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 detest strawberries, with their weird, furry, pippy pitted texture! I do like strawberry flavoured food though (ice cream, sweets etc)

Oooh I’ve read more of the thread now.

I love strawberries and also chamomile tea – but I also like asparagus and I can see how to some people it smells icky.

I definitely agree about afternoon tea tho – I went o one recently which was almost £30 for which we got:

• approx one round of sandwiches – fillings inc plastic ham and plain tuna
• a mouthful of very thin quiche – literally a circle about the size of a 50p piece cut out of a bigger quiche
• a scone with jam and cream
• Lots of cakes (see notes on thread) – we didn't finish these and then they were whisked away without an offer to take them home to the DC

Bit of a con tbh. Would have been better to go for a meal in a pub

City breaks - sounds lovely and exciting until you get there and realise that appart from the odd landmark most cities are the same, busy, and full of tourists taking photos.

Rafting.

We did it in Colombia. It was really quite boring until the raft capsized in some rapids and it really was touch and go as to whether my face was going to be smashed to pieces on some rocks.

Don't bother.

Chocolate ice cream
Camenbert
Brie

any candles that smell like food in reality smell like unwashed arse

Panettone. It can't be that every one I've ever tasted was stale but they all seem stale. If you want cake have a sodding cake. The definition of Not Worth The Calories.

Christmas tastes and smells. Peel. (There's a reason we usually chuck it out). Dried fruit. Cloves and other weird spices. Mulled anything. Pine.

Game (as in pheasant, partridge, venison etc).

Massages. Awkward. Anything that involves being handled by a stranger.

Parties.

69- Sounds great, in reality you can’t concentrate on anything properly and just end up with a crick in your neck.

Exactly this!

I agree with Panettone. What even is it?

@Nopicturesallowed toast? TOAST? Food of the Gods.

They are just a load of nonsense. Ive been to Edinburgh and York and it is just exactly the same crap .

Red velvet cake, it's tasteless.

Also Ducolax.Came a millisecond from shitting myself.

That was in response to @ShadesmarBead

Having a haircut. I cannot bear someone washing my hair and sitting for ages in a chair whilst it’s being chopped and being told what a treat it is for someone to blowdry your hair. No, it isn’t- it’s purgatory.

Really! We buy that weekly 😳 have you found a better one?!

You need to go on different holidays.

All of this!

Gym memberships — especially during the winter when you realise that that one trip that you half-heartedly make every couple of weeks to use the treadmill for half-an-hour works out to approximately £30 per visit if you can manage to motivate yourself to go twice a month.

Love a bit of goats cheese! 🧀 mind you I love all the stinky crazy cheeses! I think I was French in a past life.

It’s red wine that always disappoints me! It coats your teeth with a gritty feeling and the roof of my mouth feels horrid! It also gives me a slamming headache! The only place for it is a beef casserole!

Fruit teas are total fanny.

Fish and chips
Bacon sandwiches
Takeaways

And fruit teas yes.....smell amazing but taste like boiled compost.

I get the red wine headache too. Got laughed at for years by people assuming I meant a hangover, but its not! Within half and hour of a very small glass of red my head is banging. There is a reason for it but I forget what it is. I used to be able to drink it but the head aches started when I turned 40. I dont bother even trying now.

Bourbon biscuits - just what have they done to them?! They used to be so nice and are now hard and have an odd taste.