One of my current pet peeves is related to how some folks feel compelled to express their creativity and try and re-invent the wheel. Can take many forms and it encompasses many domains - sometimes it's one of those fugly cars with the oddest colour which makes you realize that it's not because something can be done that it should be done. Sometimes it's re-re-booting Friday the 13th merely a few years after the first reboot. Sometimes it's your favorite music software or Facebook or YouTube...
 
One of the worst example which is a personal irritant is the food industry creating all kind of odd flavoured variations of basic products - which often only end up taking precious shelf real estate - because nobody buys things like lime and liver-flavored greek yogurt, anyway. 
 
This week I got a bag of whole wheat bagels from the usual rack - or so I thought. As usual, I had to go through a few of them until I found one with the expiry date label visible (because there doesn't seem to be any standard for that labelling stuff).
 
It wasn't until a few days later when I took the first bite that I realized something was wrong. Then I saw, in smaller prints on the bag, the word "onion". Try eating that with peanut butter and a banana or raspberry jam... In onion-flavored whole wheat bagel, shouldn't the emphasis be put on the word ONION instead of WHOLE WHEAT?
 
Mea culpa for not reading the label more carefully, but then again, with smaller fonts and all the junk they print of those bags... Am I alone in this world thinking that if you want some herring and blue cheese ice cream you should buy herring, blue cheese and ice cream and just DIY? That maybe pilchard-flavored waffles aren't such a great idea?
 
Classics became classics for a reason - a regular flavoured bagel is a darn versatile thing, which works equally well with cheese and eggs as it does with marmelade or peanut butter - so long as you don't throw frickin' onions into the recipe...
 
Rant off.
 
Man, I'm really turning into an old grumpy man... :P
 

One of mine is when all supermarkets stop carrying one of my favorite foods just because they think we should try that new lime and liver flavored yogurt.
 
Another is when they feel the need to change the packaging on those foods they allow us to keep buying just to make it hard to find (or worse, so we'll accidentally grab the wrong one like I did when I wanted Maple sausages and ended up with spicy ones that were so hot there was no taste - at least until the heartburn kicked up).
 
At least you're lucky Rain, you've got pets to balance out the pet peeves.  All I have are my little birds outside - hehe...

Personally, I'm very happy that the wheel has been re-invented many times. I'm pretty sure my gas mileage would suffer if I had to install wheels made of chipped flint on a wooden axle.
 
I do strongly agree with the basic sentiment, though, that "new" and "progress" are not synonyms.

I'm not sure why so many people keep talking about the wheel!  It's useless without an axle.

And then on the other hand, when they DO come up with something new that is genuinely nice, they call it "Limited Edition" and only sell it for a few weeks. Orange Kit Kats for example. 

I bought some "Everything" bagels and they left the "plain" out.
I looked at the ingredients, plain was not there. They are still good with strawberry cream cheese so I didn't return them.
 
I am a little confused. Are you saying you feed bagels to your pet peeve? I don't think our local pet store carries peeves. I'll have to ask them the next time I am there to get cat food, though my cat may kill the peeve... maybe it wouldn't be a good idea to get a peeve. Do they make good pets? Maybe they have canned peeve.
 
J
 

sharke
And then on the other hand, when they DO come up with something new that is genuinely nice, they call it "Limited Edition" and only sell it for a few weeks. Orange Kit Kats for example. 

I'm always amused by the re-issued albums that boast "Remastered!"  99% of the public probably thinks that means totally remixed on state of the art gear.  Only a few of us realize it might mean that it's the same old stuff, but compressed to the point no dynamics remain.

sharke
And then on the other hand, when they DO come up with something new that is genuinely nice, they call it "Limited Edition" and only sell it for a few weeks. Orange Kit Kats for example. 

Just goes to show.........one man's delicious limited edition orange kit kat is another man's lime and liver kit kat.

OTOH, I can't focus on the negative all that much. The folks at our local Whole Foods said they could get us full boxes of cheddar cheese curds and even give us a 10% off. :P
 
Perfect for those quebecers gathering nights involving poutine.
 

 
 
PS - As you can see, outside of my studio which is a cat-free zone, it's pretty much impossible to take a picture w/o a cat in it around here. 

As for those LE products...
 
I'm on a very, very healthy diet in order to keep up with my training and to be in the best possible shape -  if I'm to raise a kid, considering I'm not getting any younger and starting late, I have to.
 
One thing I cannot get rid of is soda pop. I used to drink gallons of that Pepsi. Then a few years ago I switched to diet. But aspartame is a nasty thing, so I decided to switch back to regular Pepsi but to reduce my intake to no more than one can a day. I know it's no good, but that's pretty much my only infraction, and I've already dropped so many bad habits...
 
So a few months back I switched to regular, more precisely, Throwback Pepsi - not only does it look cool but it's actually made w/ real sugar and imho tastes a bit better.. 
 
I used to wonder what I'd do when they'd take it off the market but I've just learned that it's become a permanent addition to their line of products. Made my day. :)