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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsWhat trendy food fads are you totally over?
For me, it's....
Sea salt on chocolate, caramels, anything sweet
Sunny side up eggs on effing everything!
Rainbow food
Food in mason jars
Deconstructed food
Overly complicated food with too many ingredients
That's all I can think of right now, but I am sure more will turn up once I hear from all of you.
TxDemChem
(1,918 posts)Especially paleo, Atkins, slim fast, etc. I gave up on dieting recently and decided to just eat better.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)The people who 'gain' from diets are the ones who wrote the books.
TxDemChem
(1,918 posts)Cattledog
(5,914 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Especially kale chips. WTF? Is there anyone in the world that actually likes those things?
I actually like baby kale in salads, but the fully grown stuff is pretty bitter and chewy. Not something I would actively choose to eat.
dawg day
(7,947 posts)burned them. My friend said, "You have to massage the oil into the leaves."
Oh, no, I think I'll go back to potato chips!
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secondwind
(16,903 posts)pangaia
(24,324 posts)I can think of a Japanese woman friend of mine who I'd much rather massage.
But she'e in Kyoto right now.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,669 posts)It's a nice decorative garden plant, but I'm damned if I'll eat it.
alarimer
(16,245 posts)It's seasonal, but it seems like we get a LOT of kale during all seasons.
I don't mind it cooked (really well cooked) but the other night's was raw, as part of a salad. Just gross really.
Fortunately I can choose from several meals with BA so I can avoid a lot of this.
hlthe2b
(102,220 posts)Chia seeds (not because I have anything against Chia, but it seems there is a belief that locales can only carry one type of healthy seed and thus it has made my ground flaxseed harder to find and much more $$)
That's a start.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)It's been done to death. Is there any food that people haven't tried to infuse with pumpkin flavoring?
Although, in the fall, I do make pumpkin bread w/ chocolate chips and that is pretty tasty.
hlthe2b
(102,220 posts)pumpkin bread in the Fall, but I'm just saturated.
The coffee I mentioned doesn't taste all that much like pumpkin--just a nice slightly sweet hint of nuttiness, but I do like it.
The Polack MSgt
(13,186 posts)Roasted pumpkin and leek cream soup crushes all.other pumpkin dishes...
Zoonart
(11,847 posts)Xolodno
(6,390 posts)2. Coffee. But that is over now. After visiting France and Italy for a month...I don't drink coffee at all unless its a cappuccino when I'm in a relaxed mode in the morning, such as the weekend, or espresso for a quick pick me up...but usually on Monday mornings after the weekend and Friday mornings after I feel like I had the shit beaten out of me all week.
1. Pumpkin Pie between October and early January.
Other than that, Budweiser Beer can keep and dump their pumpkin spice beer.....and that goes for everything else.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)to an item except the name. Keep those tiny breaded fried onion foo fools off the top of my food too
Rainbow food just invokes flashbacks or the need for sunglasses I never saw the enticement
safeinOhio
(32,669 posts)tazkcmo
(7,300 posts)And pumpkin everything.
samnsara
(17,615 posts)dhol82
(9,352 posts)Did not know it was something new.
She made the worlds worst borscht. Both beet and cabbage.
To this day I cannot deal with either.
Its funny since I love braised cabbage and boiled and roasted beets. Ah, well.
Borscht.
Boil some beef fat and bones. Send broth into another pot via strainer and cheese cloth. Let cool until ready.
Add beats, cabbage, and dill. And if you feel adventurous, add, throw in some other veges, I like to add jalapenos, onion and garlic. Add salt and pepper.
Cook until tender.
Ladle into bowl. Throw in a heaping tablespoon of sour cream if you want. Use home made rye bread as your spoon...then a loshka once you run out.
Pretty hard to fuck that up. However, my mother in law did...thankfully, the wife didn't inherit her cooking skills. So she kills it every time.
dhol82
(9,352 posts)My mother was the worst cook imaginable. She just didnt care about taste.
I love food and love to cook.
Xolodno
(6,390 posts)Tomato sauce...amount? your choice. I like one large one per pot.
dhol82
(9,352 posts)Tomato sauce in borscht?
