# Foods you wanted to try, that dissapoint **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 30, 2012, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-wanted-to-try-that-dissapoint/617253 "2012-03-30T09:55:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2012, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-wanted-to-try-that-dissapoint/617253/61 "2012-03-30T23:08:37Z")
Truffles, they tasted like rich smokey dirt. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2012, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-wanted-to-try-that-dissapoint/617253/62 "2012-03-30T23:16:34Z")
Gefilte fish. Very bland. Made better when wrapped in bacon, but still underwhelming. These were out of a jar. If I have the opportunity to try ‘good stuff’ (i.e., made by someone), I’ll try it again; but I won’t be buying any more. Pickled pigs’ feet. Hormel. Not sure what I was expecting, but not something I’d go out of my way (read: buy) to eat again. They were also kind of gross, with the gelatin and cartilage. Unlike the fish, these got tossed. I had an uncle (and dad, too) who said peanut butter and dill pickles tasted great. I haven’t tried that combination. > [@Infovore](#): > > 1. Vegemite. Picture if you will: it’s 1983. My friend and I have just started college, and are obsessed with the band Men at Work. _Down Under_ was playing a lot on the radio, _and_ I worked with a guy who had been a missionary in Papua New Guinea. I tried Vegemite and loved it. I mostly ate it (and still eat it) on English muffins. But I also like it on breakfast burritos – back then, and today. There was a catering truck near the office, and sometimes I’d have Vegemite on my Thai chicken. Anyone who has tried Vegemite and doesn’t like it, and doesn’t know what to do with the rest of the jar, send it to me. ---
**Author:** ![Ambihelical\_Hexnut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4491bb/32.png) [@Ambihelical\_Hexnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambihelical_Hexnut)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2012, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-wanted-to-try-that-dissapoint/617253/63 "2012-03-30T23:26:33Z")
> [@Lukeinva](#): > > Paella. An underwhelming plate of rice… with stuff that gets mooshy from being in the rice too long. I had completely the opposite experience with paella - everything was way too hard and crunchy. I would like to submit Champagne - it tastes like just another white wine to me. I’ll admit that I’ve never been able to pick out subtle flavours in any kind of wine - but considering the status that champagne has acquired over the centuries, I expected some kind of “wow” factor, even for someone who is clueless when it comes to wine tasting. ---
**Author:** ![Swords\_to\_Plowshares](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@Swords\_to\_Plowshares](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swords_to_Plowshares)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2012, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-wanted-to-try-that-dissapoint/617253/64 "2012-03-30T23:50:26Z")
Raw oysters are fine, but don’t justify the expense to me (and I am a die-hard seafood lover). Raw clams are 10x better. ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2012, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-wanted-to-try-that-dissapoint/617253/65 "2012-03-30T23:53:03Z")
Sweetbreads. I like most organ meats, and they were the special one night at the yummy French place I like to go to, so I gave them a shot. They were bland, oddly-textured (somehow mushy, rubbery, and spongy all at once), and what little taste they had was off. I didn’t even finish the plate. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2012, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-wanted-to-try-that-dissapoint/617253/66 "2012-03-31T01:43:48Z")
Couscous for me. I really wanted to like it since it seemed everyone else did, but it is nasty to me. Blech. ---
**Author:** ![Motorgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Motorgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motorgirl)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2012, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-wanted-to-try-that-dissapoint/617253/67 "2012-03-31T01:54:37Z")
> [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](#): > > I tried Turkish Delight for the same reason and loved it. But I like jelly beans and all that sort of chewy-sugar candy. > I’ve wanted to try the strawberry phosphates the kids talk about in _Our Town_, but I can’t find anyplace that makes them. > > I’ve been sadly disappointed by oysters, champagne, dim sum sweets, chocolate cream pies, meringues of any kind, and a soda-pop called Moxie. Phosphates are fabulous! If you like sour acidic things. Yum! Though I’m more partial to cherry or lime over strawberry. Haven’t had one since the 80s though. Not sure anyone serves them anymore. And Moxie is awful. My husband loves it but I think it’s foul. ---
**Author:** ![King\_Bobo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c68b51/32.png) [@King\_Bobo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/King_Bobo)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2012, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-wanted-to-try-that-dissapoint/617253/68 "2012-03-31T03:28:17Z")
Another vote for, in this case, very expensive Champagne being highly overrated IMO. Just too, too dry - hate making an involuntary duck-face with some really expensive stuff. Got a few laughs from cohorts though. ---
**Author:** ![kaiwik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaiwik/32/3978_2.png) [@kaiwik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaiwik)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2012, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-wanted-to-try-that-dissapoint/617253/69 "2012-03-31T03:39:38Z")
I was introduced to lobster in the early '70’s and it was divine. In the late 80’s I moved to Kodiak and ate more king crab than you can imagine. I came home in 2010 and have been to a very nice seafood restaurant several times and had the lobster and found it to be meh. I don’t know if it is just the variety of lobster being served, but I will happily eat any other seafood rather than lobster, with king and opillio crab being my top favorites. ---
