Posted on 12/14/2021 8:01:47 AM PST by mylife
Next year's restaurant industry trend predictions are in, and they include avocado coffee (an Indonesian delicacy), gourmet egg sandwiches and Burger King Whoppers made with Halloumi cheese instead of burgers.
Why it matters: As the pandemic lingers, it's shaping what ingredients are available as well as how we eat, with newfound habits that we once thought were temporary turning out to be permanent.
Driving the news: A new forecast from Technomic, a food service industry consultancy, predicts that many trends of the past year — like ghost kitchens, meal kits and restaurants selling groceries — will likely persist.
"We continue to see the push towards selling foods that are meant to be consumed outside of the restaurant, whether it's to-go ordering or delivery," Aaron Jourden, a senior research manager at Technomic, tells Axios. "The elephant in the room is this lingering pandemic that forced ongoing shutdowns across different countries and has really continued to inform what everybody is doing." Jourden and his team scour menus from 25 countries to glean trends about what we'll be eating and how we'll consume it. They expect to see these dishes and ingredients popping up globally:
Mutabal, a Middle Eastern eggplant dip similar to baba ghanoush.
Plant-based eggs.
Pao de queijo, a Brazilian cheese bread. Tlayudas, a Mexican-style pizza built on a crispy tortilla.
Halloumi, a Greek cheese that Technomic says is "primed for the center stage as a craveable, vegetarian-friendly alternative to meat."
(Excerpt) Read more at axios.com ...
I’ll have a bagel, with a a smear of fear...
Um...eggs are plant based. Chickens lay eggs. Chickens eat seeds and bugs. Bugs eat plants.
I eat only plant based beef. Cattle eat plants and I eat cattle.
Basically a “The New Normal” trial ballon because they are admitting inflation is about to get a lot worse.
Like the vegan sheep’s milk cheese?
Oddly their stuff is even more expensive, but, but, Covid man..
Hopefully the answer isn't "Whatever we can find."
Boiled shoe sole soup.
I figure where I live, none of that so called food will be available. And to begin with, if they don’t get people back to work, none of this is going to happen.
What will we be eating in 2022?
Democrats!!
Anyone have a good recipe for cockroach stew?
No, but I have a recipe for stink bug chowder.
I, like you, am a Second-Hand Vegetarian.
I eat animals that eat vegetables................
“Kill It,
Then Grill It!”
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Thanks,Uncle Ted.
...the corpses of billions will be serving as fertilizing for grasslands?
Okay - Soylent Bambi, then.
I know where to find that. Fresh, too.
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