# Recent examples of new foods spreading and getting popular? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** food-cooking\ **Created:** [May 29, 2025, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-examples-of-new-foods-spreading-and-getting-popular/1018957 "2025-05-29T13:40:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 14
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2025, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-examples-of-new-foods-spreading-and-getting-popular/1018957/261 "2025-06-04T20:10:13Z")
> [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](#): > > So avocado toast isn’t part of the Santa Clarita Diet? No, Spam is however. It kinda tastes- right. 😅 ---
**Author:** ![Reply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reply/32/15952_2.png) [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2025, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-examples-of-new-foods-spreading-and-getting-popular/1018957/262 "2025-06-04T20:12:08Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > I havent eaten breakfast at a sit down place in years. This is a poisoned dagger straight to my millennial heart! You’re missing the single best part of modern Western civilization. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2025, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-examples-of-new-foods-spreading-and-getting-popular/1018957/263 "2025-06-04T20:16:02Z")
> [@Reply](#): > > This is a poisoned dagger straight to my millennial heart! You’re missing the single best part of modern Western civilization. Well, remember i was a line cook once upon a time. In the morning the wife and I just want to eat- so it is either cereal or I cook bacon and eggs or steak and eggs, etc. Those are easy and we have the stuff on hand. Now take a good cheeseburger at say Black Bear Diner- you have to have tomato, a fryer for the fries, etc etc. When we go out it is in the later afternoon to run by the bookstore or something. Mind you my buddy and I go to the beach once or twice a week, then eat lunch out. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2025, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-examples-of-new-foods-spreading-and-getting-popular/1018957/264 "2025-06-04T20:16:07Z")
My favorite things from Wisconsin are Kringle pastries and beer & cheddar soup. Venison sausage is good too. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2025, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-examples-of-new-foods-spreading-and-getting-popular/1018957/265 "2025-06-04T20:16:55Z")
I just discovered Kringle pastries this year. Pretty good! ---
**Author:** ![Reply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reply/32/15952_2.png) [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2025, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-examples-of-new-foods-spreading-and-getting-popular/1018957/266 "2025-06-04T20:17:40Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > you have to have tomato, a fryer for the fries, etc etc. Yeah, that’s fair enough, especially if you can make a breakfast as good as the restaurants anyway (I cannot). > [@DrDeth](#): > > When we go out it is in the later afternoon to run by the bookstore or something. But this…! Nobody ever said breakfast has to be a morning thing 😉 Brunch all day, baby. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2025, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-examples-of-new-foods-spreading-and-getting-popular/1018957/267 "2025-06-04T20:20:14Z")
> [@Reply](#): > > Yeah, that’s fair enough, especially if you can make a breakfast as good as the restaurants anyway (I cannot). That I can do. Simple stuff cooked well, and my eggs come out RIGHT for me and the wife (she likes them over hard I like them sunny side up)- with sourdough toast, 'nach. > [@Reply](#): > > But this…! Nobody ever said breakfast has to be a morning thing My buddy does sometimes order breakfast for lunch. ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2025, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-examples-of-new-foods-spreading-and-getting-popular/1018957/268 "2025-06-04T20:23:26Z")
> [@Reply](#): > > Funny, I feel like the microbrewed-IPA trend of the last decade is fizzling out and pilsners are making a comeback, alongside kolschs and rice lagers and other “lighter” beers. And the younger generations don’t drink anymore or something? I dunno. I don’t know, it seems like the craft beer aisle of my local Total Wine is still dominated by IPAs. The same at BevMo. Much less selection if you want some other style. But I think beer in general might be declining in popularity. Yes, I have heard younger generations don’t drink as much. But also people who do drink are switching from beer to drinks like hard seltzers, which are perceived as healthier. Hmmm, has hard seltzer been mentioned in this thread yet? ---
**Author:** ![Reply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reply/32/15952_2.png) [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2025, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-examples-of-new-foods-spreading-and-getting-popular/1018957/269 "2025-06-04T20:32:19Z")
> [@WildaBeast](#): > > Hmmm, has hard seltzer been mentioned in this thread yet? Yeah, good point. I only discovered them in the last few years (see [Lone Water Ranch Water](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-examples-of-new-foods-spreading-and-getting-popular/1018957/165) upthread), and since they’ve replaced 90% of my beer drinking… I love [Clarity](https://bevmo.com/products/55836) and [Caldera](https://www.calderabrewing.com/caldera-hard-seltzers/) seltzers too. So much better than White Claw. OK, now I’m definitely pretentious. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2025, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-examples-of-new-foods-spreading-and-getting-popular/1018957/270 "2025-06-04T20:37:09Z")
