Foods that people go crazy over that really aren't that good

I love ribs and crab legs. You can keep that caviar shit.

Chicken wings

All things Mexican. Overly spicy, monotonous and starchy.

Fish

I don't go crazy over food. But I like all misted so far! Especially ribs.

Escargot--the little snail shell holder utensil is fun, though.

Lobster. A guy made a big deal of treating me to $100 worth of it once. After the meal I told him I'd have preferred the money.

Medium rare steak.

Croissants.

R7 likes their steaks ruined overcooking.

R9 = Jeffrey Dahmer

Caviar is one of the healthiest, most nutrient-dense foods in the world, along with oysters, phytoplankton and seaweed. Don't have anything to say about the taste though, as I've never tried it.

Oysters. Just unpleasant.

Agree with chicken wings, so much effort and grease for so little.

Lobster.

Unless you get it directly out of very cold water -- otherwise, the water permeates the shell and ruins the taste. Then, all you taste is melted "butter."

Try Korean street food oyster R12 and you might change your mind.

Oysters are like phlegm balls.

Cavier is vile. People only eat it because it seems "classy."

Another down vote for lobster.

Do people "go crazy" for chicken wings? Where? When?

I've seen guys go nuts over Buffalo wings. They'll eat them by the bucket full.

Whitecastle burgers. It's nothing but grease and roadkill.

I love everything mentioned here except for the overcooked steak. I don't eat raw oysters anymore because of pollution will eat them cooked, preferable roasted over a fire. I like chicken wings but would rather they be grilled than fired.

Runny egg yolks.

Gnocchi.

Italian tater tots without the crunchy flavor.

Shake Shack

In n Out

Speak for yourselves, caviar haters. Top quality caviar (the ones that come from sturgeons like a beluga, osetra and sevruga) is great!

The oversized orange balls, or the shit you get from a supermarket fridge and not a deli counter - not so much.

If you're talking about caviar, that is true for Ostatrova. I prefer Petrossian Beluga.

I cannot get past old aged artisanal supervstinky cheese, that's supposed to be such a treat:

Give me a buttery san andre or even a brie or Edam anytime:

Crab legs and wings, oh my

^^ Why I dislike most people and buffets so so much.

I love caviar (any roe really) and a good stinky cheese.

Escargot is just buttery and tough with little flavor.

I would walk pass these all day and never be tempted: ribs, shrimp, lobster, catfish, pulled pork, creme brulee, tiramisu, calzones, crab legs, pork chops, chicken / buffalo wings, and most burgers.

I love seafood but crabs (the Maryland kind) and Crawfish are way too much work.

Caviar is deelish. But its a snack obviously. I like all fish eggs from cheap to luxury.

R29 Snails from the Atlantic, in Ireland, are delicious and not rubbery.

All the southern side dishes are bland and bitter and do nothing for me.. (grits, collard greens, etc) am - a good fried chicken however, is perhaps my most favorite guilty dish, and I must have it at least once a month:

Same apathy to what's supposed to be delicious Jewish fare: brisket, matzah ball, challah bread ... bland, bland, BLAND!

Homemade macaroni and cheese, especially the baked with love kind.

Macaroni and cheese is disgusting.

Enchiladas are disgusting.

cupcakes

Southern people go nuts over something called "fried okra." (shudder)

who the heckin like hard overcooked egg yolks?

give me runny into my hash browns any time.... _ the whites.

i LOATHE EGG WHITES....tasteless and useless and i don't like meringue either...

[quote]give me runny into my hash browns any time....

We'll look for your at Waffel House if we need you.

sushi, all that radioactive shit in the sea and it is sooo polluted ...people who eat raw fish are gonna get cancer in 20 yrs.

Nutella

Honeys, that's why they all it "taste."

Everyone's is different.

What's unhealthy about crabs, except for a little sodium.

This trend of eggs on top of everything.

They make you itch r43.

New Orleans Cajun food, blech

Calamari

R47 you got a problem with me?

Avocado toast. Every fucking restaurant in CA serves it. For $10 bucks plus. A 5 year old could make that, and I did.

caviar

truffles

wings

hardboiled eggs

No one will put an egg on top of something if you say, "No egg."

Avocado...

Is avocado toast just toast with avocado slices instead of butter?

Gnocchi. They’re such duds, I see them on the menu and I want to fall asleep. I’ll eat them if there’s nothing else because they’re not offensive, but I wouldn’t say they’re anything special. The sauce is more interesting.

I agree about chicken wings, not enough meat on those bones!

[quote] Oysters are like phlegm balls.

I think you've ruined oysters for me forever. Thanks.

In and Out burger

Fried green tomatoes

Chik-fil-A

Cheesecake, pumpkin pie, cream/meringue pies, creme brulee - keep all that squishy slime away from me

Caramel with sea salt

[quote]In and Out burger

Interesting. I have always wanted to try them but they are not in my area. We finally got Five Guys which people raved about and I wasn't that impressed.

[quote]Is avocado toast just toast with avocado slices instead of butter?

I have always wanted to know what it is too.

raw oysters, they eat all the shit at the bottom. gross. hep a waiting to happen.

Goat cheese. It’s the go-to of lazy unimaginative chefs when asked to come up with a vegetarian menu item. It stinks of shit. Every time I see goat cheese tart on a menu I know the chef is lazy and the food will be bad.

I feel sorry for you guys who say southern food is bland. Find someone who really knows how to cook southern food, and I promise you will just as fat as everyone else in the South.

[quote]Goat cheese. It’s the go-to of lazy unimaginative chefs when asked to come up with a vegetarian menu item.

It sure beats diners with their "diet" part of the menu, and every dish includes cottage fucking cheese.

R65 - agreed, good Southern food is amazing. But I can understand it would be bland and fatty if not seasoned well.

