The 6 food trends we don't want to see again this year
Say wine, snacks or haute cuisine and the gourmands at online food magazine FavorFlav know where to drink, how to eat it and what to cook. This time our cheffies serve you: the 6 food trends we don't want to see again this year.
Some food trends we welcome with open arms (champagne with bitterballen!, luxury patisserie!), but there are also food trends we hope will be erased from our collective memory as soon as possible. These are the most hated food trends from the editorial team: ‘Get rid of it in 2022!’
Earlier we wrote about food trends we would rather be rid of. Maybe it's due to a lockdown depression (are you holding up okay?), but we continue to hate on some impossible trends in the food and drink area.
1. Alcohol-free spirits
FavorFlavs Vincent: ‘What nonsense. Instead of the negroni and the alcohol-free virgin & tonic, we just want new alcohol-free drinks without silly names or just alcohol. Because that Dry January should also be over. Drinking should always be in moderation, but a month without drinking is a month without living.’ ‘And especially not in January: aside from my birthday, it's really the most dreadful month of the year. It lasts too long, is too dark and too cold, and now also a month in lockdown. Being dry is truly the last thing we need,’ says FavorFlavs Sharon.
2. Idiotic Easter egg flavors
Hiding, and not going to look for them, that's FavorFlavs Sabina's proposal for Easter eggs in the most ridiculous flavors. Last year it really got out of hand: eggs with rose petals, with cookie dough, disco crackle or sprinkles. In the editorial team, we even dared to try eggs with pizza flavor (yuck) and sour mats (no). Can we just go back to milk, plain and white? In blue, red, and yellow wrappers, so you also know what you're getting? Thanks in advance.
3. Baking with Flügel
Here FavorFlavs Delilah is going to drive people up the wall, she knows it: ‘All ‘serious’ Flügel baking recipes can stay in 2021 as far as I'm concerned. Call me an old goat, but since when have we pretended that this drink, which you used to use to string your sing-along songs together at Jantje's birthday or to muster up the courage to ask your ski instructor on a date at the other end of the bar, is something you should use to make tiramisu, cupcakes in the Airfryer, or bitterballen? Oh yes, since 2021. Sorry dear colleagues, but I do not share this enthusiasm at all...’
4. Hard Seltzer: we can't say it often enough
Hard Seltzer is a drink from the United States (type: skinny bitch) that Sharon and Delilah intensely dislike. Delilah: ‘I have nothing to do with this so-called idea that you can have it all: drink alcohol but still be semi-healthy at the same time (because low calories blah blah). Nonsense: alcohol is simply not healthy, and if you choose to drink it, let it be good for God's sake.’ Sharon completely agrees and finds it downright disgusting: ‘I've rarely had such a nasty and uninteresting drink.’ Amen.
5. Fake milk
All kinds of fake milk can also go away according to Vincent. Almond milk, soy milk, rice milk; instead of filling our coffee with artificial milk, you can just drink it black. As it should be. Or order a cowcino, with old-fashioned cow's milk. Delicious!
6. Bubble tea
FavorFlavs Adeline: ‘It sounds a bit like the drink of my four-year-old niece who is also crazy about unicorns. I just don't get the fuss, because the balls don't taste like anything (?). The overrated bubble tea is actually a bubbling cup of sugar. As far as I'm concerned, 2021 can keep this stuff.’
