Repulsive trendy food

[TheUnexpectedPickle]

Inspired by the dried fruit hate thread...

Is it only me that thinks most trendy/"healthy" food is overrated at best, downright nasty at worst?

Cauliflower rice does not have the taste or texture of rice. It's just soggy Cauliflower. Reheated it smells and tastes of fart.

Courgetti is wet and dilutes the sauce with its green sadwater.

Pomegranate, mangos and satsumas do not belong on salad, especially with a garlic dressing.

Advocados are only ok.

Siracha is just expensive hot sauce. There are loads that are better.

Overnight oats have the texture of wallpaper paste and are absolutely repugnant.

And nothing, NOTHING, should be served on a shovel or any other nonsense receptacle.

My dd was dairy intolerant as a little one. I bought her vegan cheese and tried in vain with different vegan milk to wean her from formula. She wouldn't touch any of it at all despite no prior knowledge of the dairy varieties!

@Lemonsandlemonade

Open sandwiches what’s the point of them?!

more filling less bread

Just remembered the vegan smoked salmon I had at an event. It was bright red and like a piece of Haribo hammered into a tongue shape. And tasted like an old tomato. I’m not a fussy person but I had to try and subtly spit this into my napkin.

@godmum56- my favourite chocolate is one made with brown butter- it’s just so good!

I like sweet potato when it’s in chunks in a veggie curry. But mashed, YUCK. Revolting slimy consistency.

I'm not a fan of burgers piled high with 78 layers of extras with the skewer or wooden spike through them so the unnecessary 72 layers don't blow away or go all over the floor while the waiter brings it to you. How am I even meant to eat it?

Cheese cake Easter eggs.
Couldn’t help ourselves in a cupcake shop 🧁 and bought some prodigiously expensive Easter egg cheesecakes.

One half chocolate egg filled with cheesecake.
The cheesecake was delicious, chocolate orange flavour I think, yummy, but a huge amount of biscuit base, I wasn’t expecting, more than the lovely cheese cake part. And the chocolate egg, vile and revolting.

So for about 2 and a half tablespoons of delicious creamery, a very expensive mistake. I bought 5 too, one for each of the family.

God I remember the year I got married cupcake towers instead of a cake was really trendy. Every wedding we went to there was a dry cupcake for dessert.

Modern muffins.....

Just....give me a muffin. Why do they have to be filled with inedible crap now?

@Ddot

Wasabi WTF! Vegan cheese Alcohol chocolate taste like the devils arse

did you know that commercial wasabi often doesn't taste of wasabi? The heat from real 100% wasabi dissipates very quickly after preparation....so other things with a similar kind of heat, usually horseradish and or mustard are added to make wasabi taste like its expected to taste. If you want wasabi that IS wasabi you have to buy it frozen or grow your own.

[quote Imissmoominmama]@godmum56- my favourite chocolate is one made with brown butter- it’s just so good![/quote]
yep, right ingredient, right place.

@WitchWithoutChips

Some of these things are trendy and stupid but a lot of them are just normal food from other cultures (kimchi? Ramen? Sushi?) and slagging them off just turns the thread into a parochial rant about things that are forrin.

Sriracha isn’t expensive. If you’re paying a fiver for a small bottle then they saw you coming.

I agree 100% about "forinness"

I love trying food from other cultures. What I hate is when its brought over and becomes trendy and people become wanky about it.

Case in point, any street food. Should cost pence, we're charged £££

Not the food itself, but I hate restaurants that just list the ingredients without telling you anything else about the dish.

So instead of getting something like ‘roast shoulder of lamb served with roast potatoes, seasonal vegetables and gravy’ you get something like ‘lamb, potato, broccoli’ which could be some sort of pie or anything. I want to know what to expect!

Also hate food served on anything except plates.

I am old enough to remember suffering school dinners that ended with tapioca pudding, then known as frogspawn. It gives me sadistic delight to learn that this is now trendy food for the young.

for petes sake we are allowed to dislike foods that are foreign without a racist element in our dislike for it

It’s about food that has become fashionable/trendy/popular

Just tried maple butter, found it in lidl, bloody lovely. Bit off topic but had to let you know yummmmmy on toast

Pomegranate seeds in any incarnation? What is the purpose of them except to cling to fissures in your teeth and widen them. Or to drag their way down into your gut to probably lodge there for decades cause pain and irritation.

Why bother? The tiny pop of quite nice flavour is offset by them drying the mouth with a sour aftertaste. Disgusting things.

@Everydaydayisaschoolday

Kale is horrible and tastes of mud.

Stir fry it and add balsamic vinegar. You will be converted

Haven’t read whole thread but my contribution is bubble tea!

@Fizbosshoes

I'm not a fan of burgers piled high with 78 layers of extras with the skewer or wooden spike through them so the unnecessary 72 layers don't blow away or go all over the floor while the waiter brings it to you. How am I even meant to eat it?

Yes! Burgers are gross. Dead cow plus endless sauces that all fall out - don’t get it at all

Well said @TheUnexpectedPickle

Especially overnight oats 🤢

There was a fad about 5 years ago in cheffy restaurants to add pine to things, it made everything taste and smell of Mr Sheen.

Personally, I think that any kind of vegan dairy substitute should have a health warning stamped on the front.

Tofu, fermented bean curd 🤢

I got something served on hay at a fancy place last summer. Reminded me of when dd had horses and not appealing

Anything soaked in butter and garlic is food for the gods - even kale.

The only way to eat courgettes is sliced and fried in butter (no garlic) for about 20 minutes. And it has to be butter, only butter gives the brown crispy bits and sweet'n'savoury fried taste. Otherwise sadwater.