Has salted everything had its day

[StealthPolarBear]

Has this fad finally passed? I was looking at the chocolate bars in the supermarket yesterday and there were very few salty ones.. I love salt, on savoury things!

I don't dislike salted caramel really it's fine. It's just everywhere.

Cheese with fruit is an abomination. Who eats it?

I flipping hope so! I hate it

I like salted caramel but what I don't like is the palm oil in it, so I avoid it.

What I would like to see the end of is basil and cinnamon in everything, not just because they are revolting but because they also make me ill. I do blame that Oliver wanker for those.

Proper salted caramel is lovely. Most of the crap in the shops is flavourless bandwagon-jumping (DD1 is a sucker for anything salted caramel flavoured and she's tried loads of it). I've got some fleur de self in the cupboard for making my own, you only need a little pinch. Hopefully the trend will die and we'll still be able to get the good stuff.

Like gin too I hope. I like proper gin, all of this fannying about with it does my head in.

Fruity cheese is just wrong. But fruit and anything savoury is wrong.

My Pil buy the fruity cheese, and cheese with Christmas cake in it and probably salted caramel cheese if they get the chance. All horrid. I love cheese, it doesn’t need embedded stuff.
Personally I don’t think there is enough cinnamon in the world, but luckily I’m about to spend time in the US, where even I might tire of it. Cinnamon or cardamom are my favourite chocolate flavours and they are hard to find.

When you have proper salted caramel in a Michelin starred restaurant, it blows the cheap crap we buy in the supermarket right out of the water.

I tried salted caramel pretzels in the heat of the moment and was bitterly disappointed. Just tasted sweaty somehow.
I saw gin and tonic crisps the other day. I love gin, it was always my drink from when I started going out to pubs, but the gin craze is getting ridiculous. Especially when people who used to laugh at me for liking an "old lady drink"are now all over FB with their violet/rhubarb/unicorn/dog flavoured nonsense.

What fresh hell is this? Cheese with Christmas cake in it? Is that a typo?

Mozzas do a sticky toffee pudding cheese. I'd rather eat a donkey's nose.

@OliviaStabler

They used to sell it in Sainsbury's. But not for a long time.

@Heratnumber7

It is a real shame as it is amazing butter.

Enough with the Oliver bashing. He can't be solely responsible for all this.

I like salted caramel, but I agree it's gone too far. I was disgusted with the salted caramel hot cross buns in M&S this year. What wrong with a classic HCB? And I hate the way they're just dumping salt in random chocolate things now. I don't want salty chocolate ffs.

Having said that, I fail to see anything wrong with all the gin that's around these days. And bring on the rum craze. I love a rum cocktail.

I love Prosecco but hate all the prosecco flavoured shite !!
I think Prosecco is falling out of favour too ... people are starting to say they don't like it .... I don't mind , I will have theirs !
Wonder what the next popular drink will be ?

My local sainsburys is selling salted caramel kitkats at the moment. I have no idea what salted caramel tastes like and the only caramel i have in my house is my cat

Bring on the donkeys noses

Gin and tonic crisps are an abomination. Who thinks that kind of stuff up? It can't sell very well.

Off to Montezuma now for mango and chili chocolate caramels. Not salted. Delicious.

I dislike the bowl chopped and pressed cheeses with cranberries/ apricot / chocolate chips/ dates/ sea slugs etc. but a slice of cheese on a slab of Christmas cake is a perfectly normal and delicious combo ( depending on your county).
Also, apple pie without cheese, is like a kiss without a squeeze...

Now you're talking weeds, a slice of true unadulterated cheese accompanying a slice of christmas cake is fine(although not with the icing). Even the apple pie. But not the other horrors that you mention; they have no place at a civilised table as we swig our artisan gin.

Salted caramel is being usurped by fecking rhubarb. It’s in everything. Rhubarb gin etc. Sometimes made even worse by adding ginger to the rhubarb.

You can’t go to a decent restaurant without having one pudding option ruined because RHUBARB.

I suppose it is linked to the popularity of gin and the association with British flavours. I am worried about what horrid English flavour will be in vogue next. Lovage? Hyssop? Mangold wurzel?

Hotel chocolat even do rhubarb chocolates. Is nothing sacred?

I first had salted caramel on a crepe in France about 9 years ago and it was amazing, I’m back in the same village next week and really hope it’s still on the menu. Real salty home made caramel sauce is amazing, it much of what I’ve tried since it became fashionable really tastes of it.

Salted caramel overload. I loved it the first time i tried it, but can't stand it now.