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Food that is overrated

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Jellywobblescobbles · 13/12/2022 20:53

I’ll start - those square,overpriced rock-hard thin tasteless crackers that are everywhere- honestly pointless. Give me a basic cream cracker/Ritz/melt in mouth aldi garlic thingy - anything not rock hard with my cheese please!😀

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TheHappyDaze · 13/12/2022 23:56

Tuichi · 13/12/2022 22:40

@TheHappyDaze - no, white chocolate isn’t very nice, and weirdly it’s the only type of chocolate that gets worse the more it costs. I had a craft bar of white chocolate as a Christmas present a few years ago and it was like eating completely solidified butter. Not sweet, in fact no flavour other than vaguely buttery. It was really unpleasant.

It's so horrible. There is no kind of it that isn't sickly and disgusting. As you say just like butter in texture but with no flavour at all other than a sickly sweetness? 🤮

TheHappyDaze · 13/12/2022 23:56

VeryQuaintIrene · 13/12/2022 23:29

Sushi. Yuk.

Oh yes agreed!

And steak tartare.

Some foods need to be cooked!

ColinRobinsonsFart · 14/12/2022 00:01

Bacon
fried eggs

bloody awful

dolor · 14/12/2022 00:07

Shellfish. 🤢

ReginaPerrin · 14/12/2022 00:28

Kale. I don’t want food that takes me three hours to eat and still leaves me hungry.

Anything salted caramel flavoured.

Pelo22 · 14/12/2022 00:30

AnneLovesGilbert · 13/12/2022 21:01

Truffles. The disgusting kind pigs find that tastes of dirt. I don’t want it on my risotto. I don’t want it on anything. Make it fuck off.

Celeriac. Filth.

Fennel. An affront to good taste.

Cheese with fruit in. It’s not posh. It’s not special. It’s wrong. If I want fruit with my cheeses I’ll have a grape or a slice of apple thank you very much.

Marmite in stuff. Marmite is amazing. Don’t pollute it by sticking it in other stuff.

I have to disagree with you on dry dusty crackers which I love.

Are you actually me? Grin
Fennel is awful
Agree with the fruit in cheese, don't ruin my cheese by adding apricots. Chilli is acceptable in cheese, and I liked a mustard cheddar I tried
And yes to marmite. My dad bought me marmite chocolate, it was vile
Also fruit in chocolate. Again with the ruining it

Mydogatemypurse · 14/12/2022 00:32

Bbq sauce
Fennel
Oysters

Pelo22 · 14/12/2022 00:32

ReginaPerrin · 14/12/2022 00:28

Kale. I don’t want food that takes me three hours to eat and still leaves me hungry.

Anything salted caramel flavoured.

I love kale. But only cooked with oil, in the oven until it's crispy. Add Nando's peri peri salt
It's basically like crispy seaweed then and it's green so healthy Grin

Mydogatemypurse · 14/12/2022 00:33

Knockagain · 13/12/2022 21:56

Could someone try and explain what truffle tastes like, what it’s similar to or is it totally a taste on its own? Always been curious.

Kind of intense mushroom but buttery

Mydogatemypurse · 14/12/2022 00:34

Dogsinthecradle · 13/12/2022 22:20

Baked beans
tomatoes
mash
Gravy
sprouts
cabbage
turkey
olives
fish fingers
gammon
offal
beetroot

Sounds like a perfect shopping list to me ha. I love beetroot

ditherydotty · 14/12/2022 00:40

Rocket
Anchovies
Smoked salmon 🤢
Goats cheese
Mushy peas
Oysters
Canned refried beans = dog food
Sardines

Ruthietuthie · 14/12/2022 00:46

Anything with a runny egg yolk.
Like yellow snot. I honestly can't swallow anything contaminated with runny egg.

AclowncalledAlice · 14/12/2022 00:46

Pigs-in-blankets.

OutFortheBirds · 14/12/2022 00:46

Caviar - or any other kind of fish eggs: why is this a thing? It’s tastes gross. The texture is gross. The price is v gross.

See also Rillettes, Pate, fois gras. Stop this aged meat nonsense.

Peas and canned sweetcorn can also get in the bin please.

PaperwhiteTheGhost · 14/12/2022 01:06

I loved truffle before I read some of the descriptions on this thread 😶

Mine are:

Cupcakes- generally sad dry sponge with waaaaaayyyyy too much frosting.

Lamb- I don't dislike it, it's quite nice, but I don't get the fuss people make about it.

Brunch. The concept. It's just a word that means a cafe (pronounced ca-fay) can charge £18 for scrambled eggs on toast because they've used "fancy" bread and sprinkled it with herbs or chilli flakes or nutmeg or unicorn tears. I'd much rather have a £6 plate of scrambled eggs on white kingsmill toast at a cafe (pronounced caff) which hasn't been wanked about with.

Agree with sourdough and lobster.

Vegay · 14/12/2022 01:18

Animals. The majority of people have the 'desire', some even say 'need' to eat meat, yet the majority of people couldn't if they had to kill and slaughter it themselves. Totally overrated.

albapunk · 14/12/2022 01:35

Halloumi
Bacon
Oysters
Sweet Potato, too hipster...normal ones are just fine thanks

mackthepony · 14/12/2022 01:57

Foie gras
Mussels

Lowe down the food class system : celery. I mean what in holy hell

I'll tell you what, pies are way underrated

sickof · 14/12/2022 02:07

Love truffle. None of my friends or families like it. I love it.

Oysters are vile.
Kidneys are vile
Tripe is puke
Pigs belly is more puke
When you get a bit of egg that's not cooked properly omg it makes me heave.
Scampi and lemon nik naks are the devil

Dustyblue · 14/12/2022 04:31

determinedtomakethiswork · 13/12/2022 22:05

No, truffle tastes like having sex with a man who hasn't washed his clothes for a long time, and when he did, it took five days to dry them.

Oh, that made me spit out my tea.

Are you sure you didn't just have a really stale, unwashed truffle?

Truffles contain pheromones, like us mammals. Pheromones are sex attractants and they taste/smell bloody amazing. Hmm.

I should probably stop now.

FormerlySpeckledyHen · 14/12/2022 05:16

Roast dinners. As boring as it gets.

Buildingthefuture · 14/12/2022 05:51

Agree re: truffle. It’s utterly rancid shite and has suddenly appeared on EVERYTHING. No, I do not want it on my fries or in my macaroni cheese, you weirdo!!! I do not enjoy food that tastes like dirt.
Avocado is just weird green slime.
Cold prawns - I would rather eat my own leg than a prawn sandwich.

Hooverphobe · 14/12/2022 05:52

tea lovers, white chocolate aficionados, weirdos who eat cheese with fruit and sex-mushroom-snorters over there please.

lobster people? Come with me please. Sea to plate in 40 minutes.

SpangoDweller · 14/12/2022 06:01

Tuichi · 13/12/2022 22:32

Butternut squash - back with a vengeance unfortunately. I despair when I see that the vegetarian version of the curry / tacos / whatever is this disgusting stuff.

Sugar-overload desserts - I love chocolate and desserts, but I’m not keen on the genre of desserts that is all about either mashing together as many sweet things as possible or gigantic portions or both. This review actually made me feel quite queasy: confidentials.com/manchester/gooey-bakery-and-cafe-reviewed

Dear Lord @Tuichi I want to go to that cafe. I’m not far up the road from Manc!

Ylvamoon · 14/12/2022 06:03

AclowncalledAlice · 14/12/2022 00:46

Pigs-in-blankets.

Agreed!

What a waste of some good tasty bacon!

Also turkey... I have to duck and dive around this time of year to avoid it!

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