On Instagram Food Trends

I read a report (such as this is) in the New York Post titled NYC coffee shop serves up pumpkin spice lattes — inside real pumpkins. Some coffee shop in Astoria is dumping lattes into live pumpkins and selling them for $15. The article quotes the owner as stating that the concept is that the shop wanted to give Astoria residents the pumpkin patch experience. While I cannot read minds, I have my doubts. Instead, I suspect the idea was to create a menu item that would go “viral” on Instagram. The photos in the article serve as evidence. Closer to me, we have a worse trend. There’s a dumpling shop in Brooklyn Heights selling a horrifying dumpling-Diet Coke combo. You see these people (mostly groups of young women) out there with this combination cup/bowl, almost always full (le shock!) taking photos of themselves and each other with this abomination. If they must do social media food and drink, may they at least not take up the whole sidewalk?

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