Which food trends are you tired of?

[IglesiasPiggle]

Sriracha on everything. Enough already.

I don't understand this trend for putting biscuits on cakes, in brownies and in chocolate. I could understand it a bit more if it's incorporated into the brownie but often it's just stuck on top.

Burgers that require you to dislocate your jaw in the manner of a python, in order to eat them. I don't have a delicate appetite. I like a good sized burger but some are so ridiculously huge and have so many toppings that you practically need a forklift to get it to your mouth.

What food trends don't you understand?

Horrible processed vegan food especially the fake meat. I’ve been a vegetarian since I was 10, That’s the whole point of being a vegetarian I don’t eat meat fake or otherwise

Didn’t ‘dirty fries’ just used to be called cheesy chips ?

Vegan cakes (no!)
Fake meat
Kombucha
Pumpkin spice things

It's funny that halloumi comes up, isn't that like saying cheddar or any other kind of cheese?

Also 'sharing plates'. Ugh, you eat your food, I'll eat my food. Joey doesn't share food!

Salted caramel, I just taste salt and its not nice. Many many desserts have been not bought because its now on so many. One menu had it one 3 desserts!

Massive portions, I want to have room for a starter, and possibly dessert.

Menus were you get a main with no veg, or you can't tell if it comes with veg. I recently ordered a lovely main, a side of cabbage, and it came with cabbage already. The waiter or should have pointed this out too.

avocados!! We live near a Boston tea party cafe and everything on the menu is “hip”

Yes, the sweeteners! I forgot about that. They're in everything now. I can spot them at 50 paces and they are so bitter underneath the sweetness. Shloer has sucralose now and is undrinkable. Bloody sugar tax ... just give me my fix of sugar

I haven't eaten out for so long, I can't remember what I ate, but I heartily agree with the hatred of claggy cupcakes, and hideous cakes with sweets and biscuits jammed in the top. Also the sloppy burgers, although I am partial to delicious fried chicken.
When I eat out, I want to eat something I can't cook myself or has flavours and tastes I can't guess and replicate.
I want skill and innovation, rather than just lazy defrosted crap.
I would love to go somewhere to eat wonderful home-cooked curries, or arabic or african food - food I haven't tried before.

@EmbarrassingAdmissions

The sweetness of everything. It's hard to taste anything else.

The vegan faux meats are sweet.

Commercial dessert products and biscuits etc. are far too sweet.

Salad dressings can be sweet.

God yes -- if you look at the ingredients in ready meals, sugar in one form or another is nearly always high on the list. I mean, who puts sugar into chile con carne? (Or the vegetarian version). It's cheap and helps disguise low quality ingredients but it's really bad for us as it means we come to accept and even prefer ever-sweeter foods that should not be sweet at all.

Sharing boxes of cheeses etc. All different food types lumped together exchanging juices and smells! Doesn’t even look appealing most of the time.

Sandwiches coming with a few leaves and a drizzle of dressing, some crisps and a blob of 'slaw' and the extra £££ this apparently adds to the price. Just give me a sandwich!
Flavoured gins. Especially peach, barf. A lot of them are too sweet.
Gins in massive glasses with huge amounts of ice.
Artisan
Craft

@RoSEbuds6

I haven't eaten out for so long, I can't remember what I ate, but I heartily agree with the hatred of claggy cupcakes, and hideous cakes with sweets and biscuits jammed in the top. Also the sloppy burgers, although I am partial to delicious fried chicken. When I eat out, I want to eat something I can't cook myself or has flavours and tastes I can't guess and replicate. I want skill and innovation, rather than just lazy defrosted crap. I would love to go somewhere to eat wonderful home-cooked curries, or arabic or african food - food I haven't tried before.

Have you had Ethiopian food? It is gorgeous. And lots of naturally vegan options 😃

@drumandthebass

"hand-crafted" how else do you expect a sandwich to be made in a cafe/coffee shop?

Just the word crafted has me shaking 'wanker hands' all over the place!

Not avocado! How can you ever be sick of them? I have 3 trees in my garden, loaded with fruit, so my friends and family are all going to have to help me eat them before they go to waste or are eaten by possums.

