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12 Food Trends That Need to Die

Calorie counts are a bummer, and unisex bathrooms are embarrassing

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(Newser) – Why must everything, from burgers to pizza to Vietnamese street sandwiches, have a high-end gourmet version? Those three things should die, along with 9 other food trends that bug Esquire:

  1. Faux speakeasies: spots with no phone number, sign
  2. "Farm to table": idea is fine, but the expression must die
  3. Unisex bathrooms

  1. Calorie counts on menus
  2. More than one kind of salt on the table
  3. Our obsession with restaurant critics
  4. "Cocktail programs": Esquire didn't explain what that means...
  5. "Any food turned into powder"
  6. Waiters named "Todd": just because

Please: No more fake speakeasies, Esquire begs.
Please: No more fake speakeasies, Esquire begs.   (©tim eschaton)
This July 18, 2008 file photo shows a McDonalds drive-thru menu in New York printed with calorie counts for each food item.
This July 18, 2008 file photo shows a McDonalds drive-thru menu in New York printed with calorie counts for each food item.   (AP Photo/Ed Ou, File)
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zackmasson
Oct 12, 09 12:02 PM CDT
ok......wtf is this shit? Reply
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schmidtkoff
Oct 12, 09 12:37 PM CDT
i 2nd that zack. what a crock.
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riffran
Oct 12, 09 12:04 PM CDT
waiters named Todd........alllllrightythen..lol Reply
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thudson
Oct 12, 09 12:23 PM CDT
you must be kidding - who the hell complains about tasty food trends and delicious cocktails? do they suggest a steady diet of "man food" like mcdonalds and rot-gut booze? Reply
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Joans
Oct 12, 09 12:29 PM CDT
Since when is this news? Reply
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