Anthony Humphreys
Usually, welcoming a new year involves making a long list of things you need to start doing. Like going to the gym, or using your own HBO Go account. (Sorry, Uncle Stan.) But your resolutions should also cover all the annoying habits you need to leave behind -- and seeing as it's already day two of 2015, you gotta draft those up stat. Just to get you started, here are a few eating and drinking patterns you need to ditch immediately, collected from stories we published over the course of 2014. Make this the year you finally swear off gross grocery store coffee bins. For good:
- Eating sad desk lunches. They'll make you fat!
- Bringing your baby to the bar. It's so loud.
- Drinking beer at Ford Field or CenturyLink Field, which have the nation's most inflated stadium brew prices.
- Going to hot salad bars, you monster.
- Ordering Girl Scout Cookies off an actual person. The Brownies have gone digital.
- Asking your butcher for lean cuts, 'cause fat is your friend.
- Frosting your beer glasses. It'll kill the carbonation and aromas, and generally make you look like a chump.
- Stealing Janet's sandwich.
- Openly discussing your vasectomy at a restaurant.
- Shunning salt and/or acid in your cooking.
- Eating queso with your fingers. Dude.
- Drinking crappy beer on airplanes. Delta just scored serious craft brews.
- Pretending you aren't going to spring for guac at Chipotle.
- Pronouncing quinoa as "quinn-wah".
- Buying coffee beans in bins. That stuff's gonna go stale real fast.
- Lingering way too long at your friend's dinner party.
- Taking up diets of any kind.
- Ordering pasta from a non-Italian joint. You really aren't saving much money.
- Hating Merlot just because Paul Giamatti told you to in 2004.
- Calling this guy instead of Burger King.
Kristin Hunt is a Food/Drink staff writer for Thrillist, and has never had any problem ordering Merlot or guac at Chipotle. Follow her to free living at @kristin_hunt.