# Something you always wanted to try, and were sorely disappointed with when you finally did **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** food-cooking\ **Created:** [December 5, 2025, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-you-always-wanted-to-try-and-were-sorely-disappointed-with-when-you-finally-did/1025419 "2025-12-05T04:25:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 18
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2025, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-you-always-wanted-to-try-and-were-sorely-disappointed-with-when-you-finally-did/1025419/341 "2025-12-12T18:02:43Z")
> [@commasense](#): > > I like my waffles hot, with lots of butter and maple syrup, and I prefer sweet things like that at the end of the meal, like you know, dessert. You’re supposed to get a little syrup on the chicken and eat them together 🙂. It’s like pigs in a blanket - at least the version I’m familiar with, which is breakfast sausage wrapped in a pancake. A little sweet with the savory. Which granted isn’t for everyone. When I was young the idea of stuff like raisins or other fruit mixed in with savory food horrified me. Now I’m pleased when ever I run across them in, say, a biryani. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2025, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-you-always-wanted-to-try-and-were-sorely-disappointed-with-when-you-finally-did/1025419/342 "2025-12-12T18:56:40Z")
> [@Crafter\_Man](#): > > Zip lining. Thought it would be fun, but found it rather pointless. We did zip lining on Maui when we went to Hawaii for our 25th wedding anniversary. It was fun, but not what I was expecting. We were never more than maybe two or three stories off the ground. I wanted to be zipping through the treetops! ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2025, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-you-always-wanted-to-try-and-were-sorely-disappointed-with-when-you-finally-did/1025419/343 "2025-12-12T18:56:57Z")
IMO the entire point of chicken and waffles is to start with a chicken batter that’s heavily sweetened with sugar. The stuff Chick-Fil-A uses qualifies. Then when the chicken hits the table atop your waffles made with sugar in their batter, you pour syrup all over the chicken and eat that. So it’s all sweet and greasy and salty. Then you add more syrup to the underlying waffles and eat them after they absorbed a bunch of chix grease so they too are sweet and greasy. Or just take turns with bites of each. As long as both are dripping with syrup you’re golden. It’s the perfect ~~diabetes-ogenic obese-ogenc~~ American meal! 🤪 ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2025, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-you-always-wanted-to-try-and-were-sorely-disappointed-with-when-you-finally-did/1025419/344 "2025-12-12T18:59:25Z")
There are ziplines and there are ziplines. I’ve done ones in Costa Rica where you’re 500 feet above a jungle covered canyon and in and out of the treetops. While looking out at the ocean 4000 feet below 4 miles away. Then there’s this: > **[Flying Dutchman](https://rainforestadventure.com/package/flying-dutchman/)** > > The Flying Dutchman. The Main Attraction And The Steepest Zip Line In The World. ✅ Book this tour now and enjoy the amazing experience! Been there done that. Good stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2025, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-you-always-wanted-to-try-and-were-sorely-disappointed-with-when-you-finally-did/1025419/345 "2025-12-12T19:23:48Z")
> [@Orville\_mogul](#): > > hmmm. A Greek/Italian place serving a Chinese/Peruvian dish. Nothing to be disappointed about… Chinese? I’ve had it several times and it tastes good, wherever it’s from 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2025, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-you-always-wanted-to-try-and-were-sorely-disappointed-with-when-you-finally-did/1025419/346 "2025-12-12T19:28:17Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > We did zip lining on Maui when we went to Hawaii for our 25th wedding anniversary. It was fun, but not what I was expecting. We were never more than maybe two or three stories off the ground. I wanted to be zipping through the treetops! I like that idea in concept. In reality I suspect someone would have to push me off the platform. Ideally after I’m buckled in. How about [The Plunge](https://www.solitarywanderer.com/the-plunge-in-danao-adventure-park/), in the Phillipines? Not a zipline - though there are quite a few there as well. ---
