The internet is occasionally pleasing in the sense that it's home to some of the greatest food porn you'll ever feast your eyes on, but sadly, it's also a space where people can share the most cursed culinary abominations ever created.
We're not even halfway through 2019, but social media users have already witnessed a fair share of innovative food mashups that went horribly wrong. Sometimes these hideous snacks are intentionally created to troll the Twitter-verse, but other times they appear to be genuine attempts at the next best food trend that seriously miss the mark.
From pizzas with downright offensive toppings to preposterously sliced bagels and an ambitious take on caviar and more, here are 10 of the most ridiculous crimes that have been committed against food so far this year.
1. Mint chocolate pizza concoction
The not-so-great pineapple pizza debate is one thing, but Twitter user @Scathach_Says raised the stakes by adding mint chocolate and broccoli to an already controversial pineapple pizza, resulting in the artificial green mess you see here. Unforgivable.
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2. Peeled chicken nuggets
Contrary to the beliefs of Mashable's very own Sage Anderson, a self-proclaimed nugget peeler, naked chicken nuggets are simply unnatural. Nuggets are meant to be consumed with their breaded armor intact, not broken down to mere pellets of bare poultry.
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3. Butter-dipped Firecracker
Dipping a beloved red, white, and, blue Firecracker ice pop into a tub of butter is so un-American it screams "viral food troll." I do not think anyone would argue otherwise.
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4. Guacamole cheese
In April, the Fresh Market grocery store chain announced it would start carrying Amanti Guacamole Cheese — a cow's milk gouda blended with avocado, lime juice, chili, tomato, onion, and garlic. Guacamole? Delicious. Cheese? Delicious. The two combined? Perhaps tasty, but the rancid-looking green cheese wheel below definitely does not give that impression.
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5. Cotton candy burger
The Albuquerque Isotopes brought a majorly gross burger to Minor League Baseball in April. The "Tumbleweed Burger" consists of grilled Angus beef topped ghost pepper cheese, nestled between a green chile bun. The catch? (Haha.) It includes "a large poof of red chile cotton candy," which sounds and looks extremely questionable.
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6. Tuna salad sandwich dipped in fruit punch
In case you don't know, former Cheetah Girl star Adrienne Bailon has a YouTube channel called All Things Adrienne. During one of her early 2019 videos, titled "My Favorite Weird Food Combinations," Bailon revealed one of her favorite snacks is tuna fish salad... with fruit punch.
The actress proceeded to make her delicacy by combining tuna fish with mayonnaise, salt, and pepper. Normal. Then, she added bright red fruit punch to the bowl, stirred her concoction, made a sandwich, and proceeded to dip that sandwich into a tall glass of fruit punch. No! Bailon claims her tuna hack tastes "bomb," but we will let this soggy, punch-drenched tuna fish sandwich GIF speak for itself.
7. Sliced "St. Louis style" bagels
Who could forget the "St. Louis style" bagel debacle that nearly tore Twitter apart? After @AlekKrautmann tweeted a photo of two boxes of vertically sliced bagels, things got ugly. Appalled by the latest offensive move in a long series of bagel crimes, people began trolling the bagels that were sliced like loaves of bread by sharing photographs of other "St. Louis style" foods. When will the madness end?
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8. Vegan lasagna
Remember when a photo of a meticulously layered salad was shared on Reddit and Twitter alongside the words "vegan lasagna?" That was sad. We get the need for vegan alternatives, but there's no need to call sliced onions, tomatoes, and carrots placed between pieces of iceberg lettuce a LASAGNA.
9. Ketchup Caviar
Heinz Ketchup tried to make Valentine's Day special for some fancy ketchup-loving couples by creating Ketchup Caviar. Sadly, Ketchup Caviar was exactly what it sounded like — little pearls filled with the tomato sauce condiment that seemed exceptionally confusing to consume.
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10. Season-less chicken
Perhaps the most outrageous culinary abomination so far this year were these three shamefully naked, season-less pieces of chicken left to cook away on a tray by the clueless roommate of someone's boyfriend. Put something on them. Anything.
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Be better, aspiring chefs. For the love of appetites everywhere.
