# Foods you wanted to try, that dissapoint

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-wanted-to-try-that-dissapoint/617253>\
**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:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Tapiotar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3be4f8/32.png) [@Tapiotar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapiotar)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2012, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-wanted-to-try-that-dissapoint/617253/141 "2012-04-05T12:50:58Z")

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> [@Athena](#):
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> Yeah, in my experience people either LOVE Campari or hate it. We’re in the love category Chez Athena, but I’ve given it to plenty of people to try, and I’d say about 60% hate it.

When I first had Campari, it was mixed with orange juice. The combination of sweet and bitter was wonderful. I won’t have it that way anymore, because oj just has too much sugar (natural fruit sugar, yes, but sugar nonetheless). But Campari haters might want to add just a little oj to their Campari soda and try again.

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**Author:** ![lorene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/65b543/32.png) [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2012, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-wanted-to-try-that-dissapoint/617253/142 "2012-04-05T13:13:14Z")

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> [@dangermom](#):
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> I had always wanted to try Turkish Delight, since it’s what leads Edmund to his doom. I tried some last week. Blech. It must have been that WWII rationing warping Edmund’s mind, because I would have gone for a Cadbury bar any day.
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> The same thing happened when I was a kid on a trip to New York. I had read books that mentioned egg creams, especially chocolate ones, and I just had to try one. It was horrible, but that may have been because we were in a cafe in a subway station, I don’t know.

These are exactly the 2 examples I thought of when I saw the thread title.

For egg creams, I blame that **Harriet the Spy**. She was the one (OK, it was actually Louise Fitzhugh, but still…) who introduced me to the concept. When I tried one, it wasn’t horrible, but it wasn’t special, either.

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