# "Doctoring Up" Store Bought Food

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctoring-up-store-bought-food/992523>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** food-cooking\
**Created:** [November 3, 2023, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctoring-up-store-bought-food/992523 "2023-11-03T11:28:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![gre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d78d45/32.png) [@gre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gre)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2023, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctoring-up-store-bought-food/992523/81 "2023-11-09T22:58:02Z")

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Circa 1990, there was a television commercial for a breakfast cereal or something. An announcer-voiced guy was like “Admit it, you doctored it up!” to the lady on the screen, and eventually she was like “Okay, okay, I doctored it up!”

And I found it so strange because I’d never heard that phrase before in my life, and also it seemed weirdly antagonistic, although maybe it wouldn’t have if I hadn’t had to guess from contaxt what they meant.

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**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2023, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctoring-up-store-bought-food/992523/82 "2023-11-09T23:20:21Z")

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> [@Jasmine](#):
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> He wasn’t because I’ve never liked it, either, and you can’t imagine the reactions I’ve gotten from people when I’ve verbalized that.

I hate it, too, but my sister used to love it. Yuck.

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**Author:** ![Arpa13](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9d8465/32.png) [@Arpa13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arpa13)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2023, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctoring-up-store-bought-food/992523/83 "2023-11-10T04:34:15Z")

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Yes, I do this to Totino’s cheese or supreme pizzas depending on mood. I most often add red onions and sometimes extra cheese, but sometimes mushrooms or olives or basil or even mango or pineapple.

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