BBQ season is in full swing, so odds are if you go to any given outdoor gathering, whether it be in Fort Collins, Loveland, Greeley, or any other Northern Colorado town, you’ll most likely see some summer food favorites on the menu. And if we’re being honest, I can’t stand some of those popular options.
Here are (in my opinion) the most overrated summer foods because haters are gonna hate and I’m a hater.
Watermelon
What in the world is even the point of watermelon? I recently learned that watermelon is 92% water. Why not just drink a glass of water? And can we talk about the seeds? Once, at a young age, someone told me that if you swallow a watermelon seed, you’ll get pregnant, and I was far too stupid a child to not believe it.
So between the mess with the 92% of water and the possible teen pregnancy, I have been out of the watermelon game for literal decades.
Popcicles
Even as a kid, I’ve always had an issue with the “sticky” feeling. I grew up in the 90s, and I’m pretty sure wet wipes weren’t invented yet. Still, to this day, when I see a happy kid eating a soggy, sloppy popsicle, I want to run far, far away…