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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 she 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.

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#1

People Share What Modern Food Trends They Just Can't Stand 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.

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    People Share What Modern Food Trends They Just Can't Stand Fondant. Cakes are supposed to taste good first and look good second, not look beautiful and taste awful.

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    #3

    People Share What Modern Food Trends They Just Can't Stand Eating live animals like octopus etc.

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    We managed to get in touch with the user who started this whole thread, AndShesNotEvenPretty, who was kind enough to have a little chat with us. When asked whether she expected her post to reach hundreds of people who wasted no time sharing their opinions in the comments, the user said that it was definitely cool. "But let’s not get too precious here. It’s a Reddit post. All it demonstrates is I had a passing thought that other people identified with," she told Bored Panda.

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    The user came up with the idea to ask this question while scrolling through the 'Old Recipes' subreddit. "It’s amusing to look back on the trends of yesteryear and realize how much our tastes have changed," she wrote in the post. "Gelatin abominations, iceberg lettuce creations, and protein loaf iterations abound, many of which sound unappetizing by today’s standards. It got me to thinking, what do we eat now that the next generations will find unappealing?"
    #4

    People Share What Modern Food Trends They Just Can't Stand 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

    People Share What Modern Food Trends They Just Can't Stand Binge eating for competition.

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    #6

    People Share What Modern Food Trends They Just Can't Stand 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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    When asked about the reasons she finds it interesting to explore old recipes online, AndShesNotEvenPretty explained she enjoys looking at them because they serve as a social commentary of the era they once were popular in. Moreover, they can tell us a lot about what was valued at the time. "You can see the changes that were taking place in society simply by observing recipes over time."

    "As women entered the workforce, for example, recipes became more compact, streamlined, and made use of convenience foods and canned items," the user continued. "During the Great Depression, recipes were barebones and made use of inexpensive staples and often involved innovative uses for cheaper ingredients so they could be used as substitutes for more expensive products like milk and eggs."

    However, most of the cooking trends that were popular during that time have faded away. Once we take a look at the TV dinners, gelatin salads, and fish-shaped food that were extremely prevalent just a few decades ago, we undoubtedly scratch our heads from confusion. "I think many of these recipes fall out of favor as we begin to value different things, gain new technology, and as we continue to learn more about the world around us," the user noted several reasons why these dishes no longer seem appetizing to us.

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    #7

    People Share What Modern Food Trends They Just Can't Stand 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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    #8

    People Share What Modern Food Trends They Just Can't Stand 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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    #9

    People Share What Modern Food Trends They Just Can't Stand 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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    "Right now, we seem to value abundance (think burgers too large to eat and overloaded milkshakes) so a recipe that makes use of potato peels (as seen in the Depression) seems less alluring," she continued. "And whereas gelatin salads were once de rigueur, we’ve long ago been there and done that. When you can sous vide at home, a molded dessert with canned fruit suspended inside seems markedly less sophisticated."

    Plus, the user explained that our ability to easily communicate and travel throughout the world led to our cuisine preferences shifting as well. "Whereas, at one time, American meals were relegated to a meat, a starch and a vegetable, in recent decades we have begun to see the introduction of more worldwide influences, flavor profiles, techniques, and ingredients in our recipes."
    #10

    Hopefully sugar and corn syrup being put in *everything*. So much sugar...

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    #11

    People Share What Modern Food Trends They Just Can't Stand *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.

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    #12

    People Share What Modern Food Trends They Just Can't Stand 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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    The user’s question caused quite a stir on the 'Cooking' subreddit. Food enthusiasts from far and wide gathered together in one place to discuss the trends they wish everyone would just be done with, and they didn’t hold anything back. AndShesNotEvenPretty told us she liked seeing a lot of the responses. "Some of them I hadn’t thought of but totally agreed with — one person said foam looked like someone spit on your plate. I found myself thinking YES! THIS!"
    #13

    People Share What Modern Food Trends They Just Can't Stand I would add the milkshakes that have three desserts stacked on them and are spilling all over the place.

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    #14

    People Share What Modern Food Trends They Just Can't Stand 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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    #15

    Deep fried sticks of butter at the state fair.

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    "My favorite comments, and the most encouraging ones, were the people who think meat and factory farming will go the way of the dodo bird. I can only hope that one day my grandkids will be astounded that anyone ate an actual cow." But the user also mentioned that in the meantime, she’ll wait for some of these likely temporary trends to fizzle out.

