Food Victor Landa January 8, 2018

Latinos outraged as national news outlet labels nopales as ‘hottest food trend of 2018’

Claudia A. De La Garza 

The pushback is that the "hottest food trend" trivializes a staple of Mexican cuisine.

Nopales are a tried and true treat for generations of Latino families, but it seems to the wider internet they may become the “new avocado toast.”

And people aren’t happy.

NowThis Food, a sister site of Now This, posted a Facebook video on Dec. 31, posing cacti as possibly becoming “the hottest food trend of 2018.”

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