**Author:** ![phxjcc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8491ac/32.png) [@phxjcc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phxjcc)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2012, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-wanted-to-try-that-dissapoint/617253/70 "2012-03-31T03:49:59Z")
Polenta People: it used to be called mush or grits. Boiled corn meal add some butter and parm and sell it for an outrageous amount of money. What you like is the butter and the parm–not the grits/mush. What a scam. ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2012, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-wanted-to-try-that-dissapoint/617253/71 "2012-03-31T04:11:05Z")
> [@Ambihelical\_Hexnut](#): > > I would like to submit Champagne - it tastes like just another white wine to me. I’ll admit that I’ve never been able to pick out subtle flavours in any kind of wine - but considering the status that champagne has acquired over the centuries, I expected some kind of “wow” factor, even for someone who is clueless when it comes to wine tasting. I enjoy wine, can pick out flavours (though don’t ask me about it! I buy whatever bottle looks the most interesting to me that day) and I hate champagne. I’ve had it a couple times, and once it was a supposedly good bottle of it that had been a gift to my Nana. Since everyone was home all the adults got a couple sips. Tastes like really weird bubbly apple juice. I have some sparkling non alcoholic drinks that taste a million times better. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2012, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-wanted-to-try-that-dissapoint/617253/72 "2012-03-31T04:33:56Z")
> [@moorland reiver](#): > > I was introduced to lobster in the early '70’s and it was divine. In the late 80’s I moved to Kodiak and ate more king crab than you can imagine. I came home in 2010 and have been to a very nice seafood restaurant several times and had the lobster and found it to be meh. I don’t know if it is just the variety of lobster being served, but I will happily eat any other seafood rather than lobster, with king and opillio crab being my top favorites. Crabs have a more assertive flavor. You probably judged by that. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2012, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-wanted-to-try-that-dissapoint/617253/73 "2012-03-31T08:50:33Z")
> [@Infovore](#): > > It wasn’t bad…it was just meh. Boring. Very bland (and I like fairly bland food, so _me_ saying it’s too bland really means something). Weird - I’ve heard people complain that ostrich is _too_ gamey and meaty (compared to beef), but _bland_? ---
**Author:** ![kaiwik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaiwik/32/3978_2.png) [@kaiwik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaiwik)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2012, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-wanted-to-try-that-dissapoint/617253/74 "2012-03-31T17:01:54Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > Crabs have a more assertive flavor. You probably judged by that. I politely disagree, I enjoy the mild and subtle flavor of other seafood. I remember lobster as being tender and succulent, however the lobster I have had in the last few years has tasted salty and strong, and the tail meat has been thin and kind of stringy. Perhaps I am getting poorly cooked lobsters, but I have had the same experience with a handful of restaurants. Perhaps I need to procure a live one and cook it myself before I write them off. ---
**Author:** ![FrigidLizard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3bc359/32.png) [@FrigidLizard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FrigidLizard)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2012, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-wanted-to-try-that-dissapoint/617253/75 "2012-04-02T21:45:11Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > I had an uncle (and dad, too) who said peanut butter and dill pickles tasted great. I haven’t tried that combination. My father used to make those, they’re…meh. I mean, they’re not nearly as gross as they sound, but they’re not really _good_ either. The overall effect is like extra-salty peanut butter. Meh. ---
**Author:** ![araminty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5e925/32.png) [@araminty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/araminty)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2012, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-wanted-to-try-that-dissapoint/617253/76 "2012-04-02T22:31:34Z")
> [@Lynn\_Bodoni](#): > > I wanted to love lox. I adore cream cheese on bagels, and I love smoked things, so adding lox should be even better, right? But lox is [cured](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lox), not smoked. You could try some actual smoked salmon, although the smoky flavour usually isn’t very strong. ---
**Author:** ![pbbth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f9ae1b/32.png) [@pbbth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pbbth)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2012, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-wanted-to-try-that-dissapoint/617253/77 "2012-04-02T23:46:43Z")
Grass fed beef. I’d heard it was supposed to dramatically improve the flavor of beef when the cows were grass-fed but it just ended up being unpleasantly gamey. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2012, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-wanted-to-try-that-dissapoint/617253/78 "2012-04-02T23:55:16Z")
Monkfish. I don’t know what I expected but it wasn’t the boney, tough, small piece of tail that I had. ---
**Author:** ![california\_jobcase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2012, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-wanted-to-try-that-dissapoint/617253/79 "2012-04-03T01:46:51Z")
A few years back, all the food and cooking shows started singing the praises of a certain herb. OK, thought I, I’ll try it- I like most herbs and spices. But I found out that CILANTRO SUCKS!!! ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2012, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-wanted-to-try-that-dissapoint/617253/80 "2012-04-03T01:48:13Z")
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