Are you mental?
Xolodno
(6,390 posts)dhol82
(9,352 posts)Gag.
Xolodno
(6,390 posts)...pineapple on pizza!
dhol82
(9,352 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,889 posts)Phoenix61
(17,000 posts)Whatever happened to pie cases with coconut custard, lemon meringue, chocolate cream, and whatever fruit was in season pie? And cakes! Simple ones like pound cake, Lemon cake, or angle food topped with sliced strawberries and whipped cream.
AJT
(5,240 posts)Demovictory9
(32,447 posts)AJT
(5,240 posts)yellowdogintexas
(22,250 posts)lkinwi
(1,477 posts)we can do it
(12,180 posts)trixie2
(905 posts)My friend ordered a box and said it was like a chemistry project with too many ingredients. The best food, I think, has 5 or less ingredients. Just good tasting fresh food.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)but I do a lot of Sichuan cooking and sometimes the ingredients are way over 5.. WAY over.
But, if you get it right, oh, the results. !!!
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)offer introductory deals that are pretty cheap, the thing is to cut them off as soon as you've milked the promotion. Think of it as cheap cooking school.
Ohiogal
(31,969 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Why ruin it with salt. I don't care if it's the best sea salt in the world, it just doesn't belong on caramel or chocolate.
blue neen
(12,319 posts)Yuk. There are pictures of them all over the food magazines.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)are damn sunny side up eggs on everything! I hate them! I only like eggs if the yolk and whites are mixed together and well cooked like in omelets, quiche or frittatas, but I hate egg whites and yolks separate.
Ohiogal
(31,969 posts)DashOneBravo
(2,679 posts)Ferrets are Cool
(21,105 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I don't know much about it, but it seems to be very popular.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,105 posts)7wo7rees
(5,128 posts)Cut this shit out right now.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)as well.
we can do it
(12,180 posts)lunasun
(21,646 posts)jmowreader
(50,553 posts)dhol82
(9,352 posts)Blech.
Did not like from the first time I had it.
Ptooie!
sinkingfeeling
(51,444 posts)dhol82
(9,352 posts)Initech
(100,062 posts)Why does a meal need to be "instagramable"? Why does it need to be loaded with glitter, sugar, and artificial food coloring to get likes on a social media site? Why can't we just buy a plate of food at a restaurant and eat it and enjoy it?
Squinch
(50,944 posts)Possibly because the sight of a phone at a shared dining table pisses me off. It seems to say, "Hey, your company is just not enough to keep my attention!"
DashOneBravo
(2,679 posts)I have to travel for my job and my girlfriend and I like to cook together.
So I take a picture if its something cool and we often make it.
crazycatlady
(4,492 posts)I honestly don't care about your dinner.
When I was on Instagram, I was tempted to post pictures of moldy food.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I don't really understand it unless your meal is a work of art, which is rare.
Docreed2003
(16,858 posts)It's the shitty cousin of rice!!
Corvo Bianco
(1,148 posts)One of those almost edible grains but tastes and chews like no thanks!
Docreed2003
(16,858 posts)I mean, "I want to eat you because you're supposed to be so healthy, but your ass makes it so tough to enjoy you"
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The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,669 posts)It has the flavor and texture of tiny packing peanuts.
Solly Mack
(90,762 posts)LisaM
(27,801 posts)Every single appetizer having fish or seafood.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)What is the point?
LisaM
(27,801 posts)You clearly have a discerning palate.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,669 posts)without burning them. So, no.
Fresh_Start
(11,330 posts)nt
Docreed2003
(16,858 posts)Love truffle fries...truffle tots...truffle mac and cheese!
Clearly I have a truffle problem
lordsummerisle
(4,651 posts)I've tied making quinoa 3 or 4 times and it just always seems unpalatable. Maybe i just haven't found the right recipe...
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I like lean pork chops or a pork loin, but the whole pork belly thing just seems kind of overdone to me. It's on menus everywhere. Can we stop this now and just go back to regular pork?
dhol82
(9,352 posts)Was raised with fatty pork products and now consider them comfort food.
