Worst food/restaurant trends

[AnOminous]

But most of all I despise it when someone at my table takes 2 minutes to reconstruct something off the menu when ordering because they "don't like tomatoes" or something. Chefs train for years and restaurants work really hard to make the best tasting food possible. It absolutely blows my chode that my friends aren't willing to get a little bit of pickle on their sandwich lest they keel over and die.

If I don't like fucking tomatoes I'm not paying for them.

 

[JambledUpWords]

It's not about quality. I'm saying that, if someone doesn't like black olives, Mister FancyPants Chef had better not put black olives on their food, regardless what his culinary arts degree claims. Aside from merely chemical variations such as the people who spit out cilantro in disgust, food has a deeply personal, emotional aspect. No matter what the "right" combination of flavors is for the people who created a recipe, it cannot be extended to all people. The job of the Chef is to please his customer, not to justify his own preferences by forcing them on others.

I doubt any successful chef thinks this way, at any rate. It's mostly an idea put forth by dumbasses who want to show their "respect" to cooking school. Imagine if someone were to tell you, no, your spotify playlist is wrong. You need to listen to more Beatles because people like the Beatles and that's that.

I went to a restaurant like that before. It was this Thai place and I ordered Pad Thai. I asked if I could change the spice level and they said “no”. Later when I receive the Pad Thai, there are mushrooms in it. I must have not read the description well enough, but it was something that I thought shouldn’t go in Pad Thai to begin with. The service was terrible too and it was my husband’s birthday. The cake was already provided by my husband’s family and all they had to do was bring out a knife and a few plates. It took them over an hour to do that simple task well after people had already eaten. My husband didn’t choose the restaurant though, his cousin did and he was dragged along. I’m usually down for Thai food most of the time, and I’m pretty easy to please, so that place was exceptionally bad to me. It was a memorable experience, but for all the wrong reasons.

 

[AmazingEagle]

Oh god that makes me feel an urge to vomit.

Same, talk about nausea, heartburn, indigestion, upset stomach, and diarrhea in a cup.

 

[Torque Wheeler]

I think people are babies for not liking specific vegetables. They all taste okay to great

 

[Sped Xing]

There are fruits I dislike. The obly vegetable I've actively disliked so far is kale. "Like spinach, except shitty!"

I went to a restaurant like that before. It was this Thai place and I ordered Pad Thai. I asked if I could change the spice level and they said “no”. Later when I receive the Pad Thai, there are mushrooms in it. I must have not read the description well enough, but it was something that I thought shouldn’t go in Pad Thai to begin with. The service was terrible too and it was my husband’s birthday. The cake was already provided by my husband’s family and all they had to do was bring out a knife and a few plates. It took them over an hour to do that simple task well after people had already eaten. My husband didn’t choose the restaurant though, his cousin did and he was dragged along. I’m usually down for Thai food most of the time, and I’m pretty easy to please, so that place was exceptionally bad to me. It was a memorable experience, but for all the wrong reasons.

"Eat it or leave" is merely unfriendly in a soup kitchen. In a fancy restaurant, it's baffling. Some people just like being cucked, I guess.

 

[JambledUpWords]

I think people are babies for not liking specific vegetables. They all taste okay to great

Depends on said vegetable. I notice some restaurants like to put specific emphasis on certain vegetables because they’re a “superfood” and/or trendy with hipsters, like kale. I think kale is okay if it’s not in large quantities, but some restaurants I’ve seen will use kale primarily as their choice of green and sometimes I think the flavor is overpowering. With stuff like kale, it’s like after some hipsters went on about how good it tasted that restaurants started using it more often. Some of the foods popular with hipsters sometimes make me think that they’re trying to take a piss on everyone to see how many gross foods normies will eat in the name of being “trendy”.

 

[Torque Wheeler]

Imagine eating in a restaurant

 

[AmazingEagle]

I think people are babies for not liking specific vegetables. They all taste okay to great

Those types of people tend to be fat and HAES activists if I remember correctly.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

I don't know if anyone remembers it but one of the old and really annoying one was the food towers of babylon. Everything was stacked up in the middle as a neat arrangement and then sauce was dripped in a circle on the outside. The only reasonable way to eat was to topple that tower and suddenly there was no arrangement or placement.

