Have you ever been underwhelmed?

Fenway Park is a dump. It is not by any rational analysis one of the 20 best major league parks I’ve been to. I’ve been to 24.

ETA: @Ellecram two posts up …

You want local underwhelming cuisine, try this on for size. By far the best part is the dry detachment the wiki authors manage to maintain as they describe the horror within.

Agreed, but I’ve only been to about 20.

I did a tour of the old Tiger stadium the year before the new stadium opened. I think at the time it was a year older than Fenway. I found the tour fascinating. It wasn’t pretty or impressive, but it was so interesting how they’d had to retrofit all the new technology into such an old shell.

That is an abomination. I would pass.

Head to the Dollar Star for Pop Tarts and M&Ms.

Reading this reminded me of the St. Louis Sushi I saw in the HBO show Somebody Somewhere. Then I realized that St. Louis Sushr was a real thing.

As long as they’re cheaper knock-offs rather than the brand name genuine product. :crazy_face:

Yeah, it sounds like their cookbook was To Serve Man.

Cheese sauce. Which can vary depending on where you get it. And the meat doesn’t have to be hamburger, though that’s probably the most common.

And, it’s not just a cheeseburger and fries; it’s an open-faced meat sandwich, topped with fries and the cheese sauce.

Mine was not a hamburger. I can’t recall what kind of meat it was. But the cheese sauce was pure goo and it was difficult to eat. And not tasty at all.

I used to live about 100 miles from Springfield, and went there occasionally. Yes, I had a horseshoe, and its miniature, a ponyshoe, and to me, it was yet another variation of a Magic Mountain or a haystack dinner. Texas toast, potatoes in some form, ground beef, onions, and cheese sauce, with other toppings like hot peppers or salsa if you want it. Mine were always good, but maybe I happened to go to the right places.

You and I are complete opposites. Knossos was phenomenal.

Yet more small town Midwestern mystery meals unknown to the rest of us.

Please share what these are and where their terms are used.

The Magic Mountain was a staple of a recently-closed longtime Quad Cities restaurant called Ross’s, whose closure was a combination of relocation due to Interstate bridge expansion, COVID, and new owners. A haystack dinner is referenced many times in this column, written by an Old Order Amish woman. The column, then called “The Amish Cook”, was syndicated in my local newspaper in my old town, and is now posted online, although not by her.

Meteor Crater, Arizona.

It’s in the middle of freaking nowhere. It’s a big hole in the ground. I get a meteor made it and that was probably spectacular when it happened. Now, it’s a hole in the ground. A big hole but still. It’s neat for maybe 2-3 minutes and then…meh. Reading the stupid plaques in the visitor center didn’t help. Basically someone copy/pasted a few Wiki paragraphs with some graphics left over from the 70s (probably the other way around and Wiki got the info from those plaques).

If, for some reason you happen to be driving on that one road by it then sure…stop. It’s a deadly dull drive so this adds a little something. But even then you leave a bit underwhelmed. Tick a sightseeing thing off your list.

Also, four corners (where four states meet). Yawn.

I think we just picked the wrong place. Yours sounds delightful.

I went to both places in 1994, probably on adjacent days. I was traveling in the Four Corners direction, so why not (and of course there’s a picture of me squatting on the plaque, with one limb in each state). At the time, the Meteor Crater had a space museum that was probably about 10 years behind, but I still didn’t consider it a wasted side trip en route to the Grand Canyon, which did NOT disappoint.

I didn’t stop in Winslow, Arizona; I do remember that.

Saying this as a Texan: the Alamo is the most underwhelming historic site I’ve ever visited. All that’s left of the original mission is the chapel and a barracks, smack in the middle of urban development. After waiting in line and baking in the San Antonio sun for an hour, the entire “tour” takes about eight minutes. Do not recommend.

Agree. Went there about 8 years ago and it was not what I expected.