40 Overrated Food Trends People Are Sick Of Seeing On Menus
Recently, we asked members of the BuzzFeed community to share the food trends they're tired of seeing. People had a LOT of opinions, so here are some of the best ones:
1.Super-tall burgers:
"Tall-ass burgers that are impossible to eat."
—Amanda Rupe
2.Charcuterie boards:
"Cold cuts rolled up, blocks of cheese, fruit, and nuts. What a pitiful excuse for appetizers! And 'society people' act like they've REALLY made something when they've just rolled up a few cold cuts and fruit and put it on a wooden board!"
—LouAnn Swisher
"The word 'charcuterie'! It's a ding-dang cheese plate!"
—Jessica Spatafore
3.TikTok food hacks:
"The hacks from TikTok. Let me eat my stuff in peace."
—Kristina Fillman
4.Everything cauliflower:
"Seriously. I know it's been said, but I haven't worked this hard to survive a global pandemic to have pizza crust made of cauliflower."
—Cynthia Unger Marlowe
5.Plant-based meat:
"If you don't want meat, why do you try to make things taste like meat?"
—Elizabeth Reichlin
6.The fast-food fried chicken sandwich:
"Every fast-food place trying to make the best chicken sandwich."
—Matt Ibarra
7.Zoodles:
"Don’t hand me a plate of spiral zucchini and pretend it’s pasta. Damn heathens."
—Melanie Martin Allen
8.Avocado everything:
"Avocado everywhere. It's flavorless, chewed-up grass."
—Emily McGhee Bryan
"Avocado toast, yuck."
—Traci Smith Dworaczyk
9.Pumpkin spice in everything:
"It has its place in baking, and I'll give it to the latte business, but anything else feels excessive."
—Emily McGhee Bryan
10.Fried eggs on top of other foods:
"Fried eggs on every damned thing!"
—Rodrick Barham
11.Too much ranch dressing:
"I am so sick of people needing to dip every piece of their meal in ranch dressing."
—Steve Koenigsberg
12.Keto:
"I don't care if it's healthy fat. Fat on fat on fat is still fat. Balance for life."
—Melanie Harris
13.Rainbow baked goods (especially bagels):
"All those colorings just look nasty."
—Sharon Dunsford
14.Cooking everything in an air fryer:
"We get it, it's cool!"
—Sherry Ann Turton
15.Fondant on cakes:
"It tastes horrible."
—Keely Hope Jannarone
"It's sugar clay. You made a sculpture, not a cake."
—Sarah Jade McCay
16.Everything-bagel seasoning:
"People saturating everything with the Everything but the Bagel seasoning that tastes like absolutely NOTHING."
—Chelsea Henderson
17.Aioli:
"Aioli — or in other words, spicy mayo. It seems to find its way into so many things. Especially 'fusion' types of cuisine. Honestly, I just hate mayo."
—Cassandra D. Ross
18.Too many variations of mac 'n' cheese:
"JUST LEAVE THE BEAUTIFUL CREATION ALONE!"
—Caitlin Coburn
"Macaroni and cheese EVERYTHING! Deep fried mac 'n' cheese, mini mac 'n' cheese bites, mac 'n' cheese on a burger, fried mac 'n' cheese for bread, mac 'n' cheese on a grilled cheese, mac 'n' cheese chip dip, mac 'n' cheese casserole with everything you can think of added to it...enough, already!"
—Emily Richardson
19.IPAs:
"I am tired of nothing but IPAs in most brewpubs! Oh, wait, they might have a lame hefeweizen or, worse, a sour as an alternative. On top of that, their idea of IPA is that if a little hops are good, then a shit ton of them must be better! Stop it, already!"
—James E. Phillips
"Just bring me a Coors Light, and no, I don't need a glass; it's already in a glass bottle."
—Jeffrey McCartney
20.Chipotle seasoning in everything:
"Yuck!!"
—Jennifer Wells
21.Ridiculous meals on top of Bloody Marys:
"A glass with a turducken and triple cheeseburger hanging off it! Just give me the food on the side!"
—Brandon Weiler
22.Hot Cheetos on everything:
"Those things are terrible to begin with, and you want to ruin perfectly great foods with them? Get outta here."
—Duncan Hill
23.Milk substitutes:
"That is creamy plant juice, not milk. Give me some full-cream cow's milk every day — apologies to lactose-intolerant individuals!"
—Lenandi Janse van Rensburg-Kemp
24.Cake pops:
"It’s just ruining perfectly good cake and mushing it into a ball."
—Claire Murphy
25.Alcoholic seltzer:
—Lalania C. Cobb
26.Sriracha on everything:
"It's not a good hot sauce and ruins everything."
—Lexx Benita
27.Other foods wrapped in bacon:
"Putting bacon where bacon does not belong."
—Lorraine Lasky Healey
"I love bacon, but not EVERYTHING needs to be wrapped in it."
—Tiffany Cerna
28.Gold flakes on food:
"Food, like steak, covered in gold leaf or with gold flakes in it. I don’t care how rich you are — no real food lovers want to eat gold."
—Adria Meyer
29.Charcoal in food:
—Faiza A. Arshad
30.Brioche burgers:
"Nobody should want a burger served inside a cake. Burger should be in a floury bap. Sesame bun at a push."
—Fiona Keating
31.Watermelon steak:
"It hurts a lot. Please stop."
—Zainab Alaydrus
32.Tiny food:
—Piwi Pañuelos
33.Stretchy cheese in everything:
"There's no need for that, and it's not as delicious as it's presented to be."
—Karla Željković
34.Kale:
"No taste, hard to chew."
—Joanne Thompson
"If you fry your kale in a skillet with a little olive oil, it makes it easier to slide out into the trash."
—Earle DuRard
35.Huge portions:
"Taking food home in a box and having it sit in the refrigerator for days is overrated."
—Karen Sigler Phillips
36.Salted caramel:
"What was wrong with caramel?"
—Katie Holmes
37.Nutella-flavored everything:
"Just eat it straight out of the jar like the good old days!"
—Katrina Gambin
38.Deconstructed salads:
"Got a Caesar salad that was a head of romaine lettuce, long piece of Parmesan, big crouton, and long piece of bacon that I had to cut up myself and add the dressing! Like, wtf lol."
—Kellie J.P. Chernenko
39.Chicken and waffles:
"It’s just a high-carb, cholesterol-filled sugar dinner. Gimme chicken or gimme waffles."
—Laura Wikary
40.And finally, artistically drizzled sauces:
"The weird swipe of sauce down a plate at a fancy restaurant."
—Lauren Kochian
Note: Some responses have been edited for length and/or clarity.
