____ Is the New ____ - The Inescapable Food Fad Onslaught
____ Is the New ____ - The Inescapable Food Fad Onslaught
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____ Is the New ____ - The Inescapable Food Fad Onslaught
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Post #1 - August 29th, 2013, 9:03 pmI thought it would be fun to start a thread to catalog the constant barrage of trends in the food industry's perpetual quest for the Next Big Thing. Most food fads are ridiculous and fleeting, but some show a stroke of culinary genius, creativity, and serious potential for staying power.
I’ll go first: the ramen burger is the new cronut. At least in NYC. So far.
Read about it here: http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/food/patty_meltdown_zyP6jiYGkCYrGS2DcYdidO
Evidently someone thought a compressed ramen patty would make a good hamburger bun. And other people want to wait in line for it, in the morning no less. I'll withhold judgment because, in full disclosure, I haven't even tried a cronut yet.The meal isn't over when I'm full; the meal is over when I hate myself. - Louis C.K.
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Post #2 - August 29th, 2013, 9:41 pmCider is the new beer. Mead is the new cider.
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Post #3 - August 29th, 2013, 11:15 pmCilantro Lime is the new ChipotleD.G. Sullivan's, "we're a little bit Irish, and a whole lot of fun"!
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Post #4 - August 30th, 2013, 6:20 amComparing a new trend to a new-ish trend by stating that the former is 'the new' latter is the new sliced bread.
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Post #5 - August 30th, 2013, 12:12 pmPIE should be the new cupcake. I mean c'mon, Cronuts? Bah!
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Post #6 - August 30th, 2013, 12:24 pmPie Lady wrote:PIE should be the new cupcake. I mean c'mon, Cronuts? Bah!
Actually, I think historically it's the other way around; cupcakes are the new pie.Steve Z.
“Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.”
― Ludwig van Beethoven
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Post #7 - August 30th, 2013, 12:41 pmI don't remember an explosion of pie. But if there was, there should be a comeback with the opening of more shops.
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Post #8 - August 30th, 2013, 1:01 pmPie Lady wrote:I don't remember an explosion of pie. But if there was, there should be a comeback with the opening of more shops.
I'm sure it was before your time, like back in the 30's. It's still happening in many pars of the country...just not here because we have cupcakes and cronuts.Steve Z.
“Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.”
― Ludwig van Beethoven
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Post #9 - August 30th, 2013, 1:28 pmnr706 wrote:Cider is the new beer. Mead is the new cider.
January 2014: Beer is the new mead.JiLS
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Post #10 - August 30th, 2013, 1:46 pmWhere can you get mead? I bought some for our honeymoon (Schaefer's in Skokie) and haven't seen anywhere else, certainly not on menus.
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Post #11 - August 30th, 2013, 1:56 pma word on cronuts:
http://www.thrillist.com/eat/nation/commentary-why-i-really-really-hate-the-cronut?utm_content=feature&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Nation&utm_campaign=8.30.13%20NATION:%20Commentary:%20Why%20I%20really,%20really%20hate%20the%20Cronut"In pursuit of joys untasted"
from Giuseppe Verdi's La Traviata
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Post #12 - August 30th, 2013, 2:06 pm"I don't know what I like less: the dialogue in Juno, or Cronuts."
Brilliant!
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Post #13 - August 30th, 2013, 2:12 pmPie Lady wrote:Where can you get mead? I bought some for our honeymoon (Schaefer's in Skokie) and haven't seen anywhere else, certainly not on menus.
Mead is too hard to find in Chicago right now because it is in too much demand. Just wait until January 2014, then look for it in Indianapolis and Wichita, Kansas, where all of Chicago's unwanted because unfaddish mead will be shipped in late December, to be replaced with beer and/or cider.JiLS
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Post #14 - August 30th, 2013, 2:48 pmIf you remember the long ago Westernathon, you'd know that there's mead produced right here in Chicago.Think Yiddish, Dress British - Advice of Evil Ronnie to me.
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Post #16 - August 30th, 2013, 7:09 pmstevez wrote:Pie Lady wrote:I don't remember an explosion of pie. But if there was, there should be a comeback with the opening of more shops.
I'm sure it was before your time, like back in the 30's. It's still happening in many pars of the country...just not here because we have cupcakes and cronuts.
Whatever you say, "I don't remember an explosion of pie" is banner quotation material."Your swimming suit matches your eyes, you hold your nose before diving, loving you has made me bananas!"
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Post #17 - August 31st, 2013, 1:16 pmmhill95149 wrote:"Vodka is the new Water"
C. Trotter
Lots of lols on this thread, but I think this one got me the most.
Also, I guess I was wrong about the scope of the trend. It is not a ramen burger, but using all sorts of stupid and unmanageable food items to replace a hamburger bun: http://www.chicagoreader.com/Bleader/ar ... a-pasadita
TeresaThe meal isn't over when I'm full; the meal is over when I hate myself. - Louis C.K.
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Post #18 - August 31st, 2013, 2:56 pmActually, cocktails are the new craft beer.
GeoSooo, you like wine and are looking for something good to read? Maybe *this* will do the trick!
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Post #19 - August 31st, 2013, 6:48 pmOrange is the new black? Am I doing this right?
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Post #20 - September 1st, 2013, 8:16 amFried chicken is the new burger.
Sodastream is the new bread machine.
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Post #21 - September 2nd, 2013, 8:23 pmWhale is the new bacon.
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Post #22 - September 5th, 2013, 8:49 amI think Macarons are the new Cupcakes. The last time I was in NYC, I saw Macaron shops everywhere. The prices were exorbitant, but the quality wasn't always there."I've always thought pastrami was the most sensuous of the salted cured meats."
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Post #23 - September 24th, 2013, 8:21 amThe cat donut is the new cronut.
I want one of these; they're so cute.
http://love.theanimalrescuesite.com/cat ... 09-24-2013
