Why do some foods become fashionable?

We have masses of bilberries near us. You need to go quite high up the mountain but they grow there in abundance. Delicious

Clever marketing, playing to peoples’ snobberies and FOMO.

Always thought avocado was like wax.

I remember a time before broccoli !

Mashed or sliced avocado, with a squeeze of lemon, and a sprinkle of chili flakes, on thick buttery dough dough toast is my absolute favourite breakfast and to make it a special brunch I add a poached or scrambled egg and smoked salmon, with ground black pepper.

Yummy!

Basgetti

Clever marketing, playing to peoples’ snobberies and FOMO.

Always thought avocado was like wax.

Sorry, I don’t agree! I also use avocado in salad, as did my DM, I just couldn’t eat something purely because it’s “fashionable”, I eat what I enjoy.

I love avocado, you don’t, I loathe tomatoes, you love them. Each to their own

The Chefs (for example Ferràn Adrià for example) set the pace here in Spain and of course there are the seasons which play a strong role ..

Asian influences are quite influential at this time.

I used to pick bilberries up in Lancashire, nothing like a bilberry/winberry pie.

Today however I am currently making a butter chicken curry, spinach, lentil and coconut dhal, carrot,coconut andchilli salad.

Tomorrow are the naan breads, bhajis and raita, my lovely husband made the mango chutney last week.

We have friends over for supper tomorrow so it’s obvs curry night!

All the doors in the house are open!

I honestly think, who really cares, I’ll try new foods, if I like the look and smell of them, without having moved on from the days of only home grown British food (nothing wrong with those things), we’d still have fairly restrictive and (dare I say it) pretty boring diets.

We love all different kinds of Asian, Spanish, Turkish and British foods, and curly kale was one of my DH staples way back in the day.

Sago

I used to pick bilberries up in Lancashire, nothing like a bilberry/winberry pie.

Today however I am currently making a butter chicken curry, spinach, lentil and coconut dhal, carrot,coconut andchilli salad.

Tomorrow are the naan breads, bhajis and raita, my lovely husband made the mango chutney last week.

We have friends over for supper tomorrow so it’s obvs curry night!

All the doors in the house are open!

You’ve made my mouth water!! Enjoy

Cossy

Mashed or sliced avocado, with a squeeze of lemon, and a sprinkle of chili flakes, on thick buttery dough dough toast is my absolute favourite breakfast and to make it a special brunch I add a poached or scrambled egg and smoked salmon, with ground black pepper.

Yummy!

Absolutely delicious 👍🏻

SueDonim

Vine tomatoes and olive oil are items that have become trendy. When I was a child we ate tomatoes, round and red and only in summer apart from a few expensive Canary Island tomatoes bought at Christmas.

Olive oil, that was for earache, no one cooked with it!

It depended really, my dad was a chef so we always used olive oil but none of my friend’s families did.

I really wouldn’t want to go back to the ‘70s with the narrow range, often poor quality options available. Factory cheese, sausages, pies and Vesta curry? No thank you…

My mum is 92 and regularly buying quinoa and gnocchi now. She’s been eating avocado on toast since the 70’s. Rhubarb, gooseberries, plums and greengages are readily available in season.

Can we just celebrate the variety and quality of the food we have available to us? No one is making you eat it. It’s a real privilege not enjoyed by lots of the global population.

My DM used Olive Oil in salads AND on herself to sunbathe!

LucyAnna5

To be fair - sometimes ‘trendy’ foods can be related to health research. So avocados are good for you, similarly wholewheat or sourdough bread, so these foods are promoted. Ditto blueberries and kiwi fruits ( good for constipation).

I’m not sure I trust health research anymore. At one time they told us not to eat too many eggs cause of the high cholesterol but that seems to have been discounted now. I’m sure there has been other things 🤔

You can now get frozen pomegranate seeds from Ocado! So much less messing about and so easy to add to dishes.

Love fashionable foods like avocado. Really love M&S new 35+ gut buster sprinkle mix. On my second packet already. Do like trying new things though.

OH loves gooseberries. I buy and freeze them from a farm shop near us. I mainly make crumbles with them. I like rhubarb and sometimes elder son gets them from a pick your own. I am afraid I see no point in avocado! My granddaughter loves them and has Cardo (her name for then) in sandwiches. I only use kiwi fruit to decorate a pavlova.

A lot of people are slaves to so called 'influencers'... Some celebrity tells their social media followers they can't live without €avocado on toast for breakfast and that starts a trend.

To all those who love pomegranate seeds, just a word of caution - don't eat too many at once, or you may end up like my friend, who was rushed to hospital with acute abdominal pain. After ruling out numerous things, it turned out she had something called a pomegranate bezoar, which is a blockage caused by all the seeds clumping together in the bowel. Rare, apparently - but it does happen.

Dubai Pistachio Chocolate, tastes like very sweet shredded wheat😂, I think the "Dubai" but made the price triple .
I don't usually mind trying something new sometimes it works and sometimes I think no not for me.

I am afraid I see no point in avocado!

They are packed full of vitamins, minerals, monounsaturated fats which reduce cholesterol, are good for heart health and are generally good for you.

However, if you don't like them you don't like them!

Some posters obviously don't but making remarks designed to put others off a certain food is what children do.
(Not you, LLFL!)

I used to love kiwi fruit but developed an allergy to them. ☹

ViceVersa with you on goosberries. Garden was full of tgem and blackcurrent bushes when I was little. Perhaps due to war, ways to get vitamins and they were prolific growers. Can't recall eating gooseberries straight off the plant, definitely puddings and jams and jelly. That may be why they disappeared, people can't be bothered to cook as much.

I cook everything from scratch, so am not of the "can't be bothered" brigade. We have gooseberries and blackcurrants in the garden but having to top and tail the fiddly little things, completely puts me off.

Tried to grow a gooseberry bush but it died. I love them but never seem to see them anywhere.!

I love avocado on toast with a poached egg...on top yummy

What is it with Mac’n’ cheese?? This is what we used to eat when we had no money. Now it’s become a delicacy ….really!