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Worst Food Trends: Food and restaurant trends that should end with 2016
It's time we phased out these food and restaurant trends, which have either been done to death or are too ridiculous to even exist.
2016 has been a pretty eventful year, with a lot of global food trends making their way onto our plates, making our meals a little more exciting, if not significantly enhancing their taste. We all are obsessed with what we eat and want to share it with the world, all day, everyday. After all, what are Twitter, Instagram and Facebook there for? Except sharing cute pet videos of course.
But there are some trends that we wish die before 2017. Some of these trends have been done to death and have become a little irksome now, while others were pretty damn ridiculous to begin with, and we’re not sure how they became a ‘thing’ in the first place. ALSO READ: From Mirror Marble Cakes to Pimple Cup Cakes: 5 of the Most Viral Internet Food Trends of 2016!
So we have decided that it’s time that we bid good bye to the following food and restaurant trends:
Mason Jars
Yes, mason jars were cute and different and we were all obsessed with them and took adorable pictures of iced teas and coffees served in jars, at one point. But enough already. We have gone a tad bit too overboard with them, serving everything from drinks and desserts to salads in mason jars. Why make eating a salad so complicated, just so you can appear all hipster and cool? Eating out of a jar is cumbersome and just doesn’t make sense.
Desi Global Fusion Disasters
‘Fusion food’ has now become like an expletive in the food lexicon. We don’t have anything against experimentation in food. We endorse it and even encourage it. How else would we get the tangy goodness of the Chinese bhel? Or the amazing schezwan dosa?
Indians love fusion food and have gone to great lengths to put the world on their plates. But if you have gone through the trouble of mixing two kinds of foods, at least make sure that it tastes good. Some of the desi global fusion food experiments have gone completely awry. For example, there exists something called the pav bhaji pizza- the bhaji spread on the pizza crust, instead of the marinara sauce.
The dish doesn’t do justice to either the street food or the Italian dish. It’s just a badly executed dish, forcefully putting together flavours and tastes, which JUST DON’T GO.
And remember the disastrous ‘Birizza’ (biryani Pizza) introduced by Pizza Hut?
That bland bread crust over the even blander rice, (which they claimed was biryani. Pfft!) made us feel like the end of the world is near after this catastrophic experiment sounded the death knell on two of our all-time favourite dishes.
Liquid Nitrogen Experiments
If we had a penny for every time a restaurant passed off a dessert as ‘gourmet’ ice cream, just because they used liquid nitrogen to freeze it and then served it with oodles of the same gas pouring out of the dessert, making it look like some class 6 science experiment… I mean sure, it looks cute. But I would like my food sans the drama please.
Exaggerated Food Hashtags
In this bleak world, food is the one thing that makes life worth all the trouble that it takes to live. So we’re always delighted to see when other people too share evidence of their love for food on social media. It makes our day so much brighter when we see great food on our Instagram and Facebook feeds. What we could do WITHOUT, however, are the exaggerated hashtags that follow these pictures.
#Foodporn and #Foodgasm have been appearing on everyone’s Instagram, with people claiming to get ‘gasms’ after eating everything from Sharmajee’s kesar kulfi to mom’s gaajar ka halwa. Imagine the horrors of the mother who has to witness this bizarre scene… Jokes apart, we need better hashtags for food pictures. Period.
Unnecessary Facebook food check-ins
Like we said, we are big fans of food pictures showing up on our feeds. But Facebook’s new feature where you can specify exactly what you are eating, is just lame. Besides, people use those for EVERYTHING. That ‘Aaditya Sharma is eating burger and fries with 10 others at McDonald’s’ is a little too much information for me.
Checking in and telling the world about your banal food choices, is the last thing that can make you look interesting. Geddit, Aaditya?
Humiliating Birthday Dances
Speaking of lame trends, are we ever going to make these humiliating restaurant staff Birthday dance performances stop? They are not at all fun, I DO NOT feel special and it’s just plain awkward to stand there, while three cheerful waiters give a badly choreographed performance, aimed at entertaining me. It’s time restaurants putting us through this forcefully ‘fun’ exercise.
Food Served on anything but ceramic plates
Remember how we said eating salad from jars was impractical and cumbersome? How about doing away with a container altogether? Some restaurants and chefs, in order to try and make the food look hipster, serve food on wooden chopping boards and stone slates. Because nothing says great food like something that has been served on flat stone/wooden slabs…?
And then there are plates made of aluminium and that look like they belong in a prison. How do they even come up with this kind of stuff?
Grungy decor
Are you, like me, sick of seeing exposed brick walls in restaurants which claim to have done up their interiors to look grungy and hip? Walls covered with randomly spray painted words and letters, passed off as graffiti is a regular part of this ‘decor’. Too many restaurants are attempting the ‘grunge’ look and failing at it miserably, making the place look like it has been designed by some one who wanted a ‘cool’ decor, but was just too lazy to actually work on incorporating some real elements in it.
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