# Over Rated Items from your Regional Cuisine **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 12, 2009, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/over-rated-items-from-your-regional-cuisine/480940 "2009-01-12T17:31:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2009, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/over-rated-items-from-your-regional-cuisine/480940/221 "2009-01-19T19:58:55Z")
> [@](#): > > except for corn, and that’s undeniably good. I don’t like it. I especially don’t like it as corn on the cob. ---
**Author:** ![Labrador\_Deceiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Labrador\_Deceiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labrador_Deceiver)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2009, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/over-rated-items-from-your-regional-cuisine/480940/222 "2009-01-19T20:16:32Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > I don’t like it. I especially don’t like it as corn on the cob. I doubt that much of the corn which comes out of Iowa is eaten as corn on the cob. ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2009, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/over-rated-items-from-your-regional-cuisine/480940/223 "2009-01-19T20:16:32Z")
Another Pac NW one… **Ivar’s** fish and chips. Being a port city with wonderful seafood, you’d think it would be possible to get a decent fish and chip in this town. Their fish is bland and chewy, and the fries are forgettable filler. They’re fine if you’re starving and dump half a bottle of malt vinegar over them, but then isn’t anything better that way? ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2009, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/over-rated-items-from-your-regional-cuisine/480940/224 "2009-01-19T20:23:10Z")
> [@Labrador\_Deceiver](#): > > I doubt that much of the corn which comes out of Iowa is eaten as corn on the cob. I’m not fond of corn in any form where it is recognizable as corn. Its highest calling is to be fed to animals and so become meat. ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Tyger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Silver\_Tyger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Tyger)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2009, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/over-rated-items-from-your-regional-cuisine/480940/225 "2009-01-19T21:21:21Z")
If RenFaire counts as a region, then I offer turkey legs. Turkey is a wonderful meat, far better than it’s pale and tasteless cousin the chicken. But the leg, even when properly cooked, tends to be dry (at least in my experience). At Faire, when it’s been sitting on a warmer for at least two hours, it goes from dry to dessicated. So you pay five bucks (or more) for this mummified tasteless club of meat. And by the time you eat it, you’re covered in grease and there are no bathrooms to wash up in. Ick. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2009, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/over-rated-items-from-your-regional-cuisine/480940/226 "2009-01-19T21:28:07Z")
And like RenFaire clothing, it’s uncomfortable and very inconvenient, but you look damn good doing it (in RenFaire terms, anyway). ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2009, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/over-rated-items-from-your-regional-cuisine/480940/227 "2009-01-19T22:19:02Z")
> [@Silver Tyger Girl](#): > > But the leg, even when properly cooked, tends to be dry (at least in my experience). Hmm…In my experience, properly cooked, the leg is usually the juiciest piece of meat, behind the thigh. It’s the breast that is usually dry unless absolutely perfectly cooked. ---
**Author:** ![BlinkingDuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eada6e/32.png) [@BlinkingDuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlinkingDuck)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2009, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/over-rated-items-from-your-regional-cuisine/480940/228 "2009-01-19T22:35:01Z")
I know this may shock some people…but the lutefisk here in MN is not as good as you have heard. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2009, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/over-rated-items-from-your-regional-cuisine/480940/229 "2009-01-19T23:38:14Z")
> [@Labrador\_Deceiver](#): > > If they’re bland, you aren’t doing it right. That’s true of so much in life… ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2009, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/over-rated-items-from-your-regional-cuisine/480940/230 "2009-01-19T23:46:26Z")
> [@BlinkingDuck](#): > > I know this may shock some people…but the lutefisk here in MN is not as good as you have heard. I wouldnt be so bold as to say thats the worst/most inedible crap I’ve ever eaten, but its certainly in the running! ---
**Author:** ![Labrador\_Deceiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Labrador\_Deceiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labrador_Deceiver)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2009, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/over-rated-items-from-your-regional-cuisine/480940/231 "2009-01-19T23:49:06Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Hmm…In my experience, properly cooked, the leg is usually the juiciest piece of meat, behind the thigh. It’s the breast that is usually dry unless absolutely perfectly cooked. Oh yeah. The thigh & leg are easily the juiciest part of just about any bird, save a wild turkey. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/over-rated-items-from-your-regional-cuisine/480940.md?page=11)