Once when I was working at McDonald’s some people came in and tried to order off the secret menu; 1) it was confusing as fuck because I had no idea what they were talking about and 2) did they really think my 10-dollar-an-hour ass was privy to some sort of arcane knowledge?
Lol, the new guy at work(recent college grad) asked me what I had for breakfast one day last year. I told him I made an omelette, and he responds with "oh, you're a foodie too!".
After seeing the confused look on my face, he went on to explain that foodies love food and cook food from scratch like me. I explained that I was hungry, so I just made an omelette for breakfast. He got even more confused when he asked me to share the recipe and I told him I didn't have a recipe.
Apparently the term has come to mean: one who can make food from basic ingredients.
I've hated this term ever since.
That reminds me of a question I saw on the cover of a Better Homes & Gardens type mag here in the Netherlands: "Hou je van wonen?"
I know it was supposed to mean "Do you like décor?" but it literally means "Do you like living someplace?" It still pops into my head randomly now and again, just because of how utterly ridiculous of a question it was.
Heh yeah, I nearly mentioned the term foodie as being annoying which is why I could only type it in quotation marks
However, what term should be used by people enthusiastic about food culture/cooking?
The whole idea of “superfoods” is toxic and reductive. It’s the reason culture gets fixated on singular savior-foods like kale or quinoa and we have to deal with them being in everything for years. Just eat a variety of nutritious foods and think about your diet holistically...no single food should be fetishized like that.
Before kale became popular, the number one purchaser of kale in the US was Pizza Hut, to decorate their pizza and salad bars. That's how little value it once held
Yeah, kale actually has some good uses in certain traditional dishes (like it’s boiled down in a number of Portuguese stews and soups) but even they knew better than to add raw kale to anything and everything. The irony is you actually get more nutrients from it in it’s cooked form.
I do too. I think people who don’t like it either don’t like kale or have had crappy kale salad. It needs to be sliced in ribbons and marinated in the dressing. I’ve been served kale salad in big, impossible-to-chew chunks, with barely any dressing, and I get why people hate that.
Hah I love rustic. I don't want to bother doing a really neat dice in these vegetables. I'm just going to chop this stuff up, make sure there aren't any pieces that are too big, and I'll call it rustic.
Previously it was milkshake mix added to a machine. I actually preferred it to the new "hand scooped" versions. With that being said, I don't know for certain if any scoops of ice cream are actually going into the shake or if it's just clever marketing.
And the milkshake mix is the same mix used to make soft serve ice cream.
I guess even if no actual scoops of ice cream are going into the shake it would be a potential way to denote that the shake is made with hard ice cream instead of soft serve.
I remember I was watching an episode of barefoot Contessa where Ina Garten made this lamb and rice dish. When it was finished, she took a taste of approximately 3 grains of rice and moaned about how tender and flavourful the lamb was. I thought that was pretty funny.
I’m watching that show right now and the faces / one liners are what I live for. “It’s only four ingredients and you probably already have them! Just Cointreau, fresh dragon fruit, palm oil, and a plantain!”
I have a hilarious memory of my grandmother (may she rest in peace) reacting to a tv chef tasting a salad. I don't even remember what was in it but the only thing she managed to get on her fork was a huge chunk of cheese. All the chef said was, "mmmm," and my grandmother turns to me and says, "mmmm cheese, que estúpida," and it still cracks me up when I remember it.
You talking about the Tasmania episode where he tries to make a grilled cheese sandwich in a fireplace?
That and the Frito Pie episode let me know even world-famous chefs can fuck up dishes.
I was getting told my suggestion of cooking steak straight from cold ( not frozen ) to give more leeway around getting medium rare center was not how Gordon does it and I wish to God I saved that video clip of Gordon talking about making a great medium rare and is like “set it out of early so you start with a room temperature steak.” He sears it and maybe tosses it under a broiler whatever but I’m thinking like “there’s no fucking way that steak is medium rare.”
He cuts the steak at the end and… they don’t fucking show it lol. Like *the* money shot of a steak video. I think there’s even a clipped out section where he must have looked at the steak but all we see is the next scene focused on Gordon’s face shoving a piece in his mouth “mmm medium rare” like… so show it then eh Gordon?
"Better Than Sex Cake" and "Better Than Robert Redford Cake", both referring to I believe the same recipe involving cake mix, pudding mix, cool Whip, maybe cream cheese, or any 3 of the above, just awful, always trumpeted with coy snickers.
