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I’m curious to hear everyone’s unpopular food opinions

464 replies

ImNotARegularMumImACoolMum · 21/01/2024 20:15

AIBU to find lasagna massively overrated.

Ready meal lasagna is point blank rank.
Using jars of sauce makes an alright lasagna but nothing to hype about.
Making it from scratch is by far the tastiest option, but it is just so much effort to make a tomato based sauce while simultaneously making a cheese sauce and then layering to then have to wait for it to cook in the oven!
I’ve never actually had lasagna from a restaurant as it could be very nice but there’s always something that I fancy more.

What is everyone else’s unpopular food opinions?

OP posts:
jelly79 · 21/01/2024 21:15

Yorkshire puddings are over rated
Cheese ruins a burger

NeverDropYourMooncup · 21/01/2024 21:15

Mochi/Daifuku are amazing and the texture is lovely.

Sushi is delicious, as long as you actually use seasoned vinegar and wasabi with fresh seafood and vegetables, rather than the (not gluten free, so out of the question anyway) bland paste of shit unseasoned rice, cooked fish and floppy nori, together with shit mayonnaise and a load of artificial additives that supermarket offerings palm off as sushi.

Prunes are nice.

There are few foods that can't be improved (mainly fruit) by the addition of sea salt.

Pastry is a waste of ingredients.

Honey is disgusting.

MrsFionaCharnimg · 21/01/2024 21:16

Shamed, not scanned!!

KimberleyClark · 21/01/2024 21:16

Projectme · 21/01/2024 20:57

Olives are over-rated (and rank!)

Don't get me started on the devil's own herb....coriander....vom 🤢🤮 it is abhorrent and a disgrace to all herbs. Parsley is equally as horrible too.

I don’t mind coriander but think it tastes vile in hummus. Thyme or oregano go it’s hummus much better.
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I love onions, other than caramelised. Caramelised onion is shit.

snowmobileon · 21/01/2024 21:16

Bacon is weird and tastes of nothing but salt.

BeyondMyWits · 21/01/2024 21:16

Pizza is basically cheese and ketchup on toast.

Yet, it is fine to put a cheese and ketchup sandwich in a school lunchbox, but a couple of leftover slices of pizza get a sharp intake of breath.

Medusaismyhero · 21/01/2024 21:16

Goats cheese looks and smells like something scraped out from between a teenage boy's toes.

Mushrooms are the food of the gods - I have them with everything.

Mushy peas are delish.

Agree that champagne is vile - give me a cheap bottle of prosecco or cava anyday!

RootVegAndMash · 21/01/2024 21:16

Sushi....come on no one really likes it they just pretend

😲😲 Lies!

I love it. 3 dc (15, 13, 6) also love it and will make a beeline for it at any opportunity!

Circularargument · 21/01/2024 21:17

All, and yes I mean ALL, vegan mock meat and dairy are inedible.

SmallestInTheClass · 21/01/2024 21:17

Duh · 21/01/2024 20:56

Cream added to savoury dishes = delicious

Cream added to sweet dishes = over rich and over indulgent

Nooo! This is all backwards. Cream is only for sweet food.

And also, salad cream is much nicer than mayonnaise.

PuppyMonkey · 21/01/2024 21:17

I post this on every unpopular opinion thread and for once it’s relevant. Gravy poured over nice food making everything soggy and brown and miserable and horrible. Ban it.

Moonwatcher1234 · 21/01/2024 21:18

sweet and sour anything is wrong. My husband ordered a chicken teriyaki for me without realising how sweet it was and it was honestly like a chicken based dessert.

KimberleyClark · 21/01/2024 21:18

etmoiandme · 21/01/2024 21:15

Cheese boards are disgusting.

Reported.

Thank you. Cheese is the food of the gods.

SmilingMoon · 21/01/2024 21:18

Lychees are a SCAM. So much effort for so little fruit.

Haydenn · 21/01/2024 21:18

Kidneys on toast is the best breakfast

ImNotARegularMumImACoolMum · 21/01/2024 21:18

peachescariad · 21/01/2024 21:13

Sushi....come on no one really likes it they just pretend.

I used to agree until I had fresh sushi and it has completely changed my opinion! Now it’s one of my favourites!

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HandShoe · 21/01/2024 21:18

Emma543 · 21/01/2024 20:50

Chippy always smells better than it tastes..

Yes, same as bacon sandwiches. Both nice, just nowhere near as nice as they smell.

KimberleyClark · 21/01/2024 21:19

PuppyMonkey · 21/01/2024 21:17

I post this on every unpopular opinion thread and for once it’s relevant. Gravy poured over nice food making everything soggy and brown and miserable and horrible. Ban it.

Bisto maybe. Properly made gravy, made from the meat juices, is delicious.

Catsmere · 21/01/2024 21:20

Moonwatcher1234 · 21/01/2024 21:18

sweet and sour anything is wrong. My husband ordered a chicken teriyaki for me without realising how sweet it was and it was honestly like a chicken based dessert.

Agree!

SgtJuneAckland · 21/01/2024 21:20

My mum's 'famous cheesecake' is sloppy and too sweet 😱

ImNotARegularMumImACoolMum · 21/01/2024 21:20

Another one: I cannot STAND barbecue sauce, yet it seems to be on so much!

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ExtraOnions · 21/01/2024 21:20

Coriander tastes like soap (but this is genetic … hello to all my fellow coriander haters)

Mince Pies are awful … ditto Christmas Pudding

any home made curry is disappointing

BrightYellowDaffodil · 21/01/2024 21:20

Mash is a waste of a perfectly good potato.

TheSilentSister · 21/01/2024 21:20

The fat on meat is the best part (I mean the soft fat and not gristle).
I eat lemons, which makes a lot of people cringe.
Chocolate is 'meh' - totally don't understand chocoholics.
Pepper on almost everything really enhances flavour.

ithinkthatmaybeimdreaming · 21/01/2024 21:21

GintyMcGinty · 21/01/2024 20:36

Sushi 🤢
Aubergine and courgettes are slimy evil
Avocado needs to get over itself

Agree - except for the courgettes, love them with tomatoes!!

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