Things that are a now "a thing"
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Syndrome280 said:
Gluten free.
While I know a small minority have genuine issues with gluten it seems to be all the rage to go gluten free.
I can't go in the Supermarket or even a petrol station without seeing racks stuffed full of gluten free food.
God knows how the human race managed to drag itself throughout the last few thousand years eating things like bread!
Hypochondria sells! While I know a small minority have genuine issues with gluten it seems to be all the rage to go gluten free.
I can't go in the Supermarket or even a petrol station without seeing racks stuffed full of gluten free food.
God knows how the human race managed to drag itself throughout the last few thousand years eating things like bread!
PoleDriver said:
Syndrome280 said:
Gluten free.
While I know a small minority have genuine issues with gluten it seems to be all the rage to go gluten free.
I can't go in the Supermarket or even a petrol station without seeing racks stuffed full of gluten free food.
God knows how the human race managed to drag itself throughout the last few thousand years eating things like bread!
Hypochondria sells! While I know a small minority have genuine issues with gluten it seems to be all the rage to go gluten free.
I can't go in the Supermarket or even a petrol station without seeing racks stuffed full of gluten free food.
God knows how the human race managed to drag itself throughout the last few thousand years eating things like bread!
HTP99 said:
I was watching some food programme earlier in in the year and they were talking about people who gave gluten fee diets as a form of healthy heating, as opposed to allergy or intolerance issue, they found that in the long run a glue free diet wasn't particularly healthy as the vast majority ate more surgery foods to compensate for the lack of gluten based foods.
What the hell is surgery food?
ClockworkCupcake said:
It's fizz that's nicer than Cava, and a hell of a lot cheaper than Champagne (although obviously not as nice).
But surely, good Prosecco is better than bad Champagne? Champagne can be well overrated in my opinion, and definitely plays on its name.
Prosecco has managed to more successfully market itself of late, I think I am right when I say that like Champagne, it has to be grown in a specific region to have the name?
But unlike champagne - it doesn't age.
ClockworkCupcake said:
Shakermaker said:
But surely, good Prosecco is better than bad Champagne?
Absolutely. 
Although I suspect Nickbrapp might disagree with us.
Syndrome280 said:
Gluten free.
While I know a small minority have genuine issues with gluten it seems to be all the rage to go gluten free.
I can't go in the Supermarket or even a petrol station without seeing racks stuffed full of gluten free food.
God knows how the human race managed to drag itself throughout the last few thousand years eating things like bread!
Before Coeliac disease was discovered, the lucky ones just had chronic bowel trouble. The unlucky ones died early. While I know a small minority have genuine issues with gluten it seems to be all the rage to go gluten free.
I can't go in the Supermarket or even a petrol station without seeing racks stuffed full of gluten free food.
God knows how the human race managed to drag itself throughout the last few thousand years eating things like bread!
The link between gluten and Coeliac disease was discovered when a Dutch doctor noticed that some sickly children actually improved during the 1944-45 famine in Holland, when wheat was in short supply, and then got worse again after the war when they returned to a normal diet.
Disastrous said:
How can prosecco, or someone promoting a fitness class annoy you? PH is amazing.You might as well summarise this thread with "Anything that's new, that I don't partake in or like, or is the preserve of young people, is annoying to me".
Shakermaker said:
Disastrous said:
How can prosecco, or someone promoting a fitness class annoy you? PH is amazing.You might as well summarise this thread with "Anything that's new, that I don't partake in or like, or is the preserve of young people, is annoying to me".
In the spirit of the OP, a thing that is now a 'thing' is doing bottle flips, where you chuck a bottle of water with about a quarter of it left in the air and try and flip it so it lands upright on a surface/floor. I got sucked into a highly competitive round of this by some of the younger lads at the gym the other night and became utterly absorbed.
I hadn't heard of it before but googling suggests it is indeed 'a thing'.
ClockworkCupcake said:
Shakermaker said:
But surely, good Prosecco is better than bad Champagne?
Absolutely. Although I suspect Nickbrapp might disagree with us.
I bet for a lot of people it's a status thing thinking they are posh, the same applies to people who drink cheap champagne or people who buy grey goose vodka in da club, to show off.
Of course you get good presecco but not at a low price point, the same as you get good champagne but not at a low price point.
The point is it's a thing now because it's cheap
Disastrous said:
Agreed, and I thought the premise of the thread was sound but the last few pages are interchangeable with the 'things that annoy you beyond reason' thread.
In the spirit of the OP, a thing that is now a 'thing' is doing bottle flips, where you chuck a bottle of water with about a quarter of it left in the air and try and flip it so it lands upright on a surface/floor. I got sucked into a highly competitive round of this by some of the younger lads at the gym the other night and became utterly absorbed.
I hadn't heard of it before but googling suggests it is indeed 'a thing'.
Ah yes, bottle flipping. I too have seen it shared around on Facebook etc quite a lot, but never tried it myself. In the spirit of the OP, a thing that is now a 'thing' is doing bottle flips, where you chuck a bottle of water with about a quarter of it left in the air and try and flip it so it lands upright on a surface/floor. I got sucked into a highly competitive round of this by some of the younger lads at the gym the other night and became utterly absorbed.
I hadn't heard of it before but googling suggests it is indeed 'a thing'.
Was at a Christening over the weekend and there were some children doing it - actually very annoying because it was on a noisy wooden floor, but they took it out to the car park and then a few of us guys decided we had to try it as well. The children were much better at it than any of us, clearly as a result of a lot of practise.
Nickbrapp said:
Let's face it, the price is the reason people drink prosecco and why you see it in places so cheap and on offer like breakfast and prosecco £10 kind of thing. If it suddenly shot up to £12 a glass instead of £5 the people drinking it would reduce.
I bet for a lot of people it's a status thing thinking they are posh, the same applies to people who drink cheap champagne or people who buy grey goose vodka in da club, to show off.
Of course you get good presecco but not at a low price point, the same as you get good champagne but not at a low price point.
The point is it's a thing now because it's cheap
My wife drinks it because she isn't a huge drinker and likes it better than the alternatives, including champagne. She only got to know of it because she likes drinking Aperol Spritz (she's from Europe) and it's freely available everywhere.I bet for a lot of people it's a status thing thinking they are posh, the same applies to people who drink cheap champagne or people who buy grey goose vodka in da club, to show off.
Of course you get good presecco but not at a low price point, the same as you get good champagne but not at a low price point.
The point is it's a thing now because it's cheap
Added to which, a questionable prosecco is a lot more palatable than a poor champagne IMO, and cheaper, so what's not to like.
I don't think she's showing off but who knows?
AW111 said:
Before Coeliac disease was discovered, t
It effects 1% if the population but free from food markets share is now in the billions, because for whatever reason, people seem deluded that gluton free foods are perceived to be healthier and “natural'', which is basically marketing buff.If is was just as the medicated reason the market share would be tiny as it was before it was hyped up.
Disastrous said:
You might as well summarise this thread with "Anything that's new, that I don't partake in or like, or is the preserve of young people, is annoying to me".
There does seem to be some overlap between this thread and the "Things that annoy you beyond reason" thread. Both seem to exhibit this though.
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