I'm upset. I spent $9 at Hows on a GF product called Gluten Free & Fabulous Sweet Savory Bites that looked so good in the package, I couldn't NOT blow the nine bucks to have it. It has the word "FABULOUS" in the title! How enticing!! When I got home, these Sweet Savory Bites tasted awful. They were the opposite of fabulous, and I was pissed. I took a risk calculated on impulse spending, and it most certainly did not pay off. This is not the first time I've blown lots of money on a tempting-looking gluten free product, and it sure won't be the last.
There were the god-awful frozen dinners from Glutino. Glutino is a company whose products are usually great, but I bought all four varieties of the chicken dinners stocked at my local Whole Foods and had to throw each one in the garbage after a few bites. Each one was more inedible than the next. Don't bait and switch me like that, Glutino! I'm a already fan, but then you break the trust you've worked so hard to establish with me.
How is it that it's acceptable for bad tasting gluten free foods to hit the market? Don't these food companies employ taste testers to tell them, "Sorry, but this product tastes like ass. And if I had to spend money on this product once and be as disappointed as I am right now, I might not ever want to buy your company's products. Ever again."
I know, I know, I should be thrilled that I can even get Gluten Free foods at a chain store. Even 7 years ago when I was diagnosed with Celiac, the choices were a mere fraction of what we have today. But this is a call to action. We GF types like to eat your delicious processed foods, and we're willing to spend our hard earned money on them. But can you food manufacturers promise from this point forward to put only the best products possible out there in the marketplace?
I promise I will buy them if you promise you will make them.
I can give an AMEN to the "me no likey" on the savory ick. That stuff was craptastic. BLEH!
ReplyDeleteI think gluten-free lovers have gotten really good about sharing our likes and dislikes--in a public way--and it behooves the companies that put out BLECH like this to do better groundwork, better taste-testing before rolling products out.
We WILL talk. :) And blog.
XO
Those Glutino frozen meals are gross. I bought the fetticine alfredo and the pasta was nasty and mushy. The Caesar's frozen gf pasta is good so I know it is possible to make good stuff (I heard they just came out with gf gnocchi).
ReplyDeletedude. HATE that shit. i tried some kind of chik'n nugget made with something that wasn't meat (not the quorn variety which is DELICIOUS!!!) but it was the same people who make sprouted breads...maybe ezekial?? (i eat their toast every day so..not hating ezekial people) but those chik'n things tasted like the inside of an asshole with diarreah crusted around it. my first thought was HOW in the High WATER IN HADES did these EEEVER get distribution??? FUCKSAKE.
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