Which food trends are you tired of?

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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?

Halloumi as every vegetarian dish- I HATE it

@Mariell

Large portions.

Agree. Just charge less and serve smaller portions. Nobody needs a gigantic slice of cake!

I had ‘coconut bacon’ the other day (on my smashed avo and poached egg on toast 😂). Vile. Bits of coconut mushed together and fried so it sort of looked a bit like bacon and was served where bacon would have done. On its own it was minging, but the ideas of something sweet with eggs and avocado?! Utterly weird.

Triple cooked chips!

I grew up in prime chippy country, we had a chip pan on the go, and all chips made at home were double or triple cooked. ( Talking 50 years ago.)

That means you cook them, drain them, plunge them back in the oil , repeat.

It's not new.

@dotdotdotdash

But *@PatchworkElmer*, I think there are many more vegetarians or people who enjoy vegetarian dishes than there are vegans but the degree to which vegans are now catered for marks it as a food trend

Or just lots of people wanting to avoid animal products for various reasons? Doesn’t mean it’s a trend. I consider it a life choice and find it utterly bizarre when vegetarians (who very often have similar reasons for their choices) denigrate veganism as a “fad”. Kind of like ‘oh my reasons for not eating animals are genuine and should be accommodated… but THOSE people…’

I went to a Cote brassiere yesterday. It's been a while but they used to do some lovely vegetarian food with French cheeses. For example, the Roquefort and walnut salad
Not anymore.
It's meat, fish or vegan.

I had the cheeseboard (large) as a main 👍🏼

Avocado everything.

Noisy coffee machines that sound like a jumbo jet taking off ditto ice crushing gadgets they use in cafes to do a milk shake. Honestly you can't hear yourself think in these bloody places for the racket going on behind the counter..

I think the 'tapas' and 'street food' crazes seem to be on the wane, which is good.

The overuse of the term 'sourdough' needs to join them.

Chilli being in everything. It's been getting worse for years. Ended up in hospital just before lockdown because my fucking lasagne had chilli in it (no mention in the menu). I have no objection to chilli being in all the things it's traditionally been in, but as someone who is allergic, I'm so sick of it being places it has no business being!

smashed and pulled.

Smashed avocado. Why not just 'spread'

Definitely avocado and also brioche.

Garlic in everything.

I am allergic to it in large amounts and every f...g thing has garlic in it.

"Smashed" avocado. Really grates on me.

I'm glad cup cakes are dying out a bit they are so overly sweet. I liked fairy cakes from when I was little, less sickly.

Mac and cheese on the menu as a side everywhere. So stodgy and bland.

Halloumi everywhere. It's not that nice 🙄

@Mariell

Large portions.

Yes!

@PatchworkElmer I don’t think anyone here is denigrating veganism as a fad. This is a light-hearted thread about food trends and as a number of people have pointed out, most recently @TomRipley at Cote brasserie, where there used to be vegetarian options, now there is often only a vegan one. A ‘trend’ for vegan dishes, no insult to vegans implied!

Definitely the obsession with brioche buns in fancy (or even average) burger places.
OK, people might like them but can we at least have a choice NOT to have the bloody things?!

I agree @Quaggars, is it hard for them to have some old fashioned sesame buns ready as well as a cakey brioche slab and let the customer pick?

I can't wait to have a proper goats cheese dishes, cheese board etc once I've had this baby (lockdown followed by pregnancy means we've not eaten out for over a year) but I'm a bit worried reading this that it might harder to find one than I thought! And I know I can eat cooked goats' cheese but it is my go to when we go out. Or used to be before everything went halloumi or vegan sheese.

Cup cakes. They are sickly and vile.

Artisan, Rustic and Craft.

In complete agreement with the annoyance at the sudden lack of vegetarian meals - just because I don't eat meat it doesn't mean I want a plate of sawdusty tedium. Stick some cheese on it!

Serving vegetarians and vegans endless butternut squash can also get in the bin.

Another one here who detests burgers in brioche buns🤢. I don't want my burger in confectionary, it's just wrong. The only way I want to eat brioche is for breakfast with a coffee.

Also, Kale, I mean it's cattle feed FGS.

And No to eating a meal off anything bar a plate. I rather hoped the trend for eating off slates, house bricks, shovels etc had gone out of fashion, but it appears it not.

Salted deserts of any kind. The first bite is nice. By the end I feel like I have a mouthful of sea water.

Sadly the glorious trend for slathering peanut butter on everything was contemporary with salted caramel becoming faddy round my way, but all the peanut butter loveliness has gradually vanished while the salted bullshit is still going strong. Bleeeh.

Restaurants where everything is "small plates" which is an extension of tapas as a full meal, which they never are in Spain.

Syrups in coffee. Wtf?