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Which food trends are you tired of?

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IglesiasPiggle · 12/09/2021 16:07

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?

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ladybrunton · 13/09/2021 08:09

Vegan food instead of vegetarian food. By all means cater for vegans, but there should be vegetarian options too.

Clevs · 13/09/2021 08:47

@ApplesAreTheBaneOfMyLife

Burnt stuff like leeks and carrots. Every Gastropub round here has those on the menu.
And they are labelled as 'charred' to try and deviate from the fact they're actually burnt!
mustlovegin · 13/09/2021 09:13

I just had to google bubble tea. What the F?! a cup with frogspawn at the bottom

Aren't the tapioca bubbles a choking hazard?

daisyjgrey · 13/09/2021 09:15

I'm a vegetarian and I sometimes struggle to get a veggie burger these days - it's all substitute meat patties.
I don't like the taste of meat. I don't want to simulate meat

I think this is a bit of a no win situation unless places will happily provide both. My partner is veggie for ethical reasons but does like (and miss) meat so he prefers meat subs for burgers/sausages etc and will actively avoid the vegetable patties.

TheWayTheLightFalls · 13/09/2021 09:15

Aren't the tapioca bubbles a choking hazard?

Yes. A delicious, sweet, texturally interesting choking hazard Smile.

I can get on board with a lot of these posts but I love bubble tea as a treat.

daisyjgrey · 13/09/2021 09:18

@HangingOver

I love the vegan brioche buns from Sainsbury's and a giant vegan burger when I'm out (I can cook lentils at home) and huge slices of cake and giant portions and those giant chips that you only get four of and all manner of culinary nonsense on this thread. I'll see myself out Grin

any coconut based vegan cheese tastes like sick though and I'll not be convinced otherwise

Yeah me too, I always wondered who the 'meat and two veg' types were, turns out they're here, having wildly strong opinions about bubble tea!

TaraR2020 · 13/09/2021 09:25

Leave massive croissants alone! Shock

Avocado is definitely dull now.

I dislike sourdough and fed up with being everywhere now.

Cupcakes - definitely. They're made for presentation rather than eating, usually with more icing than cake. Most of them tend to me fairy cakes with towers of buttercream on top.

Bring back proper fairy cakes and the cupcakes of my childhood which were bigger, a little denser with a thick glacé icing or ganache on top.

cushioncovers · 13/09/2021 09:34

Chocolate flavoured everything.
Cupcakes
Sourdough
Wooden boards instead of plates
Tender stem broccoli
Beetroot
Spinach

8dpwoah · 13/09/2021 09:47

@TaraR2020

Leave massive croissants alone! Shock

Avocado is definitely dull now.

I dislike sourdough and fed up with being everywhere now.

Cupcakes - definitely. They're made for presentation rather than eating, usually with more icing than cake. Most of them tend to me fairy cakes with towers of buttercream on top.

Bring back proper fairy cakes and the cupcakes of my childhood which were bigger, a little denser with a thick glacé icing or ganache on top.

I'd allow butterfly cakes as well with that little teaspoon of buttercream as a treat, that's the right ratio for me! I always do them when we've made cakes and they've got that little volcano top on them 😂
TaraR2020 · 13/09/2021 09:50

@8dpwoah Ooh I'd forgotten about Butterfly cakes!

FiveShelties · 13/09/2021 09:51

@Dashdotcom

Stuff being served on boards/slates at restaurants, poor waiting staff have to do that awkward push and slide across the table to try and pick it up.

JUST USE A PLATE.

Drives me mad as I wait to see how much of the food will end up on the table. How the chefs think anything with a sauce should be served on a slate/wooden board is beyond me.

I always wonder just how clean they are.

mustlovegin · 13/09/2021 09:53

Recently spotted an emerging (?) trend at 'hipster' coffee shops to offer CBD stuff to add to coffee, hemp flour, etc. Not sure what that's about

BBB2707 · 13/09/2021 09:56

@SuperSange

Deconstruction of dishes. Just stop it already. An apple crumble, when deconstructed, isn't an apple crumble.
Lmao I know right !!!
GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 13/09/2021 10:00

Goat’s cheese - can’t bear the rancid old-billy-goat taste or smell.

