Unexpectedly disgusting food

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Just been reading the unexpectedly amazing food thread, and thought I'd post about food that I thought would be nice but wasn't.

The slimming world beef stroganoff from Iceland- it looked lovely on the packet, and smelt quite nice while it was cooking- but it tasted awful, really watery with a weird aftertaste

Wensleydale with cranberry- again, it looked nice, but tasted like vomit

I LOVE the itsu seaweed!!! Could eat numerous packs at a time 😋.

Avocado, but I'm funny with texture. Tastes like slimy cut grass.
Domino's pizza. Idk if our local one is just rubbish, but expensive, soggy lukewarm tasteless and yuk.

@Pals812

I LOVE the itsu seaweed!!! Could eat numerous packs at a time 😋.

Maybe if you ate all the packs nobody else could buy them. I don't want people to suffer like I did. There should be a vomit warning on the pack.

When I was about 10, my brother convinced me that circles of black pudding on a buffet table were chocolate biscuits...

Tinned crab.
Fresh crab is fantastic, crab paste tastes quite nice....tinned anchovies are ok. What the fuck went wrong with crab?

Parsnips and sweet potatoes. They sound so nice and look delicious. Horrid sickly things.

I love chicken livers, my go to light dinner with bacon and balsamic. I assumed calf liver would be similar. So very wrong . Just why?

@ToffeeNotCoffee

*Coriander is the work of the devil & only deviants like it.

OMG, how could I have forgotten this emperor of all food shite???? It’s absolutely everywhere in sandwiches/salads (hello, Prêt?)! Fecking bastard herb!*

Pardon ? It enhances curries, salads, home made salsa, fajitas. Yummy.

However, I can't bear liquorice or aniseed. Yuck. Whereas lots of people love it.

That’s what parsley is for.

I am with you on liquorice, though. For the same reason I also don’t like aniseed (anything that tastes of it, including Ouzo). Vile, antiseptic-tasting stuff.

I once worked alongside a colleague who was from Sweden. He used to bring that “great Swedish delicacy” - salted liquorice. All I can say is that to me, it tasted of lukewarm sperm.

Jellied eels. Vile.

@aliensprig Do you have some vegan “cheese” recommendations? I’ve not found a good one yet.

@WeatherwaxOn Have you tried Waitrose southern fried 'chicken' goujons? I find them pretty good

And M&S 'chicken' kiev is amazing.

Goat anything - essence of abattoir. I feel the same about lamb and rabbit . Grew up on a farm so unfortunately was exposed to such smells.
Avocado- weird fatty green mush
Red cabbage
Chocolate generally - hate the way it coats my mouth ( v unpopular opinion I appreciate)
Spam
Those Campbell’s tinned meatballs in gravy. Loved them as a child. Tried them again as an adult- Mooshy dog food balls ?

@LEMtheoriginal

Parma violets why???

Lets hope the parma violet groupies dont hunt you down

I posted on here years ago that I thought I was an abusive parent because my DC had eaten a parma violet and shock liked it. I received more biscuits for that any other i have ever posted.

Twiglets. I don’t know if they still exist but they were a staple at parties when I was a kid. They look delicious and taste like they’ve been dipped in poo.

A cheese & onion Fray Bentos pie someone gave me (unwanted from food parcel) looked surprisingly ok when it came out the oven - but fuck me, it was truly disgusting. I'm not averse to a bit of junk food, but honestly I'd rather eat anything than have to have one of them again.

Hot cross buns with salted caramel chunks instead of raisins. Had to throw them away. They just tasted wrong. And when I was a child people acted like Bourbon biscuits were a luxury treat. They are not. They are so horrible and disappointing.

@makingmammaries

Twiglets. I don’t know if they still exist but they were a staple at parties when I was a kid. They look delicious and taste like they’ve been dipped in poo.

They are amazing. So horrible i can't stop eating. Like they are actually so bad it's delicious

What the cluck vegan chicken.
It actually tastes nice but there is something about the texture, the thought that is fake chicken, something ...that means I can’t eat it without wanting to throw up. Even though they have made it well, seasoned it well ..odd.

@makingmammaries

Twiglets. I don’t know if they still exist but they were a staple at parties when I was a kid. They look delicious and taste like they’ve been dipped in poo.

I've told this story before. My school's initials were such that twiglets were a small prize. My DC asked about this and so I bought them twiglets to try. Their resounding opinion was that I must have had a very difficult childhood.

(I really didnt. i did tell them this. They are still not convinced).

[quote wheresmymojo]@WeatherwaxOn Have you tried Waitrose southern fried 'chicken' goujons? I find them pretty good

And M&S 'chicken' kiev is amazing.[/quote]
Ooh no, but I shall now. Thanks for the tip!

@CityCommuter

When I first went on holiday to the USA as a teenager in the 1990's I couldn't wait to try Hershey's chocolate that I'd seen on lots of American TV shows and films...

Anyway after the first bite I was sure it had gone off as the taste is so odd it can only be described as tasting like vomit! That's the nearest description to it... The chocolate hadn't gone off, it actually really does taste like that (to anyone who hasn't tried it yet btw).... I couldn't and still can't understand how my American relatives go wild for this taste and love that chocolate... I'm NOT exaggerating btw, it's truly yucky!

Someone once gave my DH a couple of bars of Hershey's. They were American and it was his birthday. They were over here with a church team. My chocoholic DH found it disgusting it and I think he actually binned it but didn't let on to the giver.

@Atalune

Omg.

I am so stupid. I have just realised that TURKISH delight is from Turkey.

Really grim for me was most of the stuff on a seafood platter in Brittany- sea snails, whelks etc... I was hoping for more lobster, and oysters!

Turkish Turkish delight is far superior to English Turkish delight!

Oh god, @ginislife - Dr Pepper. How could I have forgotten that? Also, Mountain Dew.

I’d rather drink cat piss.

A few years ago I paid £20 for a "homemade" beef and ale pie from a posh farm shop, it was for our Christmas Eve dinner and was supposed to be a treat.

We took it home, put it in the fridge until the next day (Christmas Eve) and I was so excited about it, looked forward to it all day, thought it was going to be delicious If was utterly disgusting weird soggy pastry and hardly any meat. It tasted worse than one of those cheap pies you buy in a tin. We threw most of away.

Lesson learnt, just because something is expensive doesn't necessarily mean its going to be nice

I love the sea salt Seaweed Thins! But as they have the consistency of solidified dust, you have to eat a big bar of chocolate afterwards to fill you up, negating the 'I'm being so healthy eating these' feeling.

Must add - that bar of chocolate is definitely NOT Hersheys.

I will get crucified by the “I ❤️ Marmite” brigade but... I keep trying every now and again to make myself like it, do a nice bit of toast, spread IT on, and then...

🤮🤮🤮

EVERY. SINGLE TIME.

And no, Vegemite isn’t any better either. 🤮🤮🤮

@Posyc

Hot cross buns with salted caramel chunks instead of raisins. Had to throw them away. They just tasted wrong. And when I was a child people acted like Bourbon biscuits were a luxury treat. They are not. They are so horrible and disappointing.

Ugh. And custard creams too. Such boring biscuits.