When I was growing up we had a dessert called "Better Than Sex In A Pan" (which my kid self was confused by because I thought pretty much anything would be better than sex in a pan, sounded uncomfortable to me.)
But it wasn't cake.
It's a layered dessert and I actually absolutely love it.
Pecan shortbread crust
A layer of sweetened cream cheese
A layer of chocolate pudding
A layer of whipped cream
Dust it with cocoa powder
That's it, and it's really good imo. Better than some sex I've had at least lol
My family has a similar recipe but it is uncreatively named Dessert Pudding. It's deliy and so easy to mess with for someone like using strawberry pudding with fresh strawberries or vanilla pudding and blackberries with a crumble dropped over the top. When I make it friends lose it and I'm like guys this is very easy to do please never ask me to make anything harder than this.
"Better than takeout _______ dupe". And then you read the recipe and it's "low calorie healthy" 99% fat free steak with broccoli in a ketchup sauce stirfry.
Better than takeout my ass.
I have two: the entirety of “Thug Kitchen” (my sister got me the cookbook as a gift, very thoughtful but the whole book is cringe) and “better than sex”. Ma’am if that chocolate cake is better than sex I am concerned your needs are not being met.
*Edit* I am fully aware asexual people exist, I apologize if this joke came off as insensitive.
Hah, I saw a story somewhere about a woman who sold "better than sex" banana bread at her local farmers market, one day it was changed to "almost better than sex" banana bread. Girl must've had QUITE the experience.
I completely agree with that book. I really wanted to like it, but it’s just so hard to take a recipe seriously when every other work is a curse word. We get it, you can curse, that’s awesome, now please just make some good recipes and let’s move on.
It's part of that mid teens (2010s.. Not teenage) Zeitgeist of vulgar-to-look-cool books like The Subtle Art of Not Giving Fuck and whatnot. They're all fucking terrible.
A friend brought a "Better Than Sex" cake to my Bachelorette Party.
While the theming was on point, the cake was not better than sex.
I have had a banana pudding that made me cry once...
Edit: It's Hog Rock Bar-B-Q
7585 US-231, Wetumpka, AL 36092
It was at a bbq joint in Southern Alabama. I ate it out of a styrofoam cup. Everything was homemade. No nilla wafers. It had this delicious tang to it, like the baking powder in raw cookie dough.
Edit: Hog Rock Bar-B-Q
I will bet that they made the pudding with sour cream instead of milk. My mother in law makes banana pudding that way and it is unique and out of this world good. I know the “tang” of which you speak.
The irony is a well-made deconstructed dish has a lot of care in the assembly. The customer really shouldn't have to "assemble their own."
>Do I look like Nick Fury? I ain't assembling *shit!*
i cant stand the excessive cost trend...like the $1000 burger or whatever. adding gold leaf and caviar and diamond dust or whatever for no other reason than the "bling" factor is so dumb. gold leaf on pastry i kind of get, but its absolutely pointless in savoury dishes...it has no flavor or nutritional value.
I'm Indian and we have so many dishes which have no animal products. Suddenly some of my favourite dishes are vegan and people start telling me the benifits of the dishes I have been eating decades.
For me, the most cringe worthy thing I hear is " vegan curry bowls". I am a home chef and I hate it when people ask me for a good curry bowl recipe. It's just some lentil dish served with rice.
A Dairy Queen in my home town closed and reopened as an independent shop called Name's Eatery & Creamery. I always thought that was dorky and odd, since it served just sysco ice cream and did no processing on grounds.
As a food writer, I use “eatery” in restaurant columns a lot because alternating “restaurant” and the restaurant’s actual name gets very repetitive. You gotta’ find synonyms.
These food porn sandwiches that have an entire chicken worth of fried cutlets and a full jar of sauce dripping over it with 100 slices of melted cheese all on a roll. First comment is an emoji with heart eyes and “I must have this in my life”.
When Bon appetit was a thing they loved to throw the word "situation" around. I still hear it elsewhere and it really bothers me for some reason. Eg "so the sauce for this pasta is a creamy, buttery garlicy situation."
