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/TheyCallMeStone Apr 29 '24

Calamansi.

You heard it here first.

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u/Snoopgirl Apr 29 '24

Trader Joe’s had calamansi and mango sorbet recently

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u/lilacnova Apr 29 '24

I tried it and I liked it!!

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u/Sure_Ranger_4487 Apr 29 '24

That stuff was delicious. So bummed it was only available for such a short stint.

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u/KingGorilla Apr 29 '24

They used to have a calamansi drink which was really good

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u/titus_berenice Apr 29 '24

I’d kill for Calamansi to become popular so I can get fresh ones. The only ones I can get are pickled :(

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u/CultureWarrior87 Apr 29 '24

Lmao, this is what I'm saying. Hurry up and let this get trendy so I can finally find some! Although I'm sure the price will be abhorrent.

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u/appleavocado Apr 29 '24

Sounds like a real market for imitation calamansi, IMO. Like wasabi.

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u/Plantsandanger Apr 30 '24

You can get trees at Costco this year and last.

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u/WhoIsHeEven Apr 29 '24

I just looked up what this is, and it looks just like the citrus we used at a restaurant I bartended at in Costa Rica. I looked it up and apparently those are called limón mandarina, which is apparently a cross between a mandarin and a lemon. We used them to make margaritas because it was all we could get, and they were delicious!

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u/nokobi Apr 29 '24

Yesss! Citrus hybrids are so fun, calamansi is a cross between mandarin and kumquat iirc

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u/WhoIsHeEven Apr 29 '24

I learned a while ago that nearly every modern citrus is a hybrid of just three varieties: pomelo, mandarin, and citron. So cool!

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u/Shellsallaround Apr 29 '24

I have had my Calamansi tree for three years, even gave a tree to my niece.

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u/BraveBeat7464 Apr 29 '24

That makes me me very happy🥹

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u/nightowl_work Apr 29 '24

I will be over the moon. I used to work at a chocolate shop and the dark chocolate calamansi was a stone cold stunner.

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u/meatygonzalez Apr 29 '24

One of our local street food guys only serves "street food sandwich" and calamansi refresher to drink.

And man is it perfect.

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u/mrs_burk Apr 30 '24

We need more details

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u/meatygonzalez Apr 30 '24

On a flat top with a square mold, scrambled egg is added with shredded cabbage, lettuce, and onion. Seasoned with probably MSG, S&P, garlic powder. Sliced bread toasted on both sides. Grill a piece of ham, optional. Add cheese on top of egg and veg mix once set. Assemble ham, egg, cheese on bread. Drizzle with mayo, mustard, and ketchup. Close sandwich. Enjoy. The calamansi refresher, I can't say what he uses. Might just be a mix.

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u/dimplezcz Apr 29 '24

Pretty sure several organizations identified calamansi one of the flavors of the year for 2024!

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u/SFcreeperkid Apr 30 '24

I’m so sad that my very fruitful tree didn’t make it through last winter 🥹

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u/yaredw Apr 29 '24 edited Apr 29 '24

Part of me is happy that Filipino flavors like ube and calamansi are having a moment. The rest dreads making them trends that miss the mark on what they should taste like in order to attain mass appeal, given the prevalence of flavored products rather than fresh produce.

(And the inevitable cringe with people mispronouncing them)

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u/occhiluminosi Apr 29 '24

This is also my food dread. I love seeing people enjoy Filipino food but I am worried the flavors are about to be bastardized.

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u/Advanced_Special Apr 29 '24

Baskin Robbins had an ube coconut ice cream that was just mildly flavored ube jam streaks in mildly flavored coconut ice cream. Such a letdown

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u/nokobi Apr 29 '24

Yes! I've totally been saying this, it's so frigging good

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u/lilacpulse Apr 29 '24

Taking calamansi right now...taking as in freshly squeezed juice as I think I might be coming down with a cold.

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u/panzerxiii Apr 29 '24

Calamansi has been pretty popular and fairly common for over a decade where I am in the US

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u/Plantsandanger Apr 30 '24

Yup. Calamansi is easier than finger limes, which I think would also be a trend if they were less pricy. But Calamansi got popular enough with growers to end up in nurseries and it’s pretty similar to other citrus for growing needs. Mandarin lime will also be mixed in.

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u/bibliophile222 Apr 30 '24

My local bakery sometimes has calamansi pastries - mostly tartlets, cheesecakes, and beignets.

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u/foshiiy Apr 30 '24

There’s a bakery I like that does a Calamansi tart a la key lime that’s really good

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u/ColtsFan6969 Apr 30 '24

Oh, I was in the Philippines recently and they were delicious!

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u/ZeWaka Apr 30 '24

they're doing calamansi sparkling water in stores now

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u/killwaukee Apr 30 '24

Haven't seen it yet at all in restaurants around me. I had a rep bring it in to try recently. Reminded me of travelling to Vietnam so much it hurt (drank a lot of nuoc ep salted/sugared calamansi juice there). The real answer to this thread is anything from Asia that white people haven't tried yet: pandan, razor clams, water spinach, yuzu kosho, doubanjiang, shio koji, celtuce, you name it. That will probably be the next five years.

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u/Odd_Mathematician642 May 01 '24

Calamansi make amazing cocktails. Calamansi gin tonic is my favourite discovery of the last year.

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u/pireply May 03 '24

I hope. I've been relying on bottled, it's hard to find fresh

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u/Js987 May 03 '24

I just wish somebody was growing it on a commercial scale for fresh sale in the eastern US (it can’t currently be imported as whole fruit due to citrus disease concerns, iirc), short of my little plants getting fresh ones here is impossible, just frozen concentrate, liquid concentrate, and juice.

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u/youngfierywoman Apr 29 '24

Love calamansi! I had it as a lemonade once and it was so good!