Food that is overrated

[Jellywobblescobbles]

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!😀

I enjoy pretty much everything on this thread - apart from Celery which is vile.

Overrated food? Anything that is a pudding or dessert. I can’t stand having to order dessert. I would rather have another starter

Macarons.
Don't get me wrong, I think they're delicious, but they're certainly not worth paying 5 bucks each for!

Blue cheese. If something is mouldy you bin it, not scoff it. 🤢

Posh huge bags of crisps that poke the inside of your mouth and make your eyes water.

I agree with everyone who said baked beans. Horrible things

I agree with the people who aren’t impressed by tea. I just cannot understand why so many people are obsessed with it and really keen to have (another) cup of tea.

I have a box of (Yorkshire) tea bags in the house. But I never make myself tea. I just can’t imagine thinking: hmm, I’d really like a cup of tea. Ever. My tea is drunk by other people.

I will drink a cup of tea if it seems to be a social requirement. But I always find myself wondering why people like it so much.

It's just a word that means a cafe (pronounced ca-fay)...

How else would you pronounce it? 🤔

Caff. As in transport caff.

@DogInATent never heard that!

Cake, in all it's forms.

I need a sweet hit after a meal, and only chocolate will do. Cake is just a piss poor, claggy stopgap that manages to disappoint 100% of the time while also making you fat.

So fuck off.

Any truffle flavour. Lingers for days in your mouth. Horrid toxic little truffle burps. And as a veggie it gets sprinkled around on anything to make it luxurious.

White chocolate. Just greasy ick.

Kiwi fruit. Green scrotums.

Marmite. Have you ever smelt marmite breath

BBQ sauces. Not sweet. Not savoury. Just vomity gloop

Aubergine - slimy, goopy stuff.

Turkey - I can't eat it as I just think about the red wobbly goblet thing on a live Turkey. I'm not like this with any other meat, just turkeys!

Bread sauce - looks like cat sick

With some foods I wonder if people don't like the food, or they just don't like the way it's cooked?

Growing up I used to really dislike liver. But as an adult I've discovered that I just don't like the way it was cooked. When I cook it myself I can avoid that rubber-sole texture by not over-cooking it.

I've even come to accept that there are things that can be done to tofu that can render it semi-edible.

Cake. All cake.

Claggy, overly sweet and pointless.

That's because you've only had the tasteless shite they import into the UK. The ones in the Caribbean and South America are huge, think larger than a grapefruit, have a thin, smooth green skin, are buttery and actually have flavour. The flesh can be an inch and a half deep. They're not the small, hard, dark brown rocks with bumpy skin sold over here.

This thread is making me annoyed. It's meant to be foods that are overrated (ie the stuff people effuse over, pay lots of money for, gasp in delight at, claim to be 'posh' etc) not just a bloody list of food people don't like!

In what world could the following be possibly 'overrated?'
Gravy
Pickled onions
Celery
Yorkshire puddings
Slimy eggs
Mashed potato
Porridge
Baked beans

Things like macarons, truffle, fois gras, Starbucks coffees are exactly the kind of thing the OP is looking for, not fucking squirty cream in a can

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Biscotti. I prefer biscuits that don’t put up a fight!

Oysters, veal, tongue, foie gras 🤢 what freak thought of eating these.

Lentils. If I wanna eat dust I’ll go lick a cupboard.

Roast potatoes. They're ok but far from being the best potato dish.

I think tea, for example, still qualifies. Even though it is cheap/not posh. Because lots of people do position it as some sort of basic requirement for life and extol the benefits of a cup of tea.

plus there is plenty of overpriced, wanky tea out there too.

I simply don’t get it. I feel many British people rate tea far beyond its merits. I’m not saying it’s disgusting, just overrated.

I would imagine that other people might feel the same about, for example, Yorkshire puddings or gravy. People do make a big fuss about how incredible these things are/how they make the meal/etc. Other people will be thinking: really? I don’t understand why people rate this so highly.

in fact, the same might be said about the entire British roast dinner. I’m certain lots of people don’t understand why many people are so keen on them and rate them so highly.

I do agree, that it’s not really about foods people hate. But many of the foods listed are the kinds of foods people will list as incredible comfort food or such like (mashed potatoes, for example) that others might think are overrated on the basis that they’re horrible.

Marmite Peanut Butter.
I thought I'd make use of it by putting it on mousetraps. They weren't interested.

Bread sauce - looks like sick

As a veggie... all meat etc.

Unfortunately a lot of restaurants seem to think because I don't like meat.
I'll love goats cheese, avocado and jackfruit..all of which I find utterly repulsive.

Anything salted caramel. What is with the obsession!

This exactly !
Except truffle oil ...tiny drizzle on chips with a sprinkling of Parmesan..

I know full well that I sound like twat.In my defence .also love lashings of vinegar and salt on chips .

No wonder I am fat 

Biscoff spread - everyone was jizzing over it so I tried it to see what all the fuss was about...

It tastes better if you get it before everyone has jizzed over it.

Celery
Liquor chocolates
Chocolate lime sweets
Any fish served with bones still in it
Sterilised/ UHT milk