PM

I enjoy the novelty of these types of things as well

sometimes they're better than the original

1/24/2014 2:52:39 PM

Quote :

"Hey, man. I get it. You don't eat processed foods. I think that's great, and I really respect for it. No bullshit. However, I think it's tiresome for you to shit on folks' threads if only to insist on your way."

seriously, dude. We fucking get it.

and as far as I'm concerned, with regard to exotic/specialized flavors, the more the merrier. If they want to make an ice cream that combines chocolate Oreos, Reese's cups, and cheesecake, I'll eat the fuck out of it, gratefully.

1/24/2014 10:25:45 PM

1/24/2014 11:13:03 PM

Usually I'm a traditionalist. But I love me some mint Oreos. However, this is partially due to them being a recreation of one of my favorite childhood cookies, the Grasshopper. (Before they turned into a bullshit thin mint ripoff.)

1/25/2014 12:09:06 AM

had to find out what pickle doritos tasted like

1/25/2014 7:53:57 PM

I wish they would stick with mainly traditional products with maybe a twist thrown in here or there to keep things interesting.


Because I like to try all the new products, so I buy them way more than I should. Which is exactly what the food companies want me to do.

1/25/2014 7:57:14 PM

Variety is the spice of capitalism.

1/25/2014 10:01:46 PM

I don't buy into corporate greed and all that shit in this case... companies produce things consumers want.

1/25/2014 10:57:50 PM

Corporations want you to think you have choices. If you've seen Food Inc., there is a segment in it where they claimed that most of these off brands are owned by the main food corps. we recognize.

1/25/2014 11:03:52 PM

k

1/25/2014 11:20:40 PM

I didn't read this whole thread, but I wanted to let you all know that Sriracha Lay's are amazeballs.

1/25/2014 11:46:30 PM

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