We laugh at trendy foods from previous decades — meat in jello molds, fondue as a meal, cream-of-anything soups, etc. But will our future selves cringe at the current popular food trends? Reddit user u/itchy-picture-4282 wanted to find out, asking the r/cooking community about what modern food trend they see being laughed at in the future. These are people’s predictions for what food trends are going to age badly, and we want to know if you agree with them:
1.
“Everything being served on a wood plank even if it doesn’t make sense to do so.”
2.
“When there’s an entire charcuterie board hanging off my drink, there’s a problem.”
3.
“Pumpkin Spice everything. I refuse to believe this will last forever!”
4.
“I think the whole charcuterie board thing will die out. It’s just messy and lazy. They may look ‘artistic’ when first served, but about ten minutes into any party, they look like a cured meat autopsy.”
5.
“Having ‘protein’ versions of everything from coffee, to milk to snickers bars.”
6.
“Giant desserts where the outside of the cup is covered in frosting, and it’s a milkshake, cake, candy, and Bloody Mary all in one.”
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“Those menu items made just for Instagram, like a cheeseburger with a steak or lobster tail impaled on top. Those are the new version of the aspic thing because they do exist, and they are attention-grabbing, but they aren’t really representative of what type of food most people actually eat regularly.”
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“I recently watched a reel about ‘my daughter’s Stanley for today.’ Her mother had this mini bento box that clicked into the top of the Stanley Cup. She filled the bottle with sweetened water and the box with candy and salty snacks. It’s so gross and beyond terrible that she’s feeding her kid this crap. This plastic nightmare that’s Stanley and all the attachments needs to end. Just so much waste!”
9.
“Serving meals on quarter sheet pans and butcher paper won’t age well.”
10.
“Any food that has Hot Cheetos incorporated.”
11.
“The amount of Fruity Pebbles and Cinnamon Toast Crunch-flavored things has just gone completely overboard.”
12.
“Paleo and carnivore diets. I don’t mean just meat eaters, of which I’m one; I mean, people on Instagram having a stick of butter and four steaks for lunch.”
13.
“‘Deconstructed’ dishes. If I wanted to put my meal together myself, I would have just cooked for myself and not paid like five times more for the same thing finished when it was served to me.”
14.
“Recreating ‘fast food’ with better ingredients. It’s actually just cooking normal food, but because most ‘fast food’ is a dumbed-down, mass-producible version of the real stuff.”
15.
“I would say the absolutely ridiculous burgers and sandwiches that can only be eaten by disassembling them and using a knife and fork… I already laugh at them.”
16.
“I once tried making chocolate avocado ice cream… it tasted like… avocados, lol, and not in a good way.”
17.
“Maybe not laughed at, but having food overly packaged in plastic. Microplastics from food packaging will be like the new cigarette one day.”
18.
“Gold leaf needs to go.”
19.
“Hopefully, charcoal in things that don’t need or benefit from charcoal. Like grapefruit, and particularly like alcohol, having to avoid the food you normally enjoy because of the risk that it might interfere with your medication is so unnecessary.”
20.
“Truffle oil is an abomination and should be yeeted into the trash.”
What other trends do you think are going to age like milk? Let us know in the comments or via this anonymous form!