I feel like salmon over greens is the go-to option for a fish option - and THAT shows extreme chef laziness. It's so ubiquitous and played out - I would be embarrassed to put it on a menu without some major fucking updates to it.

That deep fried everything at state fairs.

People went crazy over cronuts a few years ago, were they good? I didn’t try one.

R69, only when super fresh.

Anything at Olive Garden.

Polenta.

Risotto

I haven't had raw oysters since I had a bad one a long time ago at Red Lobster: of course, my first mistake was ordering them at Red Lobster. There was a restaurant in the city (now closed) that I used to love: they offered Oysters Rockefeller, and those were really wonderful.

Being raised with rather white-bread tastes, I've tried to make a point to try foods with an open mind before dismissing. But I eventually dismissed escargot, eel, and sea urchin roe. The one time I ordered sea urchin roe, I actually had to wipe my mouth out with my napkin. Lobster or crab legs, I can take or leave. I don't like shrimp nearly as much as I did growing up. I only eat it now when the restaurant is offering a 'skewer of grilled shrimp', which somehow always comes out perfect.

I actually started eating cheap lumpfish caviar back when I was a teenager, and still love it. The brand I used to buy isn't available any more, so I have to order it from Amazon when I'm craving it. But I love a couple of pieces of pumpernickel toast, topped with a dollop of sour cream, and a generous spoonful of caviar. Or a baked potato, with sour cream and caviar (Jackie O's favorite diet food). There's a Russian store in town that sells fresh tins of beluga caviar, but I've never had the heart to buy any, since I don't think I'd be able to eat it all by myself before it would start going bad.

I love ribs that are cooked well.

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned pumpkin spice.

[quote] Is avocado toast just toast with avocado slices instead of butter?

No Rose, it's toast with slices of kiwi fruit on top of it: hence the name.

I still don't get the avocado toast thing, how is it good on toast? Sounds nasty.

subjective as hell

some people like stuff

other people hate stuff

then they argue about it on the internet.....

Soft shell crab. Just like eating crab-flavored fingernails.

Almond Milk

So people just slice avocados and put them on a piece of toast? That sounds gross.

Does anyone actually like the taste of kale?

Roast turkey. It's always dry and tasteless.

r83 do you mean like at Thanksgiving? I like to mix it with the stuffing and gravy so it's not so dry. But I have noticed when you reheat it the next day it has a funny flavor.

Yes it's impossible to choke down without cranberry sauce or gravy.

Meat, the carcass of mammals.

Anything from the gay and women hating southern fast food chicken place. The food is as terrible as their lack of empathy and humanity.

soda pop

Good gawd r66 I’d forgotten (or suppressed) the memory of cottage cheese. It’s albino vomit.

Thanksgiving Stuffing

Any side dish that has candy on it. It’s foul.

Nutella

[quote]Thanksgiving Stuffing

Prepare to clutch your pearls, I make Stovetop Stuffing

Shake Shack

Lobster

Bacon. I was a vegetarian for over 20 years but decided to quit. People raved about bacon and how much I was going to love it, but I found it kind of gross.

bump

Chicago-style pizza.

They make that abomination in cake pan!

Reese's Peanut Butter Cups.

Shut UP, all of you complaining about bacon and Reese's Peanut Butter Cups and Nutella and stinky cheese! You all don't know what's good.

Now for me, the overrated foods are the processed/ packaged ones that have no taste: shrimp (especially in those nasty shrimp cocktail confections), anything with frosting on it, most donuts, and the awful margarine-based shit supermarkets try to sell you as "croissants".

Krispy Kreme Donuts. They're OK if you need a quick sugar fix in the morning, but people go on about them like they're something special, and they're just a fucking glazed donut.

Believe it or not, this is what the idiotic people of Cincinnati think is chili.

They are nuts for the stuff. They have lost their fucking minds.

I've always wondered what they call REAL chili?

99% of all the beer brewed in brew pubs.

Avocado toast is not sliced avocados. It's made into a mash, seasoned and then topped with something like sliced radishes. On artisinal bread. Like I said before, I grew up with an avocado tree in the backyard and could do that as a little kid. For $10 plus, they can keep it.

I'll add deviled eggs to the list too. Another stupid thing to order out.

My Ohio dad went nuts when a local LA restaurant started serving that weird "chili." I think it was the only thing he missed about Ohio, and our local Greek diner (owned by a guy who'd lived in Dayton brought him home.

We refrained from comment.

Pumpkin Spice everything

The AM local news showcased pumpkin spice pizza.

The media is at fault for this...

[quote]Do people "go crazy" for chicken wings? Where? When?

I LOVE buffalo wings. Many people do.

The thing about buffalo wings is they are a great way to show off your skill in building flavor. You can come up with some great flavored sauces and slap them on a buffalo wing. So good.

I honestly never got the appeal of lobster. It's butter-flavored rubber.

Most red wine. However, when it's good, it's great.

IPAs.

Bacon.

Escargot is the delivery system for wonderful garlic butter...

R30

I love crab meat but I too don't care to spend time beating up a crab carcass to get little amounts of meat. I'd rather order crab cakes or crab imperial.

Chocolate. I mean, it’s pleasant but I’ve never understood why so many people go so wild over anything chocolate-y.

French Fries. Bland and pointless.

[quote]In and Out burger

Yep, it is FAR overhyped. But the thing about in out burger is it is a good burger for fast food. It is cheap and much better than places like McDs or Wendys. But realistically you can get a much, much better burger elsewhere.

And their fries suck.

[quote]No one will put an egg on top of something if you say, "No egg."

Shouldn't have to specify. I'm sure no one, well, almost no one, will take a shit on your dinner, but you shouldn't have to ask.

THANK YOU R44.