A resounding ditto to cupcakes, so often with a mountain of garish, sickly icing.

Nice little fairy cakes, OTOH - I usually make lots of chocolate ones - with a Smartie on top - for Gdcs’ birthday parties.

lljkk · 13/09/2021 10:27

Just thinking I can't join thread because I don't eat at restaurants or take-aways often enough to know what "food trends" there are.

The chat on MN about UPF gets on my nerves -- not blaming MNers. If UPF = No cream cheese then it's a food trend not for me.

traintraveller · 13/09/2021 12:11

The lack of vegetarian options on menus as them all seem to be replaced by vegan options now.

justasking111 · 13/09/2021 12:24

@traintraveller

The lack of vegetarian options on menus as them all seem to be replaced by vegan options now.
No argument here. Vegan is trending in the media vegetarians are not hip.

DS and I were in Tesco one evening after his work shift. He saw the plant food aisle we both checked out the ingredients list of these foods and the use by dates which are long. As a student he thinks the less ingredients the better so wondered who bought this food and how they could defend it

SquirryTheSquirrel · 13/09/2021 12:54

@GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER

Goat’s cheese - can’t bear the rancid old-billy-goat taste or smell.

A resounding ditto to cupcakes, so often with a mountain of garish, sickly icing.

Nice little fairy cakes, OTOH - I usually make lots of chocolate ones - with a Smartie on top - for Gdcs’ birthday parties.

Yes - isn't goat's cheese foul? I remember a risotto I ordered that included cheese - I was thinking it would be a nice cheddar - it was bloody goat's cheese. I was with others so had to make a pretence of enjoying it - I can still remember how sick I felt by the time I'd eaten half of it and moved the rest around on my plate for appearance's sake.

Agree on cupcakes too - a little bit of icing is lovely, but it shouldn't drown the cake.

middleager · 13/09/2021 13:11

@daisyjgrey

*I'm a vegetarian and I sometimes struggle to get a veggie burger these days - it's all substitute meat patties. I don't like the taste of meat. I don't want to simulate meat*

I think this is a bit of a no win situation unless places will happily provide both. My partner is veggie for ethical reasons but does like (and miss) meat so he prefers meat subs for burgers/sausages etc and will actively avoid the vegetable patties.

I should have been clearer. I am a vegetarian (of 33 years) for ethical reasons, and it's not that I don't just dislike the taste of meat, I don't want to recreate the taste of a dead animal.

I have happily been chomping veggie burgers since the age of 15 and now the trend for vegan patties has taken that option away in some places. It feels regressive. Even in 1989 we had veggie burgers!

I agree though that both options should be available though for vegans and vegetarians. I was vegan for a year, which was miserable when dining out as I did not want to eat substitute meat either.

bringincrazyback · 13/09/2021 13:38

I'm tired of the general obsession with restaurants and eating out, full stop. I have a problem with swallowing which means it takes forever to finish a meal, which doesn't help as I always end up with everyone watching me eat and restaurant staff asking if I've finished every five minutes, but also I just don't find food very interesting and find restaurants too noisy to talk in, and the general performance of ordering and eating a meal detrimental to conversation.

I know this wasn't the point of the thread, but honestly I just get so bored of the whole faff around food these days. I'd much rather eat at home and then go out and socialise after that, and I miss the days when that was the norm. I tend to get looked at like I'm from the moon when I voice these sentiments, though.

Pusspot · 13/09/2021 13:50

‘Pan fried’
I do wonder what else were they planning on frying it in.

ChardonnaysPetDragon · 13/09/2021 13:55

I do wonder what else were they planning on frying it in.

I might also be deep fried.

Ninkanink · 13/09/2021 13:57

Pan fried does actually mean something specific though.

mustlovegin · 13/09/2021 14:03

the general performance of ordering and eating a meal detrimental to conversation

Yes. It gets too much sometimes

mustlovegin · 13/09/2021 14:08

I might also be deep fried

But it used to be the opposite though. You would assume 'fried' means 'pan fried' unless it specifically stated that it was deep fried.

There's a trend nowadays to add adjectives and use flowery language to describe simple food (and other items also) to justify steep prices and sound 'posh'. It has become a bit of a joke actually and often has the opposite effect