Unexpectedly disgusting food

[dontforgettofloss]

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

@Pandoraslastchance raw tomatoes are literally Satan's bollocks.I call the runny stuff tomato phlegm it's vile.

@aliensprig

Okay, so vegan alternatives are getting thoroughly bashed on this thread, I feel like I need to defend it 😂

Vegan cheese in particular is really hit or miss. The ones we've found to be closest to the real thing are:

Violife Greek style (exactly like feta, amazing)
Applewood smoked cheddar
Morrisons smoked style

Most supermarkets do their own style cheese spread which is pretty convincing.

We like Oatly Barista milk in coffee and Morrisons own oat milk in tea and on cereal. Currently having Alpro roasted almond instead because I'm fat and its only 13 calories per 100ml (yes, I know the environmental impact of almond).

Good meat swaps:

Richmond meatless sausages
Moving mountains burgers/hotdogs
Morrisons own sausages
This isn't bacon
Linda McCartneys chicken bucket
Quorn turkey dinosaurs

We don't eat a lot of meat subs as a rule but these are our go-to. Also quorn, for the most part, is rank.

I agree with you about the Richmond sausages and I once sent a Moving Mountains burger back to the pub kitchen since it tasted so much of meat I thought they'd given me the wrong one. Couldn't eat it!

Linda McCartney's chicken bucket though was horrible. By far the worst of the "chicken" substitutes I've ever had and none of them are great. I managed one mouthful and it was in the bin. Even my partner who eats pretty much anything requested that I never buy it again

Turkish Turkish delight is far superior to English Turkish delight!

I agree. Turkish delight, large chunks of it in icing sugar, lovely. The English version is just jelly in chocolate.

@Oyvayizmir

Seafood (other than shrimps and prawns) : all chewy, yucky tetures. And as for oysters

Durian! It was so played up by friends but so disgusting. What you'd imagine raw sewage might taste like.

If you don't like raw oysters try them kilpatrick.

Seafood specially a good crab is superb. Sweet and succulent meat in a different world from prawns.

I agree with you with Durian. I was told to eat it without smelling it, it still tasted foul.

Root beer is wonderful. I wish it was more widely available. Though my 5 year old accused me of smelling of root beer when I had deep heat on my bad back.

Root beer smells and tastes like Germoline. That's a pink antiseptic paste for anyone not brought up in the 70's.

*Blue cheese, just why would you eat mouldy food

Rare meat (I'll go medium if I'm feeling brave otherwise mid-well), blood etc*

Blue cheese is an acquired taste. you eventually developed if you you like taste of strong cheese.

As to rare meat, pleaaaaase......there is nothing worse than eating a good steak well done. It's dry, stringy, tough and you can't swallow it without having a ball of over chewed meat muscle in your mouth. Good rare meat is soft, juicy and needs few bites to dissolve in your mouth.

Cauliflower rice.
It made the kitchen smell like someone had shit in the microwave and tasted truly revolting.

Root beer smells and tastes like Germoline. That's a pink antiseptic paste for anyone not brought up in the 70's.

Oooh I used to love the smell of germolene, root beer could well be right up my street!

Melon of any sort. Cold, slimy and bland.

Jelly. Always a huge disappointment as I'd love to like it but, urghhhh. Cold, slimy and tastes artificial.

In fact, all cold and slimy food - prawns, cockles, oysters, sorbet.

@redcandlelight

that caramel cheese in norway. it smelled so nice but was awful

Do you mean Gjetost, @redcandlelight? I've had it and loved it. What amused me most was the way that a block of it looked like a block of gelignite (or how I imagine gelignite to look) - if you stuck a couple of wires in this cheese, and attached them to a switch and a battery, you'd definitely get stopped at the airport!

I''ve thought of one - papaya which smells and tastes of vomit to me.

Love smelly cheese as do DC despite having been fussy about plenty of other foodstuffs over the years.

I'm not sure whether it was contrary to expectations, but one of the most disgusting things I've ever eaten was a sherbert flying saucer.

Also water chestnuts are revolting.

@OhGiveUp

Cauliflower rice. It made the kitchen smell like someone had shit in the microwave and tasted truly revolting.

😂😂😂 'shit in the microwave'

@CathyorClaire

Chestnut puree or jam. Regularly gifted to us by our French student guests. Regularly binned.

I resisted pickled walnuts for years. Have no idea why. They are literally the mutt's nuts.

Send it my way, please! We love it here - sweetened chestnut puree, dolloped on meringue, topped with whipped cream - Mont Blanc - one of my favourite desserts!!

I am one of the coriander-haters - disgusting, soapy stuff.

@CounsellorTroi - I make my own cheese scones - I put so much cheddar in them that they lose all structural integrity, and slump onto the baking tray in heaps of toasty, cheesy deliciousness!

@looptheloopinahulahoop I'm in the same camp... hate blue cheese, but love broccoli and stilton soup.

Pulled pork is unexpectedly horrible. It tastes like cheap tinned tuna.

Root beer smells and tastes like Germoline. That's a pink antiseptic paste for anyone not brought up in the 70's.
And that's why it's so delicious, Germoline smells divine!

Green tea - it smells of fish to me. I've never even managed to taste it, I can't get past the smell.

Australian Cadbury's chocolate - got some for Easter and it was horrible! Reminded me of Herseys which as mentioned in this thread just tastes of sick. Gave it to my Australian friend instead who said they didn't like UK Cadbury's.

Can I do an opposite? Thing that I thought would be disgusting but wasn't? Drumstick lolly chocolate. I bought it for my ds who loves drumstick lollies, and thought I'd try it. He didn't get it in the end 🤣

@Alondra

*Blue cheese, just why would you eat mouldy food

Rare meat (I'll go medium if I'm feeling brave otherwise mid-well), blood etc*

Blue cheese is an acquired taste. you eventually developed if you you like taste of strong cheese.

As to rare meat, pleaaaaase......there is nothing worse than eating a good steak well done. It's dry, stringy, tough and you can't swallow it without having a ball of over chewed meat muscle in your mouth. Good rare meat is soft, juicy and needs few bites to dissolve in your mouth.

Agreed. I judge anyone who has their meat anything over medium 😉 After that you have just destroyed a good steak.

@OhGiveUp

Cauliflower rice. It made the kitchen smell like someone had shit in the microwave and tasted truly revolting.

Do you mean Gjetost, @redcandlelight? I've had it and loved it. What amused me most was the way that a block of it looked like a block of gelignite (or how I imagine gelignite to look) - if you stuck a couple of wires in this cheese, and attached them to a switch and a battery, you'd definitely get stopped at the airport!

It is an acquired taste, but I learnt to really love it when I lived in Norway.

And I actually did get taken to one side for questioning at the airport when I’d packed a couple of blocks to take home with me...

For me anything with truffle in it. Just tastes like dirt to me. Also red wine. I have tried loads and they all taste musty and grim.