Overrated foods (lighthearted)

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Share foods you think are overrated or just don't like (or defend your favourites!).

Overrated imo:
salted caramel,
ruby chocolate,
.....apple crumble.

Salted caramel
Avocado. I'm vegan and it bugs me that everywhere thinks we all eat avocado

Oysters . Yuck.
Tripe. Ditto.
Brains. Can’t bring myself to try, but can’t imagine liking them…

I’m sorry but I love all those things

Pringles
Anything made from batter.
Chips

Dh likes black pudding
I can't bear him eating it as it looks wrong on so many levels !

Pink slime chinese sauce

No, don't! Stop! Please! I can't bear it !! 😮

Chicken feet? Is that a typo?

Smash Burgers only fit for Instagram morons who rave about half a pound of mince splattered on a bread bun.
Loaded Fries - filthy greasy cheap chips with oily everything flung on top.
Freak Shakes- gluttony and diabetes in one single messy glass.
Badly made Birthday cakes - you know the kind with 3 inch thick packaged fondant holding the cake prisioner, hard enough and dangerous enough to strip your enamel of your teeth, or worse rip your teeth out by its roots.

bao buns 😞

I also hate the most over used word umami, which seems to used for everything from a cheese sandwich to a spud.

Scallops, strawberries, crab, salted caramel i agree with u OP. Am.cursing the apple crumble entry though. Milkshakes, burgers, chips and nachos

Flavoured gin
Mussels
Parmesan (except when in Pesto)
Pumpkin spice anything

Couldn't agree more. It looks so exotic and fun at first but it just tastes a bit meh.

There's a difference between "food I don't like" and "food that's overrated".
I don't like Sourdough, coffee or most fruit but I wouldn't say they're overrated. Well, maybe coffee and sourdough 😹

Red velvet cake, i was expecting something delicious. It was a rubbish chocolate cake.

I know people love burgers and all things beefy burger , but they are always disappointing even the really expensive ' shake shack ' ' five guys' ones. I kind of felt full and so unhealthy and much lighter in the wallet too after trying one.
I think my taste buds have changed so much over the years, convinced of it.

Percy pigs (the plain ones) (love the fizzy tails)

Zoodles.

High protein "pasta" made from peas.

Protein shakes. See also protein cookies cookies and protein pancakes.

Any cake where the ingredients that make it taste good have been replaced by avocado. Or beans. Or courgette.

Flavoured gins are already on the thread, but the abomination that is parma violet flavoured gin (looks like meths, tastes like migraine) needs a special mention.

I bought a salad bag once and it had pea shoots in it. They were really horrible
I have to make sure that never happens again lol

Have we had jacket spuds and smash burgers. Food sold by fucktards on Social Media and queued up for by idiots.

Champagne.

Yes! I like cherry tomatoes with some salt on, tomato soup, sun dried ones etc
But big sliced tomatoes? Nope. Why put them in a sandwich!?

Five guys are a bit greasy. I love their shakes though!

Caviar. I quite like it, but it doesn't deserve its reputation.
Saffron. Nothing wrong with it, but HOW much money for something whose only merit is extreme yellowness?
Pumpkin spice anything.
Overnight oats. Though I have absolutely no problem with Birchermuesli, which is essentially the same thing.
Protein shakes. Extra calories that you probably don't need, down your gullet in a couple of gulps.

Bouillabaisse. Classic, "Look at the mark up on that!" tourist trap.

American style cupcakes, like Lola's, look unbelievably gorgeous but there's so much buttercream on top I start to feel sick halfway in.
Sourdough bread tastes quite nice but once toasted becomes like concrete to the extent I fear for my choppers. See also pork cracking - but I think I might BU with that one.😄