To ask what food you think is overrated

[Svanam]

Pasta! Everyone seems to love it but I think it’s seriously overrated and pretty plain/ boring. Would never order it in a restaurant. What food does everyone love but you think is overrated?

i like vegetarian sushi but not the fish

Sourdough bread, especially toasted. It’s like eating concrete.

Lawdy that sounds diabolical! They really are shite though so it doesn't surprise me! X

Svanam Lobster! Whats so great about a big shrimp 🤣

Quinoa

Caviar
Matcha
Gnocchi
Exotic mushrooms

Vienetta, see posts time and time again where people say what a treat it was when growing up, ooh I'm going to go and buy one now. Tasteless ice cream, tasteless chocolate, literally empty calories, it looks pretty but is disappointment through and through.

Oh I love a hash brown. I'm wondering now what my hospital's ones are like! Or like that proper potato hash they make in American diners? I don't see it much here. I used to live off that in a bagel and 1 dollar pizza slices when I was in NY!

Why no more potato for you?

Sourdough bread , especially if it’s toasted ! Hurts your mouth and teeth 🦷
Biscoff everything can get in the bin .
Salted caramel I’m so over it , I don’t dislike matcha but matcha everything just no , I don’t want a Lindt matcha flavour but I do quite like an ice matcha with a fruit added .

Oysters! At least when raw.

Having had them more than once, I can well understand why in Charles Dickens’ time they were considered poor people’s food. IIRC a character in the Pickwick Papers says something like, ‘It’s a werry remarkable circumstance, how oysters and poverty go together.’

Some of these suggestions are indicative of where manufacturers or chefs overdo a trend I suspect and people get heartily sick of the sight of even the word.
Some might be due to bad experiences. You can have bad pizza, but memorable ones too. Ditto pasta. Cooked very well both can be divine.

Pizza
Ice cream
Most cake
Dark chocolate
Nandos

I completely agree! Vanilla and tonka bean in everything is one example.

Pasta encompasses everything from spaghetti hoops in tomato sauce in a tin (bleugh) to the most divine hand-made, fresh, paper thin, filled ravioli, in a beautifully composed, freshly made sauce.

Ditto potatoes. You can have horrible frozen tasteless rostis or croquettes, or the most divine potatoes boulangère prepared with love and cooked for hours, or a delicious Irish champ or glorious roast potatoes cooked in goose fat by someone who really knows what they are doing.

Aside from differences in the quality of a product, the same basic ingredient, cooked in different ways, with great skill or love, or complete indifference, can result in two completely different dishes.

Anything described as “diet”.

I absolutely agree with you about marzipan. I use almonds and ground almonds a lot in cooking though - it's a mystery! I'm wondering if I could be bothered to make my own, it might be a different story. I suspect commercial stuff probably uses a synthetic almond flavouring.
In fact, I've never come across anyone who has actually said "Ooh, I love marzipan". It's telling that my mother, who was a young child during WW2 and never let us leave anything on our plates, would allow us to carefully slice the marzipan off our pieces of Christmas cake, peel the icing off to eat, and leave the marzipan on the side. Now I'm old, I've realised that she probably hated it too but couldn't actually bring herself to leave it.

Brioche as a savory food - why would I want sweet bread for a burger or sandwich. The only thing brioche is good for is bread & butter pudding.

Agree with Sushi too.

Oh and why put SALT in caramel!!!
Baffles me. 😂. It's like someone added salt instead of sugar by mistake but styled it out, like it was always the plan & people just went with it.

Never tried it but the sound of hot honey turns my stomach

I do love marzipan. I hate Christmas cake and just eat eveyone else's marzipan and icing 😃

Congratulations, you're my first! 😊

I like marzipan and the icing more than the cake part.
( Although I don’t eat that many cakes tbf.)

Pasta yes! No matter how good it’s seasoned it just doesn’t do it for me.
Avocado
Shrimps
Sushi

Sourdough!

Can't digest it, makes me vomit, since my kidneys got sick.

Alcohol, boiled potatoes, stews (slop) and matcha.

Aw I'm sorry to hear that. I didn't know kidney illness could mean no potatoes! Hope you're alright overall though? X