Stupid Food Trends

shruikan2553

Paleo diet. Can also be called the hipster wanker diet.

whisky_galore

Cat Shyte Coffee....http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopi_Luwak

Hold the Cheez Whiz

rogieop wrote: »

yep because drinking almond milk is sure to put an even bigger hole in the ozone layer!

Lucky we are not flying huge ****off planes aroud the world every 2 seconds isnt it.

Over 80% of the global almond supply is produced in California. Almond monoculture is a huge contributor to the collapse of bee colonies, and almond groves use massive amounts of water in a region experiencing record levels of drought. So, yes, almond milk puts a huge strain on the environment.

o1s1n

I swear I'd never heard the word 'barista' until a year or two ago. Now it's bloody everywhere :mad:

Usually along with terms like 'artisan', 'honest food'.

**** off, you make coffee in a high street chain coffee house.

Hold the Cheez Whiz

shruikan2553 wrote: »

Paleo diet. Can also be called the hipster wanker diet.

Most of the people I know who do paleo aren't necessarily hipsters. They are annoying because they are so evangelical about it. The people who do paleo and Crossfit are the absolute worst. Crossfitters didn't invent weightlifting and high-intensity interval training, and the paleo diet is just a fancier version of a low-carb diet (which almost nobody ever wants to admit that they are on).

Steak on a stone.
20 quid to cook your own dinner?
I will in my fook.

pulled pork is the chicken fillet roll of the next "boom".
I think 4star pizza do a pulled pork pizza!

Davarus Walrus

Hold the Cheez Whiz wrote: »

Most of the people I know who do paleo aren't necessarily hipsters. They are annoying because they are so evangelical about it. The people who do paleo and Crossfit are the absolute worst. Crossfitters didn't invent weightlifting and high-intensity interval training, and the paleo diet is just a fancier version of a low-carb diet (which almost nobody ever wants to admit that they are on).

Most of them are so narky and constipated as a result of this diet that they invariably fall off the wagon.

Duggy747

In the past few years the food industry has gone crazy with "Natural", "Goodness", "Wellness", "Eco-Something", "Gentle" with a random fact about ancient China or the Incas to peddle it. The GF had something in the fridge that had stamped on the box "Did you know that the ancient Chinese ate this?"....................oh all right, that means it must be good. There's good natural food and then there's "natural food" with all sorts of claims.

I don't particularly care what a person eats but the current "all-natural" bolloxology with some very dodgy "facts" being passed and shared on Facebook by people from local nutritionists is irritating.

Basically, "superfoods" and miracle natural foods / drinks offering to fix and cure everything with next to nothing to back their claims up. Some companies like Danone eventually being pulled up in court for bullshítting consumers, for example.

castletownman

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

I can't keep up with food trends anymore. First they said fat was bad, eat more carbs. They scoffed at high protein low carb diets. Now they say eat more protein and less carbs and that fat is friendly and sugar is evil. *Sigh, make up your mind boffins, make up your minds.

It just shows how much of a joke medical profession nutrition is.

Telling athletes what they should and shouldn't be eating (without taking individual metabolisms into account) and coming up a different buzz-food every year.

Very much, the "style-guru" of the medical world

DLMA23

Vegans, fúck off & stop trying to push your agenda on me

You have every right to follow your chosen lifestyle, I however choose to be a carnivore because...I like meat

Realt Dearg Sec

castletownman wrote: »

It just shows how much of a joke medical profession nutrition is.

Telling athletes what they should and shouldn't be eating (without taking individual metabolisms into account) and coming up a different buzz-food every year.

Very much, the "style-guru" of the medical world

Woah woah hold your horses. "Nutritionist" is not a medical profession. It's not a protected name, like a dietician. The likes of Dr. Gillian McKeith PhD, or to give her her full medical title, Gillian McKeith (robbed that line from Ben Goldacre) peddle all sorts of trendy health food bull****, but there is nothing that they say which is backed up by medical research or knowledge.

DLMA23

pickarooney wrote: »

I'd love some pulled pork now, but I'm too impatient to wait a day for it to cook and nobody sells it in this country.

Blues BBQ, 1 rue Sedaine, 75011 Paris

http://www.bluesbarbq.fr/index.php

castletownman

Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »

Woah woah hold your horses. "Nutritionist" is not a medical profession. It's not a protected name, like a dietician. The likes of Dr. Gillian McKeith PhD, or to give her her full medical title, Gillian McKeith (robbed that line from Ben Goldacre) peddle all sorts of trendy health food bull****, but there is nothing that they say which is backed up by medical research or knowledge.

