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Stimulated Dining

Adding excitement to the ordinary, oddly shaped cuisine provides visual delight

Implications - With ordinary routines often featuring a plethora of repetitive actions, consumers are commonly left feeling apathetic toward their everyday experiences. As a method to add more depth and excitement to their lifestyle, consumers are looking to more stimulating sources of consumption to help augment the ordinary. Re-shaped cuisine offers consumers a sense of play and intrigue that makes the dining experience more visually engaging, reflecting the need for enhancements that provoke bolder responses.

Trend Themes
1. Playful Food Shaping - The rise of reshaped cuisine, including cylindrical pizza kits and pencil-shaped cheeses, taps into consumers' desire for playful and visually engaging dining experiences.
2. Self-referential Products - Products such as message-imprinted cake molds and emoticon crackers are successful in the market due to their distinguishable and easily identifiable nature.
3. Convenient and Innovative Dishes - The creation of novelty dishes such as the Apple Pie Cone and smiling soup biscuits offer consumers portability and an opportunity to eat creative and innovate dishes on-the-go.
Industry Implications
1. Food and Beverage - Industries such as food and beverage can experiment with creative and innovative dishes such as those listed above to continue expanding the market demand and discerning palates of consumers.
2. Packaging and Product Design - Industries that center around packaging and product design can take advantage of the Self-Referential Products trend by creating products that are easily identifiable and stand out on store shelves.
3. Hospitality and Service Industry - Industries such as hospitality and service can benefit from Playful Food Shaping trend by offering consumers visually stimulating dining and beverage experiences.
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Featured Examples

Reshaped Pastry Desserts
Reshaped Pastry Desserts
The Apple Pie Cone Makes the Treat Easier to Handle and Eat
Eating certain pastries on the go can be a messy undertaking unless it takes on a specific shape such as the Apple Pie Cone. Re-imagined to make the treat one that will be easily devoured and enjoyed,... MORE
play_circle_filled Cylindrical Pizza Kits
Cylindrical Pizza Kits
The Pizzacraft Grilled Pizza Cone Set Makes Delicious Edibles
The Pizzacraft Grilled Pizza Cone Set provides a delectable new way to enjoy this Italian delicacy. The company designed the set to include everything you need to make these personalized edibles.... MORE
Pencil-Shaped Cheeses
Pencil-Shaped Cheeses
Korefe and The Deli Garage Create a Sharper Cheese Shape
Buying pre-shaved cheese can be pretty expensive, especially if people have expensive taste when it comes to cheese; the pencil-shaped cheese solves that problem. Shaped just like a pencil, it can... MORE
Message-Imprinted Cake Molds
Message-Imprinted Cake Molds
This Birthday Cake Mold Imprints a Celebratory Message
This birthday cake mold makes it easy to identify what kind of cake you are baking. Printed with a celebratory message saying “Happy Birthday,” this mold lets you write less. There’... MORE
Luxury Pork Strips
Luxury Pork Strips
The 23k Gold Chocolate Bacon is Fit for a King
The 23k Gold Chocolate Bacon is for the true bacon connoisseur. For those who feel that a bit of luxury has been missing from the beloved pork dish, this should make up for it with flying colors.... MORE
Smiling Soup Biscuits
Smiling Soup Biscuits
These Emoticon Crackers are Packed with Delicous Miso Soup
Soup can now be gift-wrapped and given as presents to friends and family with these nifty miso soup crackers by Misogen. Called Monaka, each of these smiling biscuits is filled with heart-warming... MORE

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