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Things that sound nice but actually aren't

768 replies

WeeAgnes · 30/12/2025 15:15

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.

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Joeninety · 30/12/2025 22:48

Pigs intestines ?

stomachamelon · 30/12/2025 22:49

Sorry to be a plain but @WeeAgnesfruit teas are an acquired taste and as a Crohn's sufferer / dairy makes me a whirling dervish of poo it’s the only hot drink I can have.
So I have it several times a day :) admittedly some are better than others!

MagicMagpie · 30/12/2025 22:50

Egglio · 30/12/2025 15:21

Agreed - salted caramel anything.

My mother.

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blueshoes · 30/12/2025 22:55

Eastie77Returns · 30/12/2025 15:34

Beach holidays in very hot countries. I love the beach on a mild to hot day but in extreme heat it is an awful experience and I often end the day feeling headachy and exhausted.

I agree. I grew up in a hot country. Tourists and expats are generally the only ones that go out in the heat during the day. Locals only come out in the heat for any extended period in the morning or early evening but are otherwise chilling in the shade or air condition or underground during the day. Of course there are those with no choice like manual labourers and I always feel for them.

RosesAndHellebores · 30/12/2025 22:58

RumbleHoney · 30/12/2025 16:13

Can I add alcohol-free mulled wine? It’s always so unbearably sweet it sets my teeth on edge.

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I raise you bucks fizz. Why mix delicious champagne, or even prosecco, with orange juice.

BunnyLake · 30/12/2025 22:59

Lobleylimlam · 30/12/2025 22:15

Avocado whether thats guac or however its prepared, tastes like nothing to me.

Christmas... it feels like capatalist hell these days!

Salted caramel anything, overdone and sicly.

Airfryers, if you have an oven just use that I don't get it!

Sorry went on a bit of a rant... I could go on 🤣 sooo many things I don't see the hype for atm.

I use my airfryer a lot. I can put it on and forget about it, unlike my oven.

blueshoes · 30/12/2025 23:00

Going outside to read. It is either too hot or too cold or windy or exposed to other people.

Give me my temperature controlled indoors in a comfy sofa or bed anytime.

sprigatito · 30/12/2025 23:00

amicisimma · 30/12/2025 22:45

Log/'real' fires. One side of you gets singed, the other remains freezing. And your hair and clothes end up stinking of smoke and your eyes get sore.

Eating anywhere but at an indoor table with proper cutlery and crockery.

And double whammy: barbeques. All the disadvantages of a log fire, all the problems of eating outside with no table or cutlery. And, to add insult to injury, meat that is burnt on the outside and raw on the inside. Every. Single. Time. With the added fun of wondering if I'm going to die of salmonella infection from the raw chicken and this is how I spent my last hour on earth.

You must be going to some shitty barbecues! Fair enough that you’re not a fan of finger food/al fresco dining, whatever blows your skirt up - but there’s no excuse for burnt/raw food. Surely most people only fuck up barbecuing meat once?!

EstoyRobandoSuCasa · 30/12/2025 23:04

Travelling in a convertible with the roof down, especially one of the old-fashioned ones in which you need to get out of the car to slide the roof back in place. My then-boyfriend had one of these, an old MG.

I didn't actually put on a headscarf and sunglasses, but I had visions of retro glamour. What actually happened was that my hair got blown into a tangled mess, then the heavens opened when we were on the motorway and there was nowhere to stop to put the roof back on. We were forced to carry on for about five miles, getting wet, until we could stop. I was convinced everyone was laughing at us.

Alpacajigsaw · 30/12/2025 23:06

Totally agree on fruit teas. Smell so promising and taste of nothing.

Hot chocolate.

Macarons. Just expensively packaged sugar.

Guinness. I don’t drink now so bought some AF stuff and remembered too late that Guinness looks nice but tastes gross.

