# What new to you food most disappointed you? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 20, 2018, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-new-to-you-food-most-disappointed-you/821630 "2018-09-20T13:29:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2018, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-new-to-you-food-most-disappointed-you/821630/61 "2018-09-20T22:37:01Z")
> [@romansperson](#): > > Foie gras and caviar. Don’t care if I have either of those things ever again. Both were just meh to me. Man, you so crazy! Eating foie gras is like eating a silken meat pillow. It’s awesome! > [@DCnDC](#): > > Truffles. White, black, whatever; I must be one of those rare people who are unable to taste them, because they taste of absolutely nothing to me. Man, you so crazy! Truffles are the most aromatic, sexually charged food there is! > [@Alpha\_Twit](#): > > Scallops just never did very much for me. I’m not a huge seafood fan at the best of times but even a perfectly seared scallop is ignorable. Mild flavor, meaningless texture and where I live, HUGELY over priced. Similar to **DCnDC** ’c “bad one” comment, people often tell me that I just have not had one properly prepared and that if I go to their particular favorite restaurant then I’d love them. They often openly, gleefully hate the idea that I think I’m allowed to not adore something that they _know_ is the absolute perfect food. I just don’t get it. Man, you so crazy! Seared/browned sea scallops are the sea’s gift to mankind! > [@EscAlaMike](#): > > I had heard of Scrapple and I thought it looked interesting. I was at a food festival a couple of years ago, and some folks from Delaware were making Scrapple to give out as samples. I got to try it for the first time and was impressed. > [@Alpha\_Twit](#): > > I love scrapple! Just on general principal though, it’s easy to make tasty food when you don’t give the slightest XXXX about limiting your fat, salt and carb intake. People who eat scrapple on a regular basis may die at fifty but they die happy. Man, ya’ll so crazy! Goetta is a vastly superior product than Scrapple. ---
**Author:** ![Sloe\_Moe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@Sloe\_Moe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sloe_Moe)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2018, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-new-to-you-food-most-disappointed-you/821630/62 "2018-09-20T23:26:50Z")
Anything Korean, except summer kimchee cabbage which I like to take with cold beer. ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2018, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-new-to-you-food-most-disappointed-you/821630/63 "2018-09-20T23:43:43Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > French macarons, a pretty cookie (NOT a macaroon). They sounded very exotic and tasty, made with almond flour, coming in various flavors, and very labor intensive to make. We looked at a Martha Stewart recipe and it seemed very complex, so when they showed up at a shop near us, I bought us some. Four for $7! Pricey! they must be a real treat right? Wrong. … Very disappointing, very bland, just sweet. I liked the texture, but they weren’t all that. Macarons have to be absolutely fresh to be good. Which pretty much means you have to make them yourself, especially if you live in a humid climate. The effort-to-benefit ratio is generally not in our favor. I am glad I made macarons … once. I would not do it again. ---
**Author:** ![johnod](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/dc4da7/32.png) [@johnod](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnod)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2018, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-new-to-you-food-most-disappointed-you/821630/64 "2018-09-20T23:45:58Z")
Deep fried ice cream, not sure what I expected, but it wasn’t what I got. ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2018, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-new-to-you-food-most-disappointed-you/821630/65 "2018-09-20T23:53:50Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > Another disappointment was uni (sea urchin gonads served as sushi)–not because I had such high hopes for it, but because my upbeat curiosity was so cruelly dashed against the rocks of its “Bugs Bunny’s lung biopsy” texture. So orange, so mucousy, so revolting. I ordered it a second time, years later, to see if I was wrong. I was not. My foodie friends have extolled the deliciousness of uni, making me think I should try it if the opportunity presented itself. I appreciate the opposing opinion! ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2018, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-new-to-you-food-most-disappointed-you/821630/66 "2018-09-21T00:29:31Z")
When I was young, perhaps 6 or so, my grandfather provided me with a glass of buttermilk. For quite some time he’d been telling me how it was his favorite food, how he’d loved it as a kid, a rich mix of both whole milk (which I loved) and butter (which I loved). I’d been waiting to try it. And finally here it was. I grabbed the glass, took a huge swallow, and promptly barfed it across the room. Never again . . . . ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2018, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-new-to-you-food-most-disappointed-you/821630/67 "2018-09-21T00:53:00Z")
