Twenty two bucks is steep for sure, but flea market food is half about the experience. Part of the fun is rolling the dice on weird stuff you would never find at a normal store. My rule is I only buy the strange snacks if they are under ten dollars, so when it flops I can laugh it off instead of staring at a jar on my fridge for two months. That pickle cotton candy sounds rough though, sweet relish and cotton balls is a combo nobody asked for.

Something similar happened to me when our theme's CSS had a filter messing with grays and our clients kept asking why the site looked off. What helped was adding a line in our launch checklist to spot check colors right on the live site, not just in the brand kit files. Since then we've caught two other theme settings that would've quietly shifted things.