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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Josh Barrie

From 'rat snacking' to Diet Coke and pickle juice, a ranking of the weirdest food trends of 2024

The year is almost at an end. Only last-minute Christmas shopping and the Gavin & Stacey finale await us now. What will 2025 bring? More war? An effecting dose of economic strife? A new flavour of yoghurt, perhaps. Made with peas.

I can only really vouch for the latter. Food, all encompassing, ever a torrid spectrum of beguilement, always throws up curveballs. Here we look back at some of 2024’s oddities.

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