{"id":3728,"date":"2024-01-05T08:37:31","date_gmt":"2024-01-05T08:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/europfoods.es\/?p=3728"},"modified":"2024-01-05T08:37:33","modified_gmt":"2024-01-05T08:37:33","slug":"from-tiktok-to-table-the-transformative-girl-dinner-trend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/europfoods.es\/es\/from-tiktok-to-table-the-transformative-girl-dinner-trend\/","title":{"rendered":"FROM TIKTOK TO TABLE: THE TRANSFORMATIVE \u2018GIRL DINNER\u2019 TREND"},"content":{"rendered":"

Do you have \u2018Picky Tea\u2019 in your family? Or maybe you call it \u2018Picky Bits\u2019? The latest viral food trend calls it \u2018Girl Dinner\u2019, but essentially, it\u2019s all the same: A snack-meal created using up what\u2019s in the fridge: Convenient, cost-effective, and usually much more delicious than you\u2019d think.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The \u2018Girl Dinner\u2019 trend kicked off when LA influencer Olivia Maher posted a simple video<\/a> of a quick meal she\u2019d made up of a few things she found in her fridge (bread, cheese, grapes, wine), with the caption \u2018I call this girl dinner or mediaeval peasant\u2019. It gained 1.5 million views on TikTok. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It soon went from a minimal spread of leftover bits to an elaborate spread with ingredients bought specifically for the occasion. Now, \u2018Girl Dinner\u2019 is basically a glorified cheese platter, or grazing platter, if you like, with colourful fruits, cheeses, crackers and cured meats plus a few miscellaneous ingredients. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s look at some examples\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Picky Tea Plates<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A classic example of this trend is the Picky Bits plate. It stays true to the origin of the trend, creating colourful plates of food from fridge-raid ingredients. Expect to see cheese, tomatoes, olives, fruits, bread and cured meats.
Inspiration: Tomato, Olives, prosciutto, burrata, nectarine and cherries @alanataav.<\/a> Salami, olives, burrata, eggs and bread @alanalaav.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Party Picky Tea<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Party Picky Tea includes ingredients bought especially for the occasion, the ingredients are much the same but the plating is an artwork. Sometimes wooden boards are used instead of plates for aesthetics and there\u2019s nothing \u2018left over\u2019 about the curation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inspiration: Brie, pickles, cured meats, bread, crackers and chutney, and a pasta bowl @layp0p.<\/a> Tomatoes, olives, prosciutto, burrata, plums and ros\u00e9 @alanalaav.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But not everyone was in favour of a \u2018Girl Dinner\u2019 <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Girl Dinner\u2019 soon sparked conversations around nutrition, gender, and body images, spiralling a host of different versions of \u2018Girl Dinner\u2019, as well as articles in the media with headlines such as \u2018How Problematic is Girl Dinner, Really?\u2019, and \u2018Please Don\u2019t Gender My Dinner\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A few people even created their own \u2018Girl Dinner\u2019, where beige food and perceived higher calorie meals were shared, including a wine glass filled with macaroni cheese and turkey dinosaurs @brookiebarry.<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then there was also a more cynical backlash with, \u2018Tears for dinner\u2019 and \u2018Depression meal\u2019. The seemingly harmless trend became metaphorical. It was no longer about the food but about the ramifications of its role in society and diet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Food for thought<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Social media has huge power, which can be both good and bad. Here, it was never meant to become a political statement, it was more about eating fridge contents, \u2018picky bits\u2019, an easy, quick meal without much cooking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what can hospitality take from this?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  • Focus on the \u2018picky bits\u2019 part of the trend, not the \u2018girl\u2019 part. The only reason the trend had backlash is because it was gender specific.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • It\u2019s fuss-free, made from leftovers, cold foods (basically like your ploughman’s but with a few extras)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • It\u2019s visual. Turn your \u2018picky bits\u2019 into grazing boards with lots of colourful foods. You could have mini scotch eggs, ham, chutney, cheese, bread and fruit all on the same platter. Or even create a \u2018Grazing fruit board\u2019 with beautifully presented fruit, a \u2018Lebanese board\u2019 with homemade dips, flatbreads and crudites.<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Do you have \u2018Picky Tea\u2019 in your family? Or maybe you call it \u2018Picky Bits\u2019? The latest viral food trend calls it \u2018Girl Dinner\u2019, but essentially, it\u2019s all the same: A snack-meal created using up what\u2019s in the fridge: Convenient, cost-effective, and usually much more delicious than you\u2019d think. The \u2018Girl Dinner\u2019 trend kicked off […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3729,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"dipi_cpt_category":[],"class_list":["post-3728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/europfoods.es\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/europfoods.es\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/europfoods.es\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europfoods.es\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europfoods.es\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3728"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/europfoods.es\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3734,"href":"https:\/\/europfoods.es\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3728\/revisions\/3734"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europfoods.es\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/europfoods.es\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europfoods.es\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europfoods.es\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3728"},{"taxonomy":"dipi_cpt_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europfoods.es\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dipi_cpt_category?post=3728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}