Ugh! These 6 food trends we really don’t want to see again in 2022
We welcome some food trends 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 editorial team’s most hated food trends: ‘Get rid of them in 2022!’
We previously wrote about food trends we’d rather see the back of. Maybe it’s because of lockdown depression (are you still holding up?), but we’re continuing to hate on some impossible trends in food and drink.
1. Alcohol-free spirits
FavorFlav’s Vincent: ‘What nonsense. Instead of nogroni and alcohol-free virgin & tonic, we just want new alcohol-free drinks without silly names—or simply alcohol. Because Dry January needs to be over too. You should always drink in moderation, but not drinking for a month means not living for a month.’ ‘And certainly not in January, which, apart from my birthday, is truly the most awful month of the year. It lasts too long, is too dark and too cold, and now we’re also spending a month in lockdown. Going dry is truly the last thing we need,’ says FavorFlav’s Sharon.
2. Idiotic Easter eggs
Hide them, and don’t go looking. That’s FavorFlav’s Sabina‘s proposal for Easter eggs in the most ridiculous flavors. Last year, things really got out of hand: eggs with rose petals, cookie dough, popping candy or sprinkles. At the editorial office, we even tried eggs with pizza flavor (yuck) and sour candy belts (no). Can we just go back to milk, dark and white chocolate? In blue, red and yellow wrappers, so you know what you’re getting? Thanks in advance!
3. Baking with Flügel
This is where FavorFlav’s Delilah knows she’ll annoy people: ‘As far as I’m concerned, all the “serious” Flügel baking recipes can stay in 2021. Call me an old goat, but since when did we start pretending that this drink—which you used to string together your sing-along songs at Jantje’s birthday party, or to build up the courage to ask your ski instructor on a date across the bar—is something you should use to make tiramisu, Airfryer cupcakes 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 no time for this so-called idea that you can have it all: drink alcohol while simultaneously being semi-healthy (because few calories, blah blah). Nonsense: alcohol simply isn’t healthy, and if you choose to drink it, for God’s sake let it be delicious.’ Sharon completely agrees and also finds it downright disgusting: ‘Rarely have I drunk such a nasty and uninteresting drink.’ Amen.
5. Fake milk
Vincent would also like all types of fake milk to disappear. Almond milk, soy milk, rice milk; instead of filling our coffee with artificial milk, you can simply drink it black. As it should be. Or order a cowcino, with old-fashioned cow’s milk. Delicious!’
6. Bubble Tea
FavorFlav’s Adeline: ‘It sounds a bit like the drink of my 4-year-old niece, who is also crazy about unicorns. I simply don’t understand the fuss, because the balls don’t taste like anything either (?). The overrated Bubble Tea is basically a bubbling cup of sugar. As far as I’m concerned, 2021 can keep this stuff.’
