# Food trends that can stop right now **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 20, 2013, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-trends-that-can-stop-right-now/666740 "2013-08-20T20:08:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2013, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-trends-that-can-stop-right-now/666740/21 "2013-08-20T21:38:28Z")
> [@Aji\_de\_Gallina](#): > > 1. Obsessing over sea salt or pink salt. For 99% of the dishes it’s a gimmick. Coarse salt is nothing new. I’m assuming you mean some kind of himalayan pink salt, and not the [sodium nitrate stuff.](http://www.amazon.com/D-Q-Curing-Salts-Pink-Salt/dp/B0050IM4MY) ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2013, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-trends-that-can-stop-right-now/666740/22 "2013-08-20T21:47:21Z")
> [@Balance](#): > > Bingo. The problem is that when a food or ingredient becomes trendy, it shows up in _everything_. It becomes the default. It’s inescapable. > > Look, I know a lot of people like cilantro. I know it doesn’t taste the same to them, and I don’t begrudge them the non-traumatic cilantro experience that is closed to me. By all means, have cilantro in dishes that traditionally are made with cilantro, and offer it in some new combinations, too. Just don’t put it in every damn dish. _Especially_ if you don’t mention the fact on the menu. Leave me some ground where I can stand without a little green mine on it, and I’ll hold my peace. > > But the next time I find the vile herb on my pizza, or in my mac & cheese (and no, I’m not kidding about this), with no warning, I will consider it an act of _war_. I happen to like cilantro quite a lot. But that doesn’t mean that I want it in EVERY SAVORY DISH that I eat. I haven’t seen sweet dishes with cilantro in them, but I wouldn’t want it in them, either. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2013, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-trends-that-can-stop-right-now/666740/23 "2013-08-20T21:54:43Z")
I’m half with the OP. But I kind of like Greek yogurt and whole wheat pasta has pretty much ruined regular pasta for me. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2013, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-trends-that-can-stop-right-now/666740/24 "2013-08-20T21:57:51Z")
I agree on #1; it sounds absolutely appalling salt and sugar just shouldn’t go together. #2 isn’t really a foot trend other than some people have been told not to eat egg yolks due to cholesterol concerns. I doubt anyone eats them because they taste better than real eggs. Whole wheat pasta and greek yogurt, though, are delicious. As for other suggestions, I agree completely on salt. Salt is salt is salt is salt. Anyone who thinks they can taste a difference also believes the emperor has a wonderful new suit of clothes. For my own part, I’ll add pretzel buns. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2013, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-trends-that-can-stop-right-now/666740/25 "2013-08-20T22:00:12Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > \ > Total agreement with **Little Nemo** about salad greens. Lawn clippings do not a salad make. Stephen King would disagree with you. 🙂 > [@Aji\_de\_Gallina](#): > > \ > > 1. (Maybe this one is too Peruvian) Explainig dishes in the corniest way possible. E.g.: “Green rice with chicken” : “_In this dish we can feel how the chicken and the rice form a perfect marriage of loving falvuors and how the seasoning blesses the union by multiplying the sensations of taste._” > Just tell me what it is. That’s all about marketing. You can’t just have “Green Rice With Chicken” - you have to have Artisanal Lime Rice with Organic Free-Range Fire-Roasted Chicken. That way people don’t squawk as much at the price tag. I recently bought some salted chocolate covered caramels - they were good, but a _little_ salt is the key, not coating them in it. I picked most of the coarse salt grains off before eating them. ETA: Forgot the Smart pasta - we eat that almost exclusively now - it has all the fibre without the taste (and texture) of whole wheat pasta. And you’ll take my pretzel buns from my cold, dead hands! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![GovernmentMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e9c0ed/32.png) [@GovernmentMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GovernmentMan)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2013, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-trends-that-can-stop-right-now/666740/26 "2013-08-20T22:11:08Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > I agree on #1; it sounds absolutely appalling salt and sugar just shouldn’t go together. How about you try it first? ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2013, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-trends-that-can-stop-right-now/666740/27 "2013-08-20T22:11:08Z")
> [@Skammer](#): > > I’m half with the OP. But I kind of like Greek yogurt and whole wheat pasta has pretty much ruined regular pasta for me. Wow. People actually like whole wheat pasta? I’m genuinely surprised. I tend to at least enjoy those “healthy-tasting” foods, but whole wheat pasta is just… not pleasing. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2013, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-trends-that-can-stop-right-now/666740/28 "2013-08-20T22:12:38Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > That’s all about marketing. You can’t just have “Green Rice With Chicken” - you have to have Artisanal Lime Rice with Organic Free-Range Fire-Roasted Chicken. That way people don’t squawk as much at the price tag. Ooo…there we go. Overly specific menu items. That I hate, and I’m probably a person some would label as a “foodie,” although I shy away from that term with all the baggage it comes with. ---
