And this years culinary cliches go to....

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Salted Caramel and pulled pork.

Delicious but everywhere.

Anything to add?

Food in Kilner jars

Such a priviledged thread. When some families are eating from food banks.

Layered salads in mason jars. On just about every food blog going.

Some people can tell the difference between light hearted mockery and privilege. Some can even spell it.

Surely heritage carrots are the ones from lidl

Bigbluestars
Lighten up. I bet I am more skint than most (seriously ) but I have enjoyed reading this.
Are you for real?

Gilbert

As a vegetarian, I'd be glad to see the back of goose-fat roasted potatoes. Time was you could go for a sunday roast and ask for it without the meat.
I am also totally over butternut squash, in particular squash risotto which I was offered as "the veggie option" for sunday roast! I want proper roasties and yorkshires done in vegetable oil, not sweet wet orange rice! Boak.

@ [Gilbert]

I wish I had a bigger kitchen The joys of a 'simple supper' eaten with friends round the scrubbed pine kitchen table will be forever lost to me.

Actually, I ain't got no friends, either

Full English served with hen's eggs - thx for that otherwise would have assumed dinosaur, ostrich, Easter or love eggs

YY to street food and fucking burger places everywhere. And pulled pork. Bloody sick of it.

But you can all back the fuck off my salted caramel !!!

Oh and bloody every meat now seems to be cheek. Fuck off I want the rest of the animal too.

In those cheffy shows, just what ARE they all chortling smugly at when chef bloke serves the food? And why does everyone - including obligatory shiny teethed, wobbly eyed cherub - 'nom nom' over every morsel? That NEVER happens. And no-one ever asks for ketchup to splatter over it all & throw a strop when they say no.

Beef short ribs seem to be cropping up alot in restaurants and in my cooking mags but I can't seem to buy them anywhere.

These meat lollipops are getting on my nerves too. Who has time for that?

Coconut water is this year's goji berry.

Beet root. With everything. Crisps, sauces, salads and even cake.
I hate beetroot.

Cronuts, street food, clean food and food that has beeb 'curated'.

namechange -- I ALWAYS ask if it is arse cheek or face cheek if I see it n the menu....

Haven't rtft fully, but chocolate soil. Smears of stuff on plates. Most things from farmers markets made by naice MC ladies and bearded hipsters whose closest farm experience was someone accidentally putting Emmerdale on the telly.

Namechange, beef cheeks are very nice. I used to buy them from Waitrose, oh 4 years ago when they were £4 a kilo, so cheap, and delicious. I bought some the other day and they are £8 a kilo, as they are so trendy. Still delicious, but other equally nice bits of the animal are available for less.

Beef cheek, like beetroot, is cheap food poncified. I like both of them but have never eaten them in a restaurant, only at home.

Pork belly, another tarted-up peasant food, tastes as bad as it sounds.

I am sick to the back teeth of cheap cuts ponced up like it's the very best kobe beef - it's flippin' cheek, oxtail and shin and years ago they were nearly given away at the butchers.

I blame Masterchef . The smaller the plates of food got, the higher the score. There was such a mishmash on the plates with about a hundred different flavours - I was exhausted just watching it.

Any anything that has been 'curated' can get to fuck

Oh yeah. What was once cheap cuts of meat is now super pricey. No more belly pork and rice for us for a midweeker. Lamb shanks. Offal. Even mince is about £7 a kilo now ( I think, I only buy it when yellow stickered).

Agree. Although mince is more like £9 a kilo when I last looked

The other wascheapbutbloodyexpensivenow meal is chicken thighs! Bastards.