Corby Kummer kicked off 2026 with a whirlwind tour of food trends and policy that veered from the absurd to the alarming. The 2026 forecast includes cabbage (and its secret relatives like Brussels sprouts and broccolini), grandmother nostalgia for home canning, vinegar everything, and the magnificently ugly celtuce—a failed 2019 trend prediction so unappealing Kummer admitted he’d never seen it at farmers markets, though one brave listener defended it as “delicious” at Ding’s Kitchen in Newton. Jim sparked a minor civil war by insisting ice cream should be “chewy” (75% of viewers disagreed), while Marjorie defended her salt habit with low blood pressure. The verdict? Food trends are weird, policy is complicated, ultra-processed labels are misleading (canned beans and whole grain bread get unfairly tarred), and nobody can agree on ice cream texture—but at least cabbage is having a renaissance.