I stand corrected. Though anyone who proclaims to be a doctor when they're not are douches

Realt Dearg Sec

castletownman wrote: »

I stand corrected. Though anyone who proclaims to be a doctor when they're not are douches

As an English PhD, I'm just going to have to quietly end this conversation

pickarooney

DLMA23 wrote: »

Blues BBQ, 1 rue Sedaine, 75011 Paris

http://www.bluesbarbq.fr/index.php

A 16 hour round trip... actually quicker to cook it

MsBubbles

Fair play to you Realt Dearg Sec after many years of hard work you deserve to be called Dr. Ms McKeith's education credentials are allegedly somewhat suspect.

I'm coeliac and the gluten avoiders who claim to be 'allergic' or 'intolerant' to gluten then stuff their faces with a pulled pork baguette really get on my nerves.

Tarzana

Hold the Cheez Whiz wrote: »

Does kale need to be in everything? Spinach tastes much better.

Kale is lovely. I prefer it to spinach.

I am pie

Aye, how dare anyone try anything new with food. The cheek of some folk, dedicating years working in a difficult profession to try and present something new and interesting.

The bast4rds.

Tarzana

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

*Sigh, make up your mind boffins, make up your minds.

Science is ever evolving as more and more is discovered. Show me a "boffin" who says they know it all and the current knowledge on a subject won't ever change, and I'll show you one hell of a bad scientist.

o1s1n

I am pie wrote: »

Aye, how dare anyone try anything new with food. The cheek of some folk, dedicating years working in a difficult profession to try and present something new and interesting.

The bast4rds.

It's hardly new if it's a trend and every second restaurant is selling the same 'new' thing.

Tarzana

Sky King wrote: »

Gluten free bull****.

Genuine coeliacs must hate being lumped in with these gluten free frauds.

Though I suppose their selection has increased a lot as a result.

This is a bit ignorant. Coeliacs aren't the only ones who can benefit from cutting out gluten or bread in general.

Ireland actually has a very high incidence of serious bowel disorders, and unless you plan on quizzing a non-gluten eater on their medical history, you have no idea whether they have an illness or not. I had one (now inactive thankfully), and I couldn't stomach bread at all when it was active. I'm not coeliac.

Tarzana

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

And to think up until it was trendy it was just a way of getting the last bits of meat/chicken off the carcass.:D

Yeah, it's funny, a lot of things that become fashionable food trends often started their life as peasant food.

uch

Tarzana wrote: »

Ireland actually has a very high incidence of serious bowel disorders, and unless you plan on quizzing a non-gluten eater on their medical history, you have no idea whether they have an illness or not. I had one (now inactive thankfully), and I couldn't stomach bread at all when it was active. I'm not coeliac.

I'd say this is due to too much of the black stuff to be honest, scuttery black shíte can't be much good for yer bowels

ghogie91

The worse food trend is the instagram generation taking pictures of how nice the food looks...

lob it into the belly there hipster, if you spent as much time eating as you do taking photos you wont look like a rake and those skinny jeans would be a thing of the past

Years ago:
Dairylea Pizza Dippers... jesus *shivers*

Sgt Hartman

Shenshen wrote: »

Cupcakes.

Ruining a perfectly good muffin by smothering it with a day-glow green, teeth-hurtlingy sweet sickly tasting massive blob of butter and sugar.
Absolutely disgusting.

YES, this!! Cupcake icing and buttercream are utterly disgusting. Carrot cakes are a good example. I hate seeing perfectly good carrot cakes utterly destroyed by having that sweet cloying sugary sh!te plastered all over the surface. It just ruins the cake for me.

Tiddlypeeps

Tarzana wrote: »

This is a bit ignorant. Coeliacs aren't the only ones who can benefit from cutting out gluten or bread in general.

The general consensus in the scientific community disagrees with you at the moment. Celiac is real, but non-celiac gluten intolerance doesn't seem to be.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/rosspomeroy/2014/05/15/non-celiac-gluten-sensitivity-may-not-exist/

Or if you want the actual study itself:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23648697

Davarus Walrus

Paying €12 for a hunk of cremated beef, overcooked vegetables, 3 types of spuds, and a half pint of gravy at the carvery in your local pub.

ghogie91

MsMayhem wrote: »

I have such a longing for pulled pork after reading this thread...

Id ate and tear it alive..

