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Bloomberg: Every Food Trend Goes Against Slumping Hot Pockets, Even Gov't Spending

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The D'agostino's by my job cut the seafood area in half to house more Hot Pockets, I was quite pissed. I haven't had these imitation food pouches since I was in high school.
 
Product Ingredients
WATER, UNBLEACHED ENRICHED FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR [NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID]), FULLY COOKED HAM AND WATER PRODUCT, 25% OF WEIGHT IS ADDED INGREDIENTS, GROUND AND FORMED (CURED WITH WATER, SUGAR, SALT, SODIUM PHOSPHATE, DEHYDRATED PORK BROTH, CARRAGEENAN, NATURAL SMOKE FLAVOR, SODIUM ERYTHORBATE, SODIUM NITRITE), UNBLEACHED ENRICHED FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, MALTED BARLEY FLOUR, NIACIN, IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), IMITATION CHEDDAR CHEESE (WATER, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, CASEIN, SOYBEAN OIL, WHEY, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF SALT, SODIUM ALUMINUM PHOSPHATE, SODIUM PHOSPHATE, LACTIC ACID, SODIUM CITRATE, NATURAL FLAVOR, SORBIC ACID [PRESERVATIVE], ARTIFICIAL COLOR), PART SKIM MOZZARELLA CHEESE WITH MODIFIED FOOD STARCH (PART SKIM MOZZARELLA CHEESE [PASTEURIZED MILK, CULTURES, SALT, ENZYMES], MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, FLAVORS, ANNATTO), SEASONING (WHEY, CHEDDAR CHEESE [MILK, CHEESE CULTURE, SALT, ENZYMES], BUTTERMILK, ENZYME MODIFIED CHEDDAR CHEESE [MILK, SODIUM CITRATE, CHEESE CULTURES, SALT, ENZYMES, POTASSIUM SORBATE], SALT, REDUCED LACTOSE WHEY, COCONUT OIL, CORN MALTODEXTRIN, DISODIUM PHOSPHATE, BLUE CHEESE [MILK, CHEESE CULTURE, SALT, ENZYMES], CITRIC ACID, LACTIC ACID, EXTRACTIVES OF ANNATTO AND TURMERIC), 2% OR LESS OF PALM OIL (WITH SOY LECITHIN, ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, BETA-CAROTENE [COLOR], CITRIC ACID [PRESERVATIVE]), MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, SEASONING (BREAD CRUMBS [BLEACHED WHEAT FLOUR, DEXTROSE, YEAST, SALT], SEASONING [CHEDDAR CHEESE {MILK, CHEESE CULTURES, SALT, ENZYMES}, SALT, WHEY, DEXTROSE, DRIED ONION, NATURAL FLAVOR, SOYBEAN OIL, GARLIC POWDER, REDUCED LACTOSE WHEY, DISODIUM PHOSPHATE, CITRIC ACID, LACTIC ACID, DISODIUM INOSINATE & DISODIUM GUANYLATE, SPICE, BLUE CHEESE {MILK, CHEESE CULTURES, SALT, ENZYMES}, EXTRACTIVES OF PAPRIKA, ANNATTO]), SUGAR, SEASONING (WHEY, PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN OIL, MALTODEXTRIN, CHEDDAR/BLUE CHEESE [PASTEURIZED MILK, CHEESE CULTURES, SALT, ENZYMES], SALT, NONFAT MILK, SODIUM CASEINATE, SODIUM CITRATE, NATURAL FLAVORS, CITRIC ACID, EXTRACTIVES OF ANNATTO, PAPRIKA AND TURMERIC [COLOR]), PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED PALM KERNEL OIL (WITH SOY LECITHIN), SALT, YEAST, DOUGH CONDITIONER (CALCIUM SULFATE, SALT, LCYSTEINE HYDROCHLORIDE, GARLIC POWDER, TRICALCIUM PHOSPHATE, ENZYMES), DOUGH CONDITIONER (DISTILLED MONOGLYCERIDES WITH ASCORBIC ACID AND CITRIC ACID [ANTIOXIDANTS]), EGG YOLKS, LACTIC ACID, WHEY, SOY FLOUR, EGG WHITES, SOYBEAN OIL. CONTAINS: MILK, EGG, SOY, WHEAT INGREDIENTS..

That's why I don't buy Hot Pockets nowadays. That's not food, that's a chemical experiment.

Most of those, probably 99% of Hot Pockets, are natural.
 

kehs

Banned
Wal-Mart Stores (WMT), which gets roughly 4 percent of its revenue from food stamps

That's a crazy amount.

nexttothecheddars bolded ingredients list is hilarious. I'm surprised how natural most of it is.
 
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That's why I don't buy Hot Pockets nowadays. That's not food, that's a chemical experiment.

This is more of an argument to avoid processed food in general, you could probably put together a sandwich made with processed ham/bread/cheese and end up with an identical list of pure ingredients. The specific reason to stop eating Hot Pockets is spelled out explicitly on the Nutrition Info: 300 calories, 5g of saturated fat and 820mg of sodium. And that's based on a 128g 'serving' which isn't going to keep anybody satisfied for very long.
 

terrisus

Member
This is more of an argument to avoid processed food in general, you could probably put together a sandwich made with processed ham/bread/cheese and end up with an identical list of pure ingredients. The specific reason to stop eating Hot Pockets is spelled out explicitly on the Nutrition Info: 300 calories, 5g of saturated fat and 820mg of sodium. And that's based on a 128g 'serving' which isn't going to keep anybody satisfied for very long.