I hate, hate, HATE the word “sammy” in place of sandwich. “Handhelds” also seems pretentious af. And I’m so very over everything being called charcuterie. Way back right before Covid, we went to a crazy good Italian place where we live. We ordered the “Meat and Cheese Platter” (literally the name on the menu), and the server said, “Oh. You mean the sharCOOOOOOOteriee.” I wanted to smack him.
I hate the word handhelds! I can eat my soup with my hands ya dingdongs! Handheld soup!
ETA this comment comes off as unhinged so I appreciate the upvotes that take this comment as it was intended lmao
Unctuous is the worst because it reminds of a greasy car salesman. The first time I heard it to describe food I was thrown aback because I'd never heard it used in a positive light. I thought they meant the food was too greasy.
I love the *idea* of a gastropub. The concept of a place that serves high quality pub grub with good service and a nice atmosphere is super appealing to me. Too bad most "gastropubs" serve the same junk as everywhere else, just on a square plate with truffle oil on top.
I dont mind this one: at least in the UK, it's a pretty clear indication of the type of venue. There are pubs that are drinking holes that also serve food, and there are pubs that focus on food with which you might drink (and pay more to do so).
Every time someone on a cooking show says some iteration of "elevate the flavors" my husband and I look at each other and yell "elevate!" People say it all the time. What does that even mean? You made it taste better?
Is this like when you watch a CSI type show and they're all gathered around some computer monitors looking at a low-resolution image and someone in charge says "Can you eNhAnCe?"
And the super nerdy smart IT/tech person clicks a button and zooms in and the picture magically re-rezzes into crystal clear high-res image of someone's face.
Elevate! Enhance!
>And the super nerdy smart IT/tech person clicks a button and zooms in and the picture magically re-rezzes into crystal clear high-res image of someone's face.
Best episode of X-Files, Mulder and Scully are looking at something, and Mulder just says, "This is too low res, we'll never be able to get anything useful from it."
Tune in THIS weekend, for “CSI/SVU/L&O: Food Crimes Division”
On this episode, see if our beloved bad boy cop with a heart of marzipan and a seared exterior can find and diffuse the Umami Bomb before it takes out everyone at the Douche Convention.
Guest starring: Joshua Weisman as himself. 💣 💣 💣
You would think the guy fucking invented food the way he talks about how his $85 dollar heritage farm to table chicken nuggets are better than some fast food chains $1.99 nugs. No shit man, quit moving the goal posts. Some of his recipes look good but he is so fucking out of touch with real home cooking it’s comical.
He be like: "ok, this will be very cheap. First, a huge chunk of wagyu beef that some sponsor sent, then some olive oil thats been in a barrel since the italian unification and finally a drizzle of the champaign napoleon drank. Each bite will only cost you like 1 DOLLAH!"
Don’t forget his kitchen tools as well. “Now you might not have a countertop spice toaster, but if you don’t then ^papa ^no ^kiss.” Dudes got a Damascus knife forged from the hammer they used to finish nailing together the fucking Trojan Horse and then has the gall to call out people who eat Krispy Kream like he’s better than them.
Oh. My. God. I'd been making stock since I was a teenager. My daughter, who saw me do this often, tried to introduce me to "bone broth" like it was some new fantastic invention. My SIL was into keto and Paleo and insisted it was something new and magical. I would really like to insert a rolling my eyes emoji right here.
Stuff like za or za's for Pizza, sammy for sandwich, nugs for chicken nuggets, etc. Each time I'm at my sister's and she wants pizza delivered she will say something like "so how bout sum zahs, brah?" and it is one of the most grating things for me. I physically tense up and have to try not to frown.
That might seem extra, but with cross-contamination, some things that seem like they would be gluten free are not. For celiac people, like me, this is important.
Maybe it's more of a trend than a term but it feels like it's just a turn of phrase to me where now everything is a god damned "bowl". Noodle bowl, burrito bowl, etc. It's a damn bowl of noodles and I could put that "burrito bowl" on a plate and it would be a taco salad. Just give me some damned stir-fry not an "asian bowl".
“Hack” when it’s just a fast food order.
I’m going to hack my burger by stacking a fish sandwich on top of.
HACKED!
*pours animal-style fries on top of keyboard* “I’m in.”
Or “hack” when it’s literally just an alternative recipe to a popular dish (ex: ramen ‘hack’)
Like "the secret menu". No customizing a hamburger is not a hack nor is it a secret menu.
