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.

WitchWithoutChips
I disagree. Sloppy eggs (on the obligatory sourdough toast) sprinkled with God knows what and topped with pea shoots is pretentious.

*Would this be more tempting? 🤣

Roasted fillet of Australian Kobe beef
nestling in a Kent garden pea purée temptingly accompanied by a succulent spinach and onion compote served with to die for, triple-cooked Maris Piper chips.

So the spinach and pea purée doesn’t count as veg?

So the spinach and pea purée doesn’t count as veg?

???

*Who wants to eat meat and potatoes for the rest of their lives?

Would this be more tempting? 🤣

Roasted fillet of Australian Kobe beef
nestling in a Kent garden pea purée temptingly accompanied by a succulent spinach and onion compote served with to die for, triple-cooked Maris Piper chips.*

Wasn’t sure if you were being serious or sarcastic? :-)

The point being, you can make any simple ingredients (meat, potatoes & veg) sound exotic.
It was in reply to someone who said ‘who wants to eat meat and potatoes for the rest of their lives?’

MEAT: Roasted fillet of Australian Kobe beef

VEG: Kent garden pea purée temptingly accompanied by a succulent spinach and onion compote

POTATOES: triple-cooked Maris Piper chips.

@phoenixrosehere

*Who wants to eat meat and potatoes for the rest of their lives?

Would this be more tempting? 🤣

Roasted fillet of Australian Kobe beef
nestling in a Kent garden pea purée temptingly accompanied by a succulent spinach and onion compote served with to die for, triple-cooked Maris Piper chips.*

Wasn’t sure if you were being serious or sarcastic? :-)

Somewhere in the middle;) Grew up on underseasoned meat and overcooked veg...I like adventurous food

Not repulsive but you can make anything ‘trendy’.

Selma22

True! 🤣

My husband bought some reduced vegan bacon at the shop. He said it was “ok”. I have however banned him from ever purchasing it again. The farts it made him produce were the worst I have ever smelt in 20 years of marriage (and he is not particularly prone to flatulence). It smelt, rather ironically, like something had crawled up his back passage and died.

Grew up on underseasoned meat and overcooked veg...I like adventurous food

Me too. My mother was a picky eater and my dad had to have meat in every meal but wasn’t afraid to try some new things. I was punished as a kid for refusing to eat chicken when I said I didn’t want it because I knew it was not only underseasoned but dry and that is two travesties I can’t handle. She made me taste it and then said I had to eat the whole thing and couldn’t move until I did. I sat there for hours. Moment I moved to a city, I went crazy.

@YoniHuman

My husband bought some reduced vegan bacon at the shop. He said it was “ok”. I have however banned him from ever purchasing it again. The farts it made him produce were the worst I have ever smelt in 20 years of marriage (and he is not particularly prone to flatulence). It smelt, rather ironically, like something had crawled up his back passage and died.

You need this:

[ [Ron Swanson tries vegan bacon]]

Can I add to the thread with the 'gluten free trend' noone in their right mind wants to eat anything gluten free, my daughter is very very badly allergic to gluten and this fad of cool trendy gluten free diet lifestyle shit has done nothing but bump up the prices of her food!! I feel for her cause it all tastes like dry crumbly dog food, who wants to eat that on purpose? Thankfully I can cook and do many meals from scratch but things like bread and cereal is £3/4/5 for a tiny little package all because it's marketed to protentious wankers 🤣 thanks I feel better now lol

[quote ThumbWitchesAbroad]@TheUnexpectedPickle - it's amazing with a meat sauce - wouldn't use it with a cream sauce, I don't think.
I did it when I was low-carbing - it's fine for that! [/quote]
Hmm... yes I can see that being good with a drier sauce.

Maybe I’ll give it a go —with pasta too—

@Selma22 - yes, me too. All root veg had to be boiled for a minimum of 20 minutes, and meat joints were cooked so long that they reduced to about 1/3 of their size and were like chewy string. Gravy was de rigueur in our house, just to try and rehydrate the meat with some of its own juices!

Steaming veg and cooking red meat so that it's at most medium makes eating a much pleasanter option. Although my mum was brilliant at roast potatoes and Yorkshire puds - it was everything else.

[quote Innocenta]@ParadiseMIA On the agriculture side, eating plant-based causes less harm to the planet, in addition to (of course) less suffering to animals. Massive amounts of crops, for example, are cultivated not to be fed to vegan humans, but to be fed to animals destined to be killed for meat.

www.dominionmovement.com/watch

The above link is very informative.