**Author:** ![Al128](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/al128/32/16541_2.png) [@Al128](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Al128)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2025, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-you-always-wanted-to-try-and-were-sorely-disappointed-with-when-you-finally-did/1025419/347 "2025-12-12T22:26:30Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > True. But when the event happened 3 years ago how old was the car then? still old enough to legally smoke ---
**Author:** ![DaveUnknown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/94ad74/32.png) [@DaveUnknown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaveUnknown)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2025, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-you-always-wanted-to-try-and-were-sorely-disappointed-with-when-you-finally-did/1025419/348 "2025-12-13T01:28:33Z")
> [@Orville\_mogul](#): > > > [@ParallelLines](#): > > > > So the grits were watery, no tangible butter, cream, cheese, and those _terrible_ micro-salad shrimp, or 3-4 limp but bigger ones that looked like they’d been plucked from one of those mass-market “shrimp cocktail” rings. > > funny, to me shrimp and grits is such a wonderfully perfect and simple savory dish that I find it hard to imagine someone screwing it up. But your description does indeed sounds horrible That’s the thing– everyone says how great it is, so I went for it. The grits are the hang up. I just don’t like grits and eating them with really great shrimp (“Mayport Shrimp”) confirmed that I don’t. It’s the consistency– I don’t like polenta either. I do like mashed potatoes. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2025, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-you-always-wanted-to-try-and-were-sorely-disappointed-with-when-you-finally-did/1025419/349 "2025-12-13T01:38:15Z")
I think that to like shrimp and grits it’s sorta a prerequisite to like shrimp. And to like grits. Lacking either of those two key features makes for a disappointing meal. ---
**Author:** ![DaveUnknown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/94ad74/32.png) [@DaveUnknown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaveUnknown)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2025, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-you-always-wanted-to-try-and-were-sorely-disappointed-with-when-you-finally-did/1025419/350 "2025-12-13T01:42:39Z")
I really wanted to try it! “Maybe this time…. “ but it wasn’t time. The shrimp were great. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2025, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-you-always-wanted-to-try-and-were-sorely-disappointed-with-when-you-finally-did/1025419/351 "2025-12-13T13:04:56Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Licorice / anise is another of those love it / hate it flavors. I’ll happily take your ration. Get in line, flyboy! ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2025, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-you-always-wanted-to-try-and-were-sorely-disappointed-with-when-you-finally-did/1025419/352 "2025-12-13T13:42:35Z")
> [@robby](#): > > My three static line jumps all followed the same procedure: connect the end of the static line (which I think was a carabiner clip) to a D-ring in the plane. The jumpmaster then opened the door and you were expected to _climb out, grab the wing strut while stepping onto the footrest on top of the landing gear wheel, then inch out hand over hand until you were hanging from onto the very end of the strut_. At some point during this operation you would step _off_ the footrest so you were completely hanging. This all took a minute or so. That reminds me of some details I had forgotten, which were a little different from what you describe. Our jump zone used a Cessna most of the time (pretty sure it was a 172) and you didn’t just jump right out of it – at least, we beginners didn’t. You had to climb out and stand on the actual wheel (there was no footrest) while holding on to the wing against the air blast. The pilot was supposed to have the wheel brakes on, and there were stories about when the pilot forgot the brakes and hilarity ensued! Then, at the right moment as instructed, you pushed off and assumed the stable spread-eagle position as you started falling, because you don’t want to be rolling or tumbling when the chute deploys. Another detail I’m recalling is that as the plane circled the jump zone, the jumpmaster threw some sort of object out of the plane that was designed to fall at about the same rate as a jumper under a parachute. The idea was to assess the winds and determine the optimum jumping-off point for the novices so they didn’t end up in power lines or in the nearby cornfields of irate farmers! Although on one jump I had to do some quick steering to avoid landing on railway tracks or telegraph wires! Other than that, my landings were pretty soft and uneventful. ---
**Author:** ![sciurophobic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cab0a1/32.png) [@sciurophobic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sciurophobic)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2025, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-you-always-wanted-to-try-and-were-sorely-disappointed-with-when-you-finally-did/1025419/353 "2025-12-13T16:24:32Z")
> [@Mama\_Zappa](#): > > Chinese? > > I’ve had it several times and it tastes good, wherever it’s from 😃 Chinese immigrants brought stir-fry to Peru. The potato-loving Peruvians thought, “This is tasty, but it needs fries.” ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2025, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-you-always-wanted-to-try-and-were-sorely-disappointed-with-when-you-finally-did/1025419/354 "2025-12-13T17:05:27Z")
