# Things you crave but almost always disappoint when you get it **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 14, 2011, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-crave-but-almost-always-disappoint-when-you-get-it/567615 "2011-01-14T17:16:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-crave-but-almost-always-disappoint-when-you-get-it/567615/41 "2011-01-14T22:48:29Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > Corn dogs. My mental corn dog is less… variety-meaty than the ones at the State Fair, I think. Whoa…stop reading my mind! I was going to say that. (Although I live in Canada where we don’t have “state” fairs.) The coating also disappoints me. ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-crave-but-almost-always-disappoint-when-you-get-it/567615/42 "2011-01-14T22:52:36Z")
I’ll go a little more upscale: Risotto. It hardly ever tastes as good as the menu has you believe. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-crave-but-almost-always-disappoint-when-you-get-it/567615/43 "2011-01-14T23:01:11Z")
> [@suranyi](#): > > I’ll go a little more upscale: Risotto. It hardly ever tastes as good as the menu has you believe. Yes! I get such high hopes… ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-crave-but-almost-always-disappoint-when-you-get-it/567615/44 "2011-01-14T23:08:12Z")
> [@suranyi](#): > > I’ll go a little more upscale: Risotto. It hardly ever tastes as good as the menu has you believe. > [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > Yes! I get such high hopes… I feel that way about Polenta. ---
**Author:** ![FordTaurusSHO94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f07891/32.png) [@FordTaurusSHO94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordTaurusSHO94)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-crave-but-almost-always-disappoint-when-you-get-it/567615/45 "2011-01-14T23:29:34Z")
Fast cars. After getting a sport bike, it’s hard for a car to excite me from stomping the gas anymore. I’ve currently got a Cobra that should run low 11’s or high 12’s, but it has nowhere near the pull of my stock 600cc bike. That bike is also starting to feel kind of sluggish… ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-crave-but-almost-always-disappoint-when-you-get-it/567615/46 "2011-01-14T23:40:09Z")
Ballpark nachos with jalapenos. I get to craving these any time we’re at some venue (like a concert) and they never taste as good as my memory believes. They’re always crappy chips and worse cheese… why do I eat these things? ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2011, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-crave-but-almost-always-disappoint-when-you-get-it/567615/47 "2011-01-15T00:13:40Z")
Cream of wheat. When I have a craving for it, I recall the magical, generously-sugared and buttered creation that my mother would make when I was a kid. Now when I make it, it tastes like crap. Also, a 20-ounce bottle of soda is never as good I think it’s going to be. Like Coke. It’s always so “strong” (for lack of a better word) that it doesn’t quinch the thirst. And yet Coke from the fountain = nectar from the gods. I never can seem to remember that when I’m standing at the vending machine. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2011, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-crave-but-almost-always-disappoint-when-you-get-it/567615/48 "2011-01-15T02:28:26Z")
I crave an alcohol beverage that is the perfect balance of sweet sour and fruity without that nasty synthetic maraschino cherry and commercial sour mix taste. I crave the perfect cup of coffee, light and creamy, lightly sweet. No bitterness. No burnt bark undertaste. And no cholesterol or sugar … 😃 ---
**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:** [January 15, 2011, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-crave-but-almost-always-disappoint-when-you-get-it/567615/49 "2011-01-15T02:47:29Z")
> [@Claude\_Remains](#): > > Frozen White Castle burgers. Can’t get em fresh here and I always see them at the store. I keep trying but there’s no way to reheat with any hope of the taste of hot off the flat top. **Claude** , whenever my wife and I drive to the St Louis area to visit my mom (about three times a year) I always threaten to go to White Castle and get a bag of belly bombers while we’re in town, but it never happens. When we were back there for Christmas, I decided to stop and get some for lunch before we left town. It was disappointing. I guess White Castle’s just not the same if you don’t already have a few beers in you. ---
**Author:** ![fubbleskag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fubbleskag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fubbleskag)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2011, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-crave-but-almost-always-disappoint-when-you-get-it/567615/50 "2011-01-15T03:52:58Z")
Anal sex. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2011, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-crave-but-almost-always-disappoint-when-you-get-it/567615/51 "2011-01-15T04:02:10Z")
> [@devilsknew](#): > > I know, I guess there just never will be another Die Hard or original Terminator… can’t ever go back home. Although the recently released on DVD movie “Red” was fairly good and a pleasant surprise. Certainly better than most of the rehashed genre. I’ll second that - we saw “Red” a couple of weekends ago, and it was just pure fun. It had me wondering how it’s possible for Bruce Willis to be getting BETTER looking as he ages. 😕 > [@Ludy](#): > > OK this is going to sound really weird, and even though I came up with the idea while pregnant even when not pregnant I picture this tasting fantastic. > > Toast with peanut butter and fried egg. > > I imagine the crispy bits at the edge of the egg and a slightly runny yolk mingling perfectly with the smooth and peanut buttery goodness. Well not so much. I still try once in a while and it is never as good as it is in my head. Now I’m hungry for a fried egg with crispy bits at the edge. Fast food is usually in this category - it smells so good, and the commercials make it look so good, then you get this…thing on your tray. I hate, HATE wasting good calories on crappy burgers and cold fries. On the other hand, if the McDonald’s fries are fresh out of the grease, they don’t disappoint at all - those are some tasty fries. ---
