was looking up dinner ideas in a very old low-carb cook book the other day and every second recipe required sun dried tomatoes. I was weirdly outraged. When was the last time you ate a sun dried tomato? Me? I’d say it’s been at least six or seven years, which is really sad because they’re bloody delicious. I also didn’t consciously stop eating them, it’s like the universe stopped showing them to me. Naturally I had to write a whole list of foods that seem to have vanished from the modern dining ta-ble. Some I’m sad about – nachos. Some are no great loss to the culinary world – black forrest cake. I’m not even sure if these foods have properly disappeared or whether it’s my own confirmation bias but I do like to crowd source for information like this. Here’s my list of foods we used to eat that we don’t seem to eat anymore.
1. Sun dried tomatoes
There was stage during my teen years where you could scarcely buy a bread roll that wasn’t dotted with sun dried tomato flecks. Sun dried tomato was even a popular salty snack flavour. Where did they go? Why did we stop eating them? Won’t some-one think of the children?
2. Focaccia
Basically a thick, rosemary entrusted fancy style sandwich. We do sour dough bagels now or sprouted grain spelt bread. Where do you even buy focaccia these days?
3. Ceaser salads
I always thought ceasar salads were gross and a waste of calories (why on earth would you put bacon and cream on lettuce?) but I’ve noticed that they’re difficult to find these days. Which is good for people like me who hate them.
4. BBQ chicken pizza
I tried to order a BBQ chicken pizza at a fancy pizza and joint and they were like ‘No. We don’t have BBQ sauce.’ I’ve never experienced such rudeness in my life.
5. Nachos
Honestly when was the last time you ate nachos? Was it so long ago you can’t even remember? Let us ALL eat nachos today for it is excellent.
6. Eggs Benedict
I used to love a cheeky eggs benny but I think the world figured out that everyone’s hearts would be in serious danger if we continued to casually pour a week’s worth calories in the form of sauce over our breakfasts. Fuck you hollandaise and your stupid delicious creamy face.
7. Quiche
I don’t know if quiche is actually gone or whether it just started calling itself frittata but I haven’t had a slice of quiche in quite a while. Oh god. Did frittata kill quiche and take it’s place without us even knowing about it?
8. Black forrest cake
Not a huge loss to the dessert world but I haven’t seen any black forrest cake around in a while. I’ve never ordered it ever. Maybe that’s why.
9. French onion dip made from soup mix
Personally I think this one is a tragedy. It is literally salt mixed into saturated fat but so is cheese and cheese is still a thing. It’s discrimination and I won’t stand for it any longer.
10. Refried bean dip
My mother was so obsessed with refried bean dip, we had a special crockery pot that was known as the ‘bean dip pot’. We’re super creative with naming things in the Smaggle house. This dip was served hot and it looked like grey vomit and didn’t actually taste much better but we all pretended to love it. I think this one can stay buried.
11. Apricot flavoured meat dishes
In the 90s many a parent thought that if they dumped a can of apricot nectar on any chunk of meat it immediately became fancy. It did not. It became bogan and inedi-ble. Apricot flavoured meats can stay forgotten thank you very much.
12. Jus
I very rarely go to fancy restaurants but I noticed it’s been a while since I’ve had an-ything with ‘jus’. I love jus. Raspberry jus. Truffle jus. Balsamic jus. Bring back the jus people. I like it much better than all this fancy ‘dust’ that’s happening at the moment. No one likes dust. Just call it crumbs like a normal person.
13. Bruschetta
Technically I still eat bruschetta (tomatoes on toast is one of my favourite things in the world) but I haven’t seen it on a menu in ages. And it’s bloody good. Someone tell the restaurants to fix this please.
14. Cheesecake
Remember when there were actual shops that only sold cheesecake? Isn’t that the weirdest sentence you’ve ever read?
15. Friands
To be fair, these are still around but only because they’re usually made from almond meal so they’re gluten free. Without the whole GF trend, I highly doubt they would have re-surfaced.
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What foods did you used to eat that you don’t really eat any more? Do you agree with any of these? Or am I just over thinking it?
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