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?

Edible flowers. Pretty but pointless. They add nothing to the meal except the cost.

@notenoughcoffeeee

Avocado

I'm with you and pistashico

(can't spell it)

Im getting a bit bored of chocolate orange to

Hint: just buy me a bottle of gin

Haha yes, that disappointment of opening one of those Christmas gift sets containing a teensy weensy bottle of gin or some other booze, with a glass with the logo on it and two or three other bits of pointless gin themed nonsense in a fancy box, when you know it cost more than a whole bottle of decent gin.

Prosecco is rank, Cava or Cremant is so much nicer but for some reason Prosecco is always produced at bars/parties. Also these drinks aren’t meant to be drunk all night, they were originally designed to be had as one or two glasses at the start of the event. Nowadays Prosecco seems to be a thing on nights out to have it constantly ordered. It’s horrible stuff.

I’m here to join the “ban the brioche” crowd. Just…why..? Who wants a sickly sweet roll with a burger.

Also with the salted caramel crew. It is everywhere. You see a lovely cake or traybake and think “ooh, what a treat, I’ll have a wee piece of….GHADDAMMIT SALTED CARAMEL”

@LibertyLue

Prosecco is rank, Cava or Cremant is so much nicer but for some reason Prosecco is always produced at bars/parties. Also these drinks aren’t meant to be drunk all night, they were originally designed to be had as one or two glasses at the start of the event. Nowadays Prosecco seems to be a thing on nights out to have it constantly ordered. It’s horrible stuff.

Agree.

Flavoured gin. It's basically gin for people who don't like gin. It's the "alcopop" for adults..

I’m also loving the vegetarians turning on the vegans. 😆

An avocado is just an avocado 🥑

Rosewater that's so true! My sister is exactly that person. Doesn't really drink, has never liked the taste of alcohol but has developed a thing for pink gin, so long as she can have lemonade in it - not tonic.

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.*
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That's very true, although I don't think meat substitutes appeared very often on restaurant menus as the vegetarian option. Not that the standard spinach and ricotta something-or-other didn't get very boring, but at least it was wasn't quite as lazy as a soya burger with vegan cheese (barf). I love vegan food, but I'd rather eat it at home!

Chocolate bloody orange everything.

Leave it to Terry's and piss off

@ForTheLoveOfSleep

Lotus Biscoff flavoured everything 🤢

So gross 🤮

Also unicorn-flavoured/coloured shit. How the fuck can anything be ‘flavoured’ with something that doesn’t exist? It’s just a huge overload of sweetness and reminds me of those multi-coloured ice lollies from the ‘80s (Zzap?), which were lovely and toffee flavoured.

[quote NotAnotherPylon]@PatchworkElmer Well no, of course he shouldn't be catered for above those who eat a vegan diet, trendy or otherwise (I didn't say that, but hey ho I'll bite), but it'd be nice not to be lumped in with them just because he shares the dietary preference of not eating meat. It'd also be nice, I reckon, if there were a couple of vegetarian options in addition to the vegan options, which are often a load of processed shite, although I realise this depends on the restaurant/food outlet.

Oh and maybe look up irony in the dictionary ...[/quote]
Erm, you did say exactly that- you said “sidelined by the vegan trend” in your first post 😂😂

I was actually nodding along to your reply and thinking that was very sensible and I completely understand and agree with your point. But I really don’t get what you mean about referencing a dictionary- there’s nothing wrong with my understanding thanks, and there’s no need to be rude. I won’t be replying to you again.

@YouJustFoldItIn

Rosewater that's so true! My sister is exactly that person. Doesn't really drink, has never liked the taste of alcohol but has developed a thing for pink gin, so long as she can have lemonade in it - not tonic.

I used to work in a pub, not a young, trendy place by any stretch. Average age of customers was early 60s. A chap came to the bar and ordered “two gins and cokes”, I repeated to clarify “Two gins and two cokes?” “No, two gins with coke as a mixer.” Never served anything as strange before!

I like a G & T and drank gin before it was trendy. I don’t drink much, but I love a couple of G & Ts with a decent tonic without sweetener.

Posh doughnuts !

Chrissy wow, weird!

Yes, yes, yes to brioche rolls. Why would I want a soggy sweet bread roll with a burger?

Brioche buns are the only way to go for a burger.

Everything else is heresy.

I’m so sick of vegan food affecting our choices, we’re all vegetarian and coeliac in our house, since vegan food took off many of our safe foods have been changed to incorporate veganism except by doing so they’re often no longer gluten free

Even if they use gf oats we can’t eat them as we’re sensitive to the protein in them and we need the nutrients of dairy

Wouldn’t mind but having been vegetarian for over 30 years having free from food altered to prioritise people who often are only part time vegans has reduced our ability to access nutritious food for a condition I don’t get to walk away from

@PattyPan Hand cooked crisps are fried in a big pan and stirred by a person with a utensil, rather than fried in a monster cauldron and stirred by a machine. I think.

Coffee

Gin.

Slaw (it's COLESLAW).

Mac & Cheese (it's MACARONI CHEESE).

Roast dinners that come with a tiny jug of gravy. I always ask for more when they bring the food to the table before Ive even started eating...there's never enough.

Brioche buns.

Pulled meats.

Numbers instead of prices on the menu.

'Craft' beer or cider.

'Pan fried' - how else are you going to fry it? In a bucket?

The restaurant describing something as theirs
when it's no different to the regular thing. For example 'The Oak burger', 'Oak slaw', 'Oak fries', 'Oak cheeseboard' etc.

Dirty/loaded fries.

Sourced/locally sourced.

Artisan.

Amazingly decorated themed cakes with three layers and extravagantly decorated with fondant icing and characterS but cost sixty quid.

Drip cakes.

Salted caramel.

Lotus Biscoff.

'Unicorn' cakes/desserts that just have hundreds & thousands sprinkled over them.

@BoredZelda

I’m also loving the vegetarians turning on the vegans. 😆

I have no problem eating/cooking vegan. In fact a lot of the food we have at home does happen to be vegan.

However I do love eggs and cheese and the substitutes are often pretty grim.

It isn't hard to come up with decent vegan recipes that don't need them but too many restaurants are happy to serve up a heavily processed fake meat burger with chemically produced "cheese". Unhealthy and unpleasant to eat.

Veggies have always been shortchanged by restaurants catering for carnivores and now we're further being squeezed by the vegans. No wonder I prefer to eat at home.

Quite a few! Anything with the word 'dirty' or 'filthy' in it,as in 'dirty burger' or 'filthy fries'. I find it most off-putting. Also salted bloody caramel! It's everywhere and I'm sick of it. And as for anything 'pulled',as in pork or jackfruit,I've had enough of it.