On the health side, it's certainly better to eat a whole foods based diet than one focused on processed foods. Whole foods plant based is an optimal diet for health, and you're correct that many vegans don't rigidly adhere to this. It's probably still better to eat processed vegan food on occasion than heavily processed meat, though, since the latter is a very well established carcinogen. Vegetarians have on average seven additional years of life compared to omnivores, and vegans fifteen years. [/quote]
How do you know I am not vegan? I eat local, sustainably and support local businesses.

I don't need the lecture thanks, no one mentioned processed meats etc but you.

I do live in a place where the thirst for palm oil is doing untold damage to the lives of many, many human animals and get annoyed by the holier than thou attitude to the people eating these repulsive trendy foods, the never-ending search for the poncy perceived exotic and the outsourcing of all the harm that causes to countries who have little choice.

Also cite your sources, jeez how many people with entirely vegan diets have been studied for their whole life span?

@ParadiseMIA I'm fairly certain you aren't vegan because you are uncritically reproducing some common anti-vegan myths. If you post in that way, it's hardly surprising that vegans will want to challenge your assumptions.

Very, very, very few vegans (if any) would post about veganism in the scaremongering and inaccurate way that you are.

Also, many people have mentioned processed meats on this thread! @ParadiseMIA

@ThanksItHasPockets

Vegetarians have on average seven additional years of life compared to omnivores, and vegans fifteen years.

A vegan who has lived long enough to have had their (long) life measured must have adopted their vegan diet at a time when doing so was pretty hard work, and would have comprised a lot of plants, whole foods and cooking from scratch in the absence of much vegan convenience food. They are probably therefore also a self-selecting group of people who are likely to be very health-conscious. It will be very interesting to see if this benefit is maintained with the advent of widely available, heavily processed vegan foods.

I wish I had said this, very smart. I know (personal anecdote alert) more than a few vegans who do not actually like or eat many vegetables.

@NinaDefoe

The point being, you can make any simple ingredients (meat, potatoes & veg) sound exotic. It was in reply to someone who said ‘who wants to eat meat and potatoes for the rest of their lives?’

I know what you mean.My comment was more to do with people sticking with the basic forms and not wanting to try anything new.Nothing wrong with it but many (like myself) like trying new things.Im sure there was a time when cranberries and Turkey was considered a 'wild ' combination. So yes even if I don't always enjoy the taste I look forward to trying matcha kit kat etc

I agree, it wouldn't be that surprising to see some decrease in the health benefits of veganism if there is a sustained move towards vegan diets containing large quantities of hyperpalatables. But bear in mind, these are already extensively present in animal product form; they won't suddenly become more present in vegans' diets than in omnivores' diets. And the not-hyperpalatables part of the diet will still be more healthy for a vegan than a non-vegan.

@MammaMacgill87

Can I add to the thread with the 'gluten free trend' noone in their right mind wants to eat anything gluten free, my daughter is very very badly allergic to gluten and this fad of cool trendy gluten free diet lifestyle shit has done nothing but bump up the prices of her food!! I feel for her cause it all tastes like dry crumbly dog food, who wants to eat that on purpose? Thankfully I can cook and do many meals from scratch but things like bread and cereal is £3/4/5 for a tiny little package all because it's marketed to protentious wankers 🤣 thanks I feel better now lol

The worst is when it’s not even fully gluten free, just non gluten containing ingredients. So it’s just for people choosing not to eat it.

Sharing platters/boxes are vile.

‘Dirty’ food should only come from a greasy van. That’s a dirty burger, not from an artisan cafe.

[quote Innocenta]@ParadiseMIA I'm fairly certain you aren't vegan because you are uncritically reproducing some common anti-vegan myths. If you post in that way, it's hardly surprising that vegans will want to challenge your assumptions.

Very, very, very few vegans (if any) would post about veganism in the scaremongering and inaccurate way that you are. [/quote]
This is so odd, what I actually said was "I can't get my head around the trend for people being supposedly healthy and ethical by not eating meat etc but shipping foods from all over the globe and eating palm oil slathered processed junk."

If that isn't you, it isn't you.
No scaremongering or inaccuracy as far as I can see.

Eat a plant-based diet, live a long and happy life, but just make sure the pigs you are saving in England are not inadvertently killing the gibbons in Sumatra. Surely you can do both?
Local ingredients, homegrown, sustainable?
Saves on packaging too and CO2 emissions as well, win win.

Tofu

@User1isnotavailable

Tofu

I’ve said this several times on this thread but this is another thing that isn’t ‘trendy.’ People have been eating tofu all over the world for years. I ate it as a child. It’s in traditional recipes from other countries.

Some people on this thread seem to have misread ‘trendy foods’ as ‘food you dislike.’ You might as well be saying ‘sprouts, I don’t like those.’