    "Since we are entering a time where everything is getting increasingly expensive, I’m guessing the Bloody Marys with 3 meals worth of garnish or the sandwich hybrids that use entire grilled cheese sandwiches as buns, will be viewed as wasteful and fall out of favor," she added, hoping these recipes and foods will be frowned upon all together.
    #16

    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

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    #17

    People Share What Modern Food Trends They Just Can't Stand Mukbang.

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    #18

    People Share What Modern Food Trends They Just Can't Stand 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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    When food is becoming practically unaffordable for so many people, the user believes people will change their attitudes towards meals with immoderate amounts of food. "I think it will be seen as tacky to create recipes for sandwiches stacked so tall with toppings so as to render them inedible, for example."

    However, AndShesNotEvenPretty felt it’s important to remind you, dear readers, that it all comes down to choice. "Eat what you like whether it’s 'fashionable' or not. I know my husband will never, ever give up French onion dip and potato chips no matter who says charcuterie trays are the way of the future. And that’s ok!"
    #19

    People Share What Modern Food Trends They Just Can't Stand 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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    #20

    People Share What Modern Food Trends They Just Can't Stand 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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    #21

    People Share What Modern Food Trends They Just Can't Stand 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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    #22

    People Share What Modern Food Trends They Just Can't Stand Those dumb “hacks” or flashy foods on TikTok and Facebook.

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    #23

    People Share What Modern Food Trends They Just Can't Stand 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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    #24

    People Share What Modern Food Trends They Just Can't Stand 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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    #25

    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.

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    #26

    People Share What Modern Food Trends They Just Can't Stand “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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    #27

    People Share What Modern Food Trends They Just Can't Stand 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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    #28

    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.

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    #29

    People Share What Modern Food Trends They Just Can't Stand The pastries that are heavily preserved and sold in plastic packaging. Like the Little Debbie cakes.

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    #30

    People Share What Modern Food Trends They Just Can't Stand deep fried foods like oreo, ice cream etc. stacking calories over calories.

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    #31

    People Share What Modern Food Trends They Just Can't Stand 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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    #32

    People Share What Modern Food Trends They Just Can't Stand 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

    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.

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    #34

    I think future generations will just look at some of the 'diet programs' that are out there now and just laugh at them.

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    #35

    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.

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    #36

    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.

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    #37

    People Share What Modern Food Trends They Just Can't Stand Activated charcoal.

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    #38

    Overhopped beer hides the flaws that are easily evident in well-balanced beer. Most craft beer these days is s**t.

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    #39

    Salted caramel everything

    Pumpkin spice everything

    "Fancy" salts (pink Himalayan sea salt, etc.) added on top of different dishes.

    Kale anything

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    #40

    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.

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    #41

    Unnecessarily “stuffed” foods (think Tasty videos with burger stuffed bacon wrapped onion rings).

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    #42

    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?

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    #43

    "Smash" cakes

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    #44

    People Share What Modern Food Trends They Just Can't Stand Truffle overkill.

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    #45

    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)

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    #46

    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!

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    #47

    Avocado toast. Hands down. It will be the gelatin salad of 3045.

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    #48

    Don't forget the bacon grease cookies!

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    #49

    Keto

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    #50

    People Share What Modern Food Trends They Just Can't Stand 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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    #51

    Macaroni on everything. Saw a macaroni burrito on ig and immediately left the app

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    #52

    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).

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    #53

    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.

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    #54

    People Share What Modern Food Trends They Just Can't Stand 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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    #55

    All that Chefs Club c**p.

    It’s revolting now, and it will be in the future.

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    #56

    Pesto eggs? Am I the only one who just isn't impressed? They are simply not bussin'

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    #57

    People Share What Modern Food Trends They Just Can't Stand Sloppy steaks

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    #58

    Patching your floor with ramen?

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    #59

    Protein loaf iterations

    What is wrong with meatloaf?

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    #60

    Protein powder... I'm sorry but it just tastes disgusting! There has to be a better solution..

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    #61

    Just dumping loads of melted cheese on stuff.

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    #62

    One pot pasta dishes. Boil your damn pasta separately!

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    #63

    People Share What Modern Food Trends They Just Can't Stand 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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