I was delighted to run across a post at BuzzFeed spotlighting food trends readers felt should just disappear. Some have been around a while. Others are relatively recent. I’m sharing those I, too, want most to see die…
Tomahawk Rib Eye: Ridiculous ostentation and theatre around a lovely
piece of beef that can stand on its own as a work of culinary art.
Just leave me alone!
Here is my carefully selected list of a few ‘trends’ I agree should be nuked. Or, at least, silently fade away…
Matcha
BF Reader: “Matcha. Don’t get me wrong, matcha is great. […] But why is this pancake and that soda and this pizza matcha flavoured?”
Maggie: “Never thought much of it, or enjoyed it that much, either. A flavour appropriated from another culture by some Westerner who thought they could make a big, profitable deal out of it.”
Pickle Flavouring
BF Reader: “Everything is pickle-flavoured now. I love pickles, but I don’t want pickle-flavoured ice cream, potato chips, or chicken.”
Maggie: “I, too, love a good pickle. I just don’t want Pickle Flavour where it doesn’t belong. Which is anywhere but in a pickle.”
Dubai Chocolate
BF Reader: “Dubai chocolate. It’s chocolate with pistachios. You don’t need to pay $15 for it.”
Maggie: “You can get even a small morsel of DC for $15? The price is the most ridiculous thing about this overblown fad. It’s an utter disgrace to popularize something like this when millions of folks can’t afford a decent, nutritious meal!”
Bubble Tea
BF Reader: “To me, it seems like something in a larval stage.”
Maggie: “I’ve never liked Tapioca. And Bubble Tea will always be just another lumpy, slimy tapioca ‘thing’ to me.”
Tomahawk Rib Eye
BF Reader: “Tomahawk rib eye. You’re just paying top dollar for a huge bone that does nothing but get in the way.”
Maggie: “I agree entirely. Ridiculous ostentation and theatre around a lovely piece of beef that can stand on its own as a work of culinary art.”
Everything Seasoning
BF Reader: “It’s not that interesting a flavour [really]. It’s fine on bagels, but that’s it. Everything Seasoning doesn’t need to literally go on everything.”
Maggie: “It was invented by a bagel baker who ran out of other, appropriate flavourings to put on their wares. It’s a rather muddy flavour experience, really. A ‘desperate times call for desperate measures’ solution. A Hail Mary.
My take
These are just a few of the BuzzFeed Reader nominations for ‘trends that are really fads (or should have been) that should just disappear’.
As what we now call foodsphere influencers become more and more desperate for ‘new things’ to push, these so-called trends get crazier and crazier.
BTW… Got any food trends you’d like to see added to the list?
~ Maggie J.