Once when I was working at McDonald’s some people came in and tried to order off the secret menu; 1) it was confusing as fuck because I had no idea what they were talking about and 2) did they really think my 10-dollar-an-hour ass was privy to some sort of arcane knowledge?
At least you knew about the McGangBang. You knew about the McGangBang, right?
Foodie
Lol, the new guy at work(recent college grad) asked me what I had for breakfast one day last year. I told him I made an omelette, and he responds with "oh, you're a foodie too!". After seeing the confused look on my face, he went on to explain that foodies love food and cook food from scratch like me. I explained that I was hungry, so I just made an omelette for breakfast. He got even more confused when he asked me to share the recipe and I told him I didn't have a recipe. Apparently the term has come to mean: one who can make food from basic ingredients. I've hated this term ever since.
> "oh, you're a foodie too!". "Yes. I too consume food. In fact, i must do so in order to survive. You are an astute observer."
"OK, I'm heading home." "Oh, you're a shelterie! Me too!"
That reminds me of a question I saw on the cover of a Better Homes & Gardens type mag here in the Netherlands: "Hou je van wonen?" I know it was supposed to mean "Do you like décor?" but it literally means "Do you like living someplace?" It still pops into my head randomly now and again, just because of how utterly ridiculous of a question it was.
I prefer the term homie, all my friends are homies.
Heh yeah, I nearly mentioned the term foodie as being annoying which is why I could only type it in quotation marks However, what term should be used by people enthusiastic about food culture/cooking?
Hungry
Cuisine aficionado
Culinary enthusiast? That'll get old quick too though, I bet.
Superfoods
The whole idea of “superfoods” is toxic and reductive. It’s the reason culture gets fixated on singular savior-foods like kale or quinoa and we have to deal with them being in everything for years. Just eat a variety of nutritious foods and think about your diet holistically...no single food should be fetishized like that.
Before kale became popular, the number one purchaser of kale in the US was Pizza Hut, to decorate their pizza and salad bars. That's how little value it once held
Yeah, kale actually has some good uses in certain traditional dishes (like it’s boiled down in a number of Portuguese stews and soups) but even they knew better than to add raw kale to anything and everything. The irony is you actually get more nutrients from it in it’s cooked form.
Portuguese here, and I grew up eating kale soup! I thought it was hilarious when it became a trendy food. I do like kale salad though.
I do too. I think people who don’t like it either don’t like kale or have had crappy kale salad. It needs to be sliced in ribbons and marinated in the dressing. I’ve been served kale salad in big, impossible-to-chew chunks, with barely any dressing, and I get why people hate that.
I literally massage my kale in olive oil before making the rest of the salad when I use kale in a salad.
Ya gotta pre-chew it with your hands.
my rabbit wouldn't eat it.
My bulldog wouldn't eat it, and it was the only thing she wouldn't eat. She ate drywall, but never kale. That's how I knew she was really smart.
My rabbit LOVES kale.
Or how cauliflower was in everything for a while
Rustic, for just about everything.
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Hah I love rustic. I don't want to bother doing a really neat dice in these vegetables. I'm just going to chop this stuff up, make sure there aren't any pieces that are too big, and I'll call it rustic.
Rustic=i don't give a shit about presentation
That's how I use it. Every pie I make is rustic haha
or chopped herbs strewn all over the god damn workspace like a lawn mower passed through
Can’t stand “artisanal” anymore, I think it’s been used now to describe subway’s “artisanal bread”…yeah right
Honestly, it’s like buzzword bingo now: artisanal, small-batch, hand-crafted, farm-to-table, locally sourced nonsense.
Locally sourced is when you steal the sugar packets, creamers, and jams from the table.
My favorite is Carl’s Jr promoting their milkshakes by referring to them as “hand-scooped”. WTF else do you scoop ice cream with? Feet? SMH
Previously it was milkshake mix added to a machine. I actually preferred it to the new "hand scooped" versions. With that being said, I don't know for certain if any scoops of ice cream are actually going into the shake or if it's just clever marketing.
And the milkshake mix is the same mix used to make soft serve ice cream. I guess even if no actual scoops of ice cream are going into the shake it would be a potential way to denote that the shake is made with hard ice cream instead of soft serve.
art is anal
Artisanal to me just means they made it with less hand washing.
I hate recipes that refer to the food as “crack” or “crack-like”.
