What trendy food fads are you totally over?

[smirkymonkey]

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. All of the fad diets

Especially paleo, Atkins, slim fast, etc. I gave up on dieting recently and decided to just eat better.

[pangaia]

107. Eating better. DUH ! Ain;t it the truth.

The people who 'gain' from diets are the ones who wrote the books.

[TxDemChem]

110. Exactly

[Cattledog]

2. Kale!

[smirkymonkey]

5. Oh yes, forgot about kale!

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]

33. I tried to make kale chips about 5 times....

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!

[secondwind]

45. If you massage the kale with olive oil and lemon, it is a delight to eat.

[pangaia]

108. Oh sure. I'm a gonna sit there and MASSAGE kale with olive oil.

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]

48. I never liked kale and I'll be glad i I never see it on a menu again.

It's a nice decorative garden plant, but I'm damned if I'll eat it.

[alarimer]

63. Yes, I hate that Blue Apron sends kale with almost every box.

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]

3. pumpkin everything (and I love pumpkin); kale (and I love veggies and greens)...

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]

6. Yes, I think we have reached "peak pumpkin".

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]

10. Yeah... I'm not against it all (I still like Community Coffee's Pumpkin Praline) and

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]

102. I don't even like pumpkin pie spice in pumpkin

Roasted pumpkin and leek cream soup crushes all.other pumpkin dishes...

[Zoonart]

4. Pumpkin spice anything.

[Xolodno]

65. I like pumpkin spice in two things....

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]

7. Also the paring of chiles with chocolate. Chia seeds when they do not really add anything

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]

8. Almond milk.

[tazkcmo]

9. Chipotle sauce.

And pumpkin everything.

[samnsara]

11. cabbage soup!

[dhol82]

29. My mother and I fought about her cabbage soup from the time I was a child.

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.
It’s funny since I love braised cabbage and boiled and roasted beets. Ah, well.

[Xolodno]

64. Whoa...

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]

72. I might try that. Sounds good.

My mother was the worst cook imaginable. She just didn’t care about taste.
I love food and love to cook.

[Xolodno]

73. Forgot one ingredient.

Tomato sauce...amount? your choice. I like one large one per pot.

[dhol82]

74. Gag me with a spoon!

Tomato sauce in borscht?
Are you mental?

[Xolodno]

75. Heh...don't knock it until you try it!

[dhol82]

78. Tomato sauce with beets?

Gag.

[Xolodno]

83. Goes along with...

...pineapple on pizza!

[dhol82]

99. Hey, what is wrong with pineapple on a pizza?

[Xipe Totec]

12. Edith Ann's Sandwich

[Phoenix61]

13. Enormous 1,000 calorie desserts

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]

14. Avocado toast.

[Demovictory9]

98. not me. Not yet. So tasty.

[AJT]

100. I just don't care for the texture.

[yellowdogintexas]

119. same here I love avocado toast

[lkinwi]

15. Not really a food fad, but delivery services like Blue Apron seem like a rip off.

[we can do it]

31. This is just overcharging for laziness.

[trixie2]

58. It's not even laziness

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]

109. I can sort of agree with you...

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]

94. Most all of them

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]

16. Sea salt and caramel.

[smirkymonkey]

19. Ugh! Yes. Caramel is just perfect the way it is.

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]

17. Agree on the sunny side up eggs on everything.

Yuk. There are pictures of them all over the food magazines.

[smirkymonkey]

20. I know! I often look at menus to decide where to go for dinner and there

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]

101. Me too!

[DashOneBravo]

87. Eggs are like bacon, good on almost anything

[Ferrets are Cool]

18. What about coconut oil?

[smirkymonkey]

21. I think that is more of a health food thing. I don't really see it so much on menus.

I don't know much about it, but it seems to be very popular.

[Ferrets are Cool]

25. Gotcha!

[7wo7rees]

22. Wedding Cakes made from donuts

Cut this shit out right now.

[smirkymonkey]

24. Yes, I think the doughnut and cupcake thing have been overdone

as well.

[we can do it]

30. Or way overpriced shitty donuts and cupcakes.🤮

[lunasun]

53. Oh yeah everwear that's for sure

[jmowreader]

23. "Superfoods"

[dhol82]

26. Avocado toast.

Blech.
Did not like from the first time I had it.
Ptooie!

[sinkingfeeling]

44. Love it. Make it for myself a couple of times a week.

[dhol82]

60. Enjoy!

[Initech]

27. Taking pictures of food!

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]

76. Ugh. I HATE that. For some reason it feels really rude to me. I'm not sure why.

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]

86. I do that sometimes

I have to travel for my job and my girlfriend and I like to cook together.

So I take a picture if it’s something cool and we often make it.

[crazycatlady]

121. This

I honestly don't care about your dinner.

When I was on Instagram, I was tempted to post pictures of moldy food.

[smirkymonkey]

122. I have never done that.

I don't really understand it unless your meal is a work of art, which is rare.

[Docreed2003]

28. Quinoa!!!!

It's the shitty cousin of rice!!

[Corvo Bianco]

40. It feels wrong to eat.

One of those almost edible grains but tastes and chews like no thanks!

[Docreed2003]

41. Lmao...exactly

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"

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

49. That, too. Almost as bad as kale.

It has the flavor and texture of tiny packing peanuts.

