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.

@MightyFishwife

Fucking bubble tea — who wants cold milky tea with lumps of jelly?

Even the look of this is stomach churning stuff. I didn't know it was cold too.

Smashed avocado? You didnt smash it at all, you used a fork like most ppl.
Fancy fishfinger sandwich? Putting 3 fish fingers and some salad leaves in sourdough bread does not make a good fishfinger sandwich.

Those really seeded breads, I cant eat them. The seeds get well and truly stuck in my teeth and I spend several hours trying to tease them out, usually ripping my tongue in the process.

Chia bleurgh seeds, they look a lot like semolina to me and that's not good.

Those vegan "meats" or meat substitutes. I'm badly allergic to quorn, tofu turns my insides out, seitan(spl) is rank and theres another the name escapes me but God its vile.

Finally honest,
I like salads of many varieties, I dont much care what's in it, even kale or rocket at a push, but American salads are always sickly sweet and savoury, at the same time. I want either a savoury salad or a sweet salad, not both in one.

Oh and the trend of putting yoghurt on weetabix. What the hell is that about? 🤮

*So much of whether someone likes something or not comes down to the quality of the ingredients and the way it's prepared. I think a lot of people saying they don't like something have either cooked it themselves and not known how to do so, or just had it served to them in a way that's not been prepared and cooked correctly.

Many of these 'trendy foods' are considered traditional foods in other parts of the world and cultures. They're hardly trendy, but they've been adopted in the U.K. and have been adjusted to suit the U.K. palate.

I love experimenting in the kitchen and trying new foods and cuisines. This thread has made me laugh, but also showed me how close minded a lot of people are.*

Agree. I enjoy many of the foods mentioned here but I’ve asked them to be done the traditional way when doing takeaways. I don’t trust most things in the U.K. that say they are spicy because they rarely ever are and I absolutely agree with you about red velvet cake here and I will add American Buttermilk Pancakes. I have only had one or two places that did them properly in the almost decade I’ve been here. I make them from scratch instead.

I don't mind cauliflower rice - it has to be steamed otherwise it's awful, but I'm under no illusion that it's anything other than a means to reduce my calorie intake. There is no situation where cauliflower rice is served where rice-rice wouldn't have been nicer.

Otherwise, I completely agree with absolutely everything else. Especially the kale. I really hate kale. Nasty, chewy, spiky bitterness. Ruin of so many potentially lovely Sunday lunches. What's wrong with a nice savoy cabbage, eh?

[quote Justilou1]@TheUnexpectedPickle - I think you’re with me here, but pretty much everything on this website

wewantplates.com/[/quote]
So justilou1 beat me to it: there's an entire website, instagram and twitter feed at wewantplates.com/ on the abomination that is food served in flat caps, shovels and filthy roof tiles (at least in my head they're filthy).

And yes to the vegetarian options being vegan. I detest jackfruit, but then I find that's the only biryani option at Dishoom. As for beetroot burgers at the local pub - I don't want a mouthful of mud with red-coloured excreta to remind me of the experience. Give me a bean burger! With cheese!

The very worst thing I have ever eaten was these. Cheese cake balls from yo sushi. Oh dear god I cannot even describe how swful they are. Iirc I had to spit it into a napkin. It's giving me the boak just thinking about it.

@QuantumWeatherButterfly

I don't mind cauliflower rice - it has to be steamed otherwise it's awful, but I'm under no illusion that it's anything other than a means to reduce my calorie intake. There is no situation where cauliflower rice is served where rice-rice wouldn't have been nicer.

Otherwise, I completely agree with absolutely everything else. Especially the kale. I really hate kale. Nasty, chewy, spiky bitterness. Ruin of so many potentially lovely Sunday lunches. What's wrong with a nice savoy cabbage, eh?

I agree. I don't mind cauliflower rice but would always steam it. Tried it roasted (everyone on here seems to much prefer cauliflower and broccoli roasted) but not for me. Far too bitter.

@Thatsplentyjack

Oh and the trend of putting yoghurt on weetabix. What the hell is that about? 🤮

My toddler eats them dry, like a biscuit My mum used to butter them, like a massive fat Ryvita!

I'm another one who hates cup cakes and thinks they're a horrible mutation of the fairy cakes and butterfly cakes of my childhood! The one I tried nearly made me sick, because the so-called buttercream wasn't just sickly sweet, it was made with the type of margarine my husband calls "tar-grease"! Ugh!
Kale- even more horrible than the overboiled boiled cabbage of school dinners!
Coconut water- how can it not even taste of coconut? What the feck IS it, really?
The new "plant based" meat substitutes- they just look WRONG! I dread to think what's in them and wouldn't even put them in our compost bin for fear of what would happen to our garden!!

