Your parents may have said don’t play with your food, but social media disagrees. It seems like the more bizarre the idea, the more popular the meal becomes. It’s enough with being force fed weird food trends from TikTok. Here are some that need to disappear already.
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Chopped Italian Sandwich
With over 10 million views on TikTok, the chopped Italian sandwich is one of the most popular sandwich concoctions of the year. The premise is deli meat, cheese, onions, lettuce, mayo and oil thrown into a pile, chopped up and spooned into a bun. It’s not an untasty combo, but really, this is no different than a fully loaded deli sandwich, only with more work on your end. Forget the chopping and mixing, just layer the ingredients and don’t waste your time, it tastes the same in the end.
Water
If you’re questioning how drinking water could be trendy, then you clearly haven’t been watching #Watertok. How on earth did viewing people add syrups and powders to the water in their Stanley cups become so cool? Some devotees of water recipes claim it encourages hydration, which is healthy. But let’s get real, this is barely even water once you add all the junk to it.
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Candy Salad
This salad has absolutely nothing to do with vegetables. The trend involves pouring different types of candy into a large bowl. How are some people only just discovering that you can mix different types of candy together and they taste good? We shake our heads at this.
Healthy Coke
Somehow, adding balsamic vinegar to sparkling water is supposed to taste just like Coke, according to various TikTokers. Yes, the concoction looks like cola in a cup, but Coke it is not. It’s pretty much a fizzy salad dressing drink, and we’ll pass.
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Pickle in a Blanket
Frying a pickle in cheese and raving about it is one of the latest food fads. But it’s not without its issues. You have to pick the right kind of cheese to get it just crackly and crispy enough to wrap around the pickle like a sandwich, otherwise it’s a gooey mess. Can we just put a pickle and cheese in a sandwich without overcomplicating things?
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Olive Oil and Ice Cream
Drizzling olive oil on vanilla ice cream is supposed to give it a buttery flavor and topping with sea salt adds a sophisticated crunch. Didn’t we learn anything from the olive oil and coffee trend? Those with sensitive stomachs are bound to feel, shall we say, rather uncomfortable after a heaping combo of oil and dairy.
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Tumeric and Hot Cocoa
Tumeric and hot cocoa are both warming, so it seems like a natural solution to mix them together for a chocolatey drink with some spice. But hot cocoa with a kick is nothing new (think a heaping pour of whiskey or rum). Additionally, the combination ends up tasting bitter and ruins the sweetness of the chocolate.
Parmesan Espresso Martini
Sorry, but shredded cheese on top of a cup of espresso makes no sense and neither does cheese on top of a martini. It tastes like there are a bunch of crumbs in your drink as far as we’re concerned. Just leave the parmesan for the appetizer that accompanies your drink instead of combining things that don’t belong together.
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Mustard and Cottage Cheese Diet
Yet again, TikTok must be messing with us. Numerous videos espouse a diet that’s based on drenching sausages and raw veggies in mustard and cottage cheese as a balanced way to lose weight. While each of these ingredients are just fine on their own, the combination sounds like what you eat when you haven’t had a chance to go grocery shopping and are scavenging in the fridge.
Fruit Roll Ups and Ice Cream
Somehow it’s become trendy to wrap a fruit roll up around a scoop of ice cream. There’s nothing intrinsically not tasty about this combo, but the question is why people are acting like this is the most astonishing combination ever invented. For one, it can be messy if you don’t wrap it just right and the ice cream oozes out. Why not just cut up fruit roll-ups and sprinkle on top? Oh right, because it doesn’t look “cool” on camera.
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