secret junk food time junk food is something we were warned about as children to eat only in
moderation a guilty pleasure you'd hide from the likes of gordon ramsay so he didn't yell at you
whether you love it or despise it you'll want to know all about these
top 20 junk food and drink fails maxwell house coffee fail maxwell house
general foods the makers of maxwell house coffee had been making millions of dollars selling cans
of coffee to people to brew at home but like many companies who try to ring every last cent
out of a market they got the bright idea to sell already brewed coffee in the refrigerated section
of supermarkets even though it was refrigerated customers were expected to heat it up in their
microwaves the trick is to let the coffee warm up the room temperature i'm already on my second
cup this is my third however they had to be careful to pour the coffee into cups to heat up
because the coffee came in a foil-lined container by the time you do all this your coffee pot would
have almost finished brewing so this product immediately failed jimmy dean's breakfast on
a stick welcome to wiener on a stick one way to describe jimmy dean's pancakes and sausage on a
stick might be as an enduring failure the popular sausage maker wanted to expand its reach into the
lucrative breakfast market breakfast is most important meal of day pancakes and sausage are
no brainers when it comes to popular breakfast food but this doesn't mean you should just throw
out a product willy-nilly jimmy dean already sold various combinations of frozen pancakes
and sausage that could be heated up and ready to eat in a few minutes kids probably like the
idea of a corn dog-like breakfast treat that combines a savory sausage wrapped in a pancake
including blueberry and chocolate chip but what about adults it seems like breakfast on a stick
is encouraging people to eat while they're driving to work it's green ketchup ketchup
just like my mom puts on a spaghetti baby for some reason heinz thought it should mess with success
blast and green ketchup was a promotional tie-in with the first shrek movie it's green so it's
nature when the movie debuted green ketchup sales were really good but kids soon lost interest and
moved on to something else heinz didn't move on however and went on to embarrass itself
with other strange hues of ketchup including purple orange and blue drink hubba bubba gum
oh i thought they stopped making this hubba bubba chewing gum was introduced in 1979 by the
wrigley junior company and found itself in intense competition with a similar gum called bubblicious
perhaps in an effort to break away from its gum rivals wrigley decided to inflict hubba bubba
soda on an unsuspecting public a 1988 commercial depicted kids hanging out in a diner enjoying cans
of the carbonated pink beverage but apparently even most kids decided to stick to coke and pepsi
all right give me a pepsi free if you want a pepsi pal you're gonna pay for it a diet version of the
soda was released but neither the full sugar or the sugar-free version lasted very long
and by the early 1990s this strange soda had disappeared like a popping bubble say squeeze it
squeeze me this product appeared in the middle of the 1980s and lasted until the early 2000s it was
reintroduced a couple of times in the mid 2000s until general mills accepted that squeeze it was
a failure oh god i'm a failure probably the most interesting thing about this product was that each
flavor was represented by a different character whose image was sculpted into the plastic bottles
if there are any fans of squeeze it left they'd probably want to get their hands on some of these
now vintage bottles clear soda gentlemen i give you crystal pepsi all the great taste of regular
pepsi but without that troublesome opacity in 1992 pepsico came out with crystal pepsi a transparent
version of its soda there is a theory that contends coca-cola with its introduction of tab
clear deliberately released a subpar soda not to rival crystal pepsi but to sabotage them both
if i'm going down i'm taking everybody with me tab clear was put out as a direct response to crystal
pepsi the original clear cola and both clear sodas ended up paying the price leaving out the caramel
coloring isn't such a big deal but customers are used to the traditional color and all of this back
and forth about clear sodas ended up being one big fail cosmo yogurt living that hashtag yogurt life
cosmopolitan is a well-known women's magazine that has a reputation for doling out sex tips
to its readers somehow the people at cosmo got it in their heads in 1999 that selling yogurt
would fit into the magazine's mission needless to say the readers did not respond to this new brand
of yogurt and it was discontinued after only 18 months my life stinks my favorite mango yogurt
got discontinued given the overall weirdness of this it's surprising it lasted even that long it
would have been fun to have been in the room when the editors of cosmo congratulated themselves on
their cleverness when this yogurt got the go-ahead another shade of black how much more black could
this be the answer is none in general coca-cola's coffee-flavored cola doesn't sound like the worst
idea and there are a lot of people who like cola and coffee so why was coca-cola black such a
failure coca-cola blamed its customers when the two-year run was over saying that americans just
weren't ready for a product that was ahead of its time i'm from the future in 2019 there were
reports the soda giant was planning to bring back some form of coffee-flavored cola maybe america is
ready this time oj's cereal maybe it's none of my business but you know you're putting orange juice
on your cereal huh kellogg's has made a lot of successful breakfast cereals that millions of kids
and adults have enjoyed for example apple jacks froot loops and raisin bran or breakfast staples
but in the 1980s kellogg's introduced oj's cereal this was an orange juice infused cereal that
boasted as much vitamin c as a four ounce glass of juice you need your vitamin c oj's cereal even
had a memorable mascot named o.j joe who was a cowboy who rode an orange and wrangled oranges
for whatever reason it simply didn't catch on with kids and became another junk food fail watermelon
oreo fail what's next a watermelon nabisco's oreo cookies have been one of america's most
popular cookies for decades the company has come out with some reasonable variations such as double
stuffed and chocolate covered there have even been seasonal variations like peeps oreos at easter and
peppermint oreos for christmas it's chocolate it's peppermint it's delicious but the company has also
pushed some rather questionable flavors watermelon oreos has to be pretty near the top of that list
it's not like fruit can't work there have been key lime oreos and chocolate covered strawberry oreos
but watermelon oreos seems completely random and unnecessary customers agreed so it became
a junk food failure blood is thicker than soda so dracula doesn't drink blood no i use a blood
