People On Instagram Are Making "Smoothie Stacks" And They're Weirdly Beautiful

A hot new type of food stack.

So, there's a THING happening on Instagram...

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*crowd whispers to each other* "A thing?" "A thing?" "What is a thing?"

We already know that the vegan and vegetarian crew on Instagram is obsessed with colorful food and drinks.

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Photos of juices and smoothies have been everywhere for what feels like forever.

But then shit started to ~evolve~. First was the smoothie bowl.

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These are still ~vegan sexy~, don't get me wrong.

But now we've hit a new frontier on the Great Smoothie Event of the 21st century: smoothie layering. (Or as many call them, SMOOTHIE STACKS.)

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This is when you pour different types (or sometimes the same type) of smoothies into the same glass so that the colors sit on top of each other, making multiple layers.

There are a few different types of stacks. For example, some people put fruit in the middle:

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There's the ombre option:

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A hippie swirl*:

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*I made up this name

And of course there's just the classic stack:

Got all that? So now you can go grab some random fruit and drop your normal smoothie in the trash.

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Or not, IDK. This seems like it takes a long time.

It's all fancy-ass smoothies from here on out, apparently.

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