I will take pork belly with anything.
Duppers
(28,118 posts)I don't eat pork anything, even gave up yummy bacon but the last time I was in DC my own son tried to feed me *pork belly*. I just looked at him and said seriously, I cannot eat this. He was serving us dinner at his place. I think I hurt his feelings but he should know his old mom better than to try to feed me that. His dad passed on it too.
Heart attack special. Thanks for adding it to your never list - your arteries will appreciate it.
jmowreader
(50,553 posts)I have a package of pork belly in the fridge now...but it was turned into bacon like the FSM intended before I bought it.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)no visible fat at all. Pork belly is not prepared that way, it's just too fatty. I just have a problem with visible fat on meat.
JDC
(10,125 posts)And as you and others have said, salted caramel, etc.
LSFL
(1,109 posts)Stop making my food look like spit you cretans!
kwassa
(23,340 posts)The Polack MSgt
(13,186 posts)By my deployment to Afghanistan.
Since then I've only ever eaten peanut butter (or cheese spead) while in Iraq on a seperate deployment.
Don't even have it in my house
underpants
(182,763 posts)Basically it's their effort to do everything possible to make it NOT taste like a brussel sprout which taste like a stagnant sewer.
Absolutely hated them as a kid but Mom made me eat them. It was one of my main goals as a parent to never introduce let alone force my child to eat them. Every foodie restaurant we go to has some treatment of these god awful things on their menu. She tried them (she is a great eater mostly thanks to her mother) and she likes them. Truth be told I've tried a bit here and there and they are too bad. What to know why? Because they DON'T TASTE LIKE BRUSSEL SPROUTS. Seriously some of the lengths these chefs go to could make a shoe edible.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)The only way I like them is if the taste is overpowered by something else, usually something sweet. They are just so bitter on their own.
RandySF
(58,752 posts)trixie2
(905 posts)Some people are truly allergic to gluten. My niece is and has had a lifetime of problems. Gluten free has literally saved her. Just like being a diabetic.
Are you against food store chain organic or fresh foods from farm stands? I agree with you that in a chain store organic can be a rip off but passing by a farm stand and I pull right over.
dhol82
(9,352 posts)Do the places you stop at advertise themselves as organic?
quartz007
(1,216 posts)sex with the wife!
lunasun
(21,646 posts)Freddie
(9,259 posts)In an attempt to make these things healthy or less processed. Theres a reason Mom made the tuna casserole with canned soup - it was good! Yeah theres too much salt in some things but for an easy weeknight dinner Ill just make it the old way, thank you. Hint - cream of celery soup is way better than cream of mushroom in recipes.
Practically raw beef dishes especially burgers - yuck, and possible food poisoning! The ONLY thing I agree with Dolt 45 is the way steak should be cooked (for me anyway). But no ketchup on steak.
Tikki
(14,556 posts)I love most fruit, but not melons...so watermelon flavored sparkling water, another, yuck.
Tikki
Xolodno
(6,390 posts)Cramps from hell.
Ass is burning, hurts wiping and still hurts after you left.
Oh my God, am I going to make it to the toilet...and do I have napkins stashed somewhere.
WTF! I'm pissing from my ass!!!
pamela
(3,469 posts)The sushi burrito was the final straw.
tavernier
(12,376 posts)Boomerproud
(7,951 posts)Duppers
(28,118 posts)My offspring loves it tho.
Freddie
(9,259 posts)Some food is generational. My kids love sushi, it will never pass my lips. My parents (RIP), of the Greatest Generation, would not eat tacos or Chinese or anything remotely "ethnic" except pizza and spaghetti.
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)I like my fish cooked, and a vegetable medley on the side that does not include seaweed.
Piasladic
(1,160 posts)When I was growing up (in South Florida), my father was pretty much of the opinion that all seafood, but especially crustaceans, were the work of the devil. This was odd as he was an avid snailer (for research, not food). No fish, even tuna, ever crossed my lips.