WTF is with this trend? The worst is eggs on top of a burger. DA FUQ?? Eggs are for breakfast unless it's some ethnic cuisine. If I want a burger I do not want a damn egg on top of it. And don't get me started on eggs on pizza!

[quote]I'm surprised nobody has mentioned pumpkin spice.

I am, too, r75, but in truth, that shit is more air freshener than food.

[quote]Prepare to clutch your pearls, I make Stovetop Stuffing

Now that's the shit that isn't that good, R91.

Yes, people go crazy for buffalo wings. Have you ever set foot in a bar, Mary? One without a drag revue or a backroom?

sweet potato with mini marshmallows on top - my friend cooked this and was overwhelmingly sweet, trying to give me diabeetus, bitch?

We make ours with butter, brown sugar and pineapple.

Still sweet, but not white sugar sweet.

Green Tea - rather bland, not much taste, what's the point of this tea? Quinoa - yuk Oreos - what's all the fuss about, there are much nicer biscuits Wine - smells like nail polish remover, i hate the stuff Gluten Free - the bread and pasta is often tangy with a weird aftertaste Starbucks Frappuccino - tastes like watery chocolate ice water

Girl Scout Cookies. Sorry, but they're overpriced, the boxes get smaller every year, and anything the Girl Scouts sell can be bought for 1/3rd the price at most Dollar Stores, and bought without the strong arm tactics.

R82, I love kale; then again, I love all greens.

R99, Krispy Kreams are only really good fresh and still hot and even then it is only the glazed donuts that make that much of a difference. It is amazing the difference between them then and ten minutes later. I used to live two blocks from the factory and store on Ponce de Leon in midtown Atlanta. Whenever the sign was flashing, which announced fresh donuts, lines would suddenly appear to buy them. It wasn't unheard of for car accidents to happen when drivers made u-turns to get into the place.

Bagels....they're not bad, but WTF is there to get excited about there. Every damn New Yorker and Jersey-ite who moves here bitches and complains endlessly about "People here don't know how to make a good bagel. Oh My God, how hard can it be to make a decent bagel." Blah blah blah...all said with that loud new york/jersey accent that's just on the edge of being hysterical. I've had your damn bagels in NYC and there's nothing special about them. If you like them so much, move the hell back home.

Glazed donuts suck, particularly after being captured under plastic. I hate donut sweat. The only Krispy Kreme I liked was their cake donut, and I always ate them at the Krispy Kreme factory on Rt. 1 in Alexandria, VA, where I would meet a friend twice a year for her KK pilgrimage. I suspect she snuck them in more than that, but who can say. I always liked Dunkin Donuts better. They come with granulated sugar, not that glaze crap.

Chicken wings are ok if they're not buffalo wings. Buffalo sauce (and all hot sauces like Tabasco and Cholula) is not spicy, it's saltier than seawater.

I never understood donuts. Deep fried cake, oh boy!

The beignets at Cafe du Monde. Only tourists love that shit.

As a teen I worked at a Long John Silver's. People went apeshit over the "cracklings", those little crumbs that float off the fish when you fry it. They would demand boxes of just the cracklings.

"Soft shell crab. Just like eating crab-flavored fingernails"

Perfect description...

Second the Girl Scout cookies. Crappy low grade ingredients.

Girl scout cookies haven't been good since they were made by Burry. Now, they're cheapshit generic versions of themselves.

R100, Your words wound! I grew up with the stuff. My siblings and I loved it when we would get home from school, and our Mom had been cooking up a pot of chili (Cincinnati-style, that is). That heady aroma of chilis, cinnamon, allspice, garlic and onions is a unique memory stamp for many of us who've grown up here. I mentioned on that current Sarah Jessica Parker thread that she still visits here every so often: I know because the chili parlor about a mile from my house has photos of her and Matthew stopping by to eat. My beloved Barry O ordered some to go when he was in town back in 2012. I still make a pot of it using my Mom's recipe every few months, and share half of it with my older (straight) brother, and he's always happy when I do that. Recipes that have been passed down like that bind families in a special way. BTW, the origins of that strange flavor combination go back to the Ottoman Empire: the families that first introduced it combined a fragrant Ottoman meat sauce with cooked spaghetti and shredded cheese, to Americanize it. I was going to reply 'crying as I type', but I'm actually eating as I type: two cheese coneys that I picked up when I ran out to pick up the mail.

Who is Barry O and why would he eat that disgusting CinCin gunk?

R132, President Obama, silly. And I don't know if he really ate it. But he's a master politician, and knows how to get out and meet people where they live (BTW, I used to live across the street from this location).

Aren't most donuts a yeast dough, i.e, more like bread than cake?

King crab legs are all about the drawn butter, baby!

Bunch of peasant in the first comments.

Sushi

Any coffee outside of "homemade".. Bunch of overpriced,oversweetened,snooty bullshit... Make the shit at home and put it in a thermos if need be. I like mine usually black.. Other times a little ovaltine in it with either almond milk or coconut milk...

All seafood besides fish is just gross stinky fried or boiled bugs-revolting. Eggs (fried or boiled) smell like sulfer shit (hate diners in the morning) Any Alfredo sauce-disgusting to smell or look at. Any animal guts are simply that and horrendous

Fresh peas. I think they taste gross. The only peas I will eat are canned ones. It's the only vegetable that canned is better than fresh.

Kale is terrible. I googled a comparison between spinach and kale, and spinach came out slightly ahead.

Wings and crab legs - too much work for much too little meat.

I can't stand chili. And I've always wanted to love bbq, because it's fun to read about. There are shows on PBS about people going on the road to find the best pulled pork or whatever. I've had a lot of bbq and except for ribs it's all terrible.

I really hate salad. I have salad sometimes. For a long time I refused to have it chopped, but now I realize that's the only way to eat salad.

