Food Trends Men Hate!

ahaha

Are we voting for best or worst?

Another totally non-stereotypical article from the sausage factory at Yahoo.

Best food, worst asshole.

lol but

by Sarah B. Weir, Yahoo! blogger

John Mariani, author of How Italian Food Conquered the World, food and travel editor for Esquire, and author of the Virtual Gourmet Newsletter, says the bottom line is that men don’t want to be told what to eat by their wives, girlfriends, or the food police. What they really hate is, as he puts it: “The thought of a food being ‘good’ or ‘bad’ for them, alien to their entrenched preferences. They are highly (rightly) suspicious of the health claims made of certain foods and the criticism made of their favorites.” And don’t even think of serving him a gourmet burger.

destroy men

I don't want anywhere near tableside guac prep.

Salon owner Joe's statement segues pretty well from Richard lawyer's on cupcakes. I wonder if they were all interviewed in the same room.

m bison otm

--Titus, student

these "manly" dudes are the most petulant mewling babies on earf

--Joe, salon owner

http://i.imgur.com/sd5WX.jpg

rib-shaped pork patties

don't even think about serving me a gourmet burger! don't even try it, guy!!

yo gimme some tableside guac for my free range bison burger, preferably with some locally-sourced small-batch dijon mustard.

men are such pussies, can't even eat a fucking macaroon

In fairness, the concept of a burger on brioche is bizarre and probably gross.

kinda feel like the quotes should be attributed to these folks:

http://images.quickblogcast.com/2/4/0/8/2/137047-128042/voices.JPG

will admit that i don't see the point of tableside guac. aren't you supposed to let the ingredients mingle for half an hour first?

I had never heard of tableside guac

i'm not a guacamole fan so i don't give a damn, but tableside anything is kinda jive in 2011 -- if i wanted steak tartare or cherries jubilee, i'd hop in a delorean back to 1978.

I have a food peeve - the terms "flavor profile" and "mouth-feel".

hanging out at wine tastings, spencer?

sushi w/ brown rice sounds nom tbh

anyway i voted "vegan" as most ridiculous. most food that grows on this earth is "vegan."

having a hard time imagining vinegar flavored brown rice tbh, seems like the sour/sweet/salty feel would clash with the earthiness of the brown rice

As much as I was ready to laugh at this by the title, I really do dislike most of these things.

I mean tableside guac -- yeah, don't like being ripped off obv, and there's nothing impressive about seeing someone make something I can make myself.
Tofu -- a misunderstood food to be sure, but also usually miscooked.
Vegan -- yeah ok this one is dumb, not a "food trend" etc.
Brioche burgers -- yes! this tastes fucking gross, it's like putting butter on your hamburger
Sliders -- corny and ubiquitous
Raw food - see vegan
Endless menu descriptions -- this does indeed irritate me, even moreso when the waiter long-windedly describes them
Cupcakes -- never understood the point, rarely good
Macaroons -- ok these are fucking delicious

(forgetting the) tableside guac is bush league, bro

for some reason i read 'trends' as a verb

the coconut macaroons you get at passover and are sometimes chocolate-flavored = awesome.
the french "macarons" = less awesome.

what is a gourmet burger that makes it such an appalling prospect? i've had a couple of burgers described as that and i don't know what made them different from non-gourmet burgers besides the menu having more specifics about the ingredients.

IDK, I've only had the french ones once. Someone brought us some from the Bouchon bakery and I thought they were really good. I wouldn't want to eat them all the time.

<3 coconut macaroons, never had the other kind

Brioche or challah w/ burgers is really sort of gross and I get annoyed any time I'm served that combo. No need.

macarons are amazing fuiud

i didn't say "not awesome," i just said "less awesome"!

They look like little pastel colored Whoopie pies. Whoopie pies are awesome so I'm willing to be they're good too, I've just never had them.

The macaron is commonly filled with buttercream or jam filling sandwiched between two cookies. Its name is derived from an Italian word "maccarone" or "maccherone". This word is itself derived from ammaccare, meaning crush or beat, used here in reference to the almond paste which is the principal ingredient.

Wait - do they taste like almonds because then I'd love them since everything that tastes like almonds is freakin' delicious.

I like brioche burgers

"gourmet burger" means a burger that is so damn big you can't bite into it without unhinging your jaw

they sorta taste like almonds...not overwhelmingly

xp eh aren't most restaurant burgers like that? i do have a tiny mouth and trouble eating a lot of burgers tbh.

brioche with a burger? rubbish, that's never a 'thing'.

Nodding along with ed, tbh, that's a personal thing tho no hate on the vegans out there

sandwiched between two cookies

macaron fail

Generalizing about "gourmet burgers" seems kind of meaningless. I definitely hate overly bready buns of any kind, ESPECIALLY extra-rich ones like brioche -- in spite of its connotations of sophistication, this strikes me as an even more savage way to eat a burger, not far from putting it on a donut. I have definitely enjoyed shiatsu-massaged, grass-fed, bedtime-story-read beef burgers and even lamb burgers, although like any good meat they are often ruined by toppings.

they taste like almonds because they're made with almond flour

225 grams icing (or or confectioner's) sugar
125 grams ground almonds (or almond flour)
110 grams egg whites (about 4), aged overnight at room temperature
30 grams granulated sugar
1 T. vanilla (or rosewater, lemon extract, orgeat, liqueur, anís) + corresponding food dye
Pinch of salt

you mean where you share a table with strangers?

