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What are some impulse buys that you've immediately regretted? (dubvee.org)
submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by ptz@dubvee.org to c/AskUSA@discuss.online
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I have a bad habit of impulse buying the most random stuff, but to my credit, most of those turn out awesome. If you wanna hear about great impulse buys, that'd be a good topic for another "ask" post (which I will leave as an exercise to the reader).

Here, I want to hear about your worst impulse buys; ones that you regretted almost immediately.

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[–] ptz@dubvee.org 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

My worst impulse buy was a 64oz container of what I thought was bulk mac and cheese powder from a local big-box store. Was going to use it on popcorn, to cheese up random dishes, etc.

What I got was, indeed, a 64oz container of cheese-flavored powder, but it was more like cheese-flavored salt. I guess it was for seasoning popcorn or something? I tried that, and it was not good on popcorn.

Either way, I used one teaspoon of it and that was it. That stuff was terrible and not at all what I thought I was buying.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What I got was, indeed, a 64oz container of cheese-flavored powder, but it was more like cheese-flavored salt. I guess it was for seasoning popcorn or something...more like cheese-flavored salt

Flavacol?

I have a carton half that I think is half that size that will probably outlast me. Every now and again, I refill a salt shaker with it.

If that's what it is yeah, I don't dislike it, but it's definitely far from being what I'd call the most-critical component of nice popcorn.

I think that that plus coconut oil is probably authentic, but I'm not married to movie-theater popcorn, so I don't care much about authenticity.

What I did wind up doing was getting an oil sprayer and spraying chili oil mixed with olive oil to bring down the heat, and then putting Flavacol on. Can add some other powdered seasonings to that, but just the above works pretty well for me.

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It may have been? It was in a clear plastic jug with the branding/info on a sticky label on the front. It's been forever ago, so I can't recall. If it wasn't Flavacol, then it was probably the Sam's Club equivalent generic.

Whatever it was, it wasn't anything like the mac & cheese powder I was expecting.