> [@Tamerlane](#): > > Which granted isn’t for everyone. When I was young the idea of stuff like raisins or other fruit mixed in with savory food horrified me. Now I’m pleased when ever I run across them in, say, a biryani. Usually my tolerance of sweet & savory only extends to whatever syrup I can’t avoid getting on my sausage when having pancakes and sausage, but I’ve had rice pilaf with dried apricots in it and it was surprisingly good. And biryani is always good! > [@Shoeless](#): > > We did zip lining on Maui when we went to Hawaii for our 25th wedding anniversary. It was fun, but not what I was expecting. We were never more than maybe two or three stories off the ground. I wanted to be zipping through the treetops! Having ziplined a few times, I’m getting the impression that it’s marketed as some sort of adrenaline sport, but it’s really just a way to get views that you otherwise wouldn’t get. That’s because after that very first hop off the platform, you realize that you’re not going to fall and that there’s very little risk, regardless of the distance or height of the run. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2025, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-you-always-wanted-to-try-and-were-sorely-disappointed-with-when-you-finally-did/1025419/355 "2025-12-13T17:50:02Z")
> [@bump](#): > > Usually my tolerance of sweet & savory only extends to whatever syrup I can’t avoid getting on my sausage when having pancakes and sausage That’s why they have side plates. So the syrup never gets on the real food. My syrup days are behind me, but getting any on my eggs, bacon, etc., was the end of that stuff being edible. Those two ideas do _not_ mix. At all. > [@bump](#): > > Having ziplined a few times, I’m getting the impression that it’s marketed as some sort of adrenaline sport, but it’s really just a way to get views that you otherwise wouldn’t get. Agreed. It’s an “adrenaline sport” suitable for grandma. I suppose that for the severe height-o-phobes (acrophobes in the jargon) it’d be adrenaline inducing and not in a good way. Absent that it’s usually pretty tame. ---
**Author:** ![ricepad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b38774/32.png) [@ricepad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ricepad)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2025, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-you-always-wanted-to-try-and-were-sorely-disappointed-with-when-you-finally-did/1025419/356 "2025-12-13T17:52:44Z")
I didn’t see this mentioned previously (and if it’s listed, I missed it): Dragon fruit. So cool to look at. So meh to taste. Doesn’t taste like dragon - or at least how I would expect a dragon to taste - and barely tastes like fruit. ---
**Author:** ![peccavi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peccavi/32/388_2.png) [@peccavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peccavi)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2025, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-you-always-wanted-to-try-and-were-sorely-disappointed-with-when-you-finally-did/1025419/357 "2025-12-13T20:27:43Z")
There’s also Italy > **[Il Volo dell’Angelo - The Angel’s Flight](https://www.volodellangelo.com/eng/web/item.asp?nav=41)** ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2025, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-you-always-wanted-to-try-and-were-sorely-disappointed-with-when-you-finally-did/1025419/358 "2025-12-13T20:31:30Z")
> [@DaveUnknown](#): > > The grits are the hang up. I just don’t like grits and eating them with really great shrimp (“Mayport Shrimp”) confirmed that I don’t. It’s the consistency– I don’t like polenta either. I do like mashed potatoes. I like Mashed taters also. My Buddy made me some great grits. First fry bacon, until crumbly. Next fry the pre-cooked grits in the bacon grease. Top with the bacon and shredded cheese. But lots of stuff would be great like that. Just boiled grits? No thanks. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2025, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-you-always-wanted-to-try-and-were-sorely-disappointed-with-when-you-finally-did/1025419/359 "2025-12-13T20:43:06Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > But lots of stuff would be great like that. Hmm … lets try this instead: > First fry bacon, until crumbly. Next fry the pre-cooked ~~grits~~ sneaker in the bacon grease. Top with the bacon and shredded cheese. Wow, you’re right. That does sound good!! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2025, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-you-always-wanted-to-try-and-were-sorely-disappointed-with-when-you-finally-did/1025419/360 "2025-12-13T20:45:03Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Wow, you’re right. That does sound good!! Snort, very funny. How about mashed potatoes as a replacement? Polenta? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-you-always-wanted-to-try-and-were-sorely-disappointed-with-when-you-finally-did/1025419.md?page=17) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-you-always-wanted-to-try-and-were-sorely-disappointed-with-when-you-finally-did/1025419.md?page=19)