Food fads in your country/city (sale, store, golf)
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I assume cronuts are just deep-fried croissant bits?
It's this cross between and doughnut and a croissant created by Dominique Ansel, a famous pastry chef in New York.
He only makes a couple a day and when it was first introduced people lined up in front of his bakery at 5 am in the morning for hours to get one.
They allow only two per customer or something like that.
I don't know if that is still the case but I never could get my hands on one but now every chain has its own version that they call something else since "cronut" is patented.
I have seen "crumbnut", "croinut" "croissanut" etc etc..
Well, deep-frying dough that's basically 70% butter, filling said dough with buttery pudding and drizzling all that with sugar makes kinda sense I guess. Good lord, that screams diabetes.
It's this cross between and doughnut and a croissant created by Dominique Ansel, a famous pastry chef in New York.
He only makes a couple a day and when it was first introduced people lined up in front of his bakery at 5 am in the morning for hours to get one.
They allow only two per customer or something like that.
I don't know if that is still the case but I never could get my hands on one but now every chain has its own version that they call something else since "cronut" is patented.
I have seen "crumbnut", "croinut" "croissanut" etc etc..
Are they for sale in Florida? Will have to try one.
Well, deep-frying dough that's basically 70% butter, filling said dough with buttery pudding and drizzling all that with sugar makes kinda sense I guess. Good lord, that screams diabetes.
Well, those Anglo-Saxons are quite weird as a whole...
America is not Anglo-Saxon.
White people here are called "Caucasian", that encompasses anything from the European continent.
I am Korean btw, and currently on my floor at my job there's only two American-Americans (one who is black) and the rest is from all different countries.
New York as a whole is a miniature version of the world, and it's the coolest place on the planet, imho.
What are some food fads in your country or city? Things that have only seemed to have become popular in the last few years (and may or may not last the test of time). In Melbourne some of them are...
I would say sushi but that's kind of already established...
Food vans/trucks/stalls in general
Crepes
Macarons
Wagyu beef
Tapas bars
Fusion food
American BBQ, e.g. pulled pork, ribs, brisket.etc
'Gourmet' pizza, anything from teriyaki prawn to tsatsiki to escargo
Wheatgrass/kale smoothies/shakes
Haloumi cheese
Mexican/Latin restaurants/cantinas
Chinese dumplings
Sichuan cuisine
Ethiopian food
Asian street foods, from Vietnamese spring rolls to Chinese wraps and kebabs
Anything with ganash in it
Cupcakes
European, craft and microbrewery beers
Bubble tea
Chai lattes
'Reductions' and 'consumes'
Among others
Which of these apply in your country? What are some others?
I can't speak for all of Canada, but in Vancouver fads that have come and gone are Bubble Tea and Cupcakes. Let's not forget Oxygen bars. Remember those? LOL
I can only guess at what is currently popular that might turn out to be a fad, but things like Sushi and Asian food in Vancouver is not a fad but an integral part of the food scene.
Gourmet Doughnuts. I think the " fun " of exotic creations won't last.
Small Brewers are a trend and are popping up almost monthly. It's a tough call on this one. I think the number of brewers will decline, but small brewers are here to stay. These places are what I call micro micro breweries, smaller than the micro breweries that have been around for years. A local change in liquor laws now allows these micro micro breweries to have tasting rooms which pretty much act like a pub.
Things like Donairs, wraps of all kinds etc have been around for years so perhaps what was though of as a fad is still around.
Ethiopian restaurants, we have 5 or 6, are not super high on peoples radar, possibly because at one of them existed here as far back as 1992 and aren't considered odd or exotic?
Chai Lattes same…fad that stayed.
Ganash? Do you mean Ganache? Again, not a fad here, Popular and common.
Crepe places I remember as far back as the late 1980's. More popular now with a chain that has several around town.
Neopolitan style pizza places started opening up about four years ago…they are still around…so again…hard to say if it's a fad. I don't think it will be…they're too good.
Mexican restaurants in Vancouver tended to be Tex/Mex and pretty average. Lately though some more authentic places serving real Mexican have opened up. Good, but still not like in Mexico!
Last edited by Natnasci; 05-16-2014 at 05:03 PM..
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