# 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:** 1\ **Showing post:** 329
**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, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-you-always-wanted-to-try-and-were-sorely-disappointed-with-when-you-finally-did/1025419/329 "2025-12-12T13:53:31Z")
This is something I hadn’t “always wanted to try”. But something I stumbled on one day that looked like a great idea until I tried it. Not so; at least not for me. I made my post in the opposite thread as a counterpoint to others liking, or almost liking, the same thing. But my post really fits here better than there. > [@Something you never tried, and were pleasantly surprised when you finally did](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-you-never-tried-and-were-pleasantly-surprised-when-you-finally-did/1025522/39): > > I’m pretty iron-stomached. And eat a lot of cheese and a lot of beef. Used to eat greasy loaded deep dish pizza without issue. A couple years ago I had a raclette steak for dinner. First time ever. Nice restaurant. Tasted great, albeit the cheese was a little bunch of work to chew. I have not been made that sick from a meal in decades. It was partly overeating, and I guess mostly a monster grease / cheese overdose. I really doubt the food was spoiled or miscooked or anything like that. It wa… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-you-always-wanted-to-try-and-were-sorely-disappointed-with-when-you-finally-did/1025419)._