Like white crayons, there are just some foods you love to hate. From black licorice jelly beans to raisins in trail mix – these are the foods you look at and can’t help but wonder why they’re here and what they want from us. And the worst part is you just can’t escape them, since snack manufacturers seem hell-bent on making us waste an extra two minutes just picking them out from the Chex and almonds and Apple Runts they know we love.
Our friends at Thrillist dubbed these foods the “Rejectables.” And these are the ones we've come to lovehate most:
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Raisin in Trail Mix
To be fair, trail mix kind of sucks to begin with. There's always too much processed honey/sugar flavor and not enough M&Ms. But add in all those extra raisins and you can't help but pucker. And then there's all the syrup that oozes out and gets over everything. Raisins, do us a favor and keep your yuck to yourselves.
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Peanut Taffy
I'm not sure who makes these and why they keep doing it when no one seems to like them. But for some reason, at least one house on the block continues to hand them out every Halloween, leading to more than few dollars wasted every time kids inevitably throw them out.
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Black Licorice Jelly Beans
This goes for black licorice in general, but at least those straws keep to themselves. These guys have absolutely no business crowding up my Jelly Bellys.
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Banana Runts
Banana flavored things are just weird as a collective, maybe because they're too sweet. From now on, let's assume all fruit-flavored candies need to be a little sour, k? (Green Apple my darling, I'm totally looking at you.)
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The "Regular Option" in a Variety Pack
Thrillist used regular Sam Adams Boston Lager as their example, but I'd like to extend the category to all regular options in Variety Packs. From fruit snacks to condoms, the only reason I'm buying this stupid variety pack in the first place is because buying a whole set of the one I actually want is too expensive. If I wanted the normal version, I'd buy the normal version, so GTFO of my variety pack.
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Check out the rest of the list of top “Rejectable” foods over at Thrillist.