Stewed vegetables. Awful. Even in stew. Southern cooking where the greens are cooked in bacon grease. People can share their recipes, talk about this stuff til your mouth waters, and then when you get down to eating it yourself it's terrible.

I like shellfish - except for lobster. Any shellfish that can live over 60 years and basically mates for life is not something I want to eat. I used to love oysters and clams, but now I'm perfectly happy with mussels.

Soylent Green

[quote]I can't stand chili.

I don't think I've met, or even read about, anyone who didn't like chili.

Kale

American fast food (loaded with fat/fructose)

Sprouts (alfalfa, bean, etc.)

Chain coffees (Starbucks, Peets, etc.)

See's, Ghirardelli chocolates

McDonald's Mulan szechuan sauce

Cocoa Puffs. Nothing to go coo-coo over.

Portobello mushrooms

Paella

Starbucks (The. Worst.)

BBC.

I like Peet's Coffee. I make it at home though, which is how I prefer to drink coffee. I hate most coffee that you buy already made, except ones that start with espresso. Not the sweet drinks, though.

It got to 50 replies before one of the most expensive and overrated ingredients in the history of cooking: The Black Truffle. Weight for weight, it has the same value as gold, but with the same flavor and texture as a piece of tainted wine cork.

Laksa.

[quote]The beignets at Cafe du Monde. Only tourists love that shit.

The only thing worse than the beignets is the chicory coffee they serve with them. One cup and you're looking for a dog's ass to lick to kill the taste.

Sushi owns this thread.

But Japanese food in general, really. So many foul things like natto. Why not just go out and lick the street when it's wet?

Do you people still go crazy over sun-dried tomatoes? Why someone would turn a perfectly good tomato into a blood red strip of shoe leather is beyond me.

That "artisanal" salad green that's bitter as hell? It's name has mercifully escaped me....

Why someone would add that bitter weed to a perfectly good green salad is beyond me!

Ha, ha!

Arugula r155? Dame Edna had a joke in her show that "arugula" was Italian for "inedible weed"

Ribs are awesome.

Is arugula bitter, r157?

If so, that's it.

Ugh!

Lobster and crab. Both are shit-eating water roaches.

I’m going to throw kale, quinoa and avocado into the mix just because I resent the effectivness of their marketers in convincing an entire generation of impressionable morons that they’re all the basis of any sensible diet.

See also: goji berries, acai berries, kombucha

I second Starbucks. Their coffee, which no one drinks, is putrid AND overpriced. A triumph of modern marketing. Their hot milkshakes, which masquerade as coffee to unwitting Millennials, are death-by-diabetes bombs.

I solved the mystery of why Starbucks coffee is disgustingly burned: Starbucks devotees only drink their 2,000-calorie drinks, and those drinks can only masquerade as coffee if you can taste coffee in them. Since there’s only an ounce or two of coffee mixed in with two cups each of sugar and heavy cream, the coffee has to be undrinkably strong to be tasted at all.

Flan

Trifle

Tres leches cake

Tiramisu

R162 Their iced Americanos are tasty. I wouldn't touch any of their other candified garbage. All I have to do is look at the fat asses I see waddling around my local Starbucks with their giant, sugary beverages . . .

Arugula is "peppery".. I'm thinking you're thinking of that or there is another actual bitter one.

Kale is NASTY.

arugula = rocket?

I actually really like arugula. Its texture is a lot more substanial than many other greens. A restaurant that used to be next to my office made an arugula pizza and it was one thing all my coworkers agreed was delicious. Just a good pizza crust topped with sauce, cheese, a huge pile of arugula and some cherry tomatoes cut in half. Even after being in a pizza oven, the arugula was bright green and had some chew. I like bitter foods, though.

Yes r167, also known as roquette..

I think chicory is more bitter..

Arugula is delicious if you pair it right, like the pizza described above...

Since it's the season for this...

Pumpkin-flavored everrrrrrythang!

Over it.

I love how different people are. I understand passionately loving luscious dark chocolate. Passionately loving pumpkin pie is to me like passionately loving taupe.

Thanks, r169, it must be chicory then.

NAS-TEE!

I wonder if Chick Corea likes chicory in his green salads?

Dark chocolate.

Funny how this thread morphed from one about refined tastes to one about having the tastes of children.

Years ago I was in a restaurant in Moscow, guests of some Russians. Caviar was served up. I'd never tasted it before (eating something like caviar was waaay outside my upbringing.) It was delicious. Oily, salty, almost impossible to stop eating. Maybe I got the good stuff.

Do you have any Grey Poupon, R175?

[quote]But I like all misted so far!

Shall I mist your entreé, sir?

[quote]Tres leches cake

I couldn't believe how much I hated this when I finally tried it. Who wants cold, wet cake?

Mmm... I love tres leches cake

[quote]Funny how this thread morphed from one about refined tastes to one about having the tastes of children.

Funny how the Babytastes Troll (a.k.a. Human Garbage Disposal) always turns up in the food threads in which someone expresses their dislikes.

Arugula is fabulous. I pair it with other greens for a simple salad, which I dress, alla Marcella Hazan, in EVOO, salt, and vinegar (or lemon juice).

A universal favorite no one can deny is perfect, tastewise...bacon!

Sadly, I can’t buy it now that I know how psychotically evil the pig farming industry is. I do eat it with guilt when it’s served at a hotel or event, though, since I can argue to myself that I have zero control over it having been bought by someone else.

I can't stand chili, either, R141.

Endives are bitter

I love bitter things - endives, arugula...and myself.

Ribs are delicious, so are crab legs. You have terrible taste OP.

Bacon on everything. No it does not make anything taste better. Its trashy and low rent. I don't want fkin bacon on ice cream, or my baked ziti. Fuck outta here.

