Foods you wanted to try, that dissapoint

[Tapiotar]

@Athena

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.

[lorene]

@dangermom

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.

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.