There are more and more of these in SF

Another peeve: any LA restaurant with the words "sugar" or "rock" in the name.

you mean like "rock sugar"?

http://www.rocksugarpanasiankitchen.com/

That's one.

i'm sure the sushi at sugarfish is great (and probably more affordable than the izakaya at nozawa, his other joint) but the name is a dealbreaker.

i meant omakase, not izakaya. (sorry, bad back making thinking cloudy today.)

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I hate how hazelnuts crop up in chocolatey desserts all the time with no warning, I am allergic to hazelnuts.

voted: Macarons (French macaroons) <-- best food, biggest a-hole

Going back to a digression, this couple sat next to me and a friend

http://i.imgur.com/hjulv.jpg

They stayed that way through an appetizer and part way through eating their tacos (Korean tacos w/ kim chee fries, thus the chopstick), then gave up. She went back to the other side after they ate, so I assume she moved b/c it was too cramped to try to fit all the food on one side of the table.

http://i.imgur.com/F1Y6b.jpg

Anyway, I think the 1st arrangement looks absurd.

this "news" story made me think of this thread: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/26/dining/sweets-small-enough-to-satisfy.html?_r=1&ref=dining

tbf they look pretty absuuuuurd

I don't see what the big deal is about that tbh

sometimes couples like to sit next to each other

you'd think a guy wearing a Confederate hat might think to take it off inside, so as not to offend the belles, especially his girlfriend vincent van gogh

take your hats off indoors you damn heathens

lol i didn't even read the posts after

I have sat next to my wife in restaurants on occasion. I think it's a little weird in a proper restaurant, but in a little eatery like that it seems fine.

sometimes u need to sit next to someone and be near them all the time dont u guys understand romance jeez

my wife doesn't like this ^ seating arrangement - "dont you want to look at me?"

i voted for tofu because as a manly man with manly appetites i'm fine w/ pretty much all of these things except vegetarians convincing themselves tofu is a suitable meat substitute instead of just enjoying all the non-meat-like things that are available to them

tofu is a good food totally its own thing!

some dude more like soy dude

Yeah, that's weird -- I understand the hate for jazzed-up faux-meats, but tofu is a common foodstuff in Asian cuisine, not just for vegetarians only.

tofu is mostly hated in this country because of shitty vegan communal hippie cooking that we tend to have in college as our first experience of it

I hate vegan in general because I love meat and cow rights activists are stupid

you'd think a guy wearing a Confederate hat

Pretty sure that's not a kepi.

Tofu/=meat substitute but it can be awesomely delicious and I am an inveterate carnivore.

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is it too late to get in on this?

tableside guac - tableside anything is so old-fashioned that i feel like it's gonna get trendy again. would love to have a tableside caesar salad someday
tofu - just an ingredient, can be great or bad like anything else
vegan - as a descriptor, fine, as a "cuisine," generally fuckin disgusting
fancy rolls with burgers - brioche no, but a couple of my favourite restaurants bake their own hamburger buns and they are fucking delicious. not fancy so much as fresh
sliders - these are small burgers
raw food - stupid
sushi with brown rice - stupid
endless menu descriptions - have never actually encountered this tbh
cupcakes - you'd have to be a bit of a sad sack to actively hate cupcakes ffs
macarons - awesome when done right, as a trend, kind of weird

its a little weird when couples sit on the same side of the table at restaurants but not really as weird as taking photographs of strangers at restaurants

unless you can make money off of it in some way

is there a market for photographs of strangers eating at restaurants?

getty image wire?

I mean if you're on a cruise ship the photographer sometimes cruises around during mealtimes to take table-photos of you with I dunno one of the variety show dancers or the captain or whatever the shit

i'm too poor to eat in restaurants anyway so i have no idea how i'd monetize this idea

So I guess you have to get the cruise ship photographer job before you can do that so maybe just be a pretend cruise ship photographer in normal restaurants, bring a guy dressed up like a sailor, ask ppl "want your picture taken with the captain?"

just sit there and take pictures! xpost

Someone must have been paid for these pictures -

http://insidescoopsf.sfgate.com/blog/2011/10/13/texting-in-restaurants-is-%E2%80%9Cpretty-dismal%E2%80%9D/#1370-3

ask for water. "with lemon"

charge $10 for a printout in a tasteful cardboard portfolio frame. Split it 50-50 with the fake captain.

tofu is mostly hated in this country because of shitty vegan communal hippie cooking that we tend to have in college as our first experience of it

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yeah that's what i was saying really -- i'm sure it has good uses but my exposure to it is mostly that

haha 'i'm sure it has good uses', like you've never eaten at a chinese restaurant?

file this under ilx poll results that provide no insight whatsoever

I think it was more of an excuse to make fun of 'men'

well i know that but i still spend that minute looking at the results and going "huh....."

I hate menu descriptions, since half the time they're false (at least if you're eating seafood)

So I guess you have to get the cruise ship photographer job before you can do that so maybe just be a pretend cruise ship photographer in normal restaurants, bring a guy dressed up like a sailor, ask ppl "want your picture taken with the captain?"

at the long john silver's at the mall

yes

I felt was OK w/ taking pictures of those strangers b/c they created a zone where social norms no longer applied.

i had awesome tableside guac pretty rece and i thought of system analyst ken's inability to enjoy it.

he was def the type of guy who was going to be an sa forever