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?

Loaded fries, I just wanna eat my chips without having to get through a layer of revolting yellow cheese and bits of rancid bacon

Potatoes. Tiramisu. Bananas (bleugh!) Most ice cream. Chicken Tikka Masala.

Prosecco - no thanks, I’ll have a Cava instead though.

Panettone - it’s neither bread nor cake.

Lobster - usually smothered in butter to make it even less appetising.

Greggs sausage rolls

Pizza - I cannot stand it

I never go to Italian restaurants because it's cheap as chips to make but they charge a fortune 😂

Risotto! It might taste heavenly but every mouthful is the same and I’ve lost interest after a very short time.

Agree with pizza, just not nice!

Bourbon biscuits are the devils biscuits, utterly vile.

I don’t cook pasta because I hate it so im talking about everywhere ive ever tried it. I don’t cook it at home, you do realise some people just don’t like certain food however it’s cooked?

Sliced bread, it’s the worst thing since bread,
Eggs, the taste, the smell, the texture all make me want to vomit,
Chinese Takeaway, people are always so shocked when I say I don’t like it,
Ketchup, it tastes awful and ruins anything it comes into contact with,
Seafood, fruits de mer? More like Insectes de la mer,
Chicken nuggets, the ones where the chicken is kind of mushed like McDonalds,
Ham from a packet. Supermarkets sell so many types of ham. All of them taste the same and are wet and stinky,
Not food but all those big, sweet drinks with cream on that coffee shops sell. I’ve only ever had one that wasn’t disappointing.

Avocado, especially “smashed” avocado. Christ that’s grim.
Tea

I’ll eat pretty much anything else, and am currently demolishing a baked Camembert with sourdough toast. Lush.

I forgot about sushi and avocado, they can both get in the bin.
Avocado makes my mouth itch and sushi is pretty to look at but just isn’t nice to eat. Cold rice-no, cold fish-no. I’m sure the only reason people like it is the soy sauce as that’s the only palatable part!

Hmm, I've read the exam question twice and this isn't just dislikes otherwise I would rattle on about coffee and bananas for hours... it's stuff that is overrated. So 'fancy/gimmicky' stuff surely? Not staple stuff.

In which case I offer you... sun-dried tomatoes. Why would I want to eat a mummified tomato that has given up on life because someone left it the bottom of their gym bag in 1997? I bloody love fresh tomatoes - these bastardised foul, oily scabs bring chewy mouth misery to any meal or cheeseboard they go near.

And if sun-dried tomatoes are a staple for you, I truly hope you get the help you need. I'll donate to your GoFundMe if needs be.

salted caramel
hobnobs
any food where sugar and salt compete with each other

I quite like sourdough but agree it is nothing special. DH pays a fortune for it.

Oat milk.

Pulled pork especially if smothered with fake 'smoky' BBQ sauce

Meat

Another vote for sourdough, it's vile...and avocado

Anything Gails.

Fucking protein, it's bloody everywhere and I'm not at all convinced we all need so much

Hot honey on everything!

Pasta is only emergency food.
You were caught in a traffic jam because of a traffic accident and you have to feed young children - pasta.
You are sick and can't move around but have to cook for kids - pasta.
Pulling out your fine flour 00 and pasta maker, will result still in - pasta. Bronze die cut pasta is still just pasta.
You go eat your decent gourmet pasta, let us be free not to be fond of it.

All tropical or 'exotic' fruit.

Parsnips
Oysters
Mussels
Winkles
Whelks
Beetroot

All should go into room 101

I completely agree with this, especially the ice cream scoop, it makes me queasy.
The canteen at work sometimes has mash in a big tray, complete with little brown bits which I presume are the eyes in the potatoes that the cook couldn't be bothered to remove. Gross!

The M&S ‘wild’ smoked salmon we just opened, stinking of creosote. Taking it back tomorrow.

Seven pounds bloody fifty. The dirty evil bastards etc.