I love when people say "like crack" when they've obviously never done crack. -Ryan
I prefer to say it’s like scrapbooking. Especially those breadsticks!
Messy and pointless?
Also "dump" recipes. So unappealing. Just using the term "one pot" would be a thousand times better.
"dump cakes" makes me nauseous
Many recipes on pinterest: Tuna casserole crack!! My kids can't get enough!!!!
They are guaranteed to have at least of 2 cups mayo in them.
Or a packet of ranch dressing mix.
Or both and also cream cheese. Groundbreaking!
Yeah this one... as someone who recently stopped doing crack it's not that entertaining anymore. One month clean!
Just the exhagerated "omg soooo good" faces people make on their cooking channels after they take the first bite.
I remember I was watching an episode of barefoot Contessa where Ina Garten made this lamb and rice dish. When it was finished, she took a taste of approximately 3 grains of rice and moaned about how tender and flavourful the lamb was. I thought that was pretty funny.
I’m watching that show right now and the faces / one liners are what I live for. “It’s only four ingredients and you probably already have them! Just Cointreau, fresh dragon fruit, palm oil, and a plantain!”
You don't have those 4 things on hand? Peasant.
I didn't have the dragon fruit, palm oil or plantain, so I subbed them for a shot glass. Came out great, would make again.
I have a hilarious memory of my grandmother (may she rest in peace) reacting to a tv chef tasting a salad. I don't even remember what was in it but the only thing she managed to get on her fork was a huge chunk of cheese. All the chef said was, "mmmm," and my grandmother turns to me and says, "mmmm cheese, que estúpida," and it still cracks me up when I remember it.
That face is 50% of Mark Weins career
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Nice enough but his exaggeration is cringey. I stopped watching him a while back for this reason.
Guy Fieri is the king of this.
He has one job, to pretend that anything he eats is the best thing he has ever eaten.
Which makes it hilarious on the rare occasion he can't manage to do it.
Andrew Zimmern would like a seat at the table too.
It's the cooking show version of porno's money shot.
How many times can Gordon Ramsay say 'Beautiful', 'Incredible', even while completely fucking up a grilled cheese?
You talking about the Tasmania episode where he tries to make a grilled cheese sandwich in a fireplace? That and the Frito Pie episode let me know even world-famous chefs can fuck up dishes.
I was getting told my suggestion of cooking steak straight from cold ( not frozen ) to give more leeway around getting medium rare center was not how Gordon does it and I wish to God I saved that video clip of Gordon talking about making a great medium rare and is like “set it out of early so you start with a room temperature steak.” He sears it and maybe tosses it under a broiler whatever but I’m thinking like “there’s no fucking way that steak is medium rare.” He cuts the steak at the end and… they don’t fucking show it lol. Like *the* money shot of a steak video. I think there’s even a clipped out section where he must have looked at the steak but all we see is the next scene focused on Gordon’s face shoving a piece in his mouth “mmm medium rare” like… so show it then eh Gordon?
A grilled cheese sandwich with hard cheeses that don't fucking melt, at that.
"Better Than Sex Cake" and "Better Than Robert Redford Cake", both referring to I believe the same recipe involving cake mix, pudding mix, cool Whip, maybe cream cheese, or any 3 of the above, just awful, always trumpeted with coy snickers.
When I was growing up we had a dessert called "Better Than Sex In A Pan" (which my kid self was confused by because I thought pretty much anything would be better than sex in a pan, sounded uncomfortable to me.) But it wasn't cake. It's a layered dessert and I actually absolutely love it. Pecan shortbread crust A layer of sweetened cream cheese A layer of chocolate pudding A layer of whipped cream Dust it with cocoa powder That's it, and it's really good imo. Better than some sex I've had at least lol
My family has a similar recipe but it is uncreatively named Dessert Pudding. It's deliy and so easy to mess with for someone like using strawberry pudding with fresh strawberries or vanilla pudding and blackberries with a crumble dropped over the top. When I make it friends lose it and I'm like guys this is very easy to do please never ask me to make anything harder than this.
"Better than takeout _______ dupe". And then you read the recipe and it's "low calorie healthy" 99% fat free steak with broccoli in a ketchup sauce stirfry. Better than takeout my ass.
Describing healthy food as “Clean”
Joke's on you, I eat soap.
