Chances are, you’ll spot at least one photo of mouth-watering food the second you open your Instagram feed. You know, those carefully curated posts filled with dazzling colors of kimchi, home-brewed kombuchas, and vibrant açaí bowls that get your appetite immediately going. But the truth is, these are all trends that have filled our kitchens, plates, and bellies during these past few years. And if there’s one thing we’re sure of, they tend to come and go.
So a few days ago, Redditor AndShesNotEvenPretty felt inspired when they came across old recipes that looked completely unappetizing by today’s standards. So the user reached out to members of the ‘Cooking’ subreddit with a very fine question: “What cooking/food trends will seem revolting in the future?” Foodies immediately jumped to the comment section and shared their sizzling takes about the latest fads that will age so bad, they’ll turn sour.
From rainbow-colored meals to dishes decorated with gold, we’ve gone through the thread and hand-picked some of the most interesting responses for every cooking enthusiast to enjoy. So get your aprons ready and continue scrolling to upvote your favorite ones! Do you have any thoughts about what food trends should cease to exist? Be sure to tell us all about them in the comments, we’d love to hear them.
#1
it’s not really a food trend per se, but i’m really tired of looking up a recipe online only to have to scroll through 20 pages of a life story full of anecdotes just to get to the ingredient list.
#2
Eating live animals like octopus etc.
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#3
Food decorated in gold. I don’t judge people for fine dining or enjoying expensive meals, but that gold leafing sh*t is over the line for me. It’s pure ostentatiousness without even pretending that it improves the taste of food.
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#4
Deconstructed food. I do not give a sh*t about your creative attempt to try to ‘invoke’ cheesecake by having all the elements on a plate separately. I want the damn, fully assembled cheesecake
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#5
I want to hope that future people will be revolted by the giant, flavorless beefsteak tomatoes we chose to selectively breed and then pick early and refrigerate into oblivion to be the way they are, right now, *on purpose.*
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#6
Keurig coffee. Passing boiling water through plastic cups for a burnt, under-extracted cup. If it doesn’t turn out to be outright dangerous to human health, it’s still an environmentally wasteful way to make a bad cup of coffee.
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#7
Large portions — why? French cuisine is really rich, sweet, and salty, but their portions are just smaller. I don’t need to eat a 0.5-1 burger with all the fixins. Why are burritos the size of my arm?
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#8
I would add the milkshakes that have three desserts stacked on them and are spilling all over the place.
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#9
I already think they’re gross but those “Stunt Burgers” that are stacked so damn high you can’t even eat it properly and the combination of all 25+ ingredients probably won’t even taste that good together. First We Feast Instagram I’m lookin at you.
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#10
Mukbang.
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#11
Hopefully sugar and corn syrup being put in *everything*. So much sugar…
#12
Sloppy, wasteful, revolting food concoctions made for the purposes of entertainment. I would hope that in the future someone would be scorned and derided for doing something like covering your entire countertop in spaghetti and chocolate sauce. I would hope that future historians look back on phenomena like that and think something must have seriously been wrong with us.
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#13
“Secret menu” food items got really old really fast. As a former barista, I was expected (by customers) to know every single “secret menu” item that some rando on the internet came up with? No thank you lol.
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#14
Fondant. Cakes are supposed to taste good first and look good second, not look beautiful and taste awful.
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#15
Meal prep delivery services. It seems like a step in the wrong direction when it comes to wasteful packaging. Every ingredient is individually packaged not to mention perishable ones need extra packaging.
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#16
Bloody Marys piled high with extra ingredients like bacon, shrimp, a lobster claw, and all kinds of pickled and spicy things.
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#17
Binge eating for competition.
#18
*Fois gras*. I think in the future the objections to *fois gras* will continue to grow to where it will no longer be found on menus. It will go the way of the ortolan.
#19
Hopefully – industrially farmed meat. It’s an incredibly cruel system that inflicts massive amounts of suffering to animals _and_ humans and does great damage to the environment and atmosphere, all for cheap hamburgers. I think we’ll look back on it and treat it like other barbaric systems of the past. My hope is that plant based options continue to grow in popularity and people who still choose to eat animal flesh now and then opt for less damaging ones.
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#20
Artfully smearing a sauce so it looks like a s**t streak on your plate.
Who the f**k thinks that’s appetizing?
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#21
Those dumb “hacks” or flashy foods on TikTok and Facebook.
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#22
The overuse of avocados as the central part of a recipe.
Especially those avocados baked with egg in them.
I love avocados but don’t think I could stomach an entire dish like this.
#23
Foam. It’s disgusting. And unfortunately appears on dishes in high end restaurants. Where it looks like something someone spit onto the plate. Horrifying.
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#24
Bacon on everything. It is such an overrated food to begin with, and it doesn’t belong on donuts and cakes.
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#25
deep fried foods like oreo, ice cream etc. stacking calories over calories.
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#26
I think future generations will just look at some of the ‘diet programs’ that are out there now and just laugh at them.