When I went to work for a couple of years in Micronesia, I saw how wrong my father was... and BTW, Now, I prefer my bait naked,
sashimi style.
tavernier
(12,376 posts)Tuna is good right off the boat and I love raw oysters with sour cream and caviar. But thats it. And NO fishy Nori or gummy rice. Yuck.
mucifer
(23,525 posts)backtoblue
(11,343 posts)Didn't last long. Back to toast or fruit loops.
Le Gaucher
(1,547 posts)I blend em & pour into tall glasses ...
Everyone gulps it down and runs to school/work .
On weekends we relax and eat what we feel like.
It's not a fad as much as a convenience thing for us.
enid602
(8,612 posts)I'm over the whole 'wiener crown' thing. Guess I just got too goddamn sophisticated.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Are wieners a food trend? Am I missing something? What is a wiener crown?
enid602
(8,612 posts)You take a pack of hotdogs tie them together to make a crown. You fill the crown with Cheese Whiz, and generously place sauerkraut around the crown. Then you microwave on HIGH until the whole house smells 'real good.'
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Where is this a trend? This is just too funny.
Guilded Lilly
(5,591 posts)kwassa
(23,340 posts)Actually, all pizza.
u4ic
(17,101 posts)Not eating food off the floor? How about an unwashed apple right off the tree? Does it mean you have to soak, deodorize and sanitize every piece of lettuce and carrot that you ingest?
Not that I am against eating unprocessed food, it's the ridiculous title. It was once called...just eating healthy.
Rhiannon12866
(205,161 posts)I picture food covered in mud that needs to be washed - and there would always be some grit left. I know that's not what they mean, but that's what goes through my mind...
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)I've seen them come and go, and the one I want to see disappear faster than the Atkins diet is this gluten-free thing.
Don't get me wrong, I am happy for the people with celiac disease that they now have loads of options, but when the fad passes, will there be enough providers left for this niche?
I had a gluten-free pizza crust a few years ago in Kentucky, it really tasted worse than the cardboard box in came in.
Freddie
(9,259 posts)They now do gluten-free "bread" for Holy Communion. This stuff has the texture of compressed sand. I have already gone back to the pew and discreetly spit it out into a Kleenex. I am truly going to burn in Hell.
c-rational
(2,590 posts)chili sauce on one half, grape jelly on the other, and three strips of crisp bacon.
Texasgal
(17,042 posts)CALIFLOWER! UGH! Califlower mashed...pizza dough etc. It has NO taste at all!
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)even though I thought I wouldn't. It definitely doesn't beat mashed potatoes, but it was still pretty good. I think I would draw the line at cauliflower pizza dough, although I haven't tried it.
Wounded Bear
(58,642 posts)In fact, I never got on that train. Sure, I like the flavor of bacon, but there are some things that don't need to be bacon-flavored.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Esp. bacon flavored ice cream and chocolate. Ugh!
hurl
(938 posts)Like that tarantula burger and similar publicity stunts
cynatnite
(31,011 posts)Cute and unique, but too much icing and next to no cake inside.
Stupid idea to begin with.
yellowdogintexas
(22,250 posts)They are a work of art.
crazycatlady
(4,492 posts)Don't try to make my pizza, burger, mac and cheese, etc gourmet. They're classics for a reason, don't mess with them.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I am kind of a purist. Just plain turkey, mashed potatoes (nothing fancy in them), plain butternut squash w/ butter, regular bread dressing cooked outside the bird (so it isn't soggy). I will allow some creativity w/ the vegetable dishes and desserts, but there are certain staples that I don't like messed with. The same with what you mentioned above. I like them in their purest form. One thing I really hate is ranch dressing on pizza! Ugh! What is wrong with people?
crazycatlady
(4,492 posts)They want everything gourmet. Luckily their kids (3, 5) disagree. The Thanskgiving before the oldest was born, everything was all fancy. What is wrong with basic mashed potatoes?
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)to traditional meals, I like to stick with tradition. My mother and sister always like to add things like sour cream , cream cheese, etc. to the mashed potatoes so I always have to ask them to make me a separate portion of plain mashed potatoes because you just can't mess with simple perfection.