9 Totally Overrated Foods - The Hollywood Gossip
Penelope Carter
Updated on March 15, 2026
Why are we still eating these 9 totally overrated foods? (One word: delicious!) You’ll never believe what’s #1.
Macarons
1Macarons are newcomers to the world of overrated foods, but they’re coming up fast. They even have their own Tumblr.
Nutella
2Nutella is delicious. It’s also overrated.
Molten Lava Cake
3These were great when they were only available in one or two places. Now that everyone and her mother has a copycat recipe, molten lava cakes are just meh.
Smoothies
4Sure, smoothies are a healthy alternative to milkshakes and great on a hot summer’s day, but really? Mango-guava-bananaberry-prune splash with protein is just…it’s too much.
Cupcakes
5It’s like people don’t even know what regular cake is anymore.
Kale
6KALE IS A GARNISH!
Quinoa
7Quinoa: Hipster rice.
Starbucks
8We love our coffee as much as the next over-caffeinated suburbanite, but really? Enough’s enough. We want coffee with our coffee.
Bacon
9The world’s bacon obsession has gone way, way too far when items such as bacon-flavored lube exists.