For me it was sushi. It’s pretty bland really, unless you put some spicy sauce on it. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2018, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-new-to-you-food-most-disappointed-you/821630/68 "2018-09-21T01:00:12Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > When I was young, perhaps 6 or so, my grandfather provided me with a glass of buttermilk. For quite some time he’d been telling me how it was his favorite food, how he’d loved it as a kid, a rich mix of both whole milk (which I loved) and butter (which I loved). I’d been waiting to try it. And finally here it was. > > I grabbed the glass, took a huge swallow, and promptly barfed it across the room. Huh? Buttermilk is the stuff that’s left over after the butterfat is removed. Today’s commercial buttermilk is SKIM milk with cultures added. Your Grandpa was fuckin’ with ya. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2018, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-new-to-you-food-most-disappointed-you/821630/69 "2018-09-21T01:09:17Z")
Chicken feet. My brother’s mother-in-law had raved about them to me, and then one day I’m at a Chinese restaurant and there they are on the menu. They weren’t even as good as meh. They were YUK GET THAT NASTY CRAP OUTTA MY MOUTH. ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2018, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-new-to-you-food-most-disappointed-you/821630/70 "2018-09-21T01:27:08Z")
> [@River\_Hippie](#): > > For me it was sushi. It’s pretty bland really, unless you put some spicy sauce on it. As long as we’re talking about Japanese stuff, I’ll add sake. I’ve tried really hard to like sake, have even tried the expensive stuff hoping it would somehow be better, and just can’t appreciate it. Japanese beer and plum wine don’t do anything for me either, and I like beer and wine in general. I know the Japanese put an extraordinary amount of care into these things, but they’re just a big nope for me. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2018, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-new-to-you-food-most-disappointed-you/821630/71 "2018-09-21T01:37:04Z")
Agree here about sake too. What’s the big deal? meh ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2018, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-new-to-you-food-most-disappointed-you/821630/72 "2018-09-21T01:48:29Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > Huh? Buttermilk is the stuff that’s left over after the butterfat is removed. Today’s commercial buttermilk is SKIM milk with cultures added. > > Your Grandpa was fuckin’ with ya. This was delivered from the local dairy by the milkman circa 1962. Supposedly the stuff left after the butter was churned. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2018, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-new-to-you-food-most-disappointed-you/821630/73 "2018-09-21T02:11:51Z")
> [@xizor](#): > > I admit, this second one might be because I don’t care for beer. But again, on my first trip to Germany, everybody was telling me how great the beer was, and so much better than American beer. > It tasted like beer. Would not drink it again. Similar to this, I recently had a frankfurter in Frankfurt. It was… exactly a hot dog. A good hot dog, but still just a hot dog. I’m not even sure why I thought it would be different, but I did. I suppose it’s a testament to the authenticity of the American product, but I just expected something… _more_. ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2018, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-new-to-you-food-most-disappointed-you/821630/74 "2018-09-21T02:52:38Z")
For me, marzipan. When I was a kid a read some book or saw a show that convinced me marzipan was the greatest treat imaginable. I bothered and begged my parents until the relented and found some. I was crushed when I bit into one and realized it was just chalky sugar, with a slight nutty taste. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2018, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-new-to-you-food-most-disappointed-you/821630/75 "2018-09-21T03:00:09Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > Eggplant! I know, right? Years ago, my wife and I went to our favorite Italian place, figuring if anyone could get it right for our first try at eggplant, it would be them. And they probably did it perfectly, but we both hated it. Hated it! It was like eating a big, tasteless booger! We apologized to the staff and ordered something else and insisted on paying for the eggplant entrees, but they would have none of that; they comped the eggplant meals and brought us a free dessert. I felt so bad for them; not their fault we ordered something new and unusual. And awful. > And scrapple rules! I have some mass-produced scrapple in my freezer. I’ve had a sinus infection, so when my appetite returns, I may finally cook it. I don’t like eggplant either. I even tried baba ganoush, and it tasted to me like spicy dirt. I realize it’s a staple of eastern Mediterranean cuisine, and guess what? I don’t like dolmas either. When I was in college, I worked at a steakhouse and sometimes had to serve crab. I didn’t even like the way it smelled. ---
