Stupid Food Trends

whisky_galore · 19-09-2014 08:22AM

'Artisan'....add 25% to price.

Celly Smunt · 19-09-2014 08:23AM

Not really food but i hate the way the "cool" restraunts have long tables and benches to share with other people. Why not just have tables?

whisky_galore · 19-09-2014 08:24AM

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

Drinks being served in jam jars. Usually in overpriced hipster places serving burgers, fried chicken and cheap cuts of steak. A glass works. Glasses are a great way of serving drinks.

Load of pretencious bollocks. Boss used do that in the office, until it was pointed out how ridiculous he looked. It's not like there's a shortage of glasses/cups/mugs.

washiskin · 19-09-2014 08:32AM

Not quite sticking with the rant, but "celebs" who previously had nothing to do with food suddenly being given Cook Book deals & hawking themselves around as a fecking expert on it. :mad:

AND similarly, getting tie-ins with existing eateries, just because they've discovered whatever is trendy this week. Green Juice my foot - that was all the rage in the 70s ffs!

caolfx · 19-09-2014 08:38AM

Celly Smunt wrote: »

Not really food but i hate the way the "cool" restraunts have long tables and benches to share with other people. Why not just have tables?

I hate that! Where am I!? In f*cking prison?! Or school!

I won't eat in those places again.

caolfx · 19-09-2014 08:42AM

I also can't stand the 'Come Dine With Me' craze which spawned thousands of food 'experts' or 'foodies' (another word that gets on my nerves).

bnt · 19-09-2014 08:56AM

In another thread I had an epiphany as to why the Pulled Pork thing took off. It's cheap and easy to make, which means profit, and so I'm not surprised shops have jumped on the idea. All it is: slow cook the pork in spices until you can pull it apart (hence the name). It re-absorbs its own juices and the sauce, and you're left with a nice sandwich filler. It's so cheap and easy that I was doing it myself as a student, and still do. Other posters have complained that it's horrible when smothered with BBQ sauce ... I can believe that, and I don't do that. That's no reason to dismiss the whole concept.

Shenshen · 19-09-2014 09:28AM

Cupcakes.

Ruining a perfectly good muffin by smothering it with a day-glow green, teeth-hurtlingy sweet sickly tasting massive blob of butter and sugar.
Absolutely disgusting.

sullivlo · 19-09-2014 09:33AM

kylith wrote: »

"D'ya have any gluten free bread? I can't have gluten. Is that pasta gluten free? Gluten makes me bloat right up. Yeah, I'd love a biscuit, thanks"

This.

I have a friend who has a wheat intolerance so eats gluten free bread. She still drinks beer though, and complains about belly ache.

I live on a restricted enough diet because of food intolerances. But I don't shove it in peoples faces - I just get on with it and prepare my own food as much as possible. If I eat what makes me sick, I just put up with the consequences and don't complain to everyone.

rainbow kirby · 19-09-2014 09:41AM

Shenshen wrote: »

Cupcakes.

Ruining a perfectly good muffin by smothering it with a day-glow green, teeth-hurtlingy sweet sickly tasting massive blob of butter and sugar.
Absolutely disgusting.

I'm really glad I'm not the only one who hates cupcakes. Feel like the teeth are going to rot out of my head from the frosting, and I do have a bit of a sweet tooth in general! There's way too much of it too in relation to the amount of bun.

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

Drinks being served in jam jars. Usually in overpriced hipster places serving burgers, fried chicken and cheap cuts of steak. A glass works. Glasses are a great way of serving drinks.

This is everywhere on wedding sites/Pinterest/Etsy etc and it looks absolutely f*cking stupid. If I never hear the phrase "shabby chic" again...

Odyssey 2005 · 19-09-2014 10:04AM

When did anyone think that caramelised biscuit spread was a good idea.:eek::eek:

Akrasia · 19-09-2014 10:04AM

rainbow kirby wrote: »

I'm really glad I'm not the only one who hates cupcakes. Feel like the teeth are going to rot out of my head from the frosting, and I do have a bit of a sweet tooth in general! There's way too much of it too in relation to the amount of bun.

This is everywhere on wedding sites/Pinterest/Etsy etc and it looks absolutely f*cking stupid. If I never hear the phrase "shabby chic" again...

Cupcakes are for children, not adults, just like refreshers and anything with sherbet in it

My kids love cupcakes, but they just lck off the icing and leave the bun behind.

Maybe they have a gluten intolerance

Pumpkinseeds · 19-09-2014 10:05AM

rainbow kirby wrote: »

I'm really glad I'm not the only one who hates cupcakes. Feel like the teeth are going to rot out of my head from the frosting, and I do have a bit of a sweet tooth in general! There's way too much of it too in relation to the amount of bun.

This is everywhere on wedding sites/Pinterest/Etsy etc and it looks absolutely f*cking stupid. If I never hear the phrase "shabby chic" again...

I was complaining about something similar last week. We went to a 'shabby chic' tea shop where the tea arrived in an old English pint glass with a handle, served on a saucer

Shabby chic just looked tatty and the furniture was of the kind that looked as if it were stuff someone left out for the binmen to take away. We won't be going back and I doubt they'll still be in business this time next year, they only opened earlier this year.

rainbow kirby · 19-09-2014 10:08AM

^ What a waste of perfectly good pint glasses, they are fantastic for ale, but just seems so wrong for tea.

whisky_galore · 19-09-2014 10:11AM

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

tea arrived in an old English pint glass with a handle, served on a saucer.

What the actual fcuk?

