Celebrities and Celebrity Chefs Reveal the Food Trends They’re Over: Say Bye to Bacon, Hummus and More

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Celebrities and Celebrity Chefs Reveal the Food Trends They're Over: Say Bye to Bacon, Hummus and More

Certain food trends are a thing of the past, at least according to these famous faces! It’s not unusual for a handful of foods to occupy a popular perch in the culinary world (kale still remains well-liked years after stars such as Beyoncé and Jennifer Aniston gave it a boost), but according to a bevy of stars and celebrity chefs Us Weekly spoke to, it’s time to say goodbye to certain trendy eats. Top Chef judge Gail Simmons, for example, has had enough of the “monster, over-the-top food” that exists solely for the purpose of racking up those likes on social media. “I think sometimes we forget that food should be eaten and not just photographed,” she told Us. “I don’t really believe in putting things together just for the sake of craziness, just for the sake of Instagram.” [ami-related id="1478307" url="https://www.usmagazine.com/food/pictures/celebrities-who-have-been-to-tom-tom-miley-cyrus-chrissy-teigen-more/" title="Celebrities Who Have Been to Tom Tom" target="" showsubt="false" thumb="false" imgsrc="https://www.usmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Celebrities-Who-Have-Been-Tom-Tom-landing.jpg"] Guy Fieri, on the other hand, is over “hating on food and chefs.” As the Mayor of Flavortown sees it, it’s more productive to highlight the “positives of an experience” as opposed to focusing on the negative. “I think we could benefit from a look on the bright side,” he explained. For actor Jesse Tyler Ferguson, avocado toast is a bit overdone these days, but he’s not exactly ready to see it disappear completely. “I don't want to see it go away, I just don't think every restaurant needs to put it on the menu,” he told Us. Interested to see what other food trends famous people wish would disappear? Scroll down for more!

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Gail Simmons

“I’m over the monster, over-the-top food, like the rainbow unicorn sundae with the cotton candy on top,” the Top Chef judge explained to Us. Instead, the cookbook author wants there to be a “purpose” to everything she consumes. “I want to be able to eat and enjoy it and I can’t really enjoy that stuff,” she added.

However, that sense of purpose is why Simmons has yet to swear off food items like kale and avocado. “Kale is legitimately not a trend, it’s a green. Yes, it’s a little overused and I could do with a little less avocado in my life,” she noted. “But avocado and kale are ingredients, they’re not trends, and they’re here to stay.”

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Aarón Sánchez

“I’d like to see the misconception that Mexican food is just tacos and Tex-Mex end,” explained the frequent MasterChef judge. “Tex-Mex is a different genre of cuisine separate from authentic Mexican food!”

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Alex Guarnaschelli

For the Food Network star, the word “trend” is problematic in and of itself. “I wish people would stop calling a doughnut, or a cupcake of any kind, a trend. I wish the trend of labeling things a trend would go away,” she said. “For me, a doughnut, and a cupcake, they're just eternal. So is a muffin and a scone. I think they should be left alone.”

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Andrew Zimmern

“What I wish would go away would be the self-importance of the industry that serves food,” dished the Bizarre Foods host. “I love restaurant people, I love food people — they’re the greatest human beings in the world — and there are some that take themselves way too seriously in our industry. The sharing of food is something that’s very basic and our broadest sense of humanity is wrapped up in it,” he explained. “Chefs who put sentences on the bottoms of menus that say, ‘We try to shop organic and local whenever possible,’ it’s an immediate cue that there’s someone mindless in that organization. Asking for extra credit for the things you’re supposed to do is shocking to me.”

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Alton Brown

The Good Eats: Reloaded host admitted he’s “a little bit tired” of the labeling of any food that is made in the south as Southern. “I think we’ve beaten Southern food about to death, and now we should just move on to just good food or bad food,” he noted. “I’m a little over labels like that.”

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Roy Choi

“Hummus” is what chef Roy Choi said when he was asked to name what food trend he’s totally over. Though the chickpea dip remains a staple of the popular Mediterranean diet, the Kogi food truck creator has clearly seen enough of it.

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Richard Blais

Though bacon will likely never fall out of favor, the Top Chef: All-Stars winner has seen a tad too much of it lately. “Don’t get me wrong I love bacon and pork, butt … ha! That’s a pork butt joke!” he quipped.

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Jesse Tyler Ferguson

Millennials may always have a soft spot in their hearts for avocado toast, but the same is not necessarily true for the Modern Family star. “I don't want to see it go away, I just don't think every restaurant needs to put it on the menu,” he noted.

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Guy Fieri

“Hating on food and chefs is something I’m over,” the Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives host told Us. “You don’t have to like everyone and everything out there, but I’m not down with the negativity. I am much more interested in highlighting the positives of an experience than focusing on the negative and in the food world, and the world in general, I think we could benefit from a look on the bright side.”