**Author:** ![Kevbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e47774/32.png) [@Kevbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kevbo)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2011, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-crave-but-almost-always-disappoint-when-you-get-it/567615/52 "2011-01-15T04:17:00Z")
Tiramisu. At the Siebenstern Brauerie (Seven Star Brewery) in Vienna, I had some that was, literally, the best thing I have ever had in my mouth. Everywhere else is pretty good, but nothing to get super excited about. Duck at Chinese restraunts. Same deal, Cathay Post in Denver had awesome almond duck. Duck everywhere else has been disappointing, even when it was pretty good. Cathay Post was in the heart of the old skid row, and went away when LoDo got gentrified. Cinnamon flavored coffee. I love cinnamon. I love coffee. I love the smell of cinnamon flavored coffee. And it always tastes like CRAP! ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2011, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-crave-but-almost-always-disappoint-when-you-get-it/567615/53 "2011-01-15T04:21:56Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > The nut carts have these incredibly delicious smelling honey nuts freshly made right in front of you. Alas, the taste always disappoints. Oh, same. Except I’ve never had them. I think people have mentioned they’re not that good, but damned if I don’t want one whenever I’m standing by a nut cart. ETA: Why does the word “nut cart” look so damned dirty? It’s the “cart” part, isn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2011, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-crave-but-almost-always-disappoint-when-you-get-it/567615/54 "2011-01-15T04:52:36Z")
> [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](#): > > A lot of bottled imported beer (especially European or Asian) never tastes quite “right” when consumed here in the USA. (draught beer is usually OK, depending on the specific brand) I’ve noticed the same thing here in Australia with imported beers too… something like Tiger tasted really, really nice when I was in Singapore and Malaysia, but when I buy the same stuff from the bottle shops here, it’s terrible and bitter. Sam Adams was the same, too… really nice in the US, awful and bitter and malty when I’ve had it here. > [@Mister\_Rik](#): > > A snack food that will satisfy both my love of onions and my craving for something crunchy! So I buy a bag, and start munching, and … and … they just taste salty, not oniony. And while they are indeed crunchy, they are perhaps _too_ crunchy. And something about the combination of the flavor and the texture makes it feel like the stuff is making little burning cuts all over the roof of my mouth, and I never finish the bag. > > And then maybe a year later I’ll be browsing the chip aisle at Safeway, and think, “I’m tired of Doritos and Cheetos. What else is there … Oooo! Funyuns! I like Funyuns!” > > Lather, rinse, repeat. There’s an Asian “Onion Ring” snack that seems to be like Cheezels but with onion flavouring (and in the shape or large rings instead of tubes) that you can get in the Asian foods section of supermarkets here- except it has no onion taste at all. And yet I still occasionally buy it on the offchance that the previous bags I’ve had were from a bad batch. Nope, they’re snacky corn/onion rings that manage not to taste of onion. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2011, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-crave-but-almost-always-disappoint-when-you-get-it/567615/55 "2011-01-15T05:30:55Z")
Liver and onions. I never liked them as a kid, but the smell is AMAZING and I crave it regularly. I still don’t like to actually eat it, though, apparantly. ☹ But my gods, the amazing smell… ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2011, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-crave-but-almost-always-disappoint-when-you-get-it/567615/56 "2011-01-15T05:34:53Z")
Certain kinds of cheap candy fall into this category. About every 2-3 years I get a craving for Circus Peanuts. After taking one bite I throw away the rest. Same with candy corn. On the other hand, I always think sugar-free candy is going to be at least tolerable. It never is. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2011, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-crave-but-almost-always-disappoint-when-you-get-it/567615/57 "2011-01-15T05:45:21Z")
Computer Adventure Games. I want to relive the excitement and humour of the LucasArts games of the 90s, and instead I get either brave attempts that just don’t cut it, or something so modernised and multi-dimensional it misses the point of what makes a game fun. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2011, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-crave-but-almost-always-disappoint-when-you-get-it/567615/58 "2011-01-16T20:50:43Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > ETA: Why does the word “nut cart” look so damned dirty? It’s the “cart” part, isn’t it? There is a sexual position, “the nut cart”. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2011, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-crave-but-almost-always-disappoint-when-you-get-it/567615/59 "2011-01-16T21:02:02Z")
Anchovies and capers. For some reason I’ve got the idea that I like them in pizzas or salads, so I include them. After one taste I regret it. And green olives. I keep having to remind myself that I don’t like them. ---
**Author:** ![Renee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/renee/32/287_2.png) [@Renee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Renee)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2011, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-crave-but-almost-always-disappoint-when-you-get-it/567615/60 "2011-01-16T21:22:05Z")
I almost never (like, once every couple of years) eat fast food, and every single time I do decide I just \*need \*some, it makes me feel like absolute shit for approximately the next six hours. Every, single time. But sometimes I just \*need \*terrible, deep-fried food. Sigh. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-crave-but-almost-always-disappoint-when-you-get-it/567615.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-crave-but-almost-always-disappoint-when-you-get-it/567615.md?page=4)