Pumpkinseeds · 19-09-2014 10:11AM

Hold the Cheez Whiz wrote: »

I REALLY hate the trend of 'stretch your food' food like pulled pork, meatloaf, pot roast, or other forms of comfort food for people on a budget being sold in restaurants at 'regular' prices. Sorry, the whole point of these dishes is that you are using scraps or the cheapest cuts of meat and then filling them out with cheap grains and starches.

Mr P was mad to try meatloaf so I made one for him last year, I'm a veggie so there was plenty for him. Jeez, it's shockingly unhealthy stuff, I only made the one as it's like a heart attack in a tin.

kylith · 19-09-2014 10:35AM

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

Mr P was mad to try meatloaf so I made one for him last year, I'm a veggie so there was plenty for him. Jeez, it's shockingly unhealthy stuff, I only made the one as it's like a heart attack in a tin.

It's fupping tasty stuff though.

Dial Hard · 19-09-2014 10:38AM

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

Mr P was mad to try meatloaf so I made one for him last year, I'm a veggie so there was plenty for him. Jeez, it's shockingly unhealthy stuff, I only made the one as it's like a heart attack in a tin.

Only if you use sh*t quality mince, in fairness.

pickarooney · 19-09-2014 10:43AM

Meatloaf is just a giant burger, nothing particularly unhealthy about it.

I'd love some pulled pork now, but I'm too impatient to wait a day for it to cook and nobody sells it in this country. Maybe I should get a food truck and start selling it. And proper fried chicken. I'd just end up eating all my profits and dying of heart disease though.

Chips in a bucket? what the hell? is there a photo of this anywhere?

whisky_galore · 19-09-2014 10:53AM

pickarooney wrote: »

Meatloaf is just a giant burger, nothing particularly unhealthy about it.

I'd love some pulled pork now, but I'm too impatient to wait a day for it to cook and nobody sells it in this country. Maybe I should get a food truck and start selling it. And proper fried chicken. I'd just end up eating all my profits and dying of heart disease though.

Chips in a bucket? what the hell? is there a photo of this anywhere?

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/513IKw9ljdL._SY300_.jpg

Remmy · 19-09-2014 10:53AM

I dislike when people call themselves foodies.

whisky_galore · 19-09-2014 10:55AM

Remmy wrote: »

I dislike when people call themselves foodies.

Food-W*nkers would be a more apt description.

rogieop · 19-09-2014 10:58AM

Hold the Cheez Whiz wrote: »

Almond milk is AWESOME, especially for those of us who are ragingly lactose intolerant. But it is absolutely horrible for the environment, so I think I'm going to have to (reluctantly) give it up.

yep because drinking almond milk is sure to put an even bigger hole in the ozone layer!

Lucky we are not flying huge ****off planes aroud the world every 2 seconds isnt it.

Miss Lizzie Jones · 19-09-2014 11:10AM

I hate those places where a miniscule amount of food is piled 3 feet high in the center of the plate on top of some green goo and there is some yellow or red goo splooged around it.

Not only does it not satisfy your hunger but you are charged an arm and a leg for a serving of food that wouldn't feed a gnat.

Those places need to piss off.

paulbok · 19-09-2014 11:17AM

FanadMan wrote: »

Pulled pork like you get in KFC or most of the other places here is terrible. Tastes nothing like the american version.......yummy!

Yeah, most of the 'pulled pork' offerings now are just pork smothered in bbq sauce.

Proper pulled pork doesn't need half a gallon of sauce with it.

Mr.David · 19-09-2014 11:18AM

Hipster places with tiny little bowls for salt and pre-ground black pepper. So you can season your food with salt, pepper and whatever may have been on the hands of the last 20 customers to use the same little salt/pepper bowls. FFS, why?!

EazyD · 19-09-2014 11:20AM

Nando's, below average chicken smothered in hot sauce to blanket any resemblance of taste there might be. Pricey too.

Shenshen · 19-09-2014 11:23AM

Remmy wrote: »

I dislike when people call themselves foodies.

I dislike it even more if people call me a foodie.

Makes me sound like I'm some sort of fad-following air-brain. I've ALWAYS loved food, not just since it became fashionable. And yes, I've ALWAYS had my little herb garden (on the window sill while living in apartments), and I've ALWAYS made my own jam. For decades now. Not just because some celeb chef I've never heard of made some on the telly. :mad:

kylith · 19-09-2014 11:28AM

pickarooney wrote: »

I'd love some pulled pork now, but I'm too impatient to wait a day for it to cook and nobody sells it in this country. Maybe I should get a food truck and start selling it. And proper fried chicken. I'd just end up eating all my profits and dying of heart disease though.

Just buy a slow cooker and it'll cook away while you're in work.

paulbok · 19-09-2014 11:42AM

The new pubs that have sprung up around Dublin lately that actually go out of their way to look like a sh1thole, mis-matching, damaged/scraped tables & chairs, writing on the walls, I want a pint, not splinters and dry rot.

As mentioned, food not served on plates, mini buckets, slates etc can go do one. Also too many plates for a single dinner.

Gourmet burgers joints. It's still a burger, no amount of dressing up will convince me to pay twice what it's worth.

Bagles - Just sugary baps with a chunk of it missing in the middle.

Non coffee shop deli's/cafe's etc that faff about with making coffees taking half the day to make one bucket of coffee full of froth and syrups. Then barely remember to put a crap teabag into your tiny leaky teapot, half filled with water.

Menu's that list out every ingredient and cooking method that is going into the meal in it's name. "Pan fried monkfish with parsnip parfait, grilled beetroot, side salad and twice fried potatoes with a red wine and thyme jus". That's just fish and chip with a manky gravy.

Aberdeen Angus beef (now looking to be superseded by Hereford beef) - no-one can tell if its Angus/Hereford or Fresian. It's all bull.

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