Are charcuterie boards foidslop?
Meat and cheese boards, plus every spinoff board the internet came up with: butter boards, pancake boards, jarcuterie.
Charcuterie is cured meat and cheese, and people in France and Italy have been serving it for centuries. The online version adds salami folded into roses, honeycomb, figs cut in half for the photo and a lot of small bowls. Then came the spinoffs: butter boards, dessert boards, pancake boards, and single servings packed into a jar.
We ruled it contested. The traditional version is a respected part of European food. The version with the salami roses is pretty clearly foidslop, and the two have very little in common besides the name.
In French, charcuterie means cooked or cured meat products and also the shop that sells them, like a pork butcher. The board is a newer idea that grew out of wine bars and dinner parties. Online, the boards got bigger and more styled, and 'grazing tables' that cover a whole table became a catering business of their own.
The butter board came from a 2022 video by food creator Justine Doiron, where she spread soft butter on a board and topped it with salt, herbs and honey to scoop up with bread. It spread fast and drew just as many complaints about hygiene and how much butter it took. Jarcuterie, a single serving of board snacks packed into a jar, came out of the same wave.
Yes, because
- Salami roses
- Butter boards were a whole moment
- It's girl dinner with a bigger budget
No, because
- The tradition goes back centuries in France and Italy
- Guys will happily destroy a meat platter during a game
- A cheese plate after dinner is standard in a lot of European homes
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