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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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realsavagelike · 31/12/2025 03:37

Enko · 31/12/2025 00:48

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

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Same about the coffee desserts, although I love coffee. Only exception for me is those cheap shop-bought coffee cakes you used to be able to get. Perhaps was Mr Kipling's?

realsavagelike · 31/12/2025 03:40

lookluv · 31/12/2025 02:21

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

That's why they need to be smothered in Colman's mustard.

Mothership4two · 31/12/2025 04:10

AlbertaWildRose · 30/12/2025 15:34

No! Goat cheese is my favourite thing in the world!

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Mine too. And goat's yoghurt

HelenaWaiting · 31/12/2025 04:20

ABeerInTheSunshineMakesMeHappy · 31/12/2025 00:53

They are meant to be cooked surely

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Of course they are. Uncooked dough can give you tummy trouble.

Mothership4two · 31/12/2025 04:21

Definitely fruit teas. Also flavoured tonic waters - genuinely can't tell the difference between them and plain tonic - just as long as it's got gin in it!

Also, After Eight chocolates. Smell nice and I remember loving them as a child, but they just taste like mint and cheap chocolate to me now.

Wine - just don't like the taste. However, people will rave about a particular one or I will admire the label and think, oh I'll try this one, it looks delicious. Sip,yuk, no still don't like wine.

Pickled onions. Again, tasty vinegary smell, but unpleasant crunchy eye-watering vinegary mouthful.

givemesteel · 31/12/2025 04:41

Center Parcs. I'm here and so far can't believe I have wasted my money on this.

DreadingWinter · 31/12/2025 05:39

RessicaJabbit · 30/12/2025 16:09

Cinnamon buns.... None quite ever live up to what I expected. I mean they're nice and everything...but not amazing.

This! My uncles's MIL lived the other side of Iowa and drove to a halfway point to hand over to him her famous home made cinnamon buns. It was meant to be a huge treat for me to taste the authentic American bun on my first trip to the US. Total disappointment.

Muffinmam · 31/12/2025 05:47

No way!! There are some fruit teas that are awful but there are some absolutely delicious ones!

Years ago there was a new tea company selling strawberry tea at the Fremantle markets. They had a massive glass dispenser of the strawberry tea made with ice and they added fruit. You could also buy glass jars filled with the tea leaves.

I used to drink the strawberry tea hot. I like make a tea pot and drink multiple cups.

Now the company sells so many different types of tea. But I think this is the strawberry one:

roogenic.com.au/blogs/tea-recipes/native-strawberry-mint-iced-tea?_pos=11&_sid=fbede093e&_ss=r

The teas have Australian native plants in it like lemon myrtle. It’s a very distinct type of lemon taste.

the80sweregreat · 31/12/2025 05:52

Sand and the sea are awful combinations. Nice to just admire or walk on, but sunbathing on is a faff, I burn easily and hate sun cream.
I loath bbq’s , luckily I don’t go to any !
Fancy teas , just give me normal tea.
Any kind of sausage rolls.

bumphousebump · 31/12/2025 05:54

ffffhjdsgX · 30/12/2025 16:05

Pets. I like animals but they are generally minging and needy if you take responsibility for one. No thanks. Best to leave them in the wild.

Similar to children really…

ChillWith · 31/12/2025 05:56

Afternoon tea - just a load of stodge and carbs. And usually v expensive

BonneMamanAbricot · 31/12/2025 06:27

JacknDiane · 30/12/2025 20:39

M&S meals always looks really tasty and appetising on the box but they usually taste just a bit better than the box.

Same with their desserts! The descriptions are always ott and amazing, so you prepare yourself for ‘LITERALLY the best £300 gold-leaf-topped pudding in the universe’ and then it’s just meh

bumphousebump · 31/12/2025 06:30

Going out for Sunday lunch, it’s rarely lovely, and uses up so much of the day when I’d rather be on a walk or something.

Christmas markets….overpriced tat and alcohol and so crowded.

browsing in shopping centres….I get tetchy ….if it’s busy you have to skirt round zombified bored husbands, if it’s quiet then I feel watched by shop assistants.

fancy looking cakes abroad….apart from France….rarely deliver.

MayaPinion · 31/12/2025 06:34

Baby showers
Hen doos
Presents that mean more work - like make a plaster model of your baby’s feet (why would anyone want that that?)

LiquoriceAllsorts2 · 31/12/2025 06:34

Churros - they smell incredible but the taste is always disappointing and never lives up to the expectation

PrincessFairyWren · 31/12/2025 07:18

Sex in the shower. You’re either standing up or pressed up against cold porcelain or glass. Plus your feet are slippery but the bits you want slippery are not. In the movies it always looks hot and steamy. In real life it’s a huge disappointment.

clickyteeclick · 31/12/2025 07:21

Huge live concerts. Think Dua Lipa, Coldplay, Kylie, oasis, etc. Big names with huge price tag tickets. You watch the screen all night as you can’t see the artist. End up watching it through the 1000’s of phones people are recording it on. Can’t easily go to the loo. Drinks are expensive and get spilt. Venues are normally a nightmare to get to.

Eyesopenwideawake · 31/12/2025 07:22

NuffSaidSam · 30/12/2025 15:37

Brainwashing.

Sounds like a spa treatment. I'd love to have my brain washed, like when you have your hair washed at the hairdressers.

Actual brainwashing is bad.

Actually your brain gets a wash every night with cerebrospinal fluid that washes away all the waste that's built up during the day and leaves your brain nice and shiny!

Terry's Chocolate Oranges – milk or dark – on the other hand are vile.

Pigtailsandall · 31/12/2025 07:25

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.

This sounds very Bridget Jones!

Makingadecision · 31/12/2025 07:26

Live music like Coldplay concerts. I hate the crowds and I prefer the music at home.
Music festivals, crowds, rain or heat, no proper toilets and feels unclean
Hot tubs and most spas
airport lounges that you pay for
Herbal tea, matcha,
Turns out lots of things!

DBatteryBand · 31/12/2025 07:30

Actually your brain gets a wash every night with cerebrospinal fluid that washes away all the waste that's built up during the day and leaves your brain nice and shiny!

Love this!

LightDrizzle · 31/12/2025 07:35

I’m came on to say spa days or “treats” and I see lots of people agree and I won’t repeat why.

It really annoys me when posters suggest treating yourself to a spa day as a universal panacea and means of revenge for a DH disappearing to play golf/football/ cycle.

luckylavender · 31/12/2025 07:41

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.

100%

25flyby · 31/12/2025 07:45

DreadingWinter · 31/12/2025 05:39

This! My uncles's MIL lived the other side of Iowa and drove to a halfway point to hand over to him her famous home made cinnamon buns. It was meant to be a huge treat for me to taste the authentic American bun on my first trip to the US. Total disappointment.

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At my primary school in the 70’s we all had school dinners. One of the homemade puddings was a cinnamon bun. Soft, warm, sticky cinnamon and raisin layer in exactly the right proportions.
They were singularly the most delicious thing from that whole decade and have ruined cinnamon buns thereafter.

Alpacajigsaw · 31/12/2025 08:09

10K · 31/12/2025 01:09

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.

Even worse is when people are invited over to yours. My husband loves hosting and I hate it. Please fuck off out of my house and leave me in peace!