2010s were a wild time. when you ordered lunch, theyd serve it to you on a railway sleeper. the tea had bubbles in it. avocados were brand new - nobody had heard of them. they were wrecking the economy in fact. everything else in the meal wasnt whole, but in small fibres. they called it 'pulled <animal>'. and because it was on a railway sleeper it tasted of creosote. you would take a picture of the food of course, and put it on some website, i forget which. the pictures were always square. 1:1
@jk
Boba tea, food pictures: Yes. DAMN I miss having sweet boba tea every day in summers.
Railway sleeper: What?
Avocados, pulled pork: No, I was familiar with non-honkie food in the '90s. Were those new to the millennials?
@mdhughes ive always loved avocados since i was a lil kid. but i definitely got the vibe that my mum was weird for buying and enjoying avocados. i dont remember pulled pork before the 2010s, and it appears to have disappeared again, at least where i am, probably because it isnt very good. the railway sleeper thing is part of the 'rustic', post-industrial aesthetic that became pretty popular in restaurants in the 2010s, e.g. steel lampshades, reclaimed table etc. it extended to replacing crockery

@jk Oh, recycled railcar diners with health code violations were the Spokane rust belt aesthetic a long time before, guess I missed them and tetanus becoming "popular".

Pulled pork can be fantastic, but you gotta find the right Cuban or New Orleans refugees to make it.