Bad food surprises

[IsabelleSE19]

Can't someone develop genetically modified tangerines that have a big cross on the outside if they're going to taste dry or bitter and then not grow those ones? Sometimes they can be a delicious juicy treat, sometimes face-scrunchingly rank, and you just don't know what you're getting until you peel it and bite into it.

And don't get me started on when you get one of those weird chewy Maltesers. Crashing disappointment, especially when it's the last one in the pack.

Lovely crisp Iceberg lettuce. Rip it apart and find the centre is brown and manky.

Coffee revels are the devil’s own sweetie. Orange revels on the other hand are divine.

Gasp the pear klaxon should be made to sound for the entire 4 minutes that the pear is ripe enough to eat, then perhaps change tone to alert us that it is now a mouldy, juicy blob in the fruit bowl.

What about the peaches and nectarines that are soft but not juicy? Like big foamy marshmallows? Bleaugh.

Orangecrush we had that with a pouch of Lidl cat food. One cat was sick while it was being emptied into the bowl. Another had taken a lick (whole other thread, stupid greedy animal, I thought cats were fussy??) and was sick 10 minutes later. The smell lasted for days it was literally the worst thing I have ever smelled.

Remember thatclaaaic advert about coffee revels - like the Deerhunter roulette scene?

Kiwis are little bastards too, IME. The fruit not the people - or the birds.

Buying a fancy pants mineral water togo with your fancy pants dinner and it tastes like DISPRIN and it cost £4.50 so you eat your dinner and mutter everytime you drink your water

Agree with nectarines! So disappointing when they don't taste just perfect.

Nooooo tangy clementines / tangerines are the food of the gods - DH describes the best ones as "making your tabs laugh"

I really hate the insipid watery sweet ones - Clemenules are the worst. I tend only to buy Clemenvillas, Nadorcotts or Clemenpons so maybe you should avoid those varieties?

One of the most upsetting things for me is getting a bad hazelnut in my bar of whole nut. The taste lingers and makes for a very unenjoyable ‘treat’

Gross smushy cucumbers 🤢 🥒

When an apple tastes ‘furry’

And the worst for me is when you treat yourself to an M&S filled Yorkshire and the gravy breaches it’s walls and you end up with a gravyless Yorkshire! Maybe a niche one, that one.

Get a portion of fries from any fast food place and you eventually find THE BAD CHIP. There's always one. It tastes 'green' if that makes any sense