Billy86

Davarus Walrus wrote: »

Paying €12 for a hunk of cremated beef, overcooked vegetables, 3 types of spuds, and a half pint of gravy at the carvery in your local pub.

Well done steak full stop... I mean, just why?

Funnyonion79

I love well done steak. But when did this trend for pure pink beef start?? Even at a wedding, when the meal is beef it's served pink! Me no likey . Next wedding I'll be requesting my beef well done.

Slot Machine

The rise and rise of the steak snobs. Jesus, spare me the fcuking tedium.

blackwhite

Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »

t's not a protected name, like a dietician. The likes of Dr. Gillian McKeith PhD, or to give her her full medical title, Gillian McKeith (robbed that line from Ben Goldacre)

MsBubbles wrote: »

Dr. Ms McKeith's education credentials are allegedly somewhat suspect.

The woman is one hell of a bullsh*t artist, as demonstrated by her Wiki bio.

In 1994, she claims to have obtained an MA and, in 1997, a PhD, both in holistic nutrition, via a distance-learning program from the non-accredited American Holistic College of Nutrition, later the Clayton College of Natural Health in Birmingham, Alabama (but since closed). She is a member of the American Association of Nutritional Consultants, but this association runs no checks on the qualifications of its certified members, permitting Ben Goldacre to register his dead cat for the same qualification as McKeith.

MsBubbles

Drizzled with jus de roast unicorn foam wtf ? Food Snobs drive me crazy

Tarzana

uch wrote: »

I'd say this is due to too much of the black stuff to be honest, scuttery black shíte can't be much good for yer bowels

I know, I really need to stop eating black crayons.

OldNotWIse

Yes, steak snobs. Declare that they like it "just warmed" like it's some sort of fúcking achievement. I like my meat cooked. We dont all just cut the horns off and wipe the áss you know.

Tarzana

Shenshen wrote: »

Cupcakes.

Ruining a perfectly good muffin by smothering it with a day-glow green, teeth-hurtlingy sweet sickly tasting massive blob of butter and sugar.
Absolutely disgusting.

Sgt Hartman wrote: »

YES, this!! Cupcake icing and buttercream are utterly disgusting.

Oh my God, thank you! I thought I was the only one who didn't get cupcakes. Way WAY too much gross, cloying icing, not enough cake. Even if the icing is freshly made, it's disgusting. Gimme a nice Irish fairy cake with the perfect amount of icing (ie. a thin covering) and perfect amount of cake any day.

Though, I kinda disagree on carrot cake icing. If it's made with cream cheese, it can be luverly. Plus, carrot cake doesn't always have disgustingly thick icing.

Ruu

Square plates, I'll take the regular round ones thank you very much! *flings square plate against the wall*

Shenshen

Tarzana wrote: »

Oh my God, thank you! I thought I was the only one who didn't get cupcakes. Way WAY too much gross, cloying icing, not enough cake. Even if the icing is freshly made, it's disgusting. Gimme a nice Irish fairy cake with the perfect amount of icing (ie. a thin covering) and perfect amount of cake any day.

Though, I kinda disagree on carrot cake icing. If it's made with cream cheese, it can be luverly.

I don't mind a little bit of icing on a carrot cake. It should be lemony or orangy, citrusy anyway.
But only a little bit, not a layer thick enough to make me want to go and get my snow shovel.

Tarzana

Shenshen wrote: »

I don't mind a little bit of icing on a carrot cake. It should be lemony or orangy, citrusy anyway.
But only a little bit, not a layer thick enough to make me want to go and get my snow shovel.

Exactly, a thin icing complements the cake, but doesn't overpower it. Unlike cupcakes. Feckin' cupcakes!

I am pie

o1s1n wrote: »

It's hardly new if it's a trend and every second restaurant is selling the same 'new' thing.

Yes god forbid innovation should become popular.

Nearly as bad as not wanting that expensive cut of meat you ordered burnt. Apparently not liking burnt food make you a snob now.

Billy86

Funnyonion79 wrote: »

I love well done steak. But when did this trend for pure pink beef start?? Even at a wedding, when the meal is beef it's served pink! Me no likey . Next wedding I'll be requesting my beef well done.

Nah I'm only taking the piss, but I just don't understand the appeal for really well done steak, always thought it tasted bland and if overdone enough it was like chewing on a tyre.

I think rarer steak became more popular in the 80s to answer your question... before then people were paranoid about diseases from undercooked chicken or trinichosis in undercooked pork (which is pretty much eradicated today, apparently). If you go back a little bit, people even recommended boiling steak for ages and ages.

