Worst food/restaurant trends

“Queso” is short for “chili con queso” which is a specific Tex-Mex thing. News flash: when you go to a Mexican place in the USofA, chances are it’s not “GEEN-U-WINE” Mexican food but some localization of Tex-Mex or southwestern Mexican-influenced food. One you leave the American Southwest and Texas, most “Mexican food” places are kinda trash. Like with Cajun food, some styles of food and cooking just haven’t migrated throughout the country well enough yet. I got dragged to a Cajun place in DC and it was a very depressing experience, especially considering the bill. “Blackened” on the east coast apparently means “lightly seasoned”.

Most authentic Mexican food can be pretty nasty/flavorless unless you grew up eating that stuff. Even some delicacies, such as menudo and lengua, can be disgusting when it’s made by people who don’t know what they’re doing.
I'm a SoCal native. What I like in "Mexican" food is neither what you'd find in Mexico City nor San Antonio. Queso is still gross. I'd rather have gas station nachos.
 
I guess Southern California is no long part of the Southwest.
Regionally it is, but in a culinary sense what's expected from a Mexican restaurant is shared only with about half of Arizona. New Mexico has its own take, and Tex-Mex is its own thing that has had some cross pollination but not without major alterations.

And "Southwestern" restaurants are their own kind of thing that are like...Tex Mex with more corn and black beans and lime in the salsa, I guess?
 
That place looks uninviting.

I have a bony ass :powerlevel:, and the metal stools are insufferable.

The only time it's fun is in the summer when they open all the garage doors and it's like wide open. Makes for a cool vibe. When the doors are down, it echoes inside like you're inside a tin can.
 
The whole "lactose and/or gluten free diets are so healthy" trend needs to die in a dumpster fire. There is NO NEED for such a diet to be pushed onto anybody that isn't intolerant of one or both of these things... yet here in Sweden, woke food activists have been singing their high praises to it since the late 2000s-early 2010s which in its turn has caused mindless health freak sheeps to start thinking they too are intolerant and need to start purchasing extremely healthy lactose/gluten free products (something which food companies are fully aware of and they make sure to profit off of it). That, or they just claim to be intolerant because it makes them feel special.

*Rates self :mad: on the internet*
 
The whole "lactose and/or gluten free diets are so healthy" trend needs to die in a dumpster fire. There is NO NEED for such a diet to be pushed onto anybody that isn't intolerant of one or both of these things... yet here in Sweden, woke food activists have been singing their high praises to it since the late 2000s-early 2010s which in its turn has caused mindless health freak sheeps to start thinking they too are intolerant and need to start purchasing extremely healthy lactose/gluten free products (something which food companies are fully aware of and they make sure to profit off of it). That, or they just claim to be intolerant because it makes them feel special.

*Rates self :mad: on the internet*
Also, alternative sources of dairy aren’t known to be as healthy and can be more expensive than regular milk since many dairy free products are made with cashews and almonds.
 
The whole "lactose and/or gluten free diets are so healthy" trend needs to die in a dumpster fire. There is NO NEED for such a diet to be pushed onto anybody that isn't intolerant of one or both of these things... yet here in Sweden, woke food activists have been singing their high praises to it since the late 2000s-early 2010s which in its turn has caused mindless health freak sheeps to start thinking they too are intolerant and need to start purchasing extremely healthy lactose/gluten free products (something which food companies are fully aware of and they make sure to profit off of it). That, or they just claim to be intolerant because it makes them feel special.

*Rates self :mad: on the internet*
It's dumb to me how many people avoid gluten like the plague when the honest-to-goodness gluten intolerant people I know will take the risk if the food is good enough. There's actually a weird misconception among people (or at least Whole Foods customers) that gluten "makes you fat". No, it's that people with Celiac disease tend to be really skinny since gluten makes them evacuate their entire digestive system.
 
Well, Thanksgiving is next week, and I can just about count on someone jerking around with the traditional recipes for all the sides if they don't mess with the turkey as well. There's a cranberry roulette wheel somewhere because I've seen them mixed with everything. Everybody tries these experiments, their special family recipes, or they want to serve something totally off the wall. I don't want something stuffed with clams and oranges and paprika. Just make the fucking dish.
 
It's dumb to me how many people avoid gluten like the plague when the honest-to-goodness gluten intolerant people I know will take the risk if the food is good enough. There's actually a weird misconception among people (or at least Whole Foods customers) that gluten "makes you fat". No, it's that people with Celiac disease tend to be really skinny since gluten makes them evacuate their entire digestive system.

I used to work at Denny's as a cook, I know this whole "gluten free" shit all too well. It was beyond irritating. Not only did the menu show what was and wasn't gluten free (which most of the fad diet retards seemed to not understand), but I'd always have to reiterate to my servers why their table was stupid. Keep in mind, I'm ServSafe certified.

"Are eggs gluten free?"

I remember that dumbass comment the most.
 
Complex shit on something that should take 5 minutes. Smoked shit I get, low and slow. But why the ass do I have to do 8 million different steps on FUCKING BEANS
You’d hate molecular gastronomy then. Some trendy restaurants do it with food where they’ll change the texture and/or taste of some foods using an insane number of cooking steps to achieve results.
 
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I once figured out how one of my favorite restaurants made steak. They bought it from the same grocery store I did and then just did a good job cooking it.

It was at that point I decided maybe I should just do that myself.
 
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