Is it just me or have food fads completely disappeared? Why is this? Is it because everything, literally all of it, is just soulless derivative AI filler garbage? Like has anything cool happened AT ALL in the last few years? Have you see ANYTHING? Literally no. Nothing new ever happens anymore.
everything change with rona
>>20417425ytho
>>20417418Crumble cookies got popular recently
Really it's an expression of collective dullness and lack of ability to enjoy things. Everything is grey now.
>>20417430mind fog, everything became politicalize and zoomers are lazy fuckwit with no imagination
>>20417418>>20417436you guys don't even go outside so why the fuck does it even matter to you lmao
>>20417418did you miss the hot honey thing? now all the grocery stores have hot sauce in the honey section.
>>20417432I'm talking about actual foods for adults, not the wendy's april sandwich special or whatever boxed branded garbage is now getting "viraled" in the form of tiktok advertisementsLike birria tacos or korean fried chicken wings or cronuts or poke or "prohibition-era craft cocktails"
>>20417441Of course I go outside. I mean I can't always fuck your mom at my place.
>>20417444Hot honey has been around for ages though
>>20417430inflation and everything is so pricey. People probably feel financially constraint
>>20417418Everything is a food fad now, it's tiktok memes all the way down. You're just too old to know about them anymore.
>>20417447>I don't mean kids these days food fads, only back in my day food fads countSame shit different website
>>20417461Except I've seen some of them and they are in no way new. Like people on tiktok will act as though pickles are the hot "new" thing even though they peaked in like 2013
>>20417418they still happen, it's just that they come and go too quickly for you to realize that it was a fad. one i can name is pine needle soda
>>20417447>I'm talking about actual foods for adults>Like cronutsuhhhhi've got some bad news for you
It's still happening in NYC, there's so many places/foods that are hyped up and you walk down the street and there are just lines of people waiting to get in
this >>20417436 but also this >>20417461
>>20417468>a fad means it can't have ever existed prior >"pickles peaked in 2013"what in the fuck is this retardation?
>>20417654Fads when he was young were real and soul and new inventions (like fried chicken and tacos) but now they're dumb rehashed shit. Zoomers are idiots
>>20417450Quinoa is ancient, but it still had its time as a fad.
>>20417539Yea there's still food fads in LA too, tanghulu is one of the hot fads right now.
>>20417418Make your own food fads you dumbassDo you really need others to tell you what to eat?Do you really eat shit just because "it's trendy"?
Remember when they tried to make Ethiopian food a thing
We're in a water and water accessories phase right now.
>>20417441>you guyssee you tomorrow champ
>>20417456This is the big one. I'm not buying some hot new condiment if it costs 10 bucks a bottle or some new bullshit that requires a 100 bucks minimum to participate. Any food fad that arises right now will be centered around price, some gross cut of meat or other cheap thing that foodies will discover tastes okay when cooked properly. Food fads are a luxury of a decent economy.
>>20417940I make my own food fads then get extremely pissed off when it becomes a real food fad because it's only fun for me if I'm doing something nobody else is
>>20418003This was already happening>oxtailProbably some other shit is on its way to being expensive like tongue or liver or something
I remember zoomers fighting old turks over PRIME last year
hot honeysmash burgerkorean corndogspicy chink ramens in generalhot saucetexas bbqkimchi where it doesnt belong
>>20418283This, theres a million fads. The only thing that "changed" is that now tiktok culture goes through fads monthly, when before old media would push hard for some meme or other and itd spread slowly.
>>20417418Next food fad is going to be eating the neighbour least likely to be noticed missing.
>>20417979>We're in a water and water accessories phase right now.i still do not understand the hype behind those stanley cups
I've noticed that chains have started to have spicy drinks and ice creams, roughly ten years after I first saw them popping up everywhere in independent places in America (and decades after I first had chili chocolate ice cream in home country)
>>20418403Car got torched. Cup survived, unscathed. Water was still cold inside. I suspect it was all a publicity stunt.
>>20417418Affording food is the fad now.
>>20418010i doubt liver will ever get popular, since it will always taste like salty milk and coins
>>20417418>Avocado toasts>rainbow bagels>bubble teai could go on but you get the idea
>>20417418>Is it just me or have food fads completely disappeared?Good
>>20418602Hello is is this 2015?
>>20417418It's called getting old. Fads still happen but you've aged out of the marketing so you'd have to actively look for them. You probably won't be welcome there anymore though. Maybe it's time to just take up baking or something.
