To ask what food you think is overrated

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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?

Cheese. It's milk that has gone off, tastes like sick and has a weird texture
The only exception is halloumi which is acceptable at times

Dubai chocolate was all the rage for a while there. Mediocre stuff with a dubiously-coloured paste inside.

Salted caramel. Nothing seems to have just regular caramel anymore.

Coffee chain coffees that are basically desserts and not beverages.

Ugh, bananas. The boomerangs of Satan.

Steak and ice cream don’t care for either

I love almost all the foods mentioned here! Except matcha, which I have tried yet.

pizza is overrated. (Still eat it often though ha)

Mushrooms. I loathe mushrooms, which is a shame because I want to like them.

Roast dinners too. My DM would make one every Sunday when I was a child, which she would force me to eat. I’ve never enjoyed them.

Salted chocolate. I bought some dark salted almond Tony’s Chocolonely because I wanted some dark nutty chocolate and that’s all the Sainsburys local had. It’s not very nice. Well, maybe it’s that brand which is the problem too because the ‘dark’ chocolate is only 51% and the nuts are tiny pieces.
So I’m having to eat too much of it at once to get rid of it.

Salting spoils other things which should be nice like one of the Kind bars.

Potatoes for me. I did go through a phase when I was about 19/20 that I had one a day as I was on a budget and the college sold baked potato and allowed 3 toppings for £1.90... I maybe do wedges for dc once a month and roasts have roasties but I only have 2 small crispy ones. I don't get the fuss - it's a filler not a taster.

Pretty much all fast food - McDonalds, Burger King, KFC, various “pizzas” (nothing like an actual pizza) - all fatty, carby, sugary yuck

Pasta - why is everyone so bonkers about it?! It just doesn’t taste of anything
avocado
turkey - chicken tastes better but I still buy a bloody turkey at Christmas
ice cream

Take Aways. You have to wait for delivery, warm the plates, dish up, smell it for 12 hours, and then wash up. If I don't want to cook, I prefer to have something low to mid priced out.

Carveries - we can do a better roast at home and don't have to queue for it.

All this hyped up pulled stuff - long cooked cheap cuts that are better at home.

Whole duck - so little meat and so much fat. Boned and stuffed is fine; breasts are fine.

Fancy chutneys in swanky packaging.

burrata
avocado
chorizo
smoked paprika

Pizza !

If I only want partially burnt bread, a bit of cheese, tomato paste and a scraping of meat/artichoke/whatever for my dinner, I’ll make myself a toasted sarnie then go to bed and cry from self pity without forking out £15 for the privilege !!!

This made me laugh. I don't like them either.

Any form of cooked fruit

Very little _I think most things if cooked well with quality ingredients can be amazing. Like, I've had incredible sushi that was definitely not overrated, terrible sushi and everything in between. The same for bread, pate, curry, lasagne, chocolate cake, pasta etc etc.

I'd say Nandos. Loads of my friends love it but I only go there if I really feel obliged.

Greggs.
McDonalds.

I make this using sun-dried tomatoes and it's delicious.

https://www.recipetineats.com/chicken-pasta-recipe/#recipe

I wouldn't just eat them plain as a snack or anything.

Sushi
Matcha
Caviar

Truffle. Tastes like you’ve eaten the majority of a forest floor and overpowers the taste of anything else in its vicinity. And people pay a fortune for the experience? Baffles me. It’s grim.
Also agree than Panatone is not a cake. It sounds and tastes like something I might put in my printer.

Takeaways - it’s been many many years since I’ve eaten one I’ve enjoyed. Maybe an okay fish and chips.
Fast food.

Im not a snob I just think it’s all crap quality now.

Steak is boring after the first few mouthfuls.

Sticky toffee pudding. Far too sweet. Bring back apple pie, or even crumble.

Anything Truffle

Matcha
Sushi
Baked beans - why do people rave about them they are stinky and gross?
chickpeas - bleurgh!
Champagne ...fizzy piss
pulled meat, I can't stand the sight of it, always looks like someone tried to eat it already and then changed their mind and vommed it back into the pot
Dirty anything , just puts me right off the
Blue cheese, it tastes like poison

Sourdough
Mashed potatoes
Oysters
Caviar
Basil including pesto
Custard tarts
Fish