‘They gentrified soy sauce’: Restaurant serves soy sauce in dropper bottle

A restaurant-goer shows soy sauce being served in a dropper bottle in a viral video—and says that the condiment was “gentrified.” In a TikTok posted on Monday, Alex Mutammara (@mutammara) shows soy sauce being served in a small dropper bottle at a restaurant he was dining at. Soy sauce is usually served in the bottle … Read more

They want to charge you $7-$8 for some elote. This is corn.’ A Woman Complained About The High Prices At What She Called A “Gentrified” Mexican Restaurant

The price of just about everything seems to be out of control lately and food is definitely no exception. We’ve seen a lot of TikTok videos lately about how expensive food in grocery stores, but a woman named Naira posted a video about how pricey one particular food is at a Mexican restaurant that she … Read more

‘They want to charge you $7-$8 for some elote’: Customer complains about expensive, ‘gentrified’ Mexican restaurant’s microgreens

It’s no secret that ever since the internet discovered Mexican food, there’s been an influx of establishments serving gentrified—and of course expensive—versions of traditional dishes. Everything from agua fresca masquerading as “spa water” to exorbitantly priced cups of Mexican street corn, known as elote. That harsh reality set in on Chicago-based TikTok user Naira, who … Read more