What is the most disappointed you've been with the way a certain food tasted?

Ugh, that sucks. I like mint chocolate just fine, but when you’re not expecting it it’s like eating toothpaste.

There’s a running argument my husband and I have, and it is about whether shepherd’s pie should be served with cheese on top. I’m in the “no” camp.

Anyway, we were waiting for the doors to open at some concert or other in downtown St. Pete, so we ducked into a little Irish-type pub for a drink and dinner before the show. He got… whatever he got, and I ordered the Shepherd’s Pie.

The woman asked if I wanted cheese. I made a big dramatic gesture, we chatted about the argument a bit, we all laughed, I made a point that I did not want cheese on my Shepherd’s Pie.

It came with cheese.

Whatever, I thought, I’m easy to get along with. I pushed what I could off to the side and tried to enjoy the pie anyway. I’m not the type to send stuff back to the kitchen unless it’s inedible.

I’ve never had such a bland, uninteresting pie in my life. It completely lacked flavor.

I ate my fill anyway, and we left the bartender a decent tip, but I will not be going back to that place, at least not to order food.

I hate when I pay for a meal and then realise I could have done it better myself.

Aeons ago, my parents made spaghetti with tomato sauce.
They put fucking bacon in it. I almost vomited.

WHY WOULD YOU EVEN?!?

Why would who even what??? Try to poison the coyotes??

Put bacon in spaghetti sauce?

I really don’t get the bacon hype. It’s just salted fat.

Especially because it was this type

Oh, I don’t like the bacon fad, either.

Eww. That one doesn’t even have the moderately flavorful lean parts in it.

That stuff should be rendered and made into soap.

They literally put it on bread and eat it raw. I dreaded each meal they cooked, fearing they might put it in there.

I’ve often lamented the lack of quality to be found in German food. It seems like they’ve never heard of vegetables.

Germans are allergic to vegetables.

That is why we invented meat salad

56519658165658 kinds of sauerkraut and a side of meat salad. Whee.

It actually is the perfect bread spread.

I believe that to be Nutella, but I’ll not knock meat-salad until I’ve tried it.

Best on real bread

Mmm, rye.

And let us not forget Germany’s favourite fast food

Kebab!

They try to call them “gyros” in America, which is hilarious because no one can pronounce it.

gyros is the greek version. i hear it tastes quite different.

“Yee-roes.” I don’t eat meat, but I do know how to pronounce “gyros”!

North American cheesecake made with commercial cream cheese always disappoints me. Slime. Urk. So pretty. So slimy.

I took a vegan cooking course. During the 1st of 3 sessions, the instructor, a vegan chef with her own catering company, created a meal while we all watched, listened, and learned. She doled-out portions of the finished meal for everyone to taste. Yuck…it was dreadful…barely edible!!! An entire roomful of people managed to be kind and polite but had the most disappointed facial expressions.

Unlike most of my classmates, I did return for sessions 2 and 3. The story had a happy ending. I learned how to make some delicious vegan sushi, and there was another dinner meal that was really excellent.

@BellaB Are you talking about that kind that has a lot of air in it, like they used whipped cream? Yeah. Nasty.

I ordered a, supposedly, Gourmet, made in house, Chicken Pot Pie at a restaurant awhile back and it was the nastiest thing I have ever tasted. It looked amazing, fluffy, nicely browned flaky crust, attractive presentation, but the taste was hideous!
The crust was sweet, SWEET, gag, and the gravy was off in some, hard to put your finger on manner.

It LOOKED so GOOD, but it was just icky. Very disappointing.

@Dutchess_III – No. Not airy, slimy. Using any kind of commercially prepared cream cheese can ruin good food.

I grew up with old-school cheesecakes, made with quark or cottage cheese. No strange toppings. Just proper cheesecake.

I never had cheesecake until I was in my late 20’s.

Best ever is The Cheesecake Factory in Kansas City.

Well! How ‘bout them apples? Knock on my door a moment ago. “Would you like to buy a candy bar?”
“Do you have dark chocolate?”
“Yes.” $1.00. done deal.

@Dutchess_III
Let me guess, it was not chocolate.

One time, my fellow employees and I we were taken to a very expensive restaurant for lunch. I don’t remember what the event was. They had only one thing on the menu that was vegetarian, that I could eat. It sounded great: mushroom risotto. It wasn’t. It was crunchy! I think the rice was not even cooked. It also tasted very salty with a slightly burnt after taste.

It was the first time I had ever eaten risotto. I had heard so much about how risotto was the “it” dish at that time. I even remember them always talking about risotto on Seinfeld, for some reason. Anyway, I have not liked risotto ever since that incident, even though people have told me that it’s good. I’ve never had good risotto in the few other times that I have tried it.

^^^ Risotto is very labor-intensive. The dish takes a long time to prepare and needs to be stirred while liquid is gradually added and absorbed. A good risotto is creamy and delicious, thanks to all that effort.

Because risotto has become a trendy meal, many restaurants have added the meal to their menus. But, most kitchens can’t cook risotto properly; busy chefs and limited staff are unable to stand over a pan, for about 30 – 35 minutes, stirring constantly and adding liquid.

If you’ve been trying restaurant risottos, you’ve likely received some kinds of rice dishes posing as risotto, not the real thing. Do you enjoy cooking? If you find a nice recipe for risotto and make it at home, you might be pleased with the results.

@Love_my_doggie I do love to cook, but labor intensive cooking is not something I enjoy. Maybe some day, I will eat some delicious risotto at a restaurant, but it’s not likely to be any time soon, because if there are other things on a menu, I will order something else.

Maybe someone in the mansion will spoon feed me some delicious, homemade risotto one day.

Well…will chocolate chip cookie dough work instead, @Kardamom?

@Dutchess_III Yes! That would be wonderful.

Most food after I’ve had a mint

@tranquilsea How about orange juice after toothpaste? Yuck!!!!

Or taking a drink of something thinking it’s grape juice and it turns out to be milk or something.

So I got a breakfast sandwich and a hash brown from McDonalds at about noon today. The hashbrown tasted like fish. >_<

Corn dogs. I always think they’re going to be delicious. They incorporate a couple of my favourite foods – hot dogs and corn bread. How come they just don’t taste good?

Funnel cake. White flour batter, plenty of grease, powdered sugar… Those are everyone’s favorite food groups, so what could go wrong? Yet, funnel cake is nasty.

It’s cake mix, not just flour. And they are SO good!

I got a pineapple pizza from Casey’s tonight. I bit into some thing strange. It was not a pineapple…it, ew, looked like a piece of raw bacon.

Homemade chocolate chip cookies with coconut oil replacing the butter. I have a killer family recipe, and I knew very little about coconut butter other than it’s probably a somewhat healthier saturated fat than butter, and that it’s a one-for-one replacement, and if it tastes marginally like coconut what could go wrong? Well, the texture of the cookies is swell, but they lost all the richness and creaminess they are supposed to have, and the coconut oil does plays especially badly with the vanilla and the walnuts. Not sure if it’s the type/quality of coconut oil I got (don’t know much about the product) or if it’s just the different flavor of it. Now I’ve got a bunch of batter waiting for me to do something with, because I foolishly made a full batch…

Erm, cookies anyone?

The current societal obsession with coconut oil is bordering on hilarious.

That said, strawberry boxed cake mix with coconut oil is really, really good.

Fun fact: Strawberries are NOT made of straw.

True. They’re also not, biologically, berries.