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

Actually those fancy cakes that people pay a fortune to have made in different themes ALWAYS taste like shit, I honestly can't imagine why people buy them. They look beautiful and I can appreciate them as a work of craftsmanship but not for eating.

@ParadiseLaundry Yes!

Especially those ones which are clad with biscuits or chocolate bars. If I want a lovely sponge cake, why would I want a big chunk of Mars bar along with it?

@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 taste like shit but are so vile I keep eating them 🙄

Parma violets, awful sweets that infect the other sweets in the same tub.

Raw tomatoes make me heave. Think it's the seeds in the snotty sort of liquid in the centre. Ick.

Avocado is just nothing, just green nothingness.

Blue cheese-its mouldy so throw it out.

I want to like fruit teas so badly as I cannot stand tea or coffee but despite buying nearly everyone that sainsburys does I can't find a nice one that doesn't taste of potpourri.

I love wensleydale and cranberry so I have to disagree on that one OP

Ginger and spring onion beef takeaway from my local Chinese restaurant which is good whenever we go in person.

It was like eating wallpaper paste with snippets of green tissue paper in it. I had one mouthful and binned it.

Liver is rank, I remember the lovely smell of liver and bacon casserole cooking as a child and then tasting some liver and had to spit it out, I am the same with kidneys in steak and kidney pie, I guess I just dont like eating organs

Watermelon, instant gag just at the smell, really want to like it
Meat on the bone on my plate, just bleugh having the bone sitting there

My first trip to America in the early 00s I was excited about tasting the chocolate (I was young) and agree Hershey's was a big disappointment. Cadbury's taste shite now too. :(

Tried kangaroo before down under but never again as taste is so unique and so not to my taste! Ostrich is tasty but not as adventurous to go more exotic. I am very open minded and well traveled so inquisitive and like to culturally immense pre pandemic on holiday explorations and walkabout. Most insects are massively challenging to eat too. I appreciate its a cult trend for protein in far flung places but not palatable in my book!

Percy 🐷 ice-cream. First time ever thought about taking a food item back to the shop and ask for refund. To let them know it's vile. But it would just anoy me more. More appropriate would be proper damages for emotional harm, distress caused will be never forgotten. Memory of it will stay for me forever. From now on whenever something goes wrong in my life, I can think 'at least I don't have to eat Percy 🐷 ice-cream'.

I know the feeling. Like you can't believe how horrible it is so you need to check. Your brain just can't process it. You think 'I must have been wrong. Let me check.' Another one goes. Repeat.

This is response to MuddySocks

Candy-floss, and This Isn't Bacon fake bacon (which tastes like a fisherman's crusty under-crackers).

Taco bell

I will eat just about anything but those popped lotus seeds snacks are utterly revolting. They taste like a flower attempting conversion therapy in an effort to be a potato and failing miserably. If you're foolhardy enough to try them, you can taste them for hours and hours and hours...

Eat Water Slim Noodles

Sour cream flavour in any type of crisp.

Any fondue - sickly and too much cheese in one place.
Lightly boiled eggs - like eating life itself.
Pork pies. Even expensive, artisan ones - gristly, slimy and disappointing.
American pastry - thick, hard, waxy, stodgy cardboard.
Sweet potato in any form - cloying, overly sweet and just wrong.
Gammon, halloumi, frankfurters - squeaky food is wrong and halloumi is bland, squeaky and too salty.
Vegetable crisps - either have some vegetables or have some crisps but don’t try to magically combine the two.

Redbush tea - like Someone dipped a Kipper In a cup of tea.
Cupcakes - a mountain of sickly icing piped onto a bun.
Ben and Jerry’s - tastes like a chemical by-product especially phish food.
Heinz tomato soup - salty, sickly and makes my throat sore.
Kedgeree - vile.

I love seaweed thins, black licqorice,root beer, any Turkish delight, coriander and Palma violets .

You're drinking the wrong fruit teas. Those cheap bastards in the supermarket are pointless. The proper ones are actually rather delicious. (I'm testing a lot right now for the coffee shop I'm opening)

@MintyMabel @ParadiseLaundry so true I'd rather have a plain Victoria sponge anyday...don't like the Ferrero rocher cakes or any other sort...give me a proper cake...

I hope drinks can count too. Rubicon mango in the bottle or can always stinks like onions and either coke/Pepsi just tastes like I'm drinking some medication or chemicals.

Sacla Tomato and Mascarpone Intenso Pasta Sauce.

I bought some last week, tasted absolutely revolting, to the point I almost feel like writing to them about it, their pesto is lovely but this had an almost floral taste about it, absolutely rank would've rather eaten my pasta plain.

Thornton’s chocolates. When I was a kid they were THE deluxe brand ...such a treat and a step up from All Golds etc. These days the crocs are tiny, zero cocoa hit and eye wateringly sweet. I feel bad saying that my heart sinks if I’m gifted a box.
Ferraro Rochers are rubbish too....blaH! Definitely NOT spoiling me.

I had my first ever subway a few weeks ago and was totally horrified

It’s horrendous

Even my little boys who are junk food obsessed and had been begging me for months threw theirs away

@supercee I feel this on so many levels!! Why did it look so delicious in narnia when it tastes absolutely vile

I cannot stand sweet and sour chicken or any form of sweet and sour. I want to like it but I just can’t.