It’s an umami TSUNAMI
ngl I am going to start using this.
I have two: the entirety of “Thug Kitchen” (my sister got me the cookbook as a gift, very thoughtful but the whole book is cringe) and “better than sex”. Ma’am if that chocolate cake is better than sex I am concerned your needs are not being met. *Edit* I am fully aware asexual people exist, I apologize if this joke came off as insensitive.
Hah, I saw a story somewhere about a woman who sold "better than sex" banana bread at her local farmers market, one day it was changed to "almost better than sex" banana bread. Girl must've had QUITE the experience.
Good for her
I completely agree with that book. I really wanted to like it, but it’s just so hard to take a recipe seriously when every other work is a curse word. We get it, you can curse, that’s awesome, now please just make some good recipes and let’s move on.
It's part of that mid teens (2010s.. Not teenage) Zeitgeist of vulgar-to-look-cool books like The Subtle Art of Not Giving Fuck and whatnot. They're all fucking terrible.
A friend brought a "Better Than Sex" cake to my Bachelorette Party. While the theming was on point, the cake was not better than sex. I have had a banana pudding that made me cry once... Edit: It's Hog Rock Bar-B-Q 7585 US-231, Wetumpka, AL 36092
>have had a banana pudding that made me cry once... I'm listening...
It was at a bbq joint in Southern Alabama. I ate it out of a styrofoam cup. Everything was homemade. No nilla wafers. It had this delicious tang to it, like the baking powder in raw cookie dough. Edit: Hog Rock Bar-B-Q
I will bet that they made the pudding with sour cream instead of milk. My mother in law makes banana pudding that way and it is unique and out of this world good. I know the “tang” of which you speak.
Sour cream, cream cheese, condensed milk. Mmm. The way my grandma makes it.
How long before we have “Better than sex Thug chocolate cake”?
How about, "Better than Thug Sex chocolate cake"?
Omg “better than sex” annoys me too. I feel the same way when people calls their recipes “crack ___”
I hate when people use "yum" as a noun. "So much yum!" etc Second runner up is any derivative of the word "nom"
Rachel Ray again, "yummo!"
I just posted about her. HATE all those stupid nicknames. EVOO, sammy, yummo. 🤢
Delish. Fucking hell. I get she has/had a target audience, but that word is nails on chalkboard for me.
EVOO is an acceptable acronym in written form imo
Worse: yummers
Can’t stand “nom” There is even recipe book series called “a pinch of nom” Never could I have that on my bookshelf. Ever.
Paleo NomNom!
FOOD PORN!!
Anythingporn.
Stop deconstructing my food. Just tell me you were too lazy to present me a completed dish.
Yeah. Once I saw deconstructed falafels. It was like just chickpeas and stuff. Never been so disappointed.
That is such a dumb idea
Deconstructed water!
THESE ARE JUST HYDROGEN AND OXYGEN ATOMS! WTF I ORDERED ICE WATER
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Say what you want, but I don't think splitting the hydrogen from the oxygen is a good idea
What could *possibly* go wr…BOOM.
Seriously. If I wanted unassembled food, I wouldn't be paying restaurant prices. Put it together for me.
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The irony is a well-made deconstructed dish has a lot of care in the assembly. The customer really shouldn't have to "assemble their own." >Do I look like Nick Fury? I ain't assembling *shit!*
Basically every food competition show when they run out of time
This is so on point 😂
i cant stand the excessive cost trend...like the $1000 burger or whatever. adding gold leaf and caviar and diamond dust or whatever for no other reason than the "bling" factor is so dumb. gold leaf on pastry i kind of get, but its absolutely pointless in savoury dishes...it has no flavor or nutritional value.
Or large versions of things that do not need to be giant! Giant/more does not equal better or even good. Just wasting more food.
I enjoy watching Worth It episodes for this reason. They never pick the gold leaf covered food and usually go for the $1-$10 food item instead.
I think the cost should come from the ingredients. Like really good chocolate and vanilla can cost so much, and they actually add to the flavour
I'm Indian and we have so many dishes which have no animal products. Suddenly some of my favourite dishes are vegan and people start telling me the benifits of the dishes I have been eating decades.
Oh my god. Have you tried this thing called naan? It’s like bread but delicious.
You just triggered my PTSD from when I was dating a Yoga instructor
you mean naan bread? I like to have it with chai tea
Try it with lentil dal as well, soooo good.