>>20417654>>20417886Gen alpha thinks people were doing a lot of home pickling in the 1990s
>>20418283Hot sauce? /ck/ was actually getting worked up over the "new" sriracha fad in 2007 when I was new to this board. You guys are just proving me right.
>>20418608>>20418602the NYTimes was getting dragged on twitter for "discovering" bubble tea in 2017
>>20417418>implying food fads are coolliking fads is a sign of being a fucking dullard.
>>20417418lol there are definitely still food fads around, the current most prevalent one is korean foodloads of people are now eating kimchi, gochujang and k-dogs
last trendshit I saw was hot honey
>>20418674That's a fad from 10 years ago though. Present tense please. Otherwise sushi is a fad.
Birria is still a fad
>>20417418The cuppy pepperoni pizza is the latest trend just starting up.
>>20418772That shit has been around for a long time.
>>20418772This is gay. The oil just pools in the cups and is harder to dab out with a napkin.
>>20418808>dabbing the delicious fat with a tissuePeak woman behaviour.
People probably got tired of le artisanal burgers and le exotic cuisines and now just eat whatever they find tastyProbably gonna see a trend of people rediscovering normal food from normal ingredients
Maybe some people actually found out that you can save money by not ordering food every other day
the fads I notice the most now are hot chicken and hot honey.
>>20418283Six items on that list have not been fads within the past few years.
food is too expensive now, everyone is poor now
>>20417418It's expensive to open a restaurant. People aren't very open to make a restaurant based on a fad only for it to fall off in six months.
>>20419305Yeah, but go to a community market or health food store and you'll probably see some gimmick that's trending right now.
>>20417418you're not paying attention anon. >cookie place>elevated taco place (always has brisket taco)>14 dollar fast casual burger place>holy heckin hot chicken sandwich>ramenbobaramenbobaramenbobaramenplace
>>20417418>Is it just me or have food fads completely disappeared?You're right.>Why is this?The internet happened. Everybody shared information. Between 1998-2003 you could talk to literally anyone online. 2003-2010 you noticed people found their specific subjects. 2010-2015 was peak internet freedom. You found anything anywhere about any topic, provided you were knowledgeable. But that was the end point, for cooking too. The website for the world expo in Milan, 2015 had 200K+ recipes, all free, all by the best chefs in the world. And then the gates closed. Websites, videos, tutorials, libraries, old book scans disappeared. And with them the fads. First molecular gastronomy. Then all the fad diets. With 2 exceptions, because nobody knows they're fad diets.>>20419605Those are marginal and last a few weeks to maybe a year, with no turnover to speak of. And that's the real drive behind these fads: people want to feel validated if they take part. Nobody joins a loser cult, everybody wants to join the winners.
>>20418653I tried bubble tea once. I don't get the hype.
>>20418749what? I don't remember any of this shit from 10 years back it's very much gained popularity in the last few years
>>20420284You probably live in idaho or something
>>20420292idk man, 10 years ago it was chicken katsu and fancier donut places that put lots of toppings on their donuts, maybe korean food caught on earlier in the states
>>20420323Chicken katsu was passe by 2010. Elaborate donuts come in and out of fashion all the time.
>>20417418Things happen, you just grew up and now things don't shock you anymore.
>>20420340again, maybe it just catches on earlier in the states
>>20420376This thread is about the real world, thanks, not some thirdie shit hole that's years behind modern culture
>>20421151UK is getting worse but it's not quite thirdie yet
>>20421151>poor cuck doesn't realise that the US is 3rd worldAnon, I...
>>20418668Last time I was in Monterey, CA, about a decade ago, there was an Italian restaurant on the touristy pier and It looked like their menu hadn't changed since the 1970s. It was perfect, nothing new needed to have been invented since then.
>>20417418Prices for eating out have gotten utterly retarded so people learned how to cook.
>>20417447>I'm talking about actual foods for adultsfood fads are a kid thing thoever? yes college kids are technically adults if you want to be autistic.
>>20418653boba tea fags are the worst
>>20417425It's the long rona. No one gets joy from food anymore. It was part of its programming.
>>20417418Everyone in that line should be abducted by a drug cartel and made to fight each other to the death until there are only two left, with the first one of those to be incapacitated getting slowly lowered into a barrel of acid feet first still aliveThe winner gets a cronut and a new job
>>20422049Seek mental help
>>20422370He's not wrong though, that would make good tv. Getting tired of the competition shows we have, we gotta raise the stakes.
>>20422370seek asylum in Iran
>>20422049very normal
>>20417418>Why is this?Stagflation. People don't have the extra disposable income for that sort of frivolous consumerism anymore.
