Foods that sound great but disappoint?

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  • janelleross
    janelleross Posts: 61 Member
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    Kayra42 wrote: »
    Celery sticks, everyone says how great and healthy snack it is but it tastes so disgusting, I literally wasn't able to finish one stick, it's just terrible :s

    This. I cannot stand celery! It has such a bitter, icky flavor. Yuck!
  • lesliekarp
    lesliekarp Posts: 3 Member
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    I wish the following food fads would go away: quinoa & kale. I've really tried to give both a fair shot. Alas, no. They are both underwhelming. Also, pureed cauliflower CANNOT be made into delicious substitutes for the following: pizza crust, mashed potatoes or alfredo sauce. Stop "pinning" these lies, people!
  • girlwithcurls2
    girlwithcurls2 Posts: 2,263 Member
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    This thread is hilarious. But a Mug Cake? What in the world is that? Cake is cake. And cauliflower pizza??? Only pizza is pizza, people. No wonder you guys are grossed out by these things.
  • Ang108
    Ang108 Posts: 1,711 Member
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    lngrunert wrote: »
    Count me in as someone else who really wants to love oatmeal but can't no matter what. It's okay as granola or in a cookie, but the texture of cooked oatmeal (and I've tried dozens of kinds and multiple toppings) never tastes like anything but paste to me.

    I don't care much for regular oatmeal either, because I don't care for sweet things and hardly ever eat them.. Yet, I ate it as a winter breakfast when I still lived at home in Germany, because supposedly it is good for you.
    When I lived and worked in India for 18 month, I learned to cook ( and l-o-v-e-d ) spicy oat meal that is made with all kinds of vegetables. You can google " oatmeal upma " or just plain " upma " ( and replace the cream of wheat, bread or whatever is used as a main ingredient with oatmeal ) and find hundreds of recipes. I now really like oatmeal this way and eat it often as a main meal topped with cilantro and a few drops of lime juice and of course lots of vegetables cooked with the oats.

  • Ang108
    Ang108 Posts: 1,711 Member
    edited January 2015
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    skirch01 wrote: »
    Oh, and Golden Milk made with turmeric. I tried to make some the other night, yuck. I will have to find another way to use turmeric, I guess, since it is so good for you.

    I take tumeric for years because I have RA and find it is easier ( if one can handle the color ) to just mix it with hot food. Scrambled eggs, all kinds of vegetables, I mix it with plain yogurt, chopped onion and cilantro as a potato topper, in hummus and many other things. Since it doesn't have much of a flavor, but is astringent, it works well with oriental foods also.

  • Tubbs216
    Tubbs216 Posts: 6,597 Member
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    Pupslice wrote: »
    cheap "chocolate" that's more sugar/corn syrup than actual chocolate. looks and smells wonderful but then...everything goes wrong, lol.

    Agreed. Took me a while to realise why my kids never ate those cute, huge chocolate bunnies my parents bought them from Walmart every Easter. Then I tried one.

    Also, skimmed milk. Looks and tastes like someone's just washed out their paintbrushes.

  • OCTOBERLISA
    OCTOBERLISA Posts: 38 Member
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    Peeps.
  • thenewkayla
    thenewkayla Posts: 313 Member
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    Humus. . No taste if you ask me. Oatmeal and yogurt as well I can't eat it is so bland. . :s
  • ParanormaLauren
    ParanormaLauren Posts: 69 Member
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    I really wish I could love avocado the way other people do. I feel like my nutritional life would be so much easier.

    Texture, taste...it just doesn't work for me.
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,372 Member
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    lesliekarp wrote: »
    I wish the following food fads would go away: quinoa & kale. I've really tried to give both a fair shot. Alas, no. They are both underwhelming. Also, pureed cauliflower CANNOT be made into delicious substitutes for the following: pizza crust, mashed potatoes or alfredo sauce. Stop "pinning" these lies, people!

    I love mashed cauliflower, but yeah, if you're having some expecting it to be similar to mashed potatoes... nope. Same with zucchini or spaghetti squash for pasta. I wish people would just stop mentioning those as 'substitutes'... There's *never* a substitute for the real thing. Just other options.
  • Mr_Knight
    Mr_Knight Posts: 9,532 Member
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    Little Caesar's Pretzel Crust Pepperoni Pizza.

    Major disappointment....
  • dbmata
    dbmata Posts: 12,951 Member
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    AllOutof_Bubblegum wrote: »
    dbmata wrote: »
    Never regret cinnabon. It's what angels are made of. Delicious angels.

    Are you familiar with The Blerch? 'Cause that's what Cinnabon's angels would look like.

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    No, but I'd shoot it, gut it, fill it with cinnamon, roast it, and ice it.
  • rubyautumn4
    rubyautumn4 Posts: 818 Member
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    Lasmartchika wrote: »
    Hummus. People are always raving about how good and healthy it is... ugh!! I didn't like the taste or consistency of it. Never again. :tongue:

    I read this as "humans"...
  • AngryViking1970
    AngryViking1970 Posts: 2,847 Member
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    Now I can't think of anything except Cinnabon.
  • CooCooPuff
    CooCooPuff Posts: 4,374 Member
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    Grits. It would have been better for me to just ask for the oatmeal.
  • mattjft
    mattjft Posts: 114 Member
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    any cottage cheese variety other then w/ chives.
  • dbmata
    dbmata Posts: 12,951 Member
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    spacequiztime wrote: »
    Grits. It would have been better for me to just ask for the oatmeal.
    whoa, they probably did it wrong then.

    so you cook those grits up with a little fresh sage, butter, parmesan, and bacon fat.

    Then, you top those grits with grilled shrimp and fiddleheads, or lacking those, asparagus tops.
  • Delilahhhhhh
    Delilahhhhhh Posts: 477 Member
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    Marzipan - sounds like it should be yum yum but oh my it just clings to your tongue and you can't get it off!!
  • CountessKitteh
    CountessKitteh Posts: 1,505 Member
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    dunnodunno wrote: »
    One time I decided to try plain cottage cheese with Chocolate PB2 & discovered it was very disgusting!

    As for healthier food I would have to say Kale chips (Kale is so vile) & Star Fruit (just had a blah taste).

    You're my hero for this.

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