Things that sound nice but actually aren't

[WeeAgnes]

I'm putting forward Fruit teas.
Some of the combinations sound so promising and positively delicious.

In reality, they taste what I imagine drinking pot pourri to be like.

I read the thread title in Trending and thought, "Fruit teas!" before opening it. 😂

Objection, you honour - they sound gloopy and far too sweet.

spa days- get a bit boring

Snow.

bathing together.

a day out with small children.

Mini golf is awful! I detest it more than I could ever articulate!

The antidote to this is a home made one with lots of unprocessed cream cheese good vanilla and slow bake

Beaches - sand in everything including any food. No shade when its hot. Nowhere to shelter if its wet or windy. Crowded in the summer. Seaweed. Hard to swim if its shallow or dangerous to swim if theres a rip.

Fruit teas
Ferro chocolates
Fluffy throws (platic fibres give me a rash)
Any spiced drink
Spa days are my pet hate and i work in beauty!
Ditto hair drying/ head massage.
Goats cheese stinks but I try
Toffee yoghurt (no business in a health food)
Memo foam insoles (they make me hot)
Memory foam mattresses.

Every Baileys flavour that isn’t original Baileys.

I generally find this, it's awful.

However, we were treated to a lunch in a michelin-starred restaurant and it was part of the tasting menu. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't dreading that bit, but it was delicious. Not goaty at all!

As for my addition - I find most ready-made meals/desserts taste of disappointment.

Christmas

Eating out - such a waste of money and not what you would want to eat at home.

A trip to London for a West End show. Stressful journey. Uncomfortable seat, with poor view unless paying top price. Poor acoustics, boiling hot or freezing cold and not enough toilets. Give me a regional production in a comfy modern theatre or a live stream in a cinema where I get to see the actors faces anyday.

I love everything listed on here... give me a hot bath, glass of wine (maybe mulled), fruit tea, cakes, olives, goats cheese all after a long, cold walk while I plan my lovely hot beach holiday. YES!

Ben & Jerry’s ice cream - cool sounding flavours but all taste disgustingly sweet and over-processed.

Morrison’s The Best Range - more a punishment than a treat as everything I’ve tasted has tasted cheap and worse than other stores’ budget ranges.

Ten Pin Bowling - yucky shoes, boring, and sticky balls (of the bowling kind 😛)

I do hate going the hairdressers. £200, 3 hours and I hate it...

Sound baths - wanted to tear my hair out with boredom after five minutes!

Yes!!

Rhubarb. I love the smell of rhubarb but the taste is a huge disappointment

Swimming in the sea. Freezing at home, slightly less cold on holiday, and in the Caribbean where it's warm, full of jelly fish!
BBQ's - food usually really disappointing.

Tannings or sulphites... one is more in red, one more in whites. But I can't remember as I have drunk half a bottle of rosé...

I’ve only ever had one - it was a present, in a fancy tin.
It was so dry, nearly all of it ended up on the bird table. I dare say it could have made a reasonable bread and butter pudding, though - if I’d thought of that.

Funnily enough, I am halfway through a bottle of rose, cheers!!

Just done a bit of googling and it seems that the jury is out on the why, but it seems that there are more sulphites in white so probably not that. I always thought it was down to tanin...but who knows? All I do know is that it bastard well hurts!

Oh, I was listening to a bit about panettone in a podcast recently.
Apparently traditionally made panettone is very different to what we buy in shops here but traditional panettone has such a high butter content and time and labour intensive process to make you can’t mass produce it, so we get a sad, dry imitation apparently.
Made me really want to try a proper one.

Brioche buns are all wrong for burgers anyway! They’re sweet!