Self-quoting: I thought that maybe I was remembering it wrong and that the trend of 90's food towers, that I hated so much, was just a local thing but something reminded me of it and I found an article on them falling out of fashion.

Tall food used to be one of the biggest trends of New American cuisine. Where the heck is it now?
In the late ’80s and 1990s, tall food was practically synonymous with upscale American cuisine. Today, a gleaming skyscraper of sculpted crudité seems as dated as Doc Martens and nü-metal.
...
As a plating fad, Davis says, tall food likely got its start at London’s River Café. Opened in 1987, the London-based restaurant was notable for the number of chefs who trained and came out of its kitchens: Jamie Oliver, Tobie Puttock, Theo Randall, and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, all of whom went on to take part in the tall food fad in the ’90s.

The Rise And Fall Of The American Food Tower

Tall food used to be one of the biggest trends of New American cuisine. Where the heck is it now?

www.fastcompany.com

 

[JambledUpWords]

Some new things I’d like to add:

• Calling mayonnaise based dips/sauces at restaurants “aioli.” By technicality it isn’t, and it just sounds very pretentious if it actually isn’t that
• Everything at fancy restaurants being topped with lobster/crab to drive up the price. I enjoy both, but some places really overdo it
• Adding “house made _____” to menu item descriptions to up the price without really being all that impressive. Saying you do house made sauces for an Italian restaurant should be a given, especially one claiming to be authentic
• Overcharging for things like mac and cheese. I get it, I myself love a good mac and cheese, but paying $12-$15 for just basic mac and cheese is a ripoff most of the time unless it’s a decent portion size and has a good quality sauce
• Adding too much mayonnaise to things. Mayonnaise is good when used sparingly, in my opinion. If I ask for a sandwich with mayonnaise, I don’t want it to be goopy and mask other flavors
• I’ll never truly understand the fake meat trend, but I notice a lot of places these days will have some Impossible or Beyond meat option

 

[Jason Wynn]

The mayo thing is a big one for me as well., same with sour cream. A little bit goes a long way and lately anytime I get something that has mayo or sour cream on it, the food looks like someone nutted multiple times on it.

 

[I Love Beef]

Calling mayonnaise based dips/sauces at restaurants “aioli.” By technically it isn’t, and it just sounds very pretentious if it actually isn’t that

I fucking hate this shit. I've had real aioli, and it tends to be slight pungent and mildly sharp, and it bothers to have cucumber as a composed garnish. It tastes nothing like mayonnaise.

Depends on said vegetable. I notice some restaurants like to put specific emphasis on certain vegetables because they’re a “superfood” and/or trendy with hipsters, like kale. I think kale is okay if it’s not in large quantities, but some restaurants I’ve seen will use kale primarily as their choice of green and sometimes I think the flavor is overpowering. With stuff like kale, it’s like after some hipsters went on about how good it tasted that restaurants started using it more often. Some of the foods popular with hipsters sometimes make me think that they’re trying to take a piss on everyone to see how many gross foods normies will eat in the name of being “trendy”.

I've said this before, but hipster fags on the other hand are ruining Japanese food by making restaurants serve their food with "low sodium". One, I shouldn't have to pay for Wojack McHipsterfuck's poor health because he doesn't bother doing exercise or sits in his amerifat car instead of walking, two, salt is actually good for your health, like helping to clean out your urinary tract and helping your perspiration, three, I hope there's a lot of backlash for this because if they can't handle the food, they can get back to drinking kombu and being faggots.

 

[NoReturn]

Some new things I’d like to add:

• Calling mayonnaise based dips/sauces at restaurants “aioli.” By technically it isn’t, and it just sounds very pretentious if it actually isn’t that
• Everything at fancy restaurants being topped with lobster/crab to drive up the price. I enjoy both, but some places really overdo it
• Adding “house made _____” to menu item descriptions to up the price without really being all that impressive. Saying you do house made sauces for an Italian restaurant should be a given, especially one claiming to be authentic
• Overcharging for things like mac and cheese. I get it, I myself love a good mac and cheese, but paying $12-$15 for just basic mac and cheese is a ripoff most of the time unless it’s a decent portion size and has a good quality sauce
• Adding too much mayonnaise to things. Mayonnaise is good when used sparingly, in my opinion. If I ask for a sandwich with mayonnaise, I don’t want it to be goopy and mask other flavors
• I’ll never truly understand the fake meat trend, but I notice a lot of places these days will have some Impossible or Beyond meat option

Wanna hear something wild?
When one of the burgers (it was either Impossible or Beyond burger) first came out I thought it tasted good as its own thing. It wasn't a replacement burger, it was just something I thought tasted ok as a food-to-eat.
I tried both types again within the last two years and they both taste like SHIT. I don't know if it's a side effect of me eating better in general or if the recipe changed or what.