>>20417539snails and bagels with butter garlic and cheese sound like a great combo
>>20417940yes i am dumb
>>20422049most mentally stable incel
>>20417430corporations realized during covid that they could get away with jacking up prices even higher and putting less effort into everything and people would still line up to buy their slopthe only way to change is if literally everyone just stops buying shit from these places.
>>20417418Bacon seems to be the big thing right now. Literally every place is talking about how you can "add bacon to everything!"bacon must be cheap right now or something
>>20422612This, same reason why you don't see cooking gadget fads like slow cookers or instapots being pushed now either. The demographics who make most culinary purchases regularly (I'm guessing middle class married white women) feel the pinch right now. OTOH you see fast food trends (smash burgers, poke bowls, bao buns & overpriced "street food" in general) take off with some regularity because zoomers and younger millennials have money, no kids and don't see delivered fast food as a treat but as a regular meal option. They consume less alcohol and tobacco but delivered junk food probably makes up a very surprisingly high percentage of their weekly meals. Also why gimmicky snack foods (takis, one chip challenge, Mr Beast bars etc) are becoming more common.
>>20423126So you're telling me people can afford $72 Drunk Elephant retinol serum so their elementary school kids don't get premature age wrinkles, and their stay at home karenwives get $5000 bicycles that go 0 mph, but nobody can afford a fucking insta pot anymore? Please. Something else is going on.
>pumpkin spice season>peppermint season>spicy season
>>20417418Used to live near the cronut place. They are pretty good. Not sure if it's worth waiting in line for but if you are just visiting I would say fuck it. Even if you don't get a cronut all of their pastries are really good. I moved out of NYC after pandemic recovery. It was so nice 2020-21 when shit was empty. When everyone came back I couldn't stand dealing BS like pic related everyday. Live in the burbs now. Everything is so much better once you leave that dump.
>>20418283>>20417444Hot honey is good as fuck. Great on pepperoni pizza. I'm glad it's everywhere now.
>>20417447>I'm talking about actual foods for adultsjust die
Not trying to promote, but the spinzall centerfuge by Dave Arnold was pretty innovative
>>20423804>manchild seething over his favorite fast foodslop being criticized
>>20417418culture stopped evolving in 2012.
>>20423825>buy it now!>404 page not foundhmmmmm
>>20417418because money is drying up
>>20417418New things happen, just at a far faster clip than they used to. People don't want to or can't afford to wait and see if something new catches on. If it doesn't go massively viral within a few weeks, it is considered a write-off. Enjoy what you can, when you can, it will only get worse from here.
>>20417418you know that scene in independence day when chef goldblum finds the countdown? that happened at scale and we are all coping with that clock. food abundance programming is for good times and we're about to run into bad times.
>>20417418Because food fads were a fad and it's running out of steam because its running out of material. I think there's only, like niche asian foods (are we still on korean or has it gotten more niche?) and african food left.I'm ignoring south america atm like everyone else is
>>20417418people are still trying to force fads just now everyone gets their brainrot from different sources instead of the same tv channel as everyone else
>>20417946No*close door*
>>20417430Vaccine dropped the global IQ like ten points.
>>20418646Because they suspect we'll be knocked down to zero and be growing our food and preserving it.
>>20417946Expanded to fill its niche and stayed popular within that niche. Wouldn't really call that a fad. I have two within walking distance that have been there for ages.
>>20417456>When grocery goods average 4 dollars plus for anything now 5 items is 20 bucks.It's more like they average 5 fucking dollars now, so 4 items and it's 20 bucks unless it's produce that thankfully remains largely the same price wise.>>20417946Just looks like shittier curry to me with worse bread, and I like Indian bread and Indian curry.>>20418283I slept on smash burgers, poo-pood griddle instead of grill but christ, five guys burgers are literally just:>smash a burger on your griddle>Cook quicker than they do it for some reason>Chees>Use a brioche bun>wrap in tinfoil>Wait 1-3 minutes>Literally a five guys burger minus the sesame seedsIts liberating to no longer have to pay their demented prices, and I feel stupid for not realizing this sooner. Even did perfectly imitative fries to them, that just took a bit more work to double fry but it was easy too.
>>20423126Slow cookers have been around for decades and go in and out of fashion. Instapots hit market saturation so everyone who would have one has one. And Takis are basically Doritos and have been around for years at this point, the one chip challenge lasted for 7 years before it was discontinued, and Mr. Beast bars are just a regular celebrity promotion.