My friend runs a traditional vegetarian cafe. It’s doing brilliantly. Just proper curries, chili, pies, breakfasts. Vegetarians are really pissed off that their tasty veggie dishes are disappearing from the menus of a lot of places, replaced by fake meat abominations, designed to appeal to meat eaters.

I had a truffle once, never again.

I like Halloumi, had it in Cyprus, but all UK versions are rubbish in comparison.

@Thatsplentyjack - I love those!

Chia seeds have never made anything better IMO.

I hated avocado when I first tried it but love them now, as long as they're properly ripe.

Quinoa I dislike intensely (but I love couscous)

I'm prepared to try anything once and will eat most cuisines but stand to be convinced on a few things.

Cupcakes are an abomination. Style over substance for sure. Way too much sickly buttercream icing and not enough cake. Give me a yesteryear 'butterfly cake' any day. I'm sure they're only a 'thing' at all because they are Social Media 'photogenic'.

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[quote iklboo]**@Thatsplentyjack* - I love* those! [/quote]
Nooooo! I wasn't the cheesecake inside, because I love cheese cake. It was the weird jelly thing they are wrapped in. I honestly thought I was going g to be sick in the middle of the place and I am not generally a fussy eater!

[quote TheUnexpectedPickle]@BeastOfBODMAS yes to vegan food that looks like meat. My mate had one of those burgers the other day, the ones that "bleed" and she nearly puked. She's a vegan!!! She doesn't want her food to bleed!!![/quote]
I tried the McDonalds McPlant burger the other week. I managed to swallow the first mouthful then spat out the second mouthful. Not only did it taste of meat but it had a meaty texture. I felt most odd for the rest of the day.

@Thatsplentyjack - oh right. The ones I had have like a smooth biscuity type coating not jelly. They're not Yo Sushi ones though.

@cakewitch

We are VERY angry with food tonight aren't we??? Was just going to mention "grazing tables" and "munchie boxes" can I add "protein balls" too.. ?? Those things that look like fat balls you put out for the birds. Vile. Surely nobody could even pretend to like them?

If you haven’t read it before then the DH-eating-a-fat-ball thread in Classics is well worth your time

I'm so fed up of Vegan food - I'm veggie - I bloody want eggs and cheese! But restaurants seem to kill two birds with one stone now and everything is vegan with bloody jackfruit. I'm not getting at Vegans - it's just means that there's no decent veggie food anymore.

Cupcakes are an abomination. Style over substance for sure. Way too much sickly buttercream icing and not enough cake.

Not a fan of the ones here in the U.K. loved the ones when I visited Chicago. It was a place called Molly’s Cupcakes. The one I had was vanilla sponge with cream cheese frosting and it was in ratio of the cake. You could also choose the flavour of cake and the type of frosting on it. I’m not big on buttercream unless I make it myself because I. Can get the flavour and consistency I like.

@MotherOfWhippets

I'm so fed up of Vegan food - I'm veggie - I bloody want eggs and cheese! But restaurants seem to kill two birds with one stone now and everything is vegan with bloody jackfruit. I'm not getting at Vegans - it's just means that there's no decent veggie food anymore.

This a bit too, I respect vegans and I actually don't love cheese in general as I always find it really rich and heavy so happy to not have it often but my god 'violife' cheese on pizza etc... is rank.

It's like an odd melted plastic film that sticks to your teeth and is impossible to swallow correctly - I would rather have no cheese than that and often have to ask can I have no cheese or normal cheese on the vegan dish but then they act confused.

Can’t get a burger in a decent bun anywhere now … all fecking brioche. They’re sweet!! Like a burger in a cake!

I'm fed up of vegan food too but probably more because it's arrived along with an explosion of fake meat offerings in restaurants. I eat plenty of lovely meals that just happen to be vegan at home but in restaurants it's often fake meat and cheese or a very boring pasta with tomato sauce.

Whoever said coconut and aloe waters, THANKYOU! Absolutely rancid and I don't understand the appeal at all.

I will add Rocket, why is everyone obsessed with that bitter tasting shite peers over specs at Pret

Bao buns. Like warm insulating foam

@SurfnTerfFantasticmissfoxy

Bao buns. Like warm insulating foam

Oooh I loooove those!! They're amazing as a replacement for the rice paper pancakes Wheb eating crispy duck. Also love mochi anything and Little Moons Mochi. First had them in Paris about 5-6 years ago. Mochi has been a very common frozen yogurt topping in the US for 10-15 years.