Me, me don't likey no Fishies, no Crabbies, no Crusties, no nothing that swims or rests in water; none of those stuffies, of any type: snakes and insects of the sea.

Yeah, let's crack open a water-infused snake, spider or cockroach to eat.

I've noticed that people who "go crazy" over certain foods tend to be troubled.

Not all foodies are NPDs, but all NPDs are foodies.

Bloomin Onions

[quote]Not all foodies are NPDs, but all NPDs are foodies.

Please elaborate or STFU.

For the Jew at r192 -- Victims Cultures tend to be Famine Cultures and also NPD, so the rise of constant chatter about food parallels the rise of Jewish intrusion in culture.

WASPs rarely went on about food outside of Farm and Factory WASP wives, who poured over the food section of the local newspaper for hints and tips about aspics and fish creams

I hate the texture of meringue as well. I've never been a fan of chicken wings, but I bought some on impulse a while back and ended up chipping a tooth on one. In Turkey a while ago members of my traveling party were smacking their lips over the quality of the fresh tomatoes as opposed to the ones available in the States. I hate raw tomatoes.

North Podunk Dairies? Nesting Penguin Danger? New Pennsylvania Drama?

"Poured"? Please.

It seems all snails are rubbery and tasteless now, but I've eaten them since childhood, in France and NYC, and Montreal & Quebec, and they weren't always this bad. Back then the rubber complaints were about escargots cultivated in Asia. They were always just "okay" to me, and I only ordered them if an adult insisted I do. When my parents ordered pizzas, the "adult" pizza often had escargot, and bacon. We kids got the usual with lots of peppers and no meat.

Mom said my grandfather cultivated his own snails in his LA garage where they were finished off for the last week or two on a diet of cornmeal.

Tiramisu in virtually any restaurant. It's not good.

Second on the avocado toast. Make that shit at home for one-tenth the cost.

Raw oysters taste and feel like salty snot.

Frog legs taste aight, but the price vs, quantity is a loser.

Kale owns this thread.

Lobster is fantastic. Too pricey to have it very often. But it is delicious. Crayfish are too much work, but tasty. Good crab is difficult to find and also a lot of work.

I have only tried snails once. meh.

I never liked Brussels sprouts until I had them roasted with bacon. Now I love them. Also great grilled on the Weber grill.

I hate Olives. Black, green or fancy. They taste putrid. They ruin pizza since you can't get them off buried in the cheese.

I don't eat shrimp or lobster anymore. Ever since the Gulf Oil Spill. Then I had to stop eating fish from the Pacific because the damned nuclear reactor in Japan fucked up the waters with nuclear waste and shit. So now I only eat from the North Alaska waters o from North Atlantic or from the northern waters off Scandinavia. Fuck a lobster. I do love crab legs. they're the best. Especially if you get them from out in the Atlantic part of the Caribbean.

This thing is a king crab. It’s half monster spider and half tumor. This makes your mouths water?!

Dinner’s ready!!

Crispy bacon.

I like my bacon soft.

Semen

R205, you're objectively wrong. Bacon that doesn't SNAP in two when you bend both ends, is not done. It's raw. And disgusting.

The whole POINT of Bacon is the "crispy".

Try "crisp," asswipe.

Bacon is just a seasoning, in my opinion. The appeal of it is the smell. It doesn't actually taste or feel good in your mouth.

Kale Caesar salad

Macarons

Krispy Kreme

Oreo

Bacon is edible right out of the package. Raw. Not that I would eat it that way.

I hate macaroons

r202 has stated her boundaries.

[quote]Krispy Kreme

Oh, God, what a scam this place is. The donuts are HORRIBLE - way too sweet, the cake sucks, and it's relatively small too. You can find a superior donut in any local mom-and-pop shop.

IPAs. They’re really popular now but I find them sour and lifeless. I’ve ordered a few, one was actually served to me in what looked like a large brandy snifter. Too precious for me.

Macarons.

Cum... too salty and bleachy

Shellfish in general but especially mussels.

Chicago style hot dogs. Way too much crap in there. Hotdogs should be served with mustard and onion only, with chili optional.

Hot dogs with raw onions.

Food

Bacon

Bacon

Turkey. I hate it.

Pumpkin pie. Even on Thanksgiving. Even with whipped cream. Even warm with vanilla ice cream. Even [bold]your[/bold] pumpkin pie.

Turkey bacon. I live just a few blocks away from ‘the hood’ and that’s all you see served. These aren’t necessarily black Muslims either, and I don’t know how the Latinos bought into it either. A friend of mine said that the white masters forced african slaves to eat swine, and that it wasn’t a natural part of their African diet, and that consequently many black Americans can’t digest pork because their bodies naturally reject it. Plenty of Puerto Ricans and Dominicans that I know also do the same, but they’re from the urban areas too and talk that urban way. The ones from the islands itself seem like they’re happy to eat it.

"... and that consequently many black Americans can’t digest pork because their bodies naturally reject it. "

OK, now that's a bunch of hogwash, pun intended.

That’s what I thought too, R226. But that’s what she told me as if it were real science. But she also believes that chilly temperatures cause colds, instead of viruses.

Fries and chips - bland and stupid

Almost anything fried is a gift of the gods. As evidence, may I submit that fried foods get us to heaven faster.

Burgers. Maybe a good hamburger now and then is fine, but some people eat them all the time at fast food places. And at fast food places they're terrible.

Bacon. I think bacon is ok; I sometimes have bacon and eggs or a BLT, but not very often. But some people adore bacon and eat it a lot. Bacon is NOT something that should be eaten a lot. It's one of the foods that some nutritionists say you should NEVER eat.

