Foods that sound great but disappoint?

defalise wrote: »

Seaweed chips are disgusting! They taste fishy. The audience on Dr.Oz lie when they say it tastes good. The other thing is brownies made from black beans. They were a disappointment, didn't taste very chocolatey and had a weird texture to them.

My kids love seaweed chips! I can't go near them. Never believe anything you see on Dr. OZ!

Liftng4Lis wrote: »

Store bought birthday cake.

This. Never worth it. Ever. If I'm having cake, it better be bakery cake.

For me, it's Cheet-ohs. I have such a love/hate relationship with them. Love the first few, but then it's like this terrible habit that keeps me going until I realize I can't feel my tongue. And for what? Ugh. Too much stuff in them that I just don't eat anymore. So why I do I try them every now and then? Habit. Blech.

oatmeal is vile, mushy nastiness. I want to like it...but its just gross no matter how you cook it. Especially overnight oats......NASTY!

Dairy free chocolate mousse, I figured how bad could it be??? Vile.

But I love porridge (oatmeal) but I have been eating it since I was tiny. My Nan used to give it to us with cream and sugar and honey (we didn't see her often so it was a treat).

abatonfan wrote: »

-McDonald's french fries. They taste way too salty now, even though the rest of my family complains that they're not salty at all.

Thank God someone else believes this! I was in a hurry and grabbed McDonald's and had the fries for the first time in a while and I thought that I was drowning in a salt mine!

For me, a sad and truly disappointing food is the rice/popcorn crisps that taste like foam board or packing peanuts. Sure they are low fat, but so are packing peanuts!

Organic cottage cheese (Organic Meadow but I think they're all basically the same). It's not like regular cottage cheese but kind of dry and crumbly. I don't really get it, or what to do with it? Also it doesn't taste very good. Once in awhile I like the full fat regular cottage cheese, but I get tired of it quickly so now I don't even bother.

Also rice cakes-- seems like a great snack but every time I try them again they taste like cardboard... doesn't matter which flavour.

Almond milk. Tried it in a smoothie and the texture was very...oily. Couldn't keep from gagging until I brushed my teeth.

Restaurant food - used to love going out to eat but now I prefer to cook at home. Get exactly what I want, reasonable portion, can control the calories, costs way less, and usually tastes great (still fine tuning my cooking skills).

First married -- husband insists I have to try liver & onions w/ bacon & potatoes --"You're gonna love it!" My mom hated having to eat liver as a kid, so I'd never had it @ home. The only time I did have it was, while in pharmacy school, & doing a lecture at a nursing home, they invited us to stay for lunch, & lucky (!) us, they were serving boiled liver--serious blergh!
My husband cooks 1/2 lb bacon, fries up potatoes & onions in some of the fat, then uses the rest to fry the flour dredged calves liver -- & when I tried it, all I could tell him was that if I was going to spend that many calories on something, it had to be on something that was better than "barely palatable".