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She also recommends keeping dried herbs, spices and salt available as, she says, tinned food can be slightly bland.

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026

But their unrelieved brightness and utter lack of texture have the bland flatness of plastic, and render them lifeless.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

Speaking of unwatchable, if you’re over the age of, say, 11, feel free to skip the utterly generic and bland “The Mandalorian and Grogo,” the worst “Star Wars” spinoff movie yet.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026

What’s getting attention, however, is not bland, consultant-approved talk about the price of groceries.

From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026

I downright hate the bland green flavor of dandelion broth, the taste of which rises in my mouth without warning.

From "X: A Novel" by Ilyasah Shabazz

The question then is whether children will still bother with them, once they are deliberately toned down into a much blander offering.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

Consumers, bored by the softer, blander Red Delicious variety that had ruled grocery aisles for decades, discovered an apple that was sweet and so texturally satisfying they never looked back.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2025

The flavors of zucchini and yellow summer squash are similar, with the yellow versions being a little blander, and sometimes less firm in texture.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 27, 2023

The rest of the festival is taking place at more traditional theaters, and while the musical values are generally superb, it can all hardly help but feel blander, less of a special occasion than “Resurrection.”

From New York Times ● Jul. 8, 2022

Those “unnatural” feeds make chickens with mushier and blander meat.

From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan

Somebody asked Jay Leno, late-night’s blandest clown, to share his opinions concerning late-night’s decline.

From Salon ● Jul. 31, 2025

By contrast, Darren Franich of Entertainment Weekly described the opening scene as "the blandest possible orientation, Epic Fantasy for Dummies" and said the good news is that "the beginning is the worst part."

From Reuters ● Aug. 19, 2022

As a protagonist, Sandy is the blandest of heroes, “a middle person, a middleman,” Lethem writes.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 9, 2020

Open Google Maps, find a place that is not a place but, rather, on the way to other places, and select the blandest hotel you can find.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 18, 2019

Those self-important women gained local immortality for the blandest, the most timid of eccentricities—walking a cat on a dog’s lead, riding about on a man’s bike, being seen with a sandwich in the street.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan