The Five Foods Most Likely To Frustrate Americans

A good deal of US citizens, for those of you who have been living in a hole for the last couple of decades, are overweight. They fully expect their meals to be easily edible when they reach their plates and/or feeding stations. Yet, some foods require a good deal more effort than the average American is willing to put forward to procure a meal. Here are the top five foods that may suffer further dips in popularity in the states as obesity continues to engulf us all.

1. Unshelled Nuts

These leadoff my list because they represent the high effort, low reward category. Opening some of the shells can be difficult, the repetitive motion can become tedious, and there's not a ton to eat even once you complete the sweat-breaking process. Peanuts (technically legumes and not nuts) were once a part of baseball folklore, even part of the song, "Take Me Out To The Ballgame," but does anyone still really make the effort to eat them anymore? Probably not, considering all the food that ballparks are offering these days.

Unshelled sunflower seeds might also fit in here too, but I suspect that those without the skill to seperate the seed from the shell orally probably just eat the whole thing...

2. Korean Barbeque

For those of you who haven't had this cuisine, let me first say that when presented right, it is absolutely excellent.

However, in the age of convenience and service, ordering a meal and then being presented with a plate of raw meat and a grill might be a turn off to those who feel that if they wanted to cook, they'dve made a meal at home.

3. Artichoke

This is another one of those high effort, low reward foods, except even moreso because to the unskilled eye, there isnt anything to eat. This also gets the nod for this list since it is green, and a vegeteble. For a lot of Americans, that's a big no-no unless there's some deep-frying involved before consumption.

4. Candy Buttons

I have to admit, these things are pretty much intolerable as far as eating them without the paper they come on goes. I remember, when I was just a small nerd, my mom walked me into a candy store and said, "I used to have these all the time as a kid. Here have some!" Moments later, thanks to my lack of fine motor skills, I had consumed little to no sugary goodness, and somehow managed to give myself a papercut on my tongue (yes, that did suck, thanks for asking).

5. Lobster

With the economy still struggling to get back on its feet, spending a ton of money on food is not something that most Americans are OK with right now. So, I can't imagine that after paying for an expensive meal, the average American will be thrilled with having to struggle to eat the meal they paid for as much as you have to with Lobsters. To successfully get all of the meat out of a lobster, you need to get messy, you need to find a way to crack open the shells, and you need to make sure that a bird doesn't swoop down and take your meal before you can finish. That constitutes more exercise than some people get in a day, perhaps a week.

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