That pumpkin spice crap. I always thought pumpkin spice flavored anything was an acquired taste. Now it's all the rage during the fall and winter. I remember the "cookie recipe contest" that used to go on before elections. Supposedly the First Lady and the potential First Lady would submit their cookie recipes, which would get tested and voted on. The winner's husband was said to be sure to be the next President. I remember the year it was between Laura Bush and Teresa Heinz (wife of John Kerry). Bush submitted a recipe for some kind of chocolate chip cookies. Heinz's recipe was for...pumpkin spice cookies. Bush's recipe, of course, won. Heinz later said some aide had submitted the pumpkin spice cookie recipe, not her. She said "I don't even LIKE pumpkin spice cookes!" Apparently not many other people did, either.

R214 did it look like the pilsner glass in the pic? That’s for lagers, a straight glass for IPAs. You’re right, it was not only far too precious but it ruined the smell/ flavor.

Yes that’s how it looked.

I guess the sourness and citrus notes are what people are after in an IPA?

Escargot. Without the garlic and butter sauce its just rubbery, fairly tasteless nubs....

Eggs Benedict

So many of these foods are my favorites including caviar and oysters.

I despise junk food like in/out and crap like that.

R236 I don't get the appeal of In&Out or Shake Shack

@abc7elex 21 minutes ago

Katrina Hannah is finally back in CA after the Las Vegas shooting. Her first meal? In-N-Out!

Remember Trader Joe's had all this cookie butter shit..like tons of items and I asked a clerk and he couldn't describe it..it was crap

I love carbs and I still think cookie butter is too carby.

Olives of any kind

I don’t like lobster much. Give me a sweet, juicy, mudcrab any day.

R238

Great minds think alike

Lobster.

R19 And white Castle Hamburger buns have a strong, horrible stench of yeast.

OP:

1. Agree.

2. Agree.

3. Agree.

1. Avocado 2. Whip Cream 3. Cream Cheese

Arugula

Cilantro

Cilantro tastes disgusting to me, and I can't stand roughage that's too full of stems like Arugula.

Seems like lobster and escargot are the real ‘winners.’

I can’t stand either, so I also don’t understand why people go nuts for it. Never tried caviar and don’t intend to.

I don’t like anything overly spicy. To me, if my mouth is on fire, how the hell can I taste whatever I’m supposed to be tasting (Buffalo wings included)?

I tried escargot for the first time today. It wasn't the worst thing I've ever tried but I wouldn't eat it again.

Poutine in Quebec is something foodie travellers go on and on about when visiting Montreal - nope!

Ditto, when you visit Scotland and alongside the famed fish and chips (ambrosia without question) locals insist you sample the local chippie fried dessert delicacy = deep fried battered chocolate bars like Mars Bars of Bounty or Snickers. Total sickly shit and completely indicative of its origin as Chav cuisine.

Another vote here for lobster..

Top shelf collectible brown spirits like Scotch, Whidkey, artisan Bourbons, Calvados, Armahnac, aged Brandy. it's as thoigh you're not a real 'guy' unless you're into most or some of these. I'm not,

Also upthread someone mentioned cupcakes. I agree. $4-5 upwards for glorified butter cake load up with prissy decoratove food coloured saturated fat on top of it.

Macaroons too. Top dollar for gift-boxed selections of wanky flavoured and coloured meringue sandwiches.

Avocado toast craziness converted me however. I like it mashed with lime juice and cracked black pepper on good bread, thick sliced and toasted right. Again, J wouldn't order or pay big Brunching dollar for it when out. But, all the fuss switched me onto it a ombo toast topping possibility which was new to me and I now really dig as an option for breakfast or lunch which satisfies. (**Happy to have a 'runny yolk' poached egg on top of f it too sometimes - I don t have the "egg on top' issue some DLers here appear to?))

^armagnac

- and multiple mobile phone posting typos = Oh Dear.

I love ribs.

I tolerate crab.

Caviar tastes like low tide.

Broccoli Rabe tastes like Satan’s compost heap.

We need to rename this thread: Baby tastes part 200.

Caviar is amazing as are oysters. Go eat your chicken sticks and mac and cheese children.

Smell r254!

If someone doesn't like the taste of something she does, we have unrefined palates.

Mmmmmkay.

Baby tastes...and yes you do

r256

Love me some Alaskan King Crab legs. Anything else is too much work. Caviar...might as well eat salt mixed with slime.

[quote] Also, many of the rumors were that White House staff, like housekeepers and butlers couldn't look at Hillary as they went about their job, which as others have mentioned isn't even a rule in Buckingham Palace.

Fuck you, Putin bot. How transparent ARE you?

God, I HATE food sniffers!

Jeezus Pete! If I smelled everything before I tasted it, I'd never have learned to eat Parmesan cheese, spaghetti, the "stinky" cheeses, cabbage, boiled eggs, collards, sauerkaut, kimchi, some pizzas, chow-chow, cucumbers, artichokes, etc., etc., etc., ad infinitum.

I will not put up with picky eaters, vegetarians, fruitarians, or vegans for any length of time.

I like lobster rolls and lobster salad and lobster bisques but sitting down to unshell one of those things whole has always been more trouble than it's worth.

Krispy Kreme donuts..

[quote]cabbage, boiled eggs, collards, sauerkaut, kimchi,

"Things I'd rather go in your mouth than in mine" for $2000, Alex.

Caviar is gross..

It's been said before, but it bears repeating: Nutella.

Frittata. Seems like it's a recipe for overcooked eggs.

Kale

What the bloody hell in R27's video??

the new Thanksgiving treat: Brussels Sprouts, which join Pumpkin Pie in the pantheon of "Oh, you just THINK you don't like them because you haven't tried MINE" foods.

No, bitch. I just hate Brussels Sprouts.

French toast. I'm all for using up leftovers to make something good, but the hell if I am going to pay for French toast at a restaurant.

Red Velvet Cake.