Sex 😂

LikeWhoUsesTypewritersAnyway · 30/12/2025 23:08

LOL, I couldn't agree more about fruit tea tasting of pot pourri 😂

Followthatpath · 30/12/2025 23:08

I love this thread! Basically, after 50 odd years, everything in life is like chewing gum that’s lost its flavour 🥴

Paramaribo2025 · 30/12/2025 23:08

Eating outdoors
Sticky toffee pudding
Mulled wine
Lemon flavoured things
Mousse
Sorbet
Alcohol before 7pm

GrumpyButOk · 30/12/2025 23:09

Dawnintheageofaquariams · 30/12/2025 19:19

Picnics.
As a teen and younger woman romantacised the picnic date.
Me in a floaty dress, him in a shirt, sleeves rolled over muscular forearms (drool), possibly in a rowing boat. Dainty snacks, wine, champagne, gin, stolen kisses in shady bowers...
Reality = wasps, flies, ants, hair blowing in your mouth, weather too fucking changeable. A floaty dress on Ilkley moor in a summer hailstorm, treading in a cowpat in delicate sandals. Trying to look sexy whilst cleaning cowshit off your feet before driving home. Wasps. More ants.
Wuther off.

😂👏

LikeWhoUsesTypewritersAnyway · 30/12/2025 23:09

EchoedSilence · 30/12/2025 15:17

Goats cheese. Tastes like a goat smells.

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FelixRyark · 30/12/2025 23:12

Fusion food…always disappoints me. Never as good as the originals.
Canapés.
Hen nights or worse, hen w/ends.

Anyone who pulls out a guitar at a gathering.

KimuraTan · 30/12/2025 23:13

Hot tubs here as well.

Am pool plant trained and my teacher made sure we were aware that muscles relax in hot water. The anal sphincter being a muscle - well that relaxes in warm water too. Hence hot tubs being full of bacteria and needing x amount of chemicals to combat the sludge which mainly remains on top - right where those foaming bubbles are. 😩

KimuraTan · 30/12/2025 23:17

Another one:

classic car - open top and stuck in a traffic jam. Not very Grace Kelly at all - The fumes made me feel light headed and a bit 🤪 - if anyone is into this sort of stuff - go for it.

Yourlifeinyourhands · 30/12/2025 23:22

The beach…

Especially on holiday. Boiling hot sand, sand in general in all your crevices, sand up your bum, sand in the food, sand stuck to your suncream that you need to apply obsessively and once you’ve applied it you’re so hot you need to cool down in the sea and then reapply it! Laying on the floor on towels is uncomfortable but hiring a sun bed is about £86 an hour and also having to worry your stuff might get stolen! Joy … pure joy!

Oh and the beach in this country.. all of the above but it’s fucking cold and the sea is full of shit!

I don’t like the beach much!

Alpacajigsaw · 30/12/2025 23:23

KitWyn · 30/12/2025 17:16

Agree about fruit teas, and would extend my revulsion to all herbal teas. The herby ones don't even smell nice. Camomile is camo-vile, basically a hot mug of stagnant pond water.

Artichokes, asparagus and caviar are all similarly horrible. Urine and snot adjacent in texture/smell.

Yes, someone told me green tea with lemon or with mint was nice. They lied. The
lemon one was like dettol and the mint was like hot mouthwash.

I can very, very occasionally take a peppermint tea when I want a hot drink a
late in the day and the only other options contain caffeine but that’s my limit

Isabubs25 · 30/12/2025 23:24

Christmas!

Alpacajigsaw · 30/12/2025 23:26

Also…sewing.

I bought a sewing machine at the start of lockdown but hadn’t appreciated how much fucking ironing sewing anything involves. Fuck that. Still a nice wee lady nearby got herself a bargain Janome a few months later 😂

brunettemic · 30/12/2025 23:26

Any employer that describes itself as a family.

Alpacajigsaw · 30/12/2025 23:27

Sunbathing

Fucking boring

Fingalscave · 30/12/2025 23:27

M&S Gastropub and M&S Italian ready meals- every one I've tried has been either too rich, too sweet or just tasteless and most have made me feel queasy.
I do love fruit teas though!