I donāt even know what Baddies is š but Dubai chocolate is pretty good (I was in a boba shop and they had some- actually I got the LAST ONE but it was white chocolate which wasnāt my favorite) and Iāve kinda been craving it here lately but I wonāt pay the ridiculous prices online and I have no shops nearby that sell it
Itās like OP has a foot in āboth sides of the riverā - which is so interesting! Meaning, they still know what all of those are - which means theyāre still pretty darn connected to the culture. I havenāt heard of about half of those things - certainly not because Iām cool š. I guess because I just wade in a different sphere of the internet.
Lol - nah see, I think what Iām trying to say is that it looks like OP is trying to put others down for not being as unplugged as them, but they donāt really sound that unplugged at all. Again, itās fine to be disconnected! I didnāt know half of these (likely because Iām an ancient 21-year-old lol). But that doesnāt make me āabove it all.ā Being able to line *all* of these off without keeping a pretty close ear to the same timeline seems unlikely to me. Nothing wrong with liking this stuff!
new foods become the hot new thing all the time thanks to marketing campaigns. itās not any different than those spicy noodles or the pickle sandwich at jimmy johns or whatever tf. this is how food marketing works. if youāre truly concerned about people, mainly preteen kids, flying to Dubai because of chocolate, you probably donāt have much to worry about.
Dubai chocolate has been around for a min and no one ever cared until everyone else started to do that itās not about being niche itās the fact that people do it bc everyone else does if it was really ab pistachios and chocolate they wouldāve actively looked for it before the trends itās just the truth
that doesnāt address the point though, novelty does not equal quality. caring about novelty more than quality is weird to me. it would make much more sense to hear someone be like āmy problem with dubai chocolate is i donāt enjoy the flavor profileā or āi donāt like love island because reality tv feels formulaic & boringā than āitās bad because itās popular & it being popular makes it unoriginalā