[quote]Also, many of the rumors were that White House staff, like housekeepers and butlers couldn't look at Hillary as they went about their job, which as others have mentioned isn't even a rule in Buckingham Palace.

I have this troll on ignore but one has to wonder what its comment has to do with food.

Poke bowls served in a place other than Hawaii - like Vermont.

Bone marrow as an [expensive] appetizer at gastropubs.

Wings - When it was just people at home making the most of a cheap cut of meat, I could sort of understand it. But they're too much work for too little meat. I don't know why anyone would go to a restaurant for wings. It makes no sense to me.

Crawfish - Again, too much work for too little meat. If I were poor and catching wild animals for protein, it might make sense. But why would I pay for that?

R141. Have you, by any chance, had your tongue mapped by a neurologist? That might sound odd and I apologize. You may have very strong taste perception.

[quote]Polenta.

[quote]Risotto

Ohmygawd! Yes! These two fucking mush dishes!

Add Mac 'n Cheese to this! Gross!

Food truck food? I've never had it myself, but would rather sit in a diner for that.

[quote] Any shellfish that can live over 60 years and basically mates for life is not something I want to eat.

Because these things affect the taste?

Supermarket sushi. The rice is always wrong.

R280 Don't think people are crazy about that. Any sane person knows that stuff is shit.

280 comments and not one mention of FOIE GRAS. I tried many times over the years, thinking I had been having bad luck.

^^^ Even weirder, no love (or hate) for Chinese dishes.

Fondant...give me old school buttercream please.

Foie gras...not worth the duck guilt and the cardiovascular damage.

And again...most of the seafood mentioned.

[quote]French toast. I'm all for using up leftovers to make something good, but the hell if I am going to pay for French toast at a restaurant.

Wow. I'm in my mid 50s, and I'm just now learning that French Toast is made from "leftovers"!

[quote]Macaroons too. Top dollar for gift-boxed selections of wanky flavoured and coloured meringue sandwiches.

Those would be MACARONS, not macaroons, which are a coconut confection.

Pâté. No, Fanny -- I don't drink it all day.

[quote]Caviar is amazing as are oysters. Go eat your chicken sticks and mac and cheese children.

Caviar is goo, and oysters are another form of goo. They are both merely expensive goo. 'Baby tastes' indeed.

TBH, I actually like artificial crab meat better than the real thing.

R103 there's nothing wrong with CINCINNATI chili. Skyline Chili is classic. Your dad knows,.

[quote]Avocado toast craziness converted me however.

Same. I had never heard of anyone being crazy about avocado toast (still haven't, honestly) but the whole brouhaha when someone suggested Millennials could own their dream home if they just stopped eating avocado toast made me try it, and I love it. I'm always trying to get more foods in my diet that are healthier and potentially lower my cholesterol (and it's apparently working) and avocado toast was added to the rotation.

Doughnuts.

I don't hate them but they're no big deal, yet people go batshit crazy for them, even those insane frosted doughnuts with cereal and crap stuck to them. Yuck.

Fuck you, r292!

Another vote for caviar.

OYSTERS ARE DISGUSTING.

I think doughnuts can really vary. The ones from the big chains are disgusting, too sweet and the cake part is meh. The best ones are from local mom-and-pop shops and are thick and cakey with simple frosting, not oodles and oodles of junk. The doughnuts from store delis suck too - the frosting is goopy and you can taste the cooking oil.

I agree, R271. Red velvet cake is a low rent version of devil’s food cake. The red dye is added as a distraction from the bland taste.

Mochi especially the ones filled with ice cream.

A hot dog makes me lose control!

Jamba Juice drinks.

Sushi

R301, not all sushi is raw.

Bacon

Salami

Ham

Happy to pass up on all three

Even more so for anything deep fried, I find it gross and avoid it if I can

R292 I'm with you on doughnuts, I dont mind the plain ones, and like the cinnamon ones provided they arent coated in sugar. Hate the ones with all the icing on them, all that sugar, gross

Ditto cupcakes, I'll eat one if its given to me but not by choice

Seafood though - oysters, lobster, shellfish or anything from the sea I'll happily eat

Kale and salads I love, would be my first choice

White meat chicken and turkey. Dark meat is so much better.

Truffle oil. A total bullshit chemical laden abomination that has nothing to do with the real thing. It amazes me that people are still obsessed with getting truffle fries — what is this, Y2K?

I agree about chicken wings, not enough meat on the bone

I do like ribs.

Bats. In retrospect not such a good idea.

Un-toasted bagel with cream cheese. Overrated, bland, textureless, tasteless. An edible version of mental depression.

I don't care how authentic the bagel is (and I live in NYC). Toast that thing!

[quote]anything from the sea I'll happily eat

Deets r303?

Any mexican food served in a mexican restaurant anywhere in the northeastern US.

Did you ever stomp on or smash a giant cockroach or beetle? You know that white goo that smooshes out between their cracked shell? That's what lobster and crab are.

[quote]280 comments and not one mention of FOIE GRAS. I tried many times over the years, thinking I had been having bad luck.

WTF? Foie gras is AMAZING. It melts in your mouth. Truly decadent. And you don't eat pounds of it or have it often, so there is no need to worry about getting a heart attack from it.

My list of bad foods:

Agree on crabs (not legs). Huh, you line the table with newsprint and give me a hammer to 'work' for my food? Nope.

Crawfish - can't eat them ever since a waiter in Italy stuck his sweaty hands in my dish and cracked the shells for me. Horrifying.

Ribs and bbq wings - too messy

Watermelon - never liked the taste

Chinese food - don't trust it after I got a split second peak in the kitchen of a Chinese restaurant. The cook had his arms in a vat of soup up to his armpits. {{{shudder}}.

Agree on gnocchi - globs of carbs that sit in your stomach like lead

Agree Crispy Cream donuts are nothing special - The very best fresh donuts are at Browns in OCNJ. They are crack.