substitute true blood was a hit show on hbo for a brief time this southern gothic vampire story had
a good thing going but not as much of a thing as its creators thought otherwise how do we explain
the decision to introduce the beverage known as true blood in 2011. fans were apparently supposed
to get a minor thrill out of pretending that they like the vampires on the show were drinking
synthetic blood strangely this drink contained both a lot of sugar and splenda for a sickly
sweet taste shouldn't it have been salty like a v8 i could have had a v8 anyway it also contained
caffeine and touring a real witch's brew that may have been a novelty at some halloween parties but
otherwise failed colgate lasagna okay what do you want lasagna lasagna what the hell's the matter
with you you might be wondering what colgate a maker of toothpaste for more than a century has to
do with lasagna pretty much everyone said huh when colgate rolled out its version of beef lasagna to
customers in the 1980s oh it has been vaulted come on colgate lasagna this shouldn't even be said out
loud let alone actually eaten apparently no one did eat it because this bizarre frozen entree
quickly disappeared from supermarkets and colgate has tried to forget it ever happened new coke how
do you even drink that because it's delicious what the introduction of so-called new coke by
coca-cola in 1985 has the dubious distinction of being one of the biggest self-inflicted face
plants in junk food fail history tab good grief new coke all right listen not right now eddie's
robot please it was originally billed as the replacement for original coke however
customers reacted so negatively to new coke that within three months the original formula was
reintroduced as coca-cola classic in 1992 new coke officially became known simply as coke many people
who have commented on this debacle explained this unforced error as a misguided attempt to address
the company's main competitor pepsi despite the pain this saga caused the coca-cola company in the
short term and actually did achieve the original goal of successfully challenging pepsi's rise
shrek twinkies what are you doing come here give me my twinkie twinkie the kid with his
10 gallon hat and cowboy boots has long been one of the most popular hostess mascots most fans of
hostess twinkies think the little sponge cakes with the creamy filling are pretty perfect where
are you spongy yellow delicious bastards where are you however in the quest to make more money
the company paired with the shrek movie franchise to come up with shrek twinkies instead of the
pleasantly appealing white filling shrek twinkies are filled with an ogre green filling these
limited edition twinkies are said to taste the same as the regular version but not everyone wants
to eat slime green filling of course the slime green filling was also tried out on a ghostbuster
twinkie promotion with similarly disappointing results say tatos say what this goes well
potatoes are crisps or chips in america that are a popular snack in irish pubs these salty snacks
come in flavors like cheese and onion this would be fine if potatoes had stopped there
but they didn't potatoes decided to make a chocolate bar that included those same
cheese and onion chips that's like your mind right there it's like a lot going on
too much chocolate cheese and onion does not sound like a winning combination and the chocolate bar
failed in america however it has enjoyed some popularity in ireland maybe a cheese and onion
chocolate bar doesn't seem so strange after you've had a few pints of guinness some chip
and chocolate lovers have described the eating experience as being similar to a nestle crunch bar
but saltier wow is right bring back lay's wow chips with olestra those chips were recalled in
the 90s for causing explosive diarrhea frito-lay came out with wow chips several kinds of fat-free
snack chips made with a chemical compound called olestra this wonder ingredient promised the taste
of fat without the inconvenient calories olestra could not be digested properly
and turned out to cause abdominal cramps and leakage in some people who indulged in wow chips
i really need to use the bathroom that is not what anyone wants to hear no junk food can survive
these kinds of symptoms and the accompanying backlash people who love chips know that they
aren't eating healthy food but at least regular chips didn't leave a mark tmnt cowabunga pies
the four anthropomorphic turtles of teenage mutant ninja turtle fame loved pizza pies but
hostess cakes decided to market tmnt pudding pies the pudding pies were green on the outside and
vaguely resembled a piece of a turtle something less appetizing from a snack cake maker is hard
to imagine these odd looking pies filled with vanilla pudding power debuted in february 1991 and
included a trading card inside each package do you want to trade cards no i'll give you
20 bucks like most of these junk food fails these pudding pies did have a following but these green
pies were destined to fail sei lavio got milk the coca-cola company is one of the most successful
companies in the world but even they get it wrong once in a while vo is one of those times this is
a carbonated milk beverage that came in a couple of different flavors including citrus burst and
tropical colada let's get tropical on three one two three tested veo in 2009 in the united states
but it did not find an audience the company did start selling a similar drink in india in 2016.
a similar drink called ku is sold by coca-cola in japan a supposedly savvy international corporation
like coca-cola should have done its homework on this one i pity the cereal i pity the poor
food don't eat my cereal mr t was something of a pop culture icon in the 1980s with his
turn as clubber lang in rocky iii and as b.a barakas in the hit television series the a-team
he was such an icon that he rated his very own children's breakfast cereal described by quaker as
a crispy sweet corn and oats cereal unfortunately for cereal lovers this particular junk food fail
only managed to last a few years it seems like mr t cereal should have been able to last longer but
the children's cereal game is insanely competitive and the cereal itself was completely unremarkable
b to the e bud extra i'd like a budweiser please king of beers budweiser knows how to sell beer
and the company has sold a tremendous amount of it then they started selling bud extra bud
extra was a beer that had 6.6 alcohol and also contained caffeine ginseng and guarana a plant
that contains twice as much caffeine as coffee beans there's only so much caffeine a woman
can take products like this don't make any sense beyond the marketing possibilities because alcohol
as every drinker knows is a nervous system suppressant caffeine on the other hand is a
nervous system stimulant so there's no reason to combine the two in one product there's also
the possibility that combining the two could be harmful to your health tap that screen for
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