 

[Your Starter for 10]

Wanna hear something wild?
When one of the burgers (it was either Impossible or Beyond burger) first came out I thought it tasted good as its own thing. It wasn't a replacement burger, it was just something I thought tasted ok as a food-to-eat.
I tried both types again within the last two years and they both taste like SHIT. I don't know if it's a side effect of me eating better in general or if the recipe changed or what.

Just cover it in a lot of mayonnaise aioli and it will taste a lot better.

 

[Bravefart]

I can't believe some restaurants still refuse to give me my meal on a plate.

I don't want to eat off of a roofing tile or a plank.

I mean look at this nonsense. Why? Just why?

 

[JambledUpWords]

Dessert trends I’m not crazy about:

• Cookies and cream is an overrated flavor and I wish more places would be more creative
• Funfetti is a nice flavor sometimes, but man do some hipster places overdo it
• Being too skimpy with some of the sauces. I like it better when a restaurant just has a sauce on the side to drizzle over the dessert yourself for that reason
• Deconstructed desserts. I tried one once and while it was good, I would have rather eaten it combined instead of “deconstructed”
• Desserts that use alcohol just aren’t my thing. Made the mistake of eating something with a bit of rum in it once and I hated the aftertaste
• I think a lot of places play it too safe with flavors occasionally, and I’d like to see more experimentation. Even things as simple as adding an unexpected spice or changing something from strawberry to blueberry could be fun. If people like it, slowly make more of it
• Monster milkshakes are largely unnecessary and seem like a pain to actually eat. I’m fine with a bit of garnish, but you don’t need an entire slice of cake on top of it

 

[Boom Boss]

Restaurants that won't let you order breakfast any time of the day. I want breakfast for lunch and dinner dammit!

 

[Kel1 shi1]

I can't believe some restaurants still refuse to give me my meal on a plate.

I don't want to eat off of a roofing tile or a plank.

I mean look at this nonsense. Why? Just why?

It's no longer even an original idea, you can mass buy all those "Not plates" things so it does not make your eatery interesting or unique.

 

[Grundlejungle]

When places ask how I want my hamburger cooked. There is literally only one way that is correct, and that is well done. Ground meat needs to be cooked through, as it has more surface for bacteria to be on. I'll take my steak medium, but fuck medium rare hamburger. It's diarrhea roulette.

 

[MembersSchoolPizza]

It's more a restaurant trend than a food trend, but:

Hipster sandwich shops that:

1. Give all their sandwiches a new, quirky name. "The Fat Monk", "The Whole Barnyard", "Rainbow In A Bun", "Henrietta's Hoagie'", whatever. Fuck you right in the ear hole.
2. Compound the problem by not actually explaining what the fucking thing is on their oh-so-quirky handwritten-on-a-blackboard-in-colored-chalk menu at the counter, forcing you to either order more or less at random, ask the cashier what every single sandwich is, or pull out your phone, try to find their goddamned website, hope it's actually updated, and then read the full menu there.
3. Have random time-gates on when certain items are available. "The Fat Monk (Saturday and Sunday only!)".
4. Don't actually understand how to run a fucking restaurant, so they run out of shit all the time, and half their menu isn't actually available.
5. Charge you 10 goddamned dollars for a sandwich, assuming you actually manage to get that far.
6. Somehow, despite all odds, continue to exist for years, when better places fold.

I can't believe some restaurants still refuse to give me my meal on a plate.

I don't want to eat off of a roofing tile or a plank.

I mean look at this nonsense. Why? Just why?

Okay, I'll defend cast iron skillets for serving... If you're serving something in the pan it was cooked in. But just using it as a quirky tray, no.