Effing salted caramel!!!!!

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its everywhere!!!! Yes it's an interesting flavour but does it have to be in just about everything these days?... Chocolate bars, popcorn, puddings, spreads etc..You can't even open a food magazine without recipes for using it!!!. It literally is the flavour of the month!
I really think it's The Emperor's New Clothes tbh. It's almost as ubiquitous as pulled pork or chorizo!!!! Bloody everywhere!!! AIBU to want to hurl it out of the window ( in whatever form it takes!) . Am just a tad testy with the food industry for treating us like lemmings.

Would be interested to see what all you lovely MNers would like to see the back of food wise too!

1More I confess! I was looking at spiralizers on ebay only yesterday. I am doing Slimming World and veggie spaghetti seems to be THE THING. At the moment I am happy for Tesco to do the work for me.

cauliflower rice anyone?

Agree with Brecon re pulled pork sounding like a euphemism. He was 'pulling his pork'. 'Can't be doing with him, he's a right pork-puller' etc.

None of these things are new, it's just the way they're so fucking trendy. Probably started by some bearded Shoreditch type with a fixed-wheel bike in a 'pop-up cafe' with a 'carefully curated menu'. All of which can fuck off now, thanks.

hate the pulled pork euphemism

Ermmmm

That was me being relieved that the thread was about the food, not me... I wasn't sniggering at the pulled porking

Yabu.
Popcorn, chocolate and puddings are always available in other flavours too so its not like it ever the only option.
Pulled meat has been around for years and years, it's just very slow cooked cheap cuts of meat shredded. It's only the recent rebranding of it as 'pulled' that's relatively new.

I remember the first time I'd seen pulled pork a couple of years ago. It was on Man Vs Food and in a proper, old fashioned American southern soul food type of place. It looked amazing, and I'm sure it tasted so. It was PROPER pulled pork. Slow cooked in a glaze I think, and then just shredded. The problem is that in this country, people jump on the bandwagon and get it so terribly horribly wrong. My one and only experience of pulled pork has put me off it for life although I'm pretty sure it wasn't as pulled pork should really be. It was on a sandwich in Yates or Wetherspoons and it was just shredded pork with a shitload of BBQ sauce mixed in with it. Absolutely vile.

Saltedcaramel2014 you're acting a bit shifty...maybe we do need to have a chat about you

chocolate fondant, so over it Masterchef!!!!

Pulled pork is nothing new in the UK. We've been eating it for years in pork bap shops only ours were slathered with gravy and stuffing and not sickly BBQ sauce.

chilli one of my pregnancy cravings was pork rolls from the Friday farmers market - hot pork in a roll with apple sauce and gravy happy happy days.

Love salted caramel, pulled pork and chorizo

I think it's high time there was a craze for offal.

Bone marrow is super trendy. It's pulled pork's snootier cousin.

I haven't ever eaten either salted caramel or pulled pork. I do have a salted caramel Yankee candle though.

All USA imports. Nasty stuff.
I remember the first time I was in the USA - uptown posh hotel in SanFrancisco watching a woman liberally cover her breakfast ( bacon, sausage and egg) with a thick layer of icing sugar.
I am a huge fan of some sweets & sour- Mackerel and Gooseberry, pineapple and swordfish, but there are limits.

salted caramel is so over done now. It's boring.

Give me chocolate and peanut butter any day. Now that is the dogs bollocks.

The new Ben & Jerry's Utter Peanut Butter Clutter ice cream with salted caramel sauce poured over is gorgeous.

I also love homemade pulled pork - on it's own though. I had a pulled pork burger a couple of months ago thinking it would just be pork in a bun but it was a beef burger with pulled pork on top - grim. Really don't fancy pulled chicken either .

Pulled pork is perfectly decent pork shoulder slowly cooked so it is nice and tender and then mashed up so it looks like dog food and slathered with disgusting sauce so that it tastes like shite.

Hot pork sandwiches are food of the gods though. The best ones I've ever had are in Sheffield where there are entire shops dedicated to them.

I like salted caramel - I'll be sad if it goes out of fashion and becomes unavailable.

I adore salted caramel and fully approve of it being everywhere.

I made some for Christmas presents: OMG they were awesome.

'Pulled' things can fuck off, though.

I love salted caramel. Salt makes chocolate taste nicer, too, especially in a cake. There's a chocolate beetroot cake I used to make and one time it turned out really disappointing - just rather bland and 2 dimensional - then I twigged that I'd used unsalted butter, as the recipe called for, for a change, instead of my usual so salty your tongue tingles brand.

Someone post a caramel recipe please, salted or otherwise.

Pulled pork in our house is a pork shoulder rubbed with a dry mix of spices then cooked for the best part of the day on a low heat. It's not 'mashed' but it's not nearly sliced either. I use the cooking juices to make a dipping sauce, but I don't pour it all over the meat.

I think it does depend on how you do it.