Chocolate lava cakes (Photo by Laura Chase de Formigny for The Washington Post)
Published February 23. 2021 1:20PM
Becky Krystal, The Washington Post
Almost anything that reaches massive popularity eventually encounters a backlash — it's too common, it's too cliche, it's just not cool anymore.
Case in point: Chocolate lava cake.
Mention this ubiquitous dessert, whose heyday was the '80s and '90s but is still going strong, and plenty of people will roll their eyes. Perhaps it jumped the shark long before it started showing up on chain restaurant menus or as middle school chorus fundraisers, as I seem to recall. But perhaps I don't care! Perhaps it's popular for a reason, or even many reasons!