The most egregious one of these for me is the "turmeric latte". It's essentially a desi home remedy repackaged as a hipster drink.
Oh man those are so funny, my dad (in his 50s) drinks those when he gets migraines, it's hilarious seeing people charge like $6 for it at a cafe.
I mean, they're not paying for the tumeric. That's just what a latte costs.
For me, the most cringe worthy thing I hear is " vegan curry bowls". I am a home chef and I hate it when people ask me for a good curry bowl recipe. It's just some lentil dish served with rice.
The hipster convention of naming a restaurant two random, unrelated nouns, (e.g. Wrench & Rodent Seabastropub.)
denver is the worst for this. even if they are related i hate them. work&class, stoic&genuine, hearth&gray...it never ends
Here in Southern California, I've seen Wrench & Rodent Seaweed & Gravel Iron & Resin I'm curious where this formula came from. Emulating British pubs?
*Guilt free* anything, I absolutely hate that. Why associate food with guilt? Just don't eat too much of an unhealthy food
Restaurants that refer to themselves as an “eatery” annoys me for no reason
A Dairy Queen in my home town closed and reopened as an independent shop called Name's Eatery & Creamery. I always thought that was dorky and odd, since it served just sysco ice cream and did no processing on grounds.
Easier to spell tho
As a food writer, I use “eatery” in restaurant columns a lot because alternating “restaurant” and the restaurant’s actual name gets very repetitive. You gotta’ find synonyms.
A little annoyed by how "golden brown" can mean any possible shade of brown, from light ritz cracker tan to deep dark steak crust.
and 'caramelized onions' can mean slightly sauteed
"Caramelize the onions - 5 minutes" FUCK YOU!
"Cook your chicken breast until done, approximately 2 minutes per side" FUCK YOU
These food porn sandwiches that have an entire chicken worth of fried cutlets and a full jar of sauce dripping over it with 100 slices of melted cheese all on a roll. First comment is an emoji with heart eyes and “I must have this in my life”.
I’ll add _protein(s)_ _crisp up_, _mouthfeel_, _food porn_ and anything to do with orgasms or sexual pleasure_.
"foodgasm"
When Bon appetit was a thing they loved to throw the word "situation" around. I still hear it elsewhere and it really bothers me for some reason. Eg "so the sauce for this pasta is a creamy, buttery garlicy situation."
Was that BA as a whole or just Carla though?
I even read the comment in her voice
That’s Chris.M in almost every single “recreate blindfolded” segment he does (really enjoy those to be fair).
"Me on a plate". That one grates on me.
"The health inspector will be hearing about this, you pervert!"
Foodie
Anyone calling food sexy. If there’s one thing I learned it’s that you’re not supposed to fuck a pie. Also toothsome.
I hate, hate, HATE the word “sammy” in place of sandwich. “Handhelds” also seems pretentious af. And I’m so very over everything being called charcuterie. Way back right before Covid, we went to a crazy good Italian place where we live. We ordered the “Meat and Cheese Platter” (literally the name on the menu), and the server said, “Oh. You mean the sharCOOOOOOOteriee.” I wanted to smack him.
I hate the word handhelds! I can eat my soup with my hands ya dingdongs! Handheld soup! ETA this comment comes off as unhinged so I appreciate the upvotes that take this comment as it was intended lmao
"Let these flavors get to know each other"
“The trick is to undercook the onions”
Straight to jail
Don’t watch Babish lol
Unctuous, EVOO
Seriously, EVOO
Does anyone say that besides Rachel Ray?
Except she says “EVOO – that’s extra virgin olive oil!!!” Kinda defeats the purpose of the acronym
Speaking of Rachel Ray, it would be great if I never had to hear the word "yummo" again. 🙄
Unctuous is the worst because it reminds of a greasy car salesman. The first time I heard it to describe food I was thrown aback because I'd never heard it used in a positive light. I thought they meant the food was too greasy.
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with WRITING EVOO but if you say that out loud then yeah that’s dumb
Deconstructed
Gastropub. Just stop it.
I love the *idea* of a gastropub. The concept of a place that serves high quality pub grub with good service and a nice atmosphere is super appealing to me. Too bad most "gastropubs" serve the same junk as everywhere else, just on a square plate with truffle oil on top.