[Solly Mack]

32. Never got into any. I feel so ...odd.

[LisaM]

34. Kale. Sweet potato fries.

Every single appetizer having fish or seafood.

[smirkymonkey]

37. Ugh! I hate sweet potato fries.

What is the point?

[LisaM]

47. There is none.

You clearly have a discerning palate.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

50. They're mushy and apparently can't be made crispy

without burning them. So, no.

[Fresh_Start]

35. truffle fries nt

nt

[Docreed2003]

42. Blasphemy!!

Love truffle fries...truffle tots...truffle mac and cheese!

Clearly I have a truffle problem

[lordsummerisle]

36. Quinoa

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]

38. Another one - Pork belly in everything.

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]

61. I love pork belly!

Was raised with fatty pork products and now consider them comfort food.
I will take pork belly with anything.

[Duppers]

91. Gag me.

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]

111. All "pork belly" is, is uncured, unsmoked, unbaconflavored bacon

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]

123. However, the only way I like bacon is if it is fried or microwaved to a crisp with

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]

39. Acai anything.

And as you and others have said, salted caramel, etc.

[LSFL]

43. fucking foam

Stop making my food look like spit you cretans!

[kwassa]

46. Peanut butter.

[DashOneBravo]

88. ...

[The Polack MSgt]

104. My relationship with peanut butter was forever altered

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]

51. Brussel sprouts - everyone has it on the menu around here

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]

126. They are probably my least favorite green vegetable, and I love green vegetables.

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]

52. Gluten free and organic

[trixie2]

59. I have to step in here.

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]

62. Not all farm food is organic

Do the places you stop at advertise themselves as organic?

[quartz007]

54. Pumpkin cheesecake at cheesecake factory is better than

sex with the wife!

[lunasun]

55. Fondant on cake baked item decorating . Sure they can do all kinds of decorations but it tastes ick

[Freddie]

56. Ridiculously complicated recipes for "comfort food"

In an attempt to make these things healthy or less “processed”. There’s a reason Mom made the tuna casserole with canned soup - it was good! Yeah there’s too much salt in some things but for an easy weeknight dinner I’ll 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]

57. Something called chipotle...tried it once, yuck.

I love most fruit, but not melons...so watermelon flavored sparkling water, another, yuck.


Tikki

[Xolodno]

66. I have a different method...anything that registers on one or more of the C.A.O.W. scale.

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]

67. Food made to look like other food.

The sushi burrito was the final straw.

[tavernier]

70. Sushi. Cold and raw bait rolled in rice.

[Boomerproud]

71. Yep. Will never touch my lips.

[Duppers]

92. Same here.

My offspring loves it tho.

[Freddie]

103. Mine too

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]

95. Yep

I like my fish cooked, and a vegetable medley on the side that does not include seaweed.

[Piasladic]

113. Don't knock it until you've tried it

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]

114. I have. I'm an ocean girl from the Keys.

Tuna is good right off the boat and I love raw oysters with sour cream and caviar. But that’s it. And NO fishy Nori or gummy rice. Yuck.

[mucifer]

77. Smoothies for breakfast. Back to cereal for me.

[backtoblue]

82. I tried that for a while too...

Didn't last long. Back to toast or fruit loops.

[Le Gaucher]

97. It Banana+Walnut+ whole milk in my house hold every single day M-F

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]

79. Wiener

I'm over the whole 'wiener crown' thing. Guess I just got too goddamn sophisticated.

[smirkymonkey]

80. Wiener?

Are wieners a food trend? Am I missing something? What is a wiener crown?

[enid602]

81. Crown

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]

84. Yum, sounds very tempting.

Where is this a trend? This is just too funny.

[Guilded Lilly]

85. Salted caramel (leave it alone please) and anything in my daughter's kitchen.

[kwassa]

89. Cheese pizza.

Actually, all pizza.

[u4ic]

90. "clean eating"

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]

96. I know! For some reason, the commercials that proclaim "clean food" tend to nauseate me

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]

93. I never got into any

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]

105. At my church

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]

106. Bacon sandwiches my Mom made - toasted white bread (Arnolds), lightly buttered with

chili sauce on one half, grape jelly on the other, and three strips of crisp bacon.

[Texasgal]

112. I'm suprised no one has mentioned

CALIFLOWER! UGH! Califlower mashed...pizza dough etc. It has NO taste at all!

[smirkymonkey]

127. I actually love cauliflower. I recently tried mashed cauliflower and loved it,

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]

115. Bacon...

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]

117. Yes, forgot about that one.

Esp. bacon flavored ice cream and chocolate. Ugh!

[hurl]

116. Shock-value foods

Like that tarantula burger and similar publicity stunts

[cynatnite]

118. Cake pops

Cute and unique, but too much icing and next to no cake inside.

Stupid idea to begin with.

[yellowdogintexas]

120. my friend's cake pops will convert you.

They are a work of art.

[crazycatlady]

124. Messing with classic comfort food

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]

125. Totally agree! Especially at holidays like Thanksgiving.

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]

128. My sister and BIL are foodies

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]

129. I have a lot of foodies in my family too. I am a bit of a foodie as well, but when it comes

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.