Restaurant-Goers Are Sharing 19 Dining Trends That Have Gotten Way Out Of Hand In 2024
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We've finally put behind us the annoying dining trends of charcoal food, gold leaves sprinkled on everything, truffle oil drowned food, and expensive avocado toast when it's just...toast. Even though those once-loved, now-loathed dining experiences have died, they've been replaced with stranger trends.
Here are some responses from Reddit users that want to see these new trends gone:
1.Everything Has Wagyu
2.Treating Servers Poorly
3.Parents Not Cleaning Up Their Children's Mess
4.Taking Photos Of Your Food
5.Fancy Looking Food That Doesn't Taste Good
6.People Who Overly Modify Their Food
7.Garnishes On Every Single Dish
8.Everything Is Lettuce Wrapped
9.Oversized Portions
10.Deconstructed Food
11.Burgers That Are Too Big To Eat
12."Elevated" Dishes
13.Food Served On Anything But A Normal Plate
More Food Served On Anything But A Normal Plate...
14.QR Code Menus
15.The Term "Handcrafted" Added To Everything On The Menu
16.Wedge Salads
17.Restaurants That Are Too Loud
18.Charging For Food Modifications
19.Burgers On Brioche Buns
And Finally, Just One More Food Served On Anything But A Normal Plate...
STORY: Cuba’s communist-run government slashed the weight of its subsidized ration of daily bread by a quarter on Monday.:: Havana, CubaLast week, the country said it had run short of the wheat flour it needs to make the bread.The bread will be reduced from 80 grams to 60 grams, or just over two ounces. That’s about the same weight as an average cookie.The bread’s priced dropped slightly too, to just under 1 peso, or 1/3 of a cent.Many Cubans earn around $15 a month and can scarcely afford to shop for more expensive bread on the private market.“We must accept it, what can we do? There’s no alternative,” says this resident. The government blames the flour shortage on the U.S. trade embargo, a complex set of restrictions that complicates Cuba’s global financial transactions. The Caribbean island nation is suffering from extreme shortages of food, fuel and medicine that have primed a record-breaking exodus of Cubans to the U.S.The bread is one of a handful of basic food products that are still subsidized.Cuba's ration book or “libreta” was once considered a hallmark of Fidel Castro’s 1959 revolution.The idea was to provide a range of deeply discounted products to all Cubans… such as meat, milk and cleaning supplies.Today, the crisis-racked government offers just a fraction of those goods.They often arrive late or not at all, and are of poor quality. This Havana resident said the subsidized bread is “terrible” and that the “flour tastes like acid.”Cuba’s government has said it planned to reinforce inspections at state bakeries to make sure quality does not suffer.
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