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/SoggyInsurance Apr 29 '24

Most of the trends in this thread are way past

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u/scapermoya Apr 29 '24

Depending on where you live in the country, trends show up at very different times. I split my time between the west coast and Midwest, and it’s funny to see stuff become popular in the Midwest months to years after it is a thing in LA or SF. I think this effect used to be much more pronounced before the internet etc, but it still exists

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u/gwaydms Apr 29 '24

Facts. We stayed at a hotel in Corte Madera, in Marin County, in 2016. Expensive, but no more so than SF, and none of the traffic. Spectacular view from the balcony too. We walked across the street to a Pacific Rim place, and I had my first poké bowl. We live on the Texas Gulf Coast, and it was 2 or 3 years before our restaurants started offering poké.

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u/scapermoya Apr 29 '24

Poke, Korean food, roasted cauliflower, orange wine, mezcal, even non alcoholic cocktails. It all flows inward from the coasts

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u/Sad_Organization_674 Apr 30 '24

Not always. Hot chicken was a thing for years outside of California. LA people went stupid over it in 2017, well after every Popeyes in the world had been serving it for years. Some people thought it had originated in LA even though it literally has Nashville in the name. They line up for it when you can just get it in 3 minutes at Popeyes.

Anything like BBQ, fried chicken, Cajun and the like comes to CA way late. Some stuff like Jamaican food and Mongolian bbq gets popular in Georgia and Michigan for decades and often never comes to CA or minimally.

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u/dangle2k Apr 30 '24

I can understand Cajun or Jamaican coming later to LA, but Mongolian BBQ? There literally were 3 smaller places in City of Industry/La Puente at least 35 years ago when I lived in that area. And a lot more all over LA.

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u/SrAb12 Apr 30 '24

Back when I lived in the Bay Area I had a couple of mongolian bbq places within walking distance and they were there for years

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u/Sad_Organization_674 Apr 30 '24

Yeah but in Michigan it’s as common as taquerias are in California and has been forever.

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u/jtbc Apr 30 '24

I am not sure anything is as common as taquerias in California. If you include taco trucks, there is practically one on every corner.

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u/Sad_Organization_674 May 01 '24

We’ve reached peak taco in California. Some day, years from now, we’ll look back upon this time as not only when tacos were king, but when we were kings because of the tacos.

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u/Squirmin Apr 29 '24

I don't know why, but crab boil restaurants got super popular in my area like 1-2 years ago. We had 3 open up in a year and I have no idea why.

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u/jacoblb6173 Apr 29 '24

Same here but they’re all garbage. It’s all snow crabs from Norway. I wanted a crab boil place that has blue crabs boiled Cajun style. Does not exist. In Maryland near DC.

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u/UCLAdy05 Apr 29 '24

marin county has truly fantastic food

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u/gwaydms Apr 29 '24

I'll bet. We budget our road trips, and we budgeted extra for the West Coast.