Things that are a now "a thing"

[Shakermaker]

I have noticed of late more and more "things" which are now being referred to as "a thing" and now every so often, I catch myself using the phrase "that's a thing now." However, I have just seen it used on a BBC News Article. Usually refers to something which has become incredibly popular incredibly quickly, I guess the Americanism would be "zeitgeist" (or is that a German term?)



On my list:

- Pulled Pork, which became "a thing" about 3 years ago I think. Which has now given rise to pulled beef, pulled chicken, pulled lamb; all of the cheap bits of meat, cooked slowly in a barbecue style sauce and then ripped apart.
- Kale. Appeared about the same time as pulled pork, to my memory, and was previously mostly just used as rabbit food before a person obviously decided they could sell it to people as the new superfood.
- Christmas Advert -s this is "the thing" to which the BBC news article referred, they specified John Lewis, which is always different and expected to be "amazing" but I would also suggest the Coca Cola truck advert.
- Top Down cooking/craft instruction videos that autoplay on Facebook.

So what else is now "a thing" that wasn't "a thing" before?

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boyse7en said:

Shakermaker said:

- Top Down cooking/craft instruction videos that autoplay on Facebook.

What is that?

Do I have to take my top down to cook? Or can I legitimately ask the missus to take hers down while on chefing duties?

That would be a good thing.

devnull said:

I quite like those top down videos, great for cooking inspiration. That "OOHH HOO YESSS" clip at the end can fk off, though.

I like them too, they're just, a new thing that's suddenly everywhere. Though the American ones are quite simple to follow - its either, cover it in cheese, or, wrap it in breadcrumbs, deep fry it, and then cover it in cheese.

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paulrockliffe said:

Is pulled meat a 'thing'?

It's just what you end up doing if you slow-cook meat; try slow cooking pork, beef or chicken and then carving it.

Maybe not new in execution, but certainly in name and prominence. Slow cooked barbecue pork belly, takes a lot of time to say, and write, so now, people say "pulled pork" which has really been taken up and run with by everyone now.

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stumpage said:

Salted Caramel.

Why am I made to feel such a low life when I say I like Caramel without Salt. Nice and sweet like it used to be. Honestly you'd think I'd clubbed a seal with the looks I get when I don't for example order the Sticky toffee pudding with Salted Caramel sauce, I'm sick of being told "Oh but the Salt in the Caramel works soooo well".

Arghhhhhhh.

I actually meant to put Salted caramel in my original post; to me, it came along at the same time as pulled pork and kale.

However, I really rather like salted caramel, so I am happy it is a thing. But it does depend on context for sure!

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Morningside said:

littleowl said:

Twice cooked/Thrice cooked chips.

Serving chips in a mini steel bucket instead of a plate.

Serving food on a wooden bread board/chopping board instead of a plate.

It's a right fker when you pour the gravy over your five times cooked chips and it goes off the side of the board

Hand cut chips. Wow! That's amazing. You cut them with a knife. Well done.

When I worked in the pub kitchen, the chips were always cooked twice. Once to defrost them, and then once to make them hot to appear fresh.

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S11Steve said:

Hydraulic Press youtube channels.

The original is by the deadpan Finnish guy, Lauri "vat da faaak" Vuohensilta - he is the Kimi Raikkonen of hydraulic pressings, but there are now dozens of channels all crushing stuff.

I am a big fan of Lauri, his style and delivery always makes me chuckle, and the videos are the right length for a mid-morning trip to the gents.

"this very dangerous dog, it could attack at any time so we must deal with it"

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catso said:

paulrockliffe said:

Is pulled meat a 'thing'?

Well many of us have been pulling our meat for a long time, so it's definitely a thing.

That said I was tempted by a pulled chicken something or other during a visit to some fast food emporium and it seemed like it was all coleslaw and no chicken, I fecking hate coleslaw...

Speaking of Coleslaw I wondered why so many of the pseudo-American places are now just using 'slaw instead, why does it have to be 'slaw now coleslaw?

by chance I got chatting to a chef who has worked in the USA in the past and he told me the difference was that 'slaw is generally a load of diced vegetables served with a dressing like lime juice or vinegar, rather than the traditional mayonnaise that would be used in coleslaw.

But 'slaw is definitely now a thing as well.

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Another I've just been reminded of:

The need to have the funniest chalkboard outside your pub in order to get the most likes and shares on Facebook.

One I've just seen shared online "All Americans Must Be Accompanied By An Adult"

But there are many others, and none of them have yet beaten the classic brass plaque offering Free Beer Tomorrow.

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glazbagun said:

I'm fortunate in that I've only seen the amazing ones. I can imagine poorly done ones looking terrible and being the majority.

I think I will add Snapchat to this. I never saw the point of it but have persevered, to be rewarded by seeing lots of friends and aquaintences wearing dog faces. Seeing perfectly sensible people I know whip out their phone to play with a filter...not a fan but I doubt snapchat will care.

And they're about to float on the NYSE I believe. Some moolah to be made there for them.

I've not quite got it yet either. No one has sent me nudes yet and I thought that was the point of it?

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airsafari87 said:

People Being 'Humbled' and 'Feeling Blessed' usually for something completely inane.

No, no, modern parlance dictates you are #humbled and #blessed

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eltawater said:

Stupid "I'm looking for {{common name}}, tag them here" memes accompanied by a vulgar picture.

These appear to have sprouted all over social media like a dose of the clap in the past week.

Yes, definitely.

A couple of months ago it was "Tag a mate so they have to look at this picture of a cucumber for no reason" and now it has moved on to this.

Most of this of course is the "friends of friends" doing the tagging of friends of mine, rather than me seeing my actual friends doing it.

Fortunately for me, none of them seem to ever contain Alex as a name.

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TR4man said:

Have we had school proms?

No, but these have been going on for several years now over here, they haven't suddenly sprung up out of nowhere on us.

Though like many PHers, I went to a proper school, therefore we had a "Leaver's Ball" rather than a "Prom" because, well that is how one does things, is it not?

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Tuvra said:

I went to a "prom" in 2003 and it was definitely promoted as such.

Mine was also in 2003, but was promoted as a "ball" by my school. Trying to market it as higher class. We still got pissed on cheap wine and beer of course.

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generationx said:

My final year of school was 1987 (/old). We didn´t have a prom, a ball, a year book or any kind of shirt-signing, USA-influenced nonsense.
We just finished our exams and left, not looking back.

So you didn't all go to the pub and get smashed then?

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48k said:

"Dominating".

This appears to have become the latest PH "thing" and has taken over from "frozen sausages", though I missed the memo so have no idea why.

It all started in this thread. Username "castroses" after about 5 pages

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=162...

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Another I have spotted recently, again from the World of Facebook Clickbait

Pictures of maths questions with "what's the answer" followed by several thousand people giving their answer.

All of them are deliberately written in a misleading format without any brackets/parenthesis, but more so, all written to gain more likes and shares for the page in question.

Also some of them are now written with pictures instead of the numbers to make it more confusing for people.

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RB Will said:

ambuletz said:

I think the group gimmick fitness sessions are probably the worst. the 'business' taking a photo of all of them together at the end of their workout and sharing it on social media. Especially when it's something as strange as pole dancing fitness.

To be fair to them that is advertising their business not being vain or showing off.

My former neighbour does pole dancing fitness classes and shares her success on Facebook. I'm not going to stop her...

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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.

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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".

That's actually how you can summarise all of Pistonheads. Hence why I started this thread

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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.

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.