The 20 food inventions that didn’t further our existence

Food science in the hands of someone evil can be as devastating on your stomach as something off the Volcano menu at Taco Bell — you know, the menu with the big signs proclaiming “the good hurt.” Taco Bell isn’t an emo ex-girlfriend. There is no good hurt in relation to that drive-thru.

Sloshspot has compiled a list of the “20 Food Innovations That We Could Have Done Without.” In hitting a number of packaged food products and beverages, the list is a nice walk-through of the items that masqueraded as food over the past few decades.

Once again, food coloring is a direct indicator of a product’s potential gross-out factor. It would appear as though color is offered in lieu of taste in the hopes that you’ll be distracted enough to remember blue ketchup or french fries fondly the next time you’re in the grocery store.