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.

Also agree that beaches are grim.

Not mad keen on holidays to be fair. Outrageously expensive, so much pressure to #MakeMemories, far too hot, feels like you should fully explore the new country which isn’t relaxing but lying on a sunbed is a waste of time and money, I’m v pale and burn…

A romantic bath with a partner.

Tiramisu. Just cold cream and cold coffee. No tnx

In fact I will make that any dessert with coffee

I like fruit teas and goats cheese

They are meant to be cooked surely

Dominos pizza. For some reason I like the idea of it a lot more than I like the taste.

Macarons
The pan flute
The steel drum
Matcha anything and green tea

I’ve always fancied the idea of travelling on the orient express until I realised that you don’t get your own toilet with your cabin. It’s not my idea of ‘luxury’.

@VoltaireMittyDream same happens to me in a bath! Always sounds like a good life’s but once bathroom is all steamed up, water is too hot to get in so hang around waiting for it to cool down a bit!
never the relaxing soak I thought it would be- would rather shower and then read my book in bed 🤣🤣

You’ve missed a trick with hot tubs. Have my own use it daily with coffee and my book in heavenly solitude. Absolute bliss.

Agree sitting in a public one with strangers and no reading material would be a very different proposition..

Please don’t tell me you’ve eaten dough balls without baking them.😂😂😂

BBQs. Never cooked nicely , always a bit shit. Flies and wasps

Going out to a dinner party on a Saturday night.

It sounds lovely when you’re invited and accept but when the time actually comes I’d give anything to have a bath and a takeaway/ bit of telly and an early night.

Pretty much everything pastry and cake in bakeries or coffee shops is a dry disappointment. Pastries are thick, pale and revolting. Cakes, if not dry, are only wet due to heavy handed use of sugar syrup. Hint, if you need to drench a cake in sugar syrup for it to be moist then it's shit cake.

Cold cakes - removes all flavour and tastes like cold splodge.

Agree a good cheesecake is hard to find these days. Need a proper buttery biscuit base that you can actually get through with a fork or no base.

Fake mint in anything including toothpaste. But non mint toothpaste is just wrong, so I tolerate that. Will never eat mint lollies or chocolate though.

Chewing gum. It absolutely reeks, particularly when it's been chewed for ages. I can smell someone with gum a mile off and it makes me want to hurl. Plus people look like cows chewing cud - blergh🤢

Donuts of any kind except for traditional warm with cinnamon sugar.

Swingers’ parties.
Owning a Lamborghini.
Marrying your mistress.
Afternoon tea at the Ritz.
Tasting menus with a wine pairing for each course.
Fat-free yogurt.
Shooting a .50 cal machine gun.
An afternoon’s gardening.
Visiting the Christmas sales in London.
Mozart’s Requiem mass.
Nightclubs after 40 years of age.
For a man, having more than three girlfriends at the same time.
Health spa days.
Learning to speak Chinese.
Turkey.
Christmas pudding.
Your friend’s home made wine.
Krug Champagne when you’re paying.
Spending too long on the internet …

😲 my 2 favourite things. Spa days is another favourite that don't seem popular here. Although by days I can only cope with 3 hours in any place so can imagine they would be boring if stuck in one spot for a whole day.

Avocado, they look amazing still even though I know now they taste gross. Read it can take 10 tries to like something though, so havnt wrote those delicious looking things off just yet

Love goat cheese, me.

Love cucumber, me. Crisp green cucumber sliced into a salad or sandwich is always refreshing. Also pleasing in a gin and tonic.

And pickled dill cucumber is one of life's crunchy necessities, on its own, with cheeses, pickled herring or in a tartare sauce or potato salad.

I love the seaside if it's not crowded. A deserted beach where you're alone with the pulsing ocean and nature is one of life's joys.

And I love avocados but they are very rich.

roast potatoes - no one ever gets them right usually underdone, floury and tasteless

Boba tea.
'Rose' flavoured anything.
Scented candles that smell of precisely nothing if you're more than a foot away.
Bath bombs - five seconds of delight, then you're sitting in a faintly glittery soup.

This is true of most party food, sounds so tempting but doesn't meet expectations. Not to mention how lousy I feel after eating it🤮

I get them right, and I love them.

But they are a high calorie indulgence so there won't be many enjoyed in this house in 2026, with the weight loss and fitness targets I have set.

Nicole Kidman.

The idea sounds nice, but then having to sit through one of her films is something else: the breathy whispering; the weird expressionless face; the really obvious looking wig; dodgy accent; etc...

Dolphins. The worst breath imaginable. Imagine a cat litter tray full of faeces left by cats that had eaten copious amounts of rancid cheap cat food combined with rotting fish. They feel horrible too. .

Quality Street/Roses tins, tubs, sachets whatever

Uses to be delicious - now its like eating soap