**Author:** ![blob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blob/32/489_2.png) [@blob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blob)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2018, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-new-to-you-food-most-disappointed-you/821630/76 "2018-09-21T03:04:09Z")
> [@StarvingButStrong](#): > > This is probably true, though the hotel menu claimed their chef had specially gone over to London to learn to create the classic delights. :dubious: Yeh, he might not have created them well. Fairy cakes aren’t the same as regular cupcakes. They are a very light cake with the top cut out, and fresh whipped cream in the hole, and the top cut in half and poked into the cream (like wings) and then dusted with icing sugar. Is that what they gave you? > [@StarvingButStrong](#): > > OTOH, in the “Midsummer Murder” series there was one episode with a monstrous woman and her weirdo son, and they offered tea to the policemen. Then the son wheeled out a cart packed full of all sorts of little cakes and pastries and cookies and all and they looked wonderful. Would that sort of offering just be called tea, too? Or does it have a special name so you’ll know when you’ve found one. > > Or does no one except murderous whackos actually do that? In which case I’ll skip it, thanks. Yes, that array of stuff is tea - afternoon tea or high tea. Basically, because dinner wouldn’t happen until 8 or 9 o’clock, you’d stuff your face with sandwiches and cakes about 4 or 5 o’clock. Nobody at home does a smorgasbord of choice on a trolley, it’s a lot of effort and who will eat it all (scones don’t keep, you need to eat them pretty much straight away)? You need a group of people to make it worthwhile. But people might have something relatively substantial to eat in the afternoon, if they don’t eat until late… You can get it at the Ritz, but looking at the photos, those cakes look more continental than old-fashioned British. Your Agatha Christie houseguests would probably be getting jam roll and jam tart and eccles cakes and that sort of thing. [https://www.theritzlondon.com/dine-with-us/afternoon-tea/afternoon-tea-offers/traditional-afternoon-tea/](https://www.theritzlondon.com/dine-with-us/afternoon-tea/afternoon-tea-offers/traditional-afternoon-tea/) Things change. ---
**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:** [September 21, 2018, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-new-to-you-food-most-disappointed-you/821630/77 "2018-09-21T04:31:31Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > Today’s commercial buttermilk is SKIM milk with cultures added. Usually, more like 1% milk, not fully skimmed, but you can sometimes find 2%. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2018, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-new-to-you-food-most-disappointed-you/821630/78 "2018-09-21T04:46:11Z")
In and out burgers. Everyone claimed that they are the best thing ever. And the long lines certainly pointed to that being true. When I finally tried one…meh. maaaaaybe meh+ at best. I dont get it. ---
**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:** [September 21, 2018, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-new-to-you-food-most-disappointed-you/821630/79 "2018-09-21T04:53:21Z")
> [@snfaulkner](#): > > In and out burgers. Everyone claimed that they are the best thing ever. And the long lines certainly pointed to that being true. When I finally tried one…meh. maaaaaybe meh+ at best. I dont get it. Those are ones I always have to recommend with a caveat, as it seems you fall into two categories: either you love them, or you’re just completely flummoxed by the hype. I’m in the former camp (and I didn’t have my first one until I was almost 30), but I think people just expect something other than pretty much the perfect iconic American fast food burger. It’s just a humble hamburger. No more. No less. And if it’s good enough for Anthony Bourdain to call it his favorite restaurant in LA, it’s good enough for me. 🙂 But it’s similar to the hot dog comment above " It was… exactly a hot dog. A good hot dog, but still just a hot dog." To me, “just a hot dog” could be one of the greatest gustatory delights, depending on my mood and moment. Some of my favorite food memories involve eating hot dogs. And I’m talking normal hot dogs, with just mustard and maybe some onion and relish, not loaded with nutso toppings or anything. A hot dog can be a beautiful thing. ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2018, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-new-to-you-food-most-disappointed-you/821630/80 "2018-09-21T12:19:41Z")
For a lot of British treats like tea and scones, crumpets and turkish delight written about in 19th and 20th century novels you cant’t really appreciate them without first experiencing a long winter surviving on pickles, carrots and dried out ham. Kind of. 😛 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-new-to-you-food-most-disappointed-you/821630.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-new-to-you-food-most-disappointed-you/821630.md?page=5)