Exactly. There are plenty of legitimate reasons why eating Hot Pockets is bad for you.
But, posting a list of ingredients and being like "This is why I don't eat them!" doesn't really do much.


You've missed out on scorching the roof of your mouth with liquid hot cheese.

I used to love these in college, though it was always disgusting when the cheese wouldn't completely melt.

Interesting juxtaposition of comments here >.>
 
Example meal for me

Chicken (Product ingredients): Chicken

Potaoes (Product ingredients): Potato

Tahini sauce (Product ingredients): Sesame seeds, salt, water


Cooking without chemicals, how does it work.

This x1000. Honestly, if it has more than about 4 or 5 ingredients, chances are it's not worth eating at all. I can't understand the occasional treat here and there, but honestly, why keep pumping your body full of manufactured/processed garbage?
 

DopeToast

Banned
Haven't had one in quite a few years, but I remember liking the cheesesteak one a lot. Sure, it's not high quality food by any stretch, but sometimes there's a time and place for eating garbage like that.
 
Example meal for me

Chicken (Product ingredients): Chicken

Potaoes (Product ingredients): Potato

Tahini sauce (Product ingredients): Sesame seeds, salt, water


Cooking without chemicals, how does it work.

everything has chemicals in it.

If you want to argue that you're not eating highly processed foods then i've got your back, though
 

BWJinxing

Member
I actually enjoy reading the labels. The first thing i do is pick up a product and read the ingredients. As soon as I start seeing "product", or Hydrogenated Oil, HFCS, or Natural Flavors, it becomes extremely questionable to eat. I put myself off fast food by going to read the ingredients list.

I stopped eating them 6 years ago and haven't looked back. I do recall that one ad with the chick that would take a bite of the dude's hot pocket, I thought that was awful bad, and now i have insight as to why.
 
They were my college food of choice, but after that I swore off them.

same. for a few months I kept a few "emergency" boxes in my freezer, meaning it's 2am on a weekend and Wendy's drive thru closes at 1; hot pocket time. I stopped this because eating them makes me feel like I've hit a low point in my life

edit: OK, in regards to your quote, I wouldn't say they were my college food of choice, but I ate them regularly.
 
Example meal for me

Chicken (Product ingredients): Chicken

Potaoes (Product ingredients): Potato

Tahini sauce (Product ingredients): Sesame seeds, salt, water


Cooking without chemicals, how does it work.

Every single thing you listed is made of chemicals.

WHAT NOW.
 
It's hilarious how that big ingredient list looks so scary in full caps. Because if you read the actual list instead of just glancing at it, it's mostly regular ass stuff, but with the details in parenthesis which looks scary to people who don't actually read things.
 

maxcriden

Member
Hot Pockets were bested a long time ago

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It looks like a burrito throwing up. :-/
 

Zane

Member
I don't even really understand hot pockets. They've already existed in a better form (calzones) for decades.
 

medrew

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Example meal for me

Chicken (Product ingredients): Chicken

Potaoes (Product ingredients): Potato

Tahini sauce (Product ingredients): Sesame seeds, salt, water


Cooking without chemicals, how does it work.

You didn't break down the ingredients in your store bought chicken.
 
I remember back when I was a kid my parents buying at Costco a big box of pepperoni Hot Pockets for my sister and I to eat as an afternoon snack. I fucking loved that stuff. Maybe its my imagination, but I recall the pepperoni back then being meatier and having more texture and flavor than its present day incarnation. And I enjoyed the "hot" part of it eating a hot pocket. I like eating my noodle soups when they're burn-your-mouth-hot. Sad to see this once venerable frozen food giant struggling to be relevant.
 

A Fish Aficionado

I am going to make it through this year if it kills me
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That's why I don't buy Hot Pockets nowadays. That's not food, that's a chemical experiment.

All cooking is a chemical experiment. Most of those are just the chemical names of everyday cooking materials with some preservatives, colors and stabilizers.

And, I ain't even a chemist.

Natural sounding: Vitamin C
Scary sounding: Ascorbic Acid
 

terrisus

Member
All cooking is a chemical experiment. Most of those are just the chemical names of everyday cooking materials with some preservatives, colors and stabilizers.

And, I ain't even a chemist.

Natural sounding: Vitamin C
Scary sounding: Ascorbic Acid

Sodium chloride all up in this.
 

120v

Member
not that hot pockets are particularly "gourmet", but they can really wear on your taste buds after awhile to where you don't want them anymore no matter how hungry you are.

they should release like 5 limited run crazy flavors a year, like how some fast food joints do
 

Juice

Member
Surprised that neither the article or the thread have mentioned gluten yet. Just another trend keeping the hot pocket man down, I guess.
 

Booshka

Member
Hot Pockets are like on the same garbage tier as Arby's fast food. I feel worse when I realize that people think it's good food.
 

PogiJones

Banned
Huh. Didn't realize I'd become the Hot Pocket guy.

Just so we're clear, I put a cold Hot Pocket into my hot pocket to make my Hot Pocket hot, but instead I made my hot pocket cold.
 
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