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

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I love baking (I would say I’m great at it) but I never use fondant or much frosting, because it’s tasty without having to peel layers off it to eat it

Yup. Give me a cake that looks a mess if you must, just make it all edible. Put fondant on it and you have cake with no edible icing.

That almond taste is bad.

That's cool to know. I didn't know there was a homemade version that could taste decent.

Oh, so it doesn't all taste like paper towels dipped in sugar water and then left to go stale? Good to know. I've had fondant maybe twice, and have avoided it like the plague ever since.

I agree..my friend owns a specialty bakery and her fondant is incredible. It's all handmade so maybe that's the difference? I've had horrible fondant too.

Agreed. Homemade, marshmallow fondant is sweet, but doesn't have that awful slimy, chemical taste of store bought. If you look at the list of ingredients on store bought fondant you would be hard pressed to find anything from your kitchen other than sugar. Homemade fondant: sugar, marshmallows, water, fat.

I think it tastes fine but the rest of the cake has to balance that sweetness out. Also it takes too long to chew lmao

Who the hell does that?! That's another level of cruel.

Or force feeding them solely for one part. Goose liver.

horrible practices

Depends on the animal. Lobster, clams and such have no higher logic function and cannot suffer. They have enough of a "brain" - more of a neural net to effect a stimulus response but cannot suffer the way higher liforms do. Octopuses or octopi if you prefer are actually very intelligent and definitely should not be made to suffer. Animals (whether pets or food) should be treated humanely.

I agree, but that’s definitely not modern.

For most shell fish its not just for flavor .sadly you have to boil alive or its posinous. Thats why when you see foxen crab or lobster its cooled

Not a new trend

And this!!

There is a dish in Japan and Korean where the octopus is so incredibly fresh that the tentacles are still wriggling. An octopus' tentacles are filled with neurons which still fire after the creature's death. It is a common choking hazard to eat these still wriggling tentacles.

Yes, and usually yes.

Ikea published recipes during the lockdowns. Assembly instructions: IKEA-Meatb...25e601.jpg

But but but but those swedish meatballs hit different

Well the point of recipes is that there is assembly required…more like if IKEA had a restaurant?

I'm looking at that and thinking "if that's what a deconstructed cheesecake looks like, I'll have three"!

Same, it's cool, but I also get why people wouldn't like it

I wish I could upvote this more than once. It's disgusting, revolting and wasteful.

Can't agree more, it's sickening seeing shows where people wolf down massive amounts of meat, while people on the other side are literally starving to death.

See, I always thought doing sport was supposed to make you lose weight so... also yes this binge eating is disgusting, because there are people struggling to find food and here you have some assholes overeating for "fun/"sport"... and then you get youtube channels like the infamous nikocado avocado... ugh.

It’s a waste, I’m sure there are some people who would do quite a bit for a warm hot dog

Subjective.

It is. So is trying to hurt someone as much as physically possible for sport. Yet boxing somehow legally exists. And the long term issues with it would be far greater than the occassional eating competition.

God, that's just awful, the poor girl. Who on earth ever thought this was entertainment?

It's for instawankers