@Jourdain11 wtf I had to look up zalmon....the nutritional makeup compared to the real deal is an abomination, I mean at least make it have fibre or protein ffs!

Inaccurately proclaiming a food to be super food with magical woo health properties and cure/prevention for disease
Kale and avocado come to mind

Have the portion police turned up yet to wring their tiny hands about gargantuan portions and how a restaurant meal fed 2 adults for 6days. And he is a rugby player

@SiobhanSharpe I almost bought a jar of Korma sauce for convenience but checked out the ingredients before I bought it. First ingredient - water. Second ingredient - sugar. WTF. I always make korma sauce (and other sauces) from scratch now and don't add sugar at all.

Iced coffees. Flavoured coffees (caramel, vanilla, particularly pumpkin-spice...). Themed coffees (Halloween, Christmas, Valentines Day etc.). Frappucinos. Any coffee that has over a quarter of your daily calorie allowance and comfortably more than the daily recommended sugar allowance.

I suspect this trend is far from over though .

Putting chorizo on seafood dishes, it’s way too strong and overpowers the fish.
Pleased to see that foam has fallen out of favour, it looks like baby sick.

Smashed avocado for brunch with chilli flakes.

Irritates the hell out of me

@Redsquirrel5

Pea shoots!

I went out today for a Roast Dinner with friends.
Roast beef.
Roast potatoes,
Mashed potatoes.
Yorkshire Pudding.
Gravy.
Pea shoots.

Pot of
Carrots.
Cabbage.

It doesn’t make it look any better, it doesn’t make it taste better. STOP!

To the Free from people... I have Dairy Free I don’t want to eat Gluten Free I find it taste less.

I don’t eat it and never did - Squirting Cream horrible, tasteless and artificial. Yuk!

OP good question.😁

Peashoots as a garnish is a running joke in our house - every place we went to eat pre - COVID seemed to have bloody peashoots draped on top. We stayed at a hotel and at breakfast I asked for 2 sausages and some toast instead of their full English. The sausages came covered in peashoots and the lady serving said I had made it very hard to make the plate look nice!

Gin-flavoured everything, After Eights had gin-and-tonic flavoured chocolates a couple of years ago 🤮.

Yes! I love gin, it's my drink, it has been since I was 19 or 20 and I am 50 odd now. But I like plain, unadulterated dry gin with tonic. That's it. No daft flavours, no 'pink' gin, no sweetness, and no nonsense. And definitely no gin and tonic flavoured fish batter, cakes, chocolate, ice cream, biscuits, truffles or anything else.

Please please people, stop buying me them for Christmas just because I have always been partial to an old style G&T.

@LittleMissPeggySue were we separated at birth??

I for one (as a vegan) am happy that there are more vegan options but agree too often they are lazy fake meat options which are usually rubbish and not worth going to a restaurant for (moving mountains burger, anyone?). I don't like jackfruit so would be glad to see that disappear from menus. It's so annoying seeing new vegan options be added eg at a pizza place only for it to be fake pepperoni or some crap instead of a nice vegetable combination. Then again when I was vegetarian I didn't like goats cheese either so at least fellow goats cheese haters can rejoice that that isn't the default option any more! There does seem to be a lot of vegetarians on this thread who have forgotten that the original processed meats were for vegetarians rather than vegans though, like Quorn. It's hardly something that has been invented recently for vegans.

Also agree with kimchi, grazing tables , and brioche. I hate seeing vegan burgers on a menu in a brioche bun because it's rarely clear if they are using vegan brioche

'Hand cooked' crisps. What is that even supposed to mean?

I disagree with beetroot though. I LOVE beetroot. Not the pickled one.

@YouJustFoldItIn

Gin-flavoured everything, After Eights had gin-and-tonic flavoured chocolates a couple of years ago 🤮.

Yes! I love gin, it's my drink, it has been since I was 19 or 20 and I am 50 odd now. But I like plain, unadulterated dry gin with tonic. That's it. No daft flavours, no 'pink' gin, no sweetness, and no nonsense. And definitely no gin and tonic flavoured fish batter, cakes, chocolate, ice cream, biscuits, truffles or anything else.

Please please people, stop buying me them for Christmas just because I have always been partial to an old style G&T.

Hint: just buy me a bottle of gin