Stupid "food" products? Highly unhealthy ones? Need your help, please.

[Warpy]

1. Rice terrifies a lot of people

because they have this absurd notion of how it should look every time it's cooked. That's not why you eat it, people. A little practice will get the proportions right and a timer makes sure you won't incinerate it. But still, they're scared someone will criticize them if it's over or under cooked or it's sticky or there's a tan layer on the bottom of the pot. While I find it an incredibly stupid thing to buy, I understand why so many people find it attractive.

The potato is something else. I even find frozen mashed potato silly as hell.

I also remember canned whole chickens. It was essentially a pressure cooked broiler, salted to death but with little other seasoning, five times as expensive as a chicken out of a case and I suppose convenient if one wanted cooked chicken in an instant for something else. But silly. You still had to take the chicken off the bone and it was tasteless as is.

Canned cooked carrots always bothered me because fresh carrots were available year round (they're good keepers) and the can turned them into tasteless mush. Fresh carrots are cheap, easy to grow and easy to harvest.

The potato, however, is probably the brainchild of someone who spent time in Japan, where perfect fruits are sorted out and elaborately gift wrapped to give as expensive gifts in a country where people don't generally have enough space to keep a lot of stuff. It shows the respect conferred by the expensive gift while not cluttering a tiny space with knickknacks. It's just a bad translation turning something already convenient into official convenience food.