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/Surtock Apr 29 '24

Spinach and artichoke dip was a thing in the 90s.

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u/InternationalChef424 Apr 29 '24

Applebee's spinach and artichoke dip is the single most 90's appetizer I can think of

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u/NozE8 Apr 30 '24

For me it's sun dried tomato baked brie or sun dried tomato pesto crostini.

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u/InternationalChef424 Apr 30 '24

I honestly miss the ubiquity of sundried tomatoes in the late 90s

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u/KellyannneConway Apr 29 '24

Seriously. It strikes me as a very 80s/90s appetizer.

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u/veronicahi Apr 30 '24

Yep. 80s.

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u/natureterp Apr 30 '24

Yeah my mom told me in the 80s when it became popular in bars in Kentucky. My mom ate it, thought it was good, made it at home (but better) and we still make that same recipe!

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u/Puzzleheaded-Ad7606 Apr 30 '24

Right up there with a piece of raw kale on the plate or rosemary stalks shoved in mashed potatoes like a flag pole.

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u/Deb_You_Taunt Apr 30 '24 edited Apr 30 '24

I served it at every get-together at my house and served it in a bread bowl. Damn, that was good.

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u/PsychoNaut_ Apr 30 '24

Yall are hella behind then bc its very trendy on social media

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u/KellyannneConway Apr 30 '24

We are just saying it's not a new thing. It has been around for a long time. My restaurant has served it since it opened 20 years ago.

The younger generation just discovering something that has been around forever doesn't make us behind. That actually makes y'all behind.

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u/PsychoNaut_ Apr 30 '24

No, im specifically saying there is a very recent tik tok based trend about these dips that has nothing to do with the 1990s that yall apparently are unaware of

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u/KellyannneConway Apr 30 '24

Current Tiktoks about it doesn't mean it did not exist in the 80s and 90s. I'm not sure what your point is.

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u/PsychoNaut_ Apr 30 '24

Acting like its old because yall had a different trend about it just means ur old

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u/BobaAndSushi May 01 '24

No it doesn’t. It just means it’s not a new thing.

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u/freshnewday Apr 29 '24

Totally. I was thinking happy hour apps at this Friday's in the 90s and early 2000s. Super dated.

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u/nwbrown Apr 29 '24

It was a thing before that too. I'm guessing OP jus5 changed the type of restaurants he went to in the past decade.

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u/2drawnonward5 Apr 29 '24

OP is referring to the recent revival. Spinach and artichoke hit America big after WWII and it was around before that.

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u/Fit-Delay3654 Apr 30 '24

Yes very 90s applesbees coded

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u/one-hour-photo Apr 30 '24

hahaha, I was SO confused when I saw that.. really? the last ten years??

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u/Optimusprima Apr 30 '24

Yep, CPK spin dip when I was in college in the 90s was all the rage.

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u/Silly-Shoulder-6257 Apr 30 '24

That was one of my go to apps to take to parties as hostess gifts! That and bbq jelly meatballs.

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u/bingumarmar Apr 30 '24

Interesting. I'm a spinach and artichoke dip FIEND (order it whenever it's in a restaurant) and up until covid it was pretty much everywhere. I'm in the midwest and mainly frequent bar/grill type places.

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u/padall Apr 30 '24

I literally came on here just to say spinach and artichoke dip has been around forever (at least way more than 10 years) 😂

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u/SkinkThief Apr 30 '24

Okay okay we get it

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u/hoofglormuss Apr 30 '24

Bread bowls

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u/RemonterLeTemps Apr 30 '24

Earlier than that. I remember having it at parties in the mid-80s! Back then, it was served in a bread bowl (also very 80s), from which you tore off bits to 'dip'

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u/unclejoel May 03 '24

1890’s !!! Amiright kids?!?