What trendy foods do you refuse to purchase?

joshperson195 wrote: »

Runngurl43 wrote: »

Lentil chips....Yucky

Agreed!

Snapea Crisps have a lentil chip that's pretty good.

Can not deal with quinoa

cooperdog2016 wrote: »

Any nutrient in mega doses (larger than found in real food) or extracted from real food. Anything labelled 'super food'

There are a number of foods that have been labeled 'super foods' that I'm not going to stop eating just because someone labeled them that way to try and sell more of them. Try and take away my blueberries, for example, and you might lose a hand.

Wynterbourne wrote: »

cooperdog2016 wrote: »

Any nutrient in mega doses (larger than found in real food) or extracted from real food. Anything labelled 'super food'

There are a number of foods that have been labeled 'super foods' that I'm not going to stop eating just because someone labeled them that way to try and sell more of them. Try and take away my blueberries, for example, and you might lose a hand.

Yeah, exactly.

GottaBurnEmAll wrote: »

Wynterbourne wrote: »

cooperdog2016 wrote: »

Any nutrient in mega doses (larger than found in real food) or extracted from real food. Anything labelled 'super food'

There are a number of foods that have been labeled 'super foods' that I'm not going to stop eating just because someone labeled them that way to try and sell more of it. Try and take away my blueberries, for example, and you might lose a hand.

^This. I liked kale before it was trendy. I will not stop eating it.

Same here, I liked many things that became trendy later. To add, I also don't refuse to buy food on principle just because it's trendy, I see no reason not to try new foods. I tried kale for the first time after it became trendy and I liked it. Now when "trendy" means purchasing something I don't like, not interested in or paying more for something that I can simply buy cheaper elsewhere sans the "healthy" halo, that's a different story.

stealthq wrote: »

canadianlbs wrote: »

stealthq wrote: »

People will put anything in a taco. Like sandwiches.

heh. i pictured a sandwich inside a taco and went 'no'.

nothing odd about them being available but their weird popularity here is the thing. it's like everyone assuming you love their dog; everyone assumes you want the fish in your tacos right now.

*snort*

Have you seen the tacos using a sandwich as the tortilla? Seems ridiculous to me, but some people seem to like it

This used to be a regular menu item at Del Taco in California in the 1970s. It was called the "Bun Taco," and they were really good as they had a lot more meat than a taco did. I don't know if they still have them.

I think the cupcake craze was kind of strange - it's a cupcake! It's bigger and has lots of different flavors, but it's still just . . . a cupcake.

My biggest problem with food trends is some of the terminology associated with it. Every time I hear "mouth feel" or "plated" it's like nails on a chalkboard - sooooooo pretentious. That's the thing with trends, they always seem so pretentious to me.

What hummus is quite good. Tried it last week and it's a very good substitute for mayo on eggs or tuna

Went to a restaurant last Saturday and got the steelhead special which came with quinoa and baby kale, and couldn't help thinking of this thread. It was really tasty, though.

I love olives excessively and will take all the ones you don't want (well, if doing that makes them calorie free).

Given their long history, with the Greeks and Romans and also in the Middle East (the olive tree is called king of trees in the Bible), I wouldn't say "trendy," exactly, but maybe I just never experienced them coming in and out of fashion.