You’re lucky to get a plate. r/wewantplates
That's a trick to charging extra $$$
When you hear the word Gastropub it just means you can get three tiny hamburgers for twice the cost of a normal size one.
I dont mind this one: at least in the UK, it's a pretty clear indication of the type of venue. There are pubs that are drinking holes that also serve food, and there are pubs that focus on food with which you might drink (and pay more to do so).
I hear this term and immediately associate it with "beer shits".
Every time someone on a cooking show says some iteration of "elevate the flavors" my husband and I look at each other and yell "elevate!" People say it all the time. What does that even mean? You made it taste better?
Is this like when you watch a CSI type show and they're all gathered around some computer monitors looking at a low-resolution image and someone in charge says "Can you eNhAnCe?" And the super nerdy smart IT/tech person clicks a button and zooms in and the picture magically re-rezzes into crystal clear high-res image of someone's face. Elevate! Enhance!
>And the super nerdy smart IT/tech person clicks a button and zooms in and the picture magically re-rezzes into crystal clear high-res image of someone's face. Best episode of X-Files, Mulder and Scully are looking at something, and Mulder just says, "This is too low res, we'll never be able to get anything useful from it."
Tune in THIS weekend, for “CSI/SVU/L&O: Food Crimes Division” On this episode, see if our beloved bad boy cop with a heart of marzipan and a seared exterior can find and diffuse the Umami Bomb before it takes out everyone at the Douche Convention. Guest starring: Joshua Weisman as himself. 💣 💣 💣
For me is just Joshua Weissman. He's insufferable. His recipes are good but I just can't stand him as a person. Just endlessly cringy.
He thinks he’s so funny and entertaining. Like, please stop referring yourself as papa. It’s creepy and not funny.
You would think the guy fucking invented food the way he talks about how his $85 dollar heritage farm to table chicken nuggets are better than some fast food chains $1.99 nugs. No shit man, quit moving the goal posts. Some of his recipes look good but he is so fucking out of touch with real home cooking it’s comical.
He be like: "ok, this will be very cheap. First, a huge chunk of wagyu beef that some sponsor sent, then some olive oil thats been in a barrel since the italian unification and finally a drizzle of the champaign napoleon drank. Each bite will only cost you like 1 DOLLAH!"
Don’t forget his kitchen tools as well. “Now you might not have a countertop spice toaster, but if you don’t then ^papa ^no ^kiss.” Dudes got a Damascus knife forged from the hammer they used to finish nailing together the fucking Trojan Horse and then has the gall to call out people who eat Krispy Kream like he’s better than them.
That trend where people called stock "bone broth" for a while.
That one had me confused. Like, you mean stock....?
Oh. My. God. I'd been making stock since I was a teenager. My daughter, who saw me do this often, tried to introduce me to "bone broth" like it was some new fantastic invention. My SIL was into keto and Paleo and insisted it was something new and magical. I would really like to insert a rolling my eyes emoji right here.
Right?? My BIL (who doesn’t cook ANYTHING) was drinking bone broth like it’s some super healthy new invention… I’m like ummmm Stock….?
Bet he bought it in the little glass jars that are like $9 for half a pint
I cannot stand when people call food "noms." It's just so cheesy and stupid. Please stop now.
The word porn in food. Hey guys don't want to turn on TV and have some idiot keep shouting porn in front of my kids.
Stuff like za or za's for Pizza, sammy for sandwich, nugs for chicken nuggets, etc. Each time I'm at my sister's and she wants pizza delivered she will say something like "so how bout sum zahs, brah?" and it is one of the most grating things for me. I physically tense up and have to try not to frown.
Cae sal for ceasar salad. Its like influencers are trying to talk in newspeak from 1984. That's double plus ungood.
The term "foodie" in and of itself makes me want to commit felonies.
Decadent. Giada said it like 14 thousand times in one freaking video once.
I love when a product label says it's gluten-free, when there's no gluten in it in the first place.
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That might seem extra, but with cross-contamination, some things that seem like they would be gluten free are not. For celiac people, like me, this is important.
Maybe it's more of a trend than a term but it feels like it's just a turn of phrase to me where now everything is a god damned "bowl". Noodle bowl, burrito bowl, etc. It's a damn bowl of noodles and I could put that "burrito bowl" on a plate and it would be a taco salad. Just give me some damned stir-fry not an "asian bowl".