Most disappointing food you’ve had (Stanley I’m looking at you).

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Stanley Tuccis sandwich.

if looked so delicious on Instagram.

In actuality it was horrible. Prosciutto is like raw bacon. Mozzarella didn’t melt. Olive oil is tasteless grease. I like pesto with spaghetti but not, as it turns out, in a sandwich.

i was so looking forward to it. Went shopping on the way home specially 😕

What food have you had that did t live up to expectation?

I’m now musing about deathbed sandwiches being disappointing — actually people are always posting about what their death row last meal would be and I always suspect that, even if you genuinely had an appetite when imagining your imminent demise, it would of course be disappointing. unless your mum/Michelin chef or whoever was magically flown in with fresh ingredients.

You can imagine some cheap olive oil, packet ham, catering pack mozzarella on white sliced pan.

😂

They were so sickly sweet I had an immediate urge to suck lemons or something. Revolting icingfest with the ratio of icing to cake all wrong.

Anything gluten free that isn't pasta.

A sandwich with proper bread that I can't eat anymore, with rosemary and sea salt, maybe some olives or sundried tomatoes in the crust, slightly toasted and warm, room temperature - warm prosciutto, melting creamy mozzarella, a thin spread of fresh pesto, ripe tomatoes, proper, rich and slightly sharp EVOO, some rocket leaves and an ice cold spritz would have been lovely.

I agree , prosciutto is lovely cold but when warmed through is repulsive to me

This thread has really attracted the assholes hasn't it😂

Makes me want to set up a lemon curd sponge stall next door. N.B. not lemon drizzle. Lemon sponge with a curd centre made like Victoria sponge is really moist and doesn't need sweet drizzle that makes the cake soggy.

Well, to be honest, it just sounds as if you didn't like the ingredients much or weren't familiar with them in advance.

Olive oil is categorically not tasteless grease - EVOO has a very distinct flavour which you may not like. Prosciutto's texture is not really the same as raw bacon, as raw bacon is wet and prosciutto is dry, if chewy compared to cooked ham. A fresh mozzarella ball won't melt fully in a sandwich but the grated hard mozzarella (I notice he gives other hard cheese options for the grated cheese) should.

Love this 😁

As someone who did not like olives and olive oil until recently I can attest that olive oil is not tasteless. Ruined many dishes for me. Still not much into it tbh.

Hi fellow Bristolian? I never went to Casamia but the reviews when they changed the set up were not good. Everyone said about the loud thumping music and the over powering taste of miso in everything - even the pudding!

We went to Muse on Prince Street for Christmas Day and I can highly recommend that.

All cupcakes are gross. Give me an old school fairy cake with a bit of runny icing on like your nan used to make any day!

The current swathe of donuts places in London that charge upwards of 6 quid for a bloody donut. Incredibly average.

Doughnut.

I agree as long as you mean the round ones with hole and covered in stuff.
Never had an amazing one.
But nice fluffy, nice jam filled one. Ooooh

Not liking the stanley hate.... x 2

I don't like jam doughnuts either.

The only acceptable doughnuts have a hole in and have just been deep-fried and coated in sugar, and are served in a paper bag.

Loving your come backs. 😂

I think I prefer Stanley Tucci to his favourite sandwich. He looks like he smells like fresh shirts and nice aftershave 😇

Well.

Bread - Tesco finest sourdough. My local Tesco express didn’t have any ciabatta. The bread was nice. Crisped up a treat.

Olive oil - Philippo Berio extra virgin. I expect somebody will come along now and tell me that that isn’t PROPER, AUTHENTIC olive oil and that I might just as well have used 3 in 1 from the shed.

Prosciutto (sp) was from a pack of Mixed Cured Salty Various Deli Type Slices Of Pig again from Tesco.

Mozzarella (I can’t even write that without hearing Stanley crooning “Mort-za-RELL-ah”) was normal tesco version.

Was this Georgetown Cupcakes? I used to live near here, and never understood the queues outside. I tried their cupcakes twice and eat time I had to throw most of the cupcake away. Far too sweet for my taste. There's a much better cupcake place just across the street, but that hasn't featured on a TV show so is much less popular.

Greggs sausage roll. I'm Irish, we don't have Greggs and I've heard so many celebrities talking about the sausage roll that I had to try one when I went to the UK. I really don't get the hype. It was ok but nothing to write home about.

My second is Chicken & Dumplings I had in the US. It was like a chalky gloopy sauce with big chunks of rubbery pasta type stuff in it. Very disappointing.

Was this at the Savoy Grill? It looks so good and I've been thinking about booking there just for the Beef Wellington. I had an amazing Wellington for Christmas Dinner in 2022 so went back again for Christmas just gone so I could have the Wellington again, but this time there was too much duxelles and I had to scrape it off. It's weird though as I love mushrooms. So now think I will be disappointed with the Savoy Grill's Wellington.

M&S Big Mix chocolates. They're like Quality Street/Roses. They were all rubbish apart from the dairy toffee.

Tesco finest sourdough
is not sourdough. It has a sourdough starter, but otherwise it's just typical highly processed white-sliced, with all the usual chemical additives.
Philippo Berio extra virgin
That well known Chinese-owned producer of 'Italian' oil, that doesn't come from Italy. It's just processed there.
Mixed Cured Salty Various Deli Type Slices Of Pig again from Tesco.
Hmm, I suspect even you question the provenance of that.
normal tesco Mozzarella
Apparently "Made using EU milk" They don't even say which mammal it comes from.

I suggest you try again with decent ingredients.

@StuckintheUSA yes it was Georgetown Cupcakes! I hadn't even heard of it, but we thought that a line must have something good at the end of it, this was about 12 years ago before TikTok crazes so I wasn't as savvy of hype as I am now. Too sweet, too much frosting, cupcake too dry. But then again, almost everything in the USA tastes too sweet to me, and the fruit and veg doesn't taste sweet enough unless it's from farm stands.