The number of edible foods marketed as a “Superfood” surely fit this thread, right? > [@](#): > > According to [Cancer Research UK](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer_Research_UK), “the term ‘superfood’ is really just a marketing tool, with little scientific basis to it”.[[8]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfood#cite_note-cruk-8) Although superfoods are often promoted as preventing or curing diseases, including [cancer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer), Cancer Research UK cautioned that they “cannot substitute for a generally [healthy and balanced diet](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthy_diet)”.[[8]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfood#cite_note-cruk-8) According to Catherine Collins, chief [dietitian](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietitian) at [St George’s Hospital](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_George%27s_Hospital) in London, the term can be harmful: “There are so many wrong ideas about superfoods that I don’t know where best to begin to dismantle the whole concept.”[[9]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfood#cite_note-Hill2007-9) Goji berries, chia seeds, hemp seeds, and a helluva a lot more foodstuffs have been marketed as a “superfood” here in the US. > **[Superfood](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfood)** > > Superfood is a marketing term for food claimed to confer health benefits resulting from an exceptional nutrient density. The term is not commonly used by experts, dietitians and nutrition scientists, most of whom dispute that particular foods have the health benefits claimed by their advocates. Even without scientific evidence of exceptional nutrient content, many new, exotic, and foreign fruits or ancient grains are marketed under the term – or superfruit or supergrain respectively – after In 20... ---
**Author:** ![Tokushizu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@Tokushizu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tokushizu)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2025, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-examples-of-new-foods-spreading-and-getting-popular/1018957/271 "2025-06-04T20:56:17Z")
How about pickles and pickle-flavored this, that and everything? I lived in Japan from 2009 to 2024 and other than occasionally seeing deep-fried pickles, I rarely ran across anything pickle-related except for actual pickles. Since I returned to the US after my 15 year absence, it’s picklemania (including the unrelated pickleball!) > **[The dill of a lifetime? In a nation enduring its own sour patch, the pickle...](https://tucson.com/life-entertainment/nation-world/food-drink/article_56cde10c-6434-5aa3-80be-c4819776b7b7.html)** > > They're absurdly low fat — the rare food trend that's not outright bad for you — and some offer the probiotic benefits of fermentation. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2025, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-examples-of-new-foods-spreading-and-getting-popular/1018957/272 "2025-06-04T21:20:41Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > The number of edible foods marketed as a “Superfood” surely fit this thread, right? That seems like it goes with the recent trend for “ancient grains”. There’s a reason we stopped eating all of those as soon as we could grow something better… ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2025, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-examples-of-new-foods-spreading-and-getting-popular/1018957/273 "2025-06-04T21:49:54Z")
> [@Tokushizu](#): > > deep-fried pickles Deep-fried pickles are another recent trend. Some say that it began in Arkansas. Others note that it seem to be similar to the Scottish habit of deep-fried everything, including candy bars. ---
**Author:** ![Tokushizu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@Tokushizu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tokushizu)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2025, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-examples-of-new-foods-spreading-and-getting-popular/1018957/274 "2025-06-04T22:00:07Z")
I wanted to try them when I visited Duluth, MN in 2008, but the brewpub I went to was sold out. I never saw them in Japan, but if I had, I likely would have ordered them. ---
**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:** [June 4, 2025, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-examples-of-new-foods-spreading-and-getting-popular/1018957/275 "2025-06-04T22:12:56Z")
I’m lucky if I have one sit down restaurant breakfast a year. Lunch, dinner? At least a couple times monthly but breakfast? Nah. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2025, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-examples-of-new-foods-spreading-and-getting-popular/1018957/276 "2025-06-04T22:31:07Z")
Folks be different. I eat about 29 sit down restaurant breakfasts per month. ---
**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:** [June 4, 2025, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-examples-of-new-foods-spreading-and-getting-popular/1018957/277 "2025-06-04T22:32:08Z")
How recent is recent? I swear I’ve seen them fifteen years ago at least. At least deep fried pickle chips. Pickles as a pizza topping feels even more recent, but I saw that first in the mid-10s. Pickle as a general flavoring does seem to be trending the last year or two or three ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2025, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-examples-of-new-foods-spreading-and-getting-popular/1018957/278 "2025-06-04T22:49:03Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > How recent is recent? As recent as most of the posts on this thread, which isn’t very recent. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2025, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-examples-of-new-foods-spreading-and-getting-popular/1018957/279 "2025-06-04T22:52:15Z")
Deep fried pickles? Common appetizer fare when I was an undergrad. 1977-1981. ---
**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:** [June 4, 2025, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-examples-of-new-foods-spreading-and-getting-popular/1018957/280 "2025-06-04T22:52:21Z")
Yeah there’s a lot of old stuff, and it’s also so regional. A flavor I’ve seen pop up a lot lately, or at least seems to me, is blackberry. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-examples-of-new-foods-spreading-and-getting-popular/1018957.md?page=13) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-examples-of-new-foods-spreading-and-getting-popular/1018957.md?page=15)