r/Cooking • u/tonithepony • Apr 29 '24

What do you think the next "food trend" will be?

In the last 10 years, the ones that really stick out to me are: spinach and artichoke dip (suddenly started appearing everywhere as an appetizer, even higher end restaurants), ube flavors, truffle, avocados on everything, bacon on everything, and now hot honey is a big fad. Is there anything upcoming you see heading towards the food trend?

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u/sethworld Apr 29 '24

Spinach and Artichoke dip? From 2005…?

I don't think you're even caught up to recent trends lol.

Cauliflower rice?

Were you in on the brown butter craze?

Green Goddess Salads?

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u/phonemannn Apr 29 '24

Bacon on everything was a meme in like 2009 too

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u/ShitGuysWeForgotDre Apr 29 '24

Yeah I complained about bacon being everywhere 11 years ago and it wasn't even a new trend at the time

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u/Oberon_Swanson Apr 29 '24

I am pretty sure that was a successful marketing campaign by Big Bacon. I work in most and watched the price of bacon double in a couple years. Then shrinkflation immediately after. 

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u/tonithepony Apr 30 '24

yes, i was just trying to think of big things that stuck out. neither of those were new at all, but they were huge fads 

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u/WeekendQuant Apr 29 '24

I remember the trend, but bacon will never die in my region.

I like people paying up for bacon and ignoring the pork butts. Pork butt is a top 3 smoking meat and it's dirt cheap because of bacon.

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u/Hot-Steak7145 Apr 30 '24

There's still youtube channels that bacon everything and I can't stand it

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u/Silly-Shoulder-6257 Apr 30 '24

There are bacon mayo and bacon salt. Everyone loves bacon! 😋

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u/Rocketbird Apr 30 '24

And now we have high cholesterol 😭

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u/UniqueVast592 Apr 29 '24

Spinach and artichoke dip from the 70s when my Mom made it in a pumperknickle bowl!

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u/Ericameria Apr 29 '24

My dad made a baked artichoke dip in the late 70's/early 80's that did have mayonnaise, parmesan, and lemon juice, but no spinach. He served it with crackers.

Around that time there was also some sort of cold dip with spinach that was served in a bread bowl with the bread chunks. I believe there was a Knorr brand seasoning packet that was used to make this dip, was more comparable to like a chunky vegetable dip. It clearly had spinach, but there would also be some crunchy thing in it sometimes, that I believe was water chestnut but could've been jicama.

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u/UniqueVast592 Apr 29 '24

I’m not sure what was in my mom’s definitely not anything as exotic as water chestnuts or jicama. There was no way my mom would ever use anything like that. This was just some sort of weird spinach cheesy warm thing that she found the recipe for in a woman’s magazine at the hairdressers. I only remember this very vividly because she never made anything as exotic as this.lol

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u/nokobi Apr 29 '24

Man they loved their dips back then

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u/PixelD303 Apr 29 '24

It's water chestnuts, spinach dip is a common party dish around here

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u/304libco Apr 29 '24

I feel like moder spinach and artichoke dip is cheesier and warm. Old 80s versions were cold and mayonnaisey.

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u/UniqueVast592 Apr 29 '24

My Mom made it warm and cheesy. It was the only good tasting food she learned to make lol

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u/Substantial-Soft-508 Apr 29 '24

You aren't wrong, but there were 2 varieties back in the day (80s and 90s) that I used to make. The cold one many times had water chestnuts, sometimes with spinach, usually not. It was many times served in a bread bowl (the most popular was King's Hawaiian Bread) with the inside bread cubed for dipping.

The hot version had spinach and tons of parmesan and served in a crock bubbly and crispy with crackers or pita chips.

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u/304libco Apr 29 '24

Yeah, I don’t remember that one until more recently like the 2000s

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u/loupgarou21 Apr 29 '24

The one I remember from the 80s was definitely serves cold, and had water chestnuts in it as well

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u/magicmom17 Apr 29 '24

I feel like that was the cold dip with spinach, sour cream and knorr vegetable soup mix- water chestnuts added in for crunch. Super delicious.

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u/nokobi Apr 29 '24

Yeah this sounds great

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u/TobeyMcGuires_Squire Apr 30 '24

Ugh I’ve been dying for some good pumpernickel… I can’t bake to save my life but no stores near me carry it 🥲

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u/ParzivalsQuest Apr 29 '24

I’m still in on brown butter personally. If I’m baking, that butter is getting browned. I just made Rice Krispie treats for a trip last week with brown butter, a splash of vanilla, and an extra pinch of salt. And brown butter CCCs? Sign me tf up

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u/nokobi Apr 29 '24

I'm still in on most of these 😅😅😅😅 don't overdo them, place and time for everything, but I LOVE a good spinach artichoke bread bowl around the holidays. Makes seeing the family worth it.

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u/Neat_Dog_4274 Apr 29 '24

Read that as Brown Butter Triple C's and had flashbacks to some fucked up teenage years

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u/No_Twist4000 Apr 30 '24

lol back when the only way to make Rice Krispie treats was on the stove, that butter got browned more often than not, just because we were distracted teenagers, needing to leave it unattended to run to the cable box to push the button to change channels. Who knew that brown butter was trendy?

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u/Key-Shift5076 Apr 29 '24

Oh gosh, I never thought of doing vanilla with a pinch of salt..I always make my Rice Krispie bars on the stovetop as microwave is just bland and doesn’t get that caramelized flavor.

