This is the weirdest thing I’ve seen all week- no calorie stuff you spray on food to make it taste like your favourite high-calorie snacks. Can’t eat bacon? No problem! Just spray some of this nice stuff on your tomato and lettuce for an instant BLT. Want chocolate strawberries without the chocolate? Ranch-flavoured popcorn? Steak-flavoured… oh, hell, what would you spray steak flavour on? http://www.flavorspraydiet.com/
It comes in:
Parmesan Cheese Spray
Buttery Spray
Pesto Spray
Ranch Spray
Tomato Basil Spray
Smoked Bacon Spray
Caramelized Onion
Hot and Sour Spray
Ice Blue Salt Spray
Memphis BBQ Spray
Pepper City Spray
Teriyaki Spray
Plus a lot of sweet and fruit flavours.
I am simultaneously appalled and fascinated. It seems more in the range of that guy who made edible paper sushi and is trying floating food than the typical cheese-from-a-can nonsense.
Has anyone tried it? Any verdicts? Should I offer myself as a sacrifice and order some?
That about sums up my reaction. Looking at the list of flavors, it seems to me that 9 of them are of things you should be eating because they are healthy. What possible use is Pepper City or Tomato Basil? Nobody is getting fat because they are over-indulging in Caprese Salad.
OTOH, the Butter, Ranch and Sweet flavors might be handy. Order up a bunch and let us know how they are.
Back, oh, twenty years ago or so, I remember my mom being on one of those diet plans (now defunct) where you purchased all your food through the company. They had sprays just like this for “helping to calm cravings”. I don’t think it worked very well.
Cool! I heard about those a few months ago, from another Doper, naturally. I’ve not tried them yet, though, and I don’t know if he has either. They do pique my interest, though.
I was watching the Tony Danza show the other morning (Yeah, I know. Shut up. Shut up. Shut up. It was early and I didn’t want to find the remote…or something like that.) and the guy who makes these things was on. He kept telling Tony to spray this spray on that food item, etc. Finally, Tony just started spraying them straight into his mouth.
Whether it was on a food item or straight into his mouth, each spray/bite was followed with a :dubious: look and him saying, “Well…that’s weird/different.”
Maybe I will get the bacon one. For a friend’s birthday.
Dave Barry had the bacon spray as part of his Christmas Gift list, and he strongly recommended against spraying them directly in your mouth. He said the camera guy tried it, and could still taste bacon two weeks later.
You’re right, Anastasaeon. If I drink pop and eat fast food, I really shouldn’t worry about putting any other weird chemicals in my body. I’m already doomed. On the bright side, I’ll never decompose. If that is a bright side.
I saw some show on this stuff. They sprayed chocolate flavor on pizza and they, iirc, found it reduced cravings and led to weight loss due to decreased appetite.
So, the person having the piece of pizza tricks their brain into thinking they already had the brownie, and so doesn’t crave it.
This is probably just a trick of packaging. Think about the “I Can’t Believe It’s not butter” spray. It technically has 0 calories and 0 fat per spray. But that’s a little misleading, since there are rounding error issues involved. I believe that the whole bottle contains about 900 sprays and has over 800 calories total, with 90 grams of fat and if you think about how small a bottle that is - that’s not impressive at all.
Basically anything you water down a bit and stuff into a spray bottle spray calibrated to deliver small enough spritzes will have “0 calories and 0 grams of fat per serving.” But this isn’t like water.
Yup, my Dad had these too. Chocolate flavored if memory serves. I think that he may have purchased it simply for the novelty, but I’ll never know. We learned real quick that you could make Chocolate Scented Fireballs and so the whole thing was empty in a matter of minutes.
