And this years culinary cliches go to....

[superstarheartbreaker]

Salted Caramel and pulled pork.

Delicious but everywhere.

Anything to add?

Wondering when Prosecco might go away. It's been knocking around a year or two now.

Bloody "deconstructed" shit.
We went to a reasonably trendy restaurant for our anniversary, and OH ordered the "deconstructed strawberry trifle". It was shortbread biscuits, a glass with custard in it, another one with strawberries in jelly and some whipped cream on the plate.
His comment was that it was nice, but next time, he would save the £6 and buy one someone had bothered to make in advance.

Prosecco is peaking , they are installing prosecco taps in bars. Poor old cava .

I quite like prosecco not on draft though.

Hilarious thread! Slider anything. American and we don't say words like that over here thank you.

Also pulled anything. I'm sure I saw pulled chicken the other week?? All it means is any old meat cooked to within an inch of its life, then cut up like toddler food. SHUT UP with the pulled please.

Kale. In any way. Kale used to be cattle food. Now it's the veg of the moment.

Micro desserts. Just give me a big ole helping of cheesecake or trifle please. Not three mouthfuls in individual shot glasses, one teaspoon of each, put on a fancy pancy plate.

Putting burgers in a brioche. Errrrmm.... burgers = savoury. Brioche = sweet. Why??

Am I the only person who hates not just the cliche but the reality of salted caramel? Bleuch...

Meanwhile, anywhere where a ham sandwich bought from a counter costs £7+. I don't care what's in it, or that you're in Central London; that's taking the piss.

Sunday dinner tapas. Just no.

Pirate a friend of mine insists it tastes like semen and similarly hates it.

So agree with everything here but agree to the nth degree on using bloody brioche((s?) as the starchy holding bit of savoury stuff. Disbloodygusting.

Sprinkled with pistachios and pissing pomegranate seeds

So - what do we want for 2015? I would like brilliant healthy cooking of cheap cuts of meat or vegetarian food - ottolengi type cooking. I want to pay for food cooked better than I can make myself and nice surroundings. I do not want to have to queue.

Slaw. Really irritates me.

I'm sure it's been mentioned but I don't want chicken bloody lollipops either.

And oh yes, pomegranate 'jewels' scattered over stuff, thanks for the reminder.

When I were a kiddie, half a pomegranate and a pin kept us engrossed and quiet( while dad snoozed) all Christmas afternoon .never saw it any other time.

Bring back the Good Old Days![fgrin_

Slaw really irritates me too. As does 'sides'. We are in England not America.

Small plate dining gets on my tits too. What's wrong with big plate value for money? Went to a posh italian in London end November, three slow roasted tomatoes were £15.50 (alright I wasn't paying, it was a bit of corporate entertaining, but still....)

"I have never heard of most of these. Do you all live in London?"

I'm reading this in Norfolk and feeling somewhat out of things but really quite thankful for it.

Another non Londoner here.

Does this mean we have all of these to look forward to? Wtf is a dirty burger?

But roussette, surely those were heritage tomatoes?

I'm a non-Londoner, but I watch the foodie programmes on I-player (cross threading here)

And it's great to have a pretentious food bitch. Gets the gastric juices flowing for the next gargantuan meal. can't wait for jargonese ways of using up left over turkey...

Suffolk here and the bloody stuff is everywhere, can't move without falling over a horrible deli selling artisan chocolates, or a student bar selling handcrafted beer (what is that, anyway? And why do students want to pay £5 a pint?). Diners here, there and everywhere, 50's style ice cream parlours and all the sliders you can fit on a plank of wood. Bugger off.

YAYY! Ads on right of page now showing a vid of Boxing Day Pasties - a new twist on your Christmas leftovers.

Will any be filled with shredded sprouts, moistened with Turkey gravy, sprinkled with almonds and jewel-bright pomegranate seeds?

My mum came up with a new one the other day...dirty veg.

I know that technically it lasts longer if its not washed and scrubbed and trimmed but why do you then pay double the amount plus have to pay for all the trimmings you don't need like carrot tops, leek leaves etc.

In the end its about £2 for a poncy bunch of carrots or 29p for a pre washed and trimmed bag.

Christ, steer clear of the student hand-crafted beer. If you're an archers listener you'll know how joe and eddoi make their cider 'special' ( for non listeners it's the addition of a rat, dead thankfully, to the brew). I don't want to even think of what mAkes a hand crafted student beer so special...

mis I reckon that dirt is supposed to signify that it's 'organic' and hand picked by cheerful cap-doffing peasants in the fields. That dirt costs money, prolly more than they pay the workers who do the back breaking work

Are these new this year? The cake creations where a cake is encircled by chocolate fingers and then covered with minstrels/maltesers etc and then the upended bag is suspended over the cake. I attempted one myself and the 'fence' collapsed and I skidded on the escaping maltesers.

Outlandish cupcakery seemed to have calmed down a bit thank god.

What are 'sliders'? I've never heard that term (rural Lincolnshire)

I'm guessing 'slaw' is slang for coleslaw?

'Sides' really boils my piss every time I see or hear it.