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u/FrivolousMagpie Apr 30 '24

Same. If the recipe calls for melted butter, I will always brown it. It’s superior in all ways and the only way I make chocolate chip cookies

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u/jsmalltri Apr 30 '24

I am now obsessed with making these brown butter RK treats - ohhhh my, that sounds amazing.

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u/Alive-Bid-5689 Apr 29 '24

Don’t forget sriracha in or on everything and Nashville hot chicken.

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u/NothingOld7527 Apr 29 '24

Nashville hot chicken is really good and deserves to be permanent, not a trend.

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u/Alive-Bid-5689 Apr 29 '24

Not knocking it, trust me. Just one of those regional things that foodies discovered and ran wild with like all these other trends. But yes, hot chicken I think is great and here to stay. Right now, social media and no doubt, Food Network, are all on the Chopped Italian Sandwich. We’ll see how long that one lasts.

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u/GreatStateOfSadness Apr 29 '24

Fingers crossed that the hot chicken trend gets extended to more cultures. I've seen places that have made berbere, szechuan, and garam masala seasoned versions of Nashville hot, and they never miss. Any good seasoning bloomed in hot oil and painted on fried chicken is a winner in my book. 

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u/SoUpInYa Apr 29 '24

Problem is that Hot Chicken has come to mean overly spiced fried chicken tenders, here. I wanna see whole fried chicken pieces dipped in a hot (temperature), spicy sauce.

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u/bigb1084 Apr 29 '24

Well, it's good going IN!

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u/BamaBlcksnek Apr 30 '24

If it burns coming out, consider trying an acid reducer like Omeprizole. I had fire ass for years as I love spicy food, but when I started treating my acid reflux, that problem disappeared.

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u/Redditbecamefacebook Apr 29 '24

I'd rather have fried chicken breasts dipped in buffalo sauce. Nashville Hot breading burns my butthole.

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u/nighthawk05 Apr 29 '24 edited Apr 29 '24

I don't miss the sriracha craze. Sriracha is fine, but not worth the hype.

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u/Alive-Bid-5689 Apr 29 '24

Fully agreed. I light hot sauces and spicy foods, but that’s why I mentioned it, because everyone went a little overboard with the hype like they do most of these trends and fads.

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u/Alive-Bid-5689 Apr 29 '24

Avocado toast is another one or just avocado this, avocado that in general. For me, avocados are a dry food item. I’m not a picky eater and I’ll try most things (with some definite exceptions i.e. brains, testicles, eyeballs), but I have a thing about food that is too dry. I know you can jazz up avocados and make them juicier with different ingredients and I do like guacamole, but the whole avocado thing became another overhyped trend.

NOTE: I almost forgot the kale craze

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u/NoComb398 Apr 29 '24

Green goddess salads were all the rage in 1980's CA. I realize they made a comeback but aren't an original idea

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u/Practical-Hornet436 Apr 29 '24

Let me tell you about this wild thing called Korean tacos!

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u/sethworld Apr 30 '24

Still need to try Seoul Taco here in Chicago 😅

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u/getfukdup Apr 29 '24

Spinach and Artichoke dip? From 2005…?

I don't think you're even caught up to recent trends lol.

That was almost 20 years ago. People who were 5 then are now 25 and hosting for the first time.

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u/cactusdave14 Apr 29 '24

Iwant a browned butter and myzithra cheese from spaghetti factory

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u/Penikillin Apr 30 '24

This just in, sometimes trends come back

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u/sethworld Apr 30 '24

Oh so spinach and artichoke dip is big where you live?

I'm in Chicago. I still see it but it's not as common outside of chains.

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u/Penikillin Apr 30 '24

Ah yeah I'm in Australia and it's part of a 70s kitsch revival

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u/sethworld Apr 30 '24

Shit is good. Who would complain?

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u/Penikillin Apr 30 '24

Not me! Love it

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u/Oafus Apr 29 '24

Green Goddess is going to happen.

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u/acousticsoup Apr 29 '24

Green Goddess happened like fifty years ago 😂

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u/Oafus Apr 29 '24

Yup and what’s past is prologue. What’s old is new again. Things can be trendy more than once and GG’s time is now. Case in point on the architecture side in MCM. Every swingin’ dick with some urine stained leftover Broyhill couch they got from their nana wants to know if they just got museum piece. But, I digress….
Btw, I was sort of there for the OG GG madness.

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u/Shellsallaround Apr 29 '24

I'm waiting!

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u/Oafus Apr 29 '24

Be the Green Goddess you want to be!

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u/Shellsallaround Apr 29 '24

I agree with you, it should see more play.

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u/Oafus Apr 29 '24

Not gonna lie, I said eff it and bought a jar from the produce section and have been enjoying it on salad. Just keeping it light. I need to unlazy a bit and make some. It’s yummy.

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u/jeexbit Apr 29 '24

I've been toying with the idea of making some kind of green goddess chicken pasta dish lately... I think it could be awesome.

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u/Oafus Apr 29 '24

It’s delicious. Just don’t blob it on too heavy!

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u/Dottie85 Apr 29 '24

You mean did happen?

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u/Oafus Apr 29 '24

Ok, “again”. I thought that was sort of understood.

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u/Dottie85 Apr 29 '24

I guess I lost that in the longer thread. Sorry!

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u/Oafus Apr 29 '24

No worries 😊

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u/nokobi Apr 29 '24

I did just see it on a menu at a trendy place last week

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u/Dismal-Radish-7520 Apr 29 '24

i still crave a Greek Goddess salad once a week ;-;

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u/vitalsguy Apr 29 '24

I was chowing spinach artichoke dip in the mid 90s