Tarzana

OldNotWIse wrote: »

Yes, steak snobs. Declare that they like it "just warmed" like it's some sort of fúcking achievement.

Yeah, and it can display ignorance too. Some steaks are great rare, other are actually nicer if cooked for longer.

Davarus Walrus

I am pie wrote: »

Yes god forbid innovation should become popular.

Nearly as bad as not wanting that expensive cut of meat you ordered burnt. Apparently not liking burnt food make you a snob now.

I'd agree. There is this strange reverse snobbery that exists around here towards anyone bold enough to state that they enjoy eating out, or who visit an expensive restaurant. People who enjoy the experience of eating food that they couldn't cook themselves. It's like it's offensive to the Plain People of Ireland that you could possibly enjoy it.

Tarzana

questionmark? wrote: »

Capri sun or sunny dee. Every kid had one and both tasted ****e. Thank funk there out of fashion now!

No, Sunny D tasted shíte.

Capri Sun was, and still is, a little pouch of heaven.

Billy86

Davarus Walrus wrote: »

I'd agree. There is this strange reverse snobbery that exists around here towards anyone bold enough to state that they enjoy eating out, or who visit an expensive restaurant. People who enjoy the experience of eating food that they couldn't cook themselves. It's like it's offensive to the Plain People of Ireland that you could possibly enjoy it.

Well given that until 20 odd years ago there was barely any foreign food places here, and those that were around were mostly Chinese/Indian places where the majority of people who tried them out would go for a chicken breast and chips or 3-in-1, its hardly surprising some want to stick with the well known no nonsense "most and two veg" stuff.

Someone also mentioned burritos earlier because of the cost of them. Some do disappointingly small ones, but most of the time you get more value for what you pay in terms of quantity for what you pay than most other places.

I'm pretty sure most of this thread is tongue in cheek though.

OldNotWIse

I am pie wrote: »

Yes god forbid innovation should become popular.

Nearly as bad as not wanting that expensive cut of meat you ordered burnt. Apparently not liking burnt food make you a snob now.

Liking your steak rare does not make you a snob. It is my understanding that nobody said this. Judging other people because they want their steak well cooked (as opposed to burnt) does make you a snob.

farmchoice

Billy86 wrote: »

Nah I'm only taking the piss, but I just don't understand the appeal for really well done steak, always thought it tasted bland and if overdone enough it was like chewing on a tyre.

I think rarer steak became more popular in the 80s to answer your question... before then people were paranoid about diseases from undercooked chicken or trinichosis in undercooked pork (which is pretty much eradicated today, apparently). If you go back a little bit, people even recommended boiling steak for ages and ages.

On the steak issue, I'm a rare man myself but there is a big difference between well done steak and steak that has been over-cooked/burnt. A well done steak should be as succulent and juicy as a medium or rare, just cooked through, too often what should be well-done turns up as over cooked and dry, it's quite hard to cook a well done steak properly.

Some fools think that ordering a well done steak is some insult to the meat.

Billy86

OldNotWIse wrote: »

Liking your steak rare does not make you a snob. It is my understanding that nobody said this. Judging other people because they want their steak well cooked (as opposed to burnt) does make you a snob.

Then wouldn't judging someone for liking a lot of icing on a cupcake, liking their food deconstructed or artsy, or for liking pulled pork, kale, etc be snobbery as well?

Basically, I think (hope?) most of this thread is tongue in cheek.

Billy86

farmchoice wrote: »

On the steak issue, I'm a rare man myself but there is a big difference between well done steak and steak that has been over-cooked/burnt. A well done steak should be as succulent and juicy as a medium or rare, just cooked through, too often what should be well-done turns up as over cooked and dry, it's quite hard to cook a well done steak properly.

Some fools think that ordering a well done steak is some insult to the meat.

Well yeah that's true, I probably worded it wrong. Most people I know that order "well done" do not want juices of any kind on there, and basically just want it blackened and all the flavour sucked out of it to the point it might as well be a clump of plain grilled mince packed together, so that's probably why I used that term incorrectly.

They then drown it in ketchup...

OldNotWIse

Billy86 wrote: »

Then wouldn't judging someone for liking a lot of icing on a cupcake, liking their food deconstructed or artsy, or for liking pulled pork, kale, etc be snobbery as well?

Basically, I think (hope?) most of this thread is tongue in cheek.

I've never sat in front of someone who's questioned me for eating a cupcake or liking pulled pork etc - but I have had people tell me that I am wrong for eating steak well done, it destroys the taste etc.