There's nothing wrong with adding flavors to coffee, liquor or food to make them more interesting, or just palatable. Pumpkin spice lattes are doing good business, infused vodka or tequila can make great cocktails, and adding bacon to anything is never going to get old.

However, the trend is getting out of hand, as a rainbow of colored vodka spreads across liquor stores and good coffees and foods are getting squeezed off shelves in grocery stores. Here are five recent flavor combinations that are simply trying too hard for novelty.

5. Bud Light Cran-brrr-rita

What? This is not a "rita" anything, because it's made with beer, not tequila. This drink has cranberry and lime, so if it's like any cocktail, it's a Cosmopolitan. I saw a smiling guy on a TV commercial wielding this pink concoction, oblivious to the fact he was drinking a Beer Cosmo.

4.. Blueberry Muffin Coffee

I loathed coffee flavor as a child, and had to mix it with hot chocolate to get used to it as an adult. I gradually lowered the amount of chocolate until I came to realize coffee is one of the best tastes in the world. French vanilla, hazelnut or pumpkin spice are other good ways to get there, but berry flavors are a stretch. Blueberry muffins aren't that hard to find in Houston.

Dunkin' Donuts also trots out Strawberry Shortcake Coffee occasionally. It can often be found on the discontinued shelf at Target, yet it shows up again months later.

3. Greek Yogurt Honey Crunch

Greek yogurt has only been around since, I don't know, 800 B.C., so why is it now a marketing tool? I can't be fooled -- the American-made Greek yogurts I've tasted are just thicker versions of regular yogurt, and at any rate, it would taste much better to put Honey Bunches of Oats into a container of Fage, not the other way around.