Gross or classy?
Putting gold leaf on your food.
Or worse, eating those golden pills that make your poop golden colored.
Do it for the aesthetic.
GiphyMilkshakes with a tower of crap on top and no feasible way to actually consume it.
Burgers that are bigger than any normal person's mouth. Give me a burger that I can actually eat and it'll always taste better.
YES.
Searches for a recipe for pasta sauce
clicks on one that looks good
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Just gimmie the godd*mned recipe already.
What the heck?
Deconstructed. Had deconstructed bacon mac & cheese which was just a pile of bacon, cheese, and macaroni. It was pretty bad. A friend had Deconstructed Corned Beef Hash at a restaurant here in Seattle that sounded even worse.
Interesting insight.
GiphyTeeny tiny $12 cocktails. The problem is they're usually really good, but you get like 3 sips.
Just to chime in since I used to be one of the people who came up with drinks like this for a cocktail bar. Pricing was first based on the cost of the drink, then time it takes to make it, and then sensory presentation. For example we had a drink that contained 4 ingredients totaling about $9.00 which could be made in 2 minutes that was a real full experience. That would go for 13-15$ depending on the shift.
Almost all the bar money was made from beer and single liquor+mixer drinks, good cocktails are pretty damn expensive to make.
Sounds like a horrible idea.
Activated charcoal.
Eating activated charcoal is a particularly bad idea if you need some kind of medication to get through the day in one piece.
Sooo bad for you.
Recipes that say "sugar free" or "butter free" but then use five tons of sucralose and margarine (which BTW is far worse than butter)
Ugh!! The cafeteria where I work is trying more and more vegan, gluten free, healthy options. The problem is the vegan/ gluten free baking is god awful, and full of artificial sweeteners and fake butter and it just makes me feel like crap.
Disgusting.
GiphyToo much sugar in everything. I have no use for spaghetti sauce that's about as sweet as a soft drink.
This is why I'd rather pour a can of Cento diced tomatoes over some macaroni than buy canned pasta sauce. My daughter thinks it is weird, but I like the taste of good tomatoes, not sugar.
Sounds shady.
Taking regular, cheap Middle Eastern food, hiking up the price, and marketing it as health food. Things like couscous, tahina, chickpeas, rose water, and falafels are cheap AFat Middle Eastern stores so why the hell would you buy a crappier, smaller version for five times the price at some pretentious health food store?
That's a load of BS.
Treating agave syrup as a health food. Mass harvesting it wrecks the local ecosystem. Plus, at the end of the day, it has similar fructose content as corn syrup.
I overheard someone say that it was better for diabetics than sugar. Nope. Still sugar, and their BS will make my BS higher than a guy in a burning hemp field.
Instafamous.
GiphyAnything designed solely for Instagram photos and not for actually eating - Unicorn anything, frappe's with more cream than actual coffee, massive versions of foods that will not be eaten unless you have an entire group (or a swimmer) with you, you get the idea
Boba IS life.
Bubble tea/Boba, it's gotta stop.
Sure it's good, but at what cost? The sugar level in each drink is insane, the calories alone from a drink reaches 400+ calories, especially the super thick one that has 1000+ calories.
Now there's so much variations it's hard to keep up, and there's a huge mix of good and shitty ones that it's become like coffee shops.
Boba is not life.
Hey, spicy is good!
I'm seeing more and more spicy options at restaurants, even items that have no business being spicy. As someone who thinks medium Tostitos salsa is far too spicy, it's kind of annoying.
Your chicken bacon ranch + loaded veggie pizza option sounds great until I get to the part where it's chipotle pizza sauce...
Also, food delivery services like Hello Fresh and Blue Apron. The packaging waste is a travesty.
Doesn't sound satisfying.
GiphyThe "satisfying" videos of cake being cut open and pure chocolate liquid running out of the middle like blood. There is no way in hell that's edible.
Definitely overindulgent.
Any of the items that are meant to be "luxury" food or something that is 100% overindulgent. You should feel like sh*t if you're buying a tiny plate of some item or another for hundreds of dollars. I don't care if it's well-made or unique ingredients, it's stupid.
And with overindulgent food, I saw an ice cream sandwich recipe that was an entire box of Oreos, crushed and made into patties, fried, then frozen. Then ice cream was placed between the two pieces. It SERVED ONE PERSON!
Carry on.
Keep Calm and blank
Keep calm and mindlessly regurgitate popular sayings until they have lost all semblance of their original meaning.
I mustache you a question.
GiphyThat weird obsession with mustaches printed on everything.
What was up with that? They did it with tacos too.
Alexa skip!
Those Alvin and the Chipmunk remixes. God imagine those high pitched voices haunting you at night.
I was at a coffee shop during the holidays, and a Chipmunks version of a Christmas song came on. The barista slammed down the cup she was holding and went "ALEXA SKIP" at full volume. I died of laughter.
Don't forget coning.
