What’s Missing From Your Fourth of July? Probably One of These Foods

If you’ve ever screamed, “WE FORGOT THE BAKED BEANS!” like it was a national emergency, you’re not alone. Instacart just dropped data on what people were frantically ordering for the Fourth of July last year.

Here are the Top 10 Items That Surged in the lead-up to America’s birthday:

1. Canned Baked Beans – 4.2x more popular than average.
2. Hot Dog Buns
3. Watermelons – Great for eating, better for watching your delivery driver try to lug five of them up your front steps. (Don’t forget to tip.)
4. Hot Dogs
5. Hamburger Buns
6. Popsicles – Melting in 0.6 seconds, just like your will to host a backyard party.
7. Pickles – Because your aunt insists the potato salad needs “CRUNCH.”
8. Mayonnaise – For salads, slathering, and summoning flies from six ZIP codes away.
9. Potato Chips
10. Lemonade & Limeade

Honorable Mentions from the Patriotic Panic Cart:

• Rainier Cherries – $37 per bag and worth every sweet, bougie bite.
• Angel Food Cake – Light, fluffy, and usually topped with fruit like it’s pretending to be healthy.
• Frozen Daiquiri & Piña Colada Mixes – For people who want to feel “beachy” while standing on concrete.
• Ice

So if you find yourself panic-ordering watermelon, and 14 pounds of beans on July 3rd . . . don’t worry. You’re not alone. You’re just very American.