**Author:** ![TimeWinder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bcef8e/32.png) [@TimeWinder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TimeWinder)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2013, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-trends-that-can-stop-right-now/666740/29 "2013-08-20T22:16:48Z")
Honey Mustard. Where did this abomination come from? Is chocolate ketchup right around the corner? Similarly, for the 99.5% of us who don’t have celiac, Gluten free everything isn’t helping anything, and it’s starting to displace real breads. I went into a bakery the other day that was ALL gluten-free products. (No, it didn’t say that on the outside, and yes, the sample pastry tasted like wallpaper). I’m glad we’re giving folks with a real illness a better set of options, but the woo folk are already out on gluten free (more energy! cures autism! improves digestion!), and pretty soon it’s going to be like organic foods–the overpriced “better” version (that isn’t actually better, and is arguably worse) is all that’s available. But mostly, I’m just irritated that any of the American food production system is being used for foods that I don’t like. Don’t they understand their customer? ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2013, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-trends-that-can-stop-right-now/666740/30 "2013-08-20T22:17:20Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > I agree on #1; it sounds absolutely appalling salt and sugar just shouldn’t go together. Totally agree. Cookies and cakes are awful vile things that need to be stricken from the earth. ---
**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2013, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-trends-that-can-stop-right-now/666740/31 "2013-08-20T22:22:40Z")
> [@August\_West](#): > > Fuck kale I have a gardening book from 1970- its write up for kale is basically “it may be worth growing if you want to have something available from the veg plot all year round, as it will stand through almost any weather.” Yeah. That’s the point of kale- something the peasants grow so they don’t get scurvy in January. It’s not a bloody gourmet food. ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2013, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-trends-that-can-stop-right-now/666740/32 "2013-08-20T22:24:46Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > For my own part, I’ll add pretzel buns. Pretzels are taking over! and I don’t like it, either. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2013, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-trends-that-can-stop-right-now/666740/33 "2013-08-20T23:04:30Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > As for other suggestions, I agree completely on salt. Salt is salt is salt is salt. Anyone who thinks they can taste a difference also believes the emperor has a wonderful new suit of clothes. I can tell the difference between sea salt and plain table salt. It has a drastically different texture, too. And I love Greek yogurt. A gimmick, it is not! ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2013, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-trends-that-can-stop-right-now/666740/34 "2013-08-20T23:04:55Z")
> [@TimeWinder](#): > > Honey Mustard. Where did this abomination come from? Is chocolate ketchup right around the corner? Sometime before 1989, when I worked at a Chili’s whose second best selling salad dressing was honey mustard (second to ranch). FWIW, the recipe was 2 parts Miracle Whip, 1 part honey and one part Grey Poupon. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2013, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-trends-that-can-stop-right-now/666740/35 "2013-08-20T23:19:03Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Foam. For some reason, the whole “molecular gastronomy” movement irritates me. Just let the food _be_, people! I love the science of cooking, but I’m not so bored with my existence that I need my food in the form of a foam or gel or bubbles or whatever. The trend of bitter dark chocolate with searing hot peppers seems to be rearing its head again. Ugh. ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2013, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-trends-that-can-stop-right-now/666740/36 "2013-08-20T23:36:41Z")
the trend of “foodies” taking mundane dishes, tarting them up with unconventional ingredients, then acting like their concoctions are the One True Way. just eat your fucking lunch and shut the hell up about it. nobody cares that you believe a proper grilled cheese sandwich is made from 12-year aged cheddar from Smitheringwick-upon-Bunkenshire and bread from a little panificio in Genova. ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2013, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-trends-that-can-stop-right-now/666740/37 "2013-08-20T23:40:20Z")
The phrase _Asian Bistro_ Dude. Is it Chinese food or Italian? There’s no italian on the menu? Drop the friggin’ beeeestro then! ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Girlfriend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.girlfriend/32/193_2.png) [@Dr.Girlfriend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Girlfriend)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2013, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-trends-that-can-stop-right-now/666740/38 "2013-08-20T23:42:42Z")
> [@psychobunny](#): > > #4) Greek yogurt-stop trying to convince me that this is some new wonderful food. It’s just like yogurt only more so. All the thing I dislike about regular yogurt, the sourness, the texture, are multiplied in greek yogurt. If I liked yogurt I would like it but I don’t like yogurt and there is nothing about greek yogurt that makes it more appealing. I’ll back you up on this one. I like regular yogurt but Greek yogurt is just vile. Too thick, too sour. Yuk. I like salted caramel and whole wheat pasta, and I won’t eat an omelet in any way shape or form. There was a traumatic egg-puking incident with my little sister when we were kids. Scarred me for life. ---
**Author:** ![Labrador\_Deceiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Labrador\_Deceiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labrador_Deceiver)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2013, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-trends-that-can-stop-right-now/666740/39 "2013-08-20T23:42:44Z")
Bistro is French, not Italian. ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2013, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-trends-that-can-stop-right-now/666740/40 "2013-08-20T23:59:01Z")
> [@Labrador\_Deceiver](#): > > Bistro is French, not Italian. Even Better! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-trends-that-can-stop-right-now/666740.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-trends-that-can-stop-right-now/666740.md?page=3)