#27
Hot Cheeto Burrito
Hot Cheeto Fries
Hot Cheeto powder for your corndog or cheese stick
I don’t get it. I loves me some hot cheetos, but they aren’t an ingredient.
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#28
Deep fried sticks of butter at the state fair.
#29
Activated charcoal.
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#30
I long for the day that people who use the word “EVOO” are expelled from polite society, then are forced to wander the wastelands to survive on beetles, and hair.
#31
The Instagram food era. Everything over the top so it looks great on insta but more often than not it’s just a mess. It’s all about how the food looks not tastes. Can anyone tell me that adding 25-30 toppings to an ice cream cone all made of sugar actually makes the ice cream better? At a certain point you have an ice cream sundae that is all toppings
#32
Deserts that are just way too rich & have way too much sugar. I don’t want a cheesecake that’s been drowned in a river of milk chocolate or milkshakes that are stacked with random sweets. deserts should be enjoyable, not cause me diabetes after two bites.
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#33
People start putting a bunch of random things together on a board like pancakes, syrup, fruit, etc. and call it “breakfast charcuterie”. At this point, anything thrown onto a board in a fancy manner is called charcuterie.
#34
Unnecessarily “stuffed” foods (think Tasty videos with burger stuffed bacon wrapped onion rings).
#35
The pastries that are heavily preserved and sold in plastic packaging. Like the Little Debbie cakes.
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#36
Hopefully all the pre-packaged and processed garbage our stores are filled with today. People need to re-discover actually cooking with real ingredients, not just re-heating processed industrial nonsense.
#37
Stuff that’s cooked inside of a plastic bag, liner, etc. Not to be a conspiracy theorist but I don’t think we quite understand how bad plastic leeching is for humans.
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#38
in the future people will just be shocked at the abundance of food choices we had after supply chains crumble. Also, meat.
(Happy to be living at a time when meat is abundant and delicious)
#39
Truffle overkill.
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#40
Patching your floor with ramen?
#41
“Smash” cakes
#42
Artificial sweetener and diet products.
Edit: I was thinking specifically of dieting trends when posting this. I’m not attacking anybody’s needs or preferences here ftr. I just think low cal/sweetened products are becoming less popular compared to fat/protein.
#43
Protein powder… I’m sorry but it just tastes disgusting! There has to be a better solution..
#44
Meatless burgers, and meatless sausages. Basically the vegan stuff that is trending now. I’ve tasted a few and the feel and taste great, just like the real thing.
But they are heavily processed food. And just how our culture is beginning to understand that processed food is bad for you along come these vegan fake foods, which are heavily processed.
Vegan? yes.
Healthy? f**k no.
#45
Cauliflower everything. Rice, pizza crust. Fried cauliflower “Buffalo wings”. Why can’t cauliflower be happy with what it is? It’s a perfectly delicious vegetable. I fear we’re giving it a complex.
Also “zoodles”. Like, leave zucchini be. If you want a no carb dinner that’s your right but why do you have to put zucchini into a Halloween costume of a pasta shape?
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#46
Protein loaf iterations
What is wrong with meatloaf?
#47
Pesto eggs? Am I the only one who just isn’t impressed? They are simply not bussin’
#48
All that Chefs Club c**p.
It’s revolting now, and it will be in the future.
#49
Calling stock ‘bone broth.’ They do it so it drives up the price. $6 for a small carton of bone broth?! I can make a big batch of that stuff for the same price!
#50
As climate impacts on meat production and prices, and people turn to non-meat food sources, it seems likely to me that within a generation general meat consumption will be revolting to a growing number of people (who grew up in households that simply couldn’t afford to eat meat).
#51
Sloppy steaks
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#52
Rainbow anything – rainbow bagels, rainbow pasta, rainbow grilled cheese.
It looks cool af but everytime I’ve tried it, the only good thing about it is that it’s visually appealing.
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#53
Salted caramel everything
Pumpkin spice everything
“Fancy” salts (pink Himalayan sea salt, etc.) added on top of different dishes.
Kale anything
#54
every recipe being an “umami bomb” with 13 pounds of garlic. like guys don’t get me wrong i like garlic, but i also like some of the other 50,000 flavors known to mankind so can i please taste some of those too?
#55
Avocado toast. Hands down. It will be the gelatin salad of 3045.
#56
One pot pasta dishes. Boil your damn pasta separately!
#57
Just dumping loads of melted cheese on stuff.
#58
Don’t forget the bacon grease cookies!
#59
Overhopped beer hides the flaws that are easily evident in well-balanced beer. Most craft beer these days is s**t.
#60
Macaroni on everything. Saw a macaroni burrito on ig and immediately left the app
#61
Keto
#62
Overnight oats. They’re awful — just a soggy, waterlogged waste of perfectly good oats that could’ve been used to make delicious porridge, granola, or cookies.
#63
Instant pot/crock pot recipes with cream cheese as an ingredient.
Cream cheese will be the jello of the early 21st century.
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