To ask you what food/drink trend people are pretending to love?

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Mines matcha - looks nasty

Previously sweet potato fries but they've kinda died out now

I like sweet potato fries and matcha and I like coconut water, truffles, cottage cheese and sourdough bread. I don't like all those cakes which are oreo or Biscoff flavour, I don't enjoy that at all and they are everywhere.

Am late to the game so in response to pp

Hate bubble tea, matcha, salted caramel edited to add I loathe truffle anything with a deep and abiding passion

love aperol, sea salt chocolate and don't tell anyone I like cottage cheese

Mmm... overnight oats is the latest, but I was never on board when avocados came into fashion, or gin was revived. I'm so out of the loop that I haven't tried bubble tea, but it sounds disgusting!

What is the 30 foods diet, @Angrymum22 , and what on earth is an eclectic salad when it's at home?!

In Yorkshire (Dales) its called 'Clarty'.

Anything that is a thick texture that is hard to swallow is called 'plugging'.

Agree on the matcha but I love pretty much everything everyone else has said

Mezcal, negronis, aperol spritz..yum. cottage cheese, sourdough,

My big no no is coffee. In any shape or form. A Starbucks or similar is the worst.

Also gin and tonic ...gross.

Longley Farm Full Fat FTW!

Nduja
It’s a spreadable sausage in a jar.

Kale in whatever form ( raw/air fried etc) it's bland and inedible. You may as well be a cow munching on grass in a field 😳

Chia seeds. gritty slimy things in anything they are added to, and chia 'pudding' is just nasty

Cant stand oats, agree that the texture is disgusting and it sticks to your mouth 🤢🤢

My husbands favourite ice fream flavour...

Cauliflower in things. I tried cauliflower gnocchi the other day (goodness knows why). It tasted of brassica farts and sadness.

Poached eggs and avocado.
Poached eggs are raw 90% of the time I've had them. Any other type of egg is so much better. And avocado tastes like grass, there, I said it!

Dubai chocolate. And all the other pistachio faff.

Indeed! I genuinely like Aperol, kombucha, kefir, sourdough, wine, rum and raisin icecream — I’m neutral on sweet potato fries and quite like some of the fruity, sharper bubble teas though wouldn’t seek out either, and though I don’t much care for matcha-flavoured things, I quite like the tea itself.

My loathed foods aren’t anything fashionable though. Coconut (horrible texture), poached eggs, banana.

Matcha for sure (heard it tastes like grass 🤢) and bubble tea. Don’t want bits floating in my drink, thanks.

I love a bunch of these, including brioche burger buns (best lightly toasted) and sweet potato fries. The trick to sourdough toast is that you can't toast it so it's crunchy all the way through; it needs to be browned on the outside and soft in the centre, and most places aren't paying enough attention to their toast to get it right.

Rum raisin ice cream is popular in the US South, especially with Black people. There's some unusual regional preferences with ice cream flavours. For example, in New England, the Canadian Maritimes, and Jamaica, grape nut ice cream (vanilla custard with grape-nuts breakfast cereal!) is very popular, and I have no idea how that geographic spread happened!

I can't stand matcha either and kale is awful especially as a salad. I don't care how much you massage it with oil. I at least understand it when doing braised greens, though I'd prefer others, but salad? Just use lettuce or rocket or spinach or, well, anything that's actually edible raw.

The fungus kind? I LOATHE them...the smell, the taste the everything.

Yes kale is unpleasant. I once tried making kale 'chips' after reading how amazing they were. which were basically oven dried bits of kale leaf. They tasted terrible and make the kitchen and whole house stink

Came back to add to the list, pickles in fruit wonders and wotsits, truffle (!!!) and vodka pasta

Spending the weekend cooking and putting food in boxes and jars so that you can spend the following week eating what my granny would have called "leftovers".

Kale is just cabbage with better PR. Rum raisin icecream has been around for 60 years to my knowledge.

It’s got be sourdough, it’s like eating a concrete sandwich, awful stuff!

And avacados too!

We also call it claggy in SE England, or at least we do in my family. Completely agree that the term applies to most oat things, though.

Chia pudding... good gawd just no! Why would you want to eat frogspawn?