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’m sure someone else has said this but lots of fruit teas smell like cat piss, and as OP said, taste like hot pot pourri, although I like peppermint teas.

@TheNinny I’ll add thrush to the cystitis…

All shop-bought birthday cakes, especially chocolate ones.

Most fancy flavoured crisps, chicken/beef/ and whatever just tastes like the Walkers versions.

Shop-bought guacamole - slimy, and stop with all the garlic and onion.

Not if you go somewhere in Europe, have 3 nights rather than 2, and instead of rushing round trying to do every single thing in the one trip, you spend time relaxing in a nice square with a coffee or wine.

Hot fruit, it's wrong!

Fruit tea, hot squash, lemsips, apple pie, crumble etc and the ultimate horror: pineapple on a pizza

I have had some really good city breaks by going to somewhere in the car that is just too far for a day trip, about 3 hours.
Minimum travelling but still a weekend in a new place.

tried lidl 1 once when on special offers, haven’t looked back 👍 (i make 99% foods/meals myself)

but for my nice sounding but crap things:
pet rabbits (& rats! ,tho they don’t sound nice anyway!)
spa days
holidays (because of all the pre & post organising & sorting, I’m excellent at packing but just don’t like it… memories of boarding sch yrs?)
sex in a lavender field in spain, ants bite like hell!

@ALargeChardonnayPlease @ScruffMuffin I wouldn't eat apple pie or crumble, so go ahead. I'd not use much.

Vanilla ruins cakes and the candles smell horrible. The good thing about vanilla is that it means I won't eat cakes like sponge unless I know what's gone in it.

No. I’m just a bloke who lives in Norfolk, but who has had an ‘interesting life’. 😏

Are you who I think you might be? 😀

Cruises. At least the ones I’ve been on. Most ports are boring and run down unless you pay for excursions to go on activities and sightseeing. then the anxiety of getting back in time. Incredibly crowded pools and no available Sun loungers. Queueing ages for a table for breakfast and dinner. Sea sickness.

Beach holidays - I end up hot sweaty and with sand in my hair

Spa days - dull, dull, dull

Pizza- just don’t get the fascination

Mumsnet. Sounds like a supportive website for mums and mums-to-be. Actually a judgemental cesspit.

Weddings. I mean, the big fancy £20K+ marathons that go on from midday to midnight.. 💤😴

Boring as fuck, and involves a lot of hanging around for HOURS, bored out of your skull, and trying to make smalltalk with people you don't know, or you don't like. Nearly always 50+ miles from home, so you are spending shit loads on a taxi, or a hotel, or unable to drink all day, as you're driving back home at midnight...

Spa Days.... Just shite. Waste of money.

Sourdough - gross and chewy. Croissants - gross and chewy. Prosecco - fizzy piss.

Being in social gathering groups. Always at least 2 gobshites who take over every conversation and love the sound of their own voice, and cliques form, that a few people in the whole group are not in, so they feel excluded, and there's always at least one spiteful bitch - and it's not always a woman!

Alochol - very expensive, gives you a headache/massive hangover the next day, makes people behave like idiots, and is not needed to have a good time.

Being promoted at work - more money yes, but more responsibilities, longer hours, and more student fees, pension, tax, N.I. taken out of your wages, so not much better off anyway! Better to stay on the lower half of the ladder.

I am sure there are more!

Whoa, I bet you really hate a party with bubbles to celebrate a work promotion then...

Outdoor weekend music festivals.....it's usually raining, you have to sell a kidney for a portion of food and a pint costs more that a weeks worth of shopping. Oh and you can't see the bands because of the stupid flags flying everywhere and people being on others shoulders.

Snow. Looks nice when fresh but actually feels horrible and gets mucky.

Dubai chocolate, horrible tasting pap. As previously mentioned, Aperol spritz, looks lovely but tastes unpleasant. Ditto Campari, smells medicinal. Limoncello, just.no. Fondue, go away.

EXACTLY

My husband can’t understand it. The only holiday I truly ever enjoyed was our honeymoon.

We stayed at a vegan hotel, so didn’t have to worry about dairy allergy (10/10). Nothing ruins a holiday quite like wandering around, starving, trying to accommodate an allergy.

We arrived at the start of the last week of “the season” so it was quiet and not too hot.

Our flight there got cancelled so BA were refunding us £1300 plus taxis. We flew out the next day, so holiday was a day shorter (ideal for me). Our luggage got lost and arrived another day late, which resulted in more compensation from BA. Basically didn’t feel bad about spending money while we were there at all!

Because we were a day late the hotel were able to give us the room we had originally wanted with a private pool and didn’t charge us any more for it.

Just had to worry about the nearby volcano!

Jazz - nice idea and lots of fun for the people involved in playing together I'm sure but makes me feel ill

A lot of modern art and theatre, especially anything conceptual or theme related - again, sure it's great for those involved but often leaves me bored, cold and sometimes cross because I feel like they are taking the piss with self indulgent bollocks. Really - that blurry photo self portrait of a 3rd of your face with smeared make up, that image that has been done a billion times already (although usually by mistake) is a commentary on the damage to under 25s of rising unemployment is it? And this huge canvas, with the one blue dot amongst 4999 green ones is art a comment about globalisation, the importance of individuality and the harm of oppression in dictatorships? Riiiigggghhhttt...
But sometimes they are great and I haven’t worked out how to tell yet so keep getting caught out.

Also bubble bath, bath bombs, shower gel - never feels like I've got it all off properly.

And barbecues. Although actually they don't sound like a good idea to keep in the first place so not sure they meet the thread criteria.

Years ago, at breakfast in a German hotel, I realised with horror that I had started eating the placemat. In my defence it did look vaguely like bread, it was only when chewing it I realised my mistake. Embarrassed, I apologised to the waiter for having cut off the corner of the placemat, and offered to pay for a new one. He pointed out it was rye bread.

Beach holidays. They look great but are as boring as hell - I once read a thick business book from cover to cover I was so bored. Then there's the need for all over sun cream and then sunburn on bits I missed. And the hard and uncomfortable sun bed. Such a waste of money. Just no.

I don't like massages anyway, but if I had one, I'd like it even less if the masseuse talked to me about anything, let alone something as traumatic as that.

😆😂

Pineapple on pizza is lush!

I love good cake but Jesus you can’t find many decent cakes now. The thing that generally spoils them is the abomination that is buttercream filling/decoration. Who the hell thinks a mouthful of slimy butter is pleasant in a dessert!

You've all made me laugh so much reading your posts 😂
So many of you feel the same about fruit teas, I'll never be able to walk past the aisle without smiling and thinking about this thread now.