Throwing milkshakes back at drive through workers then driving away.
Also throwing jugs of milk onto the ground at grocery stores. They weren't funny, they were just a**holes.
That song will haunt me forever.
GiphyThere was a 2-year span in the late 90's when every single movie had "Who Let the Dogs Out" in it's soundtrack.
Every wacky movie trailer had James Browns I Feel Good, for a minute there.
As in, "They make a great couple. The only problem is... He's a puppet! whaaa I feel good..."
This is still happening?
Those stupid "scientifically-backed" athletic wrist bands that were meant to do things like maintain your balance when they were glorified placebos.
Just last week we witnessed these creatures in the wild, attempting to spread their influence. They flagged down my husband. Tested his balance, which was slightly funny because their attempt to push my husband off-balance failed. "Hmmm, you're more balanced than most people." They gave him the bracelet. No discernible difference that I could see.
They want to show my husband their "evidence" that the bracelet works, and he happily agrees. Cue propaganda about curing back pain and pregnancy aches and your credit score, probably. And then comes the point where I had to walk away:
Them: Oh, like Himalayan salt lamps.
Me: Oh, sh*t, they don't know he's sarcastic.
They kept talking. FOREVER. And my husband's story just keeps getting worse. The pyramid has an eye on it and monitors him when he leaves the house, in order to protect him no matter where he is, etc. In the end, he politely declined buying a bracelet, because "the pyramid is all I will ever need."
Foundation lips.
Chunky highlights, overplucking eyebrows into that sperm shape and using concealer as lipstick.
Ah yes. "Foundation lips" we called it in the UK.
That was....a lot.
GiphyIn 2016 when those f*cking clowns ran around scaring people.
That was 4 years ago?... 4 years?
Time goes by way too fast.
Those were actually kind of cool.
Fidget spinners. My kids wasted SO much allowance on those things. Now they're collecting dust under beds and furniture across the nation.
I'm sure you can pick them up cheaply in volume. There are warehouses full of these, snap bracelets, and pogs.
Mine is still the Halloween 3 theme song.
Ringtones on phones, especially those annoying custom ones you'd have to listen to multiple times a day at the office or elsewhere. Now you rarely hear a phone ring and when you do it's something basic.
Man, I remember in high school being so hype to record the chorus of a song I downloaded on Limewire to use as my crush's ringtone. Now when I hear my phone ring, I cringe and yell at myself for turning my volume on.
not so much.....
GiphyKeep calm and... posters. It was cool the first couple times I saw it. The next 5000, not so much. Curious-Kaleidoscope
Stuffing.
When I was a kid in the 1980s, there was this weird vandalism in public buses, some craphead hooligans would take a knife and cut into the seats so much that all the stuff was coming out, it looked absolutely repulsive. Back then, most seats in public transport buses were fake leather + stuffing, and sometimes half of them were gutted.
It died out somehow after 1990. The last cut up bus seat that I remember was like 1993 or so. DefenestrationPraha
"who's here watching in 2020"
"First" comments used to be everywhere, but I haven't seen one in ages. Does every commenting feature in the internet now automatically reject them? Blando-Cartesian
To be replaced by "who's here watching in 2020" posted to some Youtube video that's like 1 year old. lipsweater
Stached.
I am sad to say that for my birthday party, either in sixth or seventh grade, can't remember, I had a My Little Pony mustache themed birthday party, and I got cups with the ponies on it and drew custom mustaches on every one. Filled 'em up with candy and fake mustaches and gave it out as a part favor. Even the cake had ponies with mustaches on it. Not to mention it was at Roller Palace, so that's a thing. So glad it's over now lol. harvestwheat27
So Nuts....
Giphy"Cray cray".... anonymousladyvotes
I say this to annoy my teenager.
"That's cray cray!"
"Dad, never say that again. Just don't." tweakingforjesus
Game Over.
Those Facebook games that people would play and invite you to. FarmVille, the one with the mafia or whatever, etc. Corporate-Asset-6375
Thanks Darwin.
That thing where people get out from moving cars and dance on the road.
Had no idea how many people qualified for a Darwin award until I saw that trend go viral. Onceabanana
Tweets....
Making cartoons looks gangster. Like bugs bunny with a pistol or spongebob with chains and a gold grill. Saying same to everything was so annoying too. Espada_6
I can't even imagine a non-gangster Tweety-bird anymore. MarkHirsbrunner
Oranged.
Using tanning beds. Maybe it hasn't died out completely, but usage has dropped significantly thanks mostly to education on the risks of developing skin cancer. lifewitheleanor
I don't know how there's people that freely venture into those things, I developed a mad fear of those from some horror movie where the woman literally fried in one of them, not to mention how claustrophobic they look. LeMetalhead
built to die.....
GiphyTrends are built to die. It's considered cool by people who do it when it's brand new, but eventually they decide to make fun of the people who follow along just because they can. Honest_Man_76