Jello - blech

Mojitos - taste like mouthwash. No thanks.

Tiramisu - some Italians act like it is some sacred dish that their Grandma used to make. No - not it isn't. It originated in the 1980's.

It's ok, but a rather tasteless spongy mess.

Oh - and Italian sugar cookies. Bland, flavorless - they're just sugar cookies.

Italian food is so amazing, I don't understand why there is so much reverence for these 2 desserts. They know good food - and these two are just subpar.

Dark meat chicken. Disgusting, but fatties love it.

R314 I don't think anyone goes crazy over dark meat chicken.

^I'll add cannoli to R313. You would think cannoli is something sacred to hear the way some people yammer on about it. The pastry is made with shortening (as are most Italian cookies). Shortening is tasteless and it leaves a gross, oily residue in your mouth. Blech. Pastry and cookies should be made with butter.

[quote]Lobster. A guy made a big deal of treating me to $100 worth of it once. After the meal I told him I'd have preferred the money.

And did he leave the money on the dresser after he left, like most of your customers do?

[quote]I wonder if Chick Corea likes chicory in his green salads?

He only orders it at the Chick-Fil-A in Koreatown.

Sushi

R316: a cannoli is never made with shortening, nor are any Italian pastries. Shortening is an American invention that never caught on internationally. The recipes that call for shortening are aberrations to accommodate the Anglo preference for high-fat, highly-stable confections to be consumed on a daily basis.

Clams casino. Smells like the beach at low tide.

R316 - agreed about cannoli. I'll add panna cotta to the list. And pannetone - never understood the hype about that one either.

Italian desserts just let me down somehow. I guess after all the other great courses of food, dessert is an afterthought. They make great gelato, so why aren't there better options?

r322 I've never heard of anyone's going crazy over cannoli, panna cotta (which I love), or pannettone.

R323 - I've heard a lot of people talk about where to get the best cannolis and argue about their merits.

And I hate to admit to watching this, but on RHONJ there was a major argument between two Italian women about who brought sprinkle cookies and whose were better. Sprinkle cookies?

I've been to several Italian-American gatherings, and there are dozens of these rather tasteless cookies but they all go gaga over them. And the cannolis. I don't get it.

Olives. Salty balls of nastiness.

We already had a huge fight about Italian pastries.

The final conclusion was that the French and, I think, the Belgians, do a way better job (at pastries).

R322 I totally agree — I adore Italian food but I can really take or leave their desserts (I do love certain cannolis though). I hate to say it but all the desserts that I truly can’t resist are American.

Most cake is so not worth it.

English Summer Pudding. I’d be happier with just the berries, but it comes with wet bread.

English summer pudding does look dreadful. English puddings (desserts) must have been invented by people with bad teeth (everything is soft).

^Oh, boy. Is this going to turn into another feud about the Brits and their awful teeth?

I wasn't intending to insult Brits' teeth, I was thinking about trifles, sticky toffee pudding, etc. Where's the crispy element? Nowhere.

[quote]I've been to several Italian-American gatherings, and there are dozens of these rather tasteless cookies but they all go gaga over them. And the cannolis. I don't get it.

Yup, same. They have fierce debates about which Italian bakeries have the best cannolis. And they'll drive an hour for their favorites.

I don't understand cannoli, either. There's a neighborhood bakery that sells what they call a "cream horn." Much better than a cannoli. I think it's the filling (rich custard vs. ricotta-based).

Champagne. Gross.

Cream.. of WHEAT!

prime rib

edamame - How did that get to be a trend? They are a pretty green color, but the texture is nasty. Bright green lima beans. Pass.

cupcakes - Talk about baby tastes, that was one of the stupidest trends ever.

Tres leches cake was mentioned upthread. I agree. I generally love Mexican food, but not the sweets. I don't think I've ever liked anything from a Mexican bakery.

red velvet cake - WTF? Pass.

pâté - Okay, I have baby tastes. I know it's liver, and I cannot get it into my mouth. Maybe it's wonderful; I'll never know.

"Cupcake" is a form, not a flavor. You can take any cake and make it into a cupcake. E.g., chocolate cupcakes, red velvet cupcakes, carrot cupcakes, etc.

Ice cream. Blech.

Animal flesh.

Bagel chips.

Biscotti

Iceberg lettuce

Edamame is fucking awesome, well for me personally. One of the few foods that once I start eating I cannot stop until they are all gone

Oysters, Calamari, Goat Cheese, Olives, Mushrooms, Chicken Wings (bone in), Ribs, Sushi (I mean, it's okay, but I can take or leave it).

In n out. I always feel gross after eating those burgers. Sriracha, Nutella,

Is it true that some restaurants substitute pig rectums for calamari?

Carrot cake. OMG ugh.

I don't get the lobster hatred. I've had lobster fresh out of the ocean and it's fantastic steamed or boiled. Hell I buy lobster tails somewhat frequently. The problem is they used to be all over New England now that the oceans are warming they've moved from the part of RI nearest New York's Long Island to the areas around Maine now. In fact in RI I know there's blue crab in the bay now. It's bizarre.

Fine, more for me

R345 Yes, at least according to NPR. They did an investigative piece on it some years. Most “calamari” is pig rectum, per their reporting.

Lobster is bland. No wonder it is best eaten smothered in mayonnaise on a roll or sipped in melted butter. Give me live mudcrab or live shrimp any day.

King cake...

Eating animals seems gross to me.

r350 You eat LIVE animals?

Wine. Any version. The taste makes me gag.

I do like champagne, however.

[quote] Foods that people go crazy over that really aren't that good.

your mom’s pussy

Olives-they have to be brined a long time to even be edible. They are just nasty and ruin anything they are on.