Also curious about things that are the other way around where they look really good but taste awful.
For the second category: dragonfruit looks amazing, but tastes like you took sugar-water for a hummingbird and solidified it. Basically no flavor apart from mild sweetness, unless I got a dud or something
Been eating it for years. This checks out, no matter if it’s the white one or red one
Supposedly the yellow ones have a little more flavor but I can never find those.
But yeah the best pink dragonfruit I had tasted like water with just the smallest hint of sugar and lawn clippings. So disappointing.
SoS (chipped beef on toast)? Don’t know because I have never tried it.
My grandfather (served in WWII and Korea) LOVED this. He’d add soy sauce to the chipped beef, thus explaining his two heart attacks.
He’d add soy sauce to the chipped beef,
Because there wasn’t already enough salt in salted dried beef.
Shit on a Shingle, I though that was beans on toast.
I believe it was a wwii army thing and definitely creamed chipped beef. Beans on toast sounds very British so maybe different foods were called that.
I frequently watch videos of people from outside the US trying biscuits and gravy for the first time. Every one starts with “I’m not trying that disgusting slop” and ends with “I want to eat this every day for the rest of my life”
Random pic from the Internet for reference.
I have not found a better hangover cure than biscuits and gravy.
Well, except moderation of course, but you know… the everything.
Hashbrowns covered in chili, cheese, and sausage gravy. Aka the waffle House smothered hashbrowns
This was my experience with poutine before and after visiting Canada. No one truly gets it until they’ve had it. The real stuff. Not shredded mozzarella over fries.
White cheddar cheese curds/squeakers over fries with piping hot brown gravy poured directly over.
Now I live in Canada and eat it all the time.
Got a picture because that sounds awesome.
Edit: NVM I saw the other comment
A good split pea soup, for sure.
Edit: and macarons look super pretty but taste…meh? Imo. Like if you were to imagine what Barbie food tasted like, it’d be a macaron.
Dutch Pea Soup is the absolute best. My girlfriend calls it fart juice
To be clear, you mean the French sandwich cookies, not macaroons, right?
I dunno who your macaron guy is but I’ve had some absolute bangers.
Agreed, Barbie is a meringue at best.
Yep, I was gonna post this.
Split pea soup just actually looks like literal vomit or diarrhea, has a very, very weird texture to it visually…
… but if you do it right, it just tastes amazing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baba_ghanoush
Looks like slop, tastes like a party in your mouth.
I once threw away baba ghanoush that was intended for dinner because I thought it was discarded remains. I thought I was being helpful, but I was not.
Babar Ganesh!
So we can add hummus and… probably lots of other sauces / dips as well.My candidate might be guacamole, which looks like it could almost be toxic ooze at first sight.
Honestly a lot of Mexican food looks kind of rough. Molé sauce looks like something you’d have to eat during a fraternity hazing. Birra, looks greasy and almost violently red. Nachos even, are not the most appealing food. But they’re all amazing. So much flavor. The texture is exquisite despite appearances. Largely we’ve learned to maybe adapt our visual palates, I feel.
I honestly believe that the Mexican cooks invented the burrito because everything inside, especially mushed together, looks fucking gross. But if you wrap it in a tortilla so you don’t have to look at it, it tastes fucking awesome.
There’s a Mexican place that opened very close to me, and I’ve been a bit bewildered by the general lack of flavor in their stuff. Examples would be their barbacoa, birria, pastor, chicken tinga, and carnitas. Funnily-enough, they load up the spices in their ground beef, so that’s most usually my protein filling. 😕
I really don’t know quite what to say in trying to suggest to a Oaxacan-style restaurant that their meats need more spices…
Because you don’t speak Spanish?
Hablo bastante castellano, pero ese no era la problema.
The founders spoke perfectly fine English, but at least one of them seemed sensitive about the issue, so I didn’t pursue.
Next up is Steven Babaganoosh!
Right you are, Ken.
That actually looks really tasty.
Check how it looks kn the box without the cream.
I might be biased; it looks like a tub of chocolate cake batter to me lol. Not the prettiest presentation, technically, but still appealing.
Tastes like a stout beer. I love it, and make bread with it too, but many people don’t care for it.
I’d eat your mämmi in a heartbeat
Looks awful, tastes great? Lots of fried foods are the first things that comes to mind. They look beige and bland more often than not, but can be really good (in moderation, too much makes me sick).
Looks great and tastes awful goes to bananas. They look good and all but my goodness they suck.
Pretty much all seafood. Shrimp in particular tastes fantastic but looks like something you’d try to flatten with a shoe.
Yum, ocean bugs
Shrimps is bugs after all.
Mussels look like tiny brains. I like them, but very often I pass on the brains.
Oysters. Snails. Mussels.
I’m gonna catch hate for this, but I don’t care. I have a thing that physically looks awful, but also seems conceptually awful.
Sometimes, if I have the money and I wanna get a little treat, I’ll buy a block of cheese, Nutella, and bread, and make a Nutella and cheese sandwich. I do not know why or how I got to the point where I ate it, but I did and I love it.
Usually, I’d get like a pecorino romano cheese, cut a couple slices of dark (full grain) bread, and just paste it in place with Nutella, and that would be a little desert for me. If I have a lot of cheese on there, I might add raspberry jam (not too much or it gets waaaaay too sweet).
My first thought was the only way this could be good is with sharp parmesan. Pecarino will do better. I’d probably smash this, but it sounds better on crackers.
I do PB and cheese sometimes; it’s awesome. Not a big fan of Nutella, but I imagine it’s the same kind of combo with the sweet and savory mix. Sometimes I’ll add a piece of salami into the mix also, but it’s fine without it, too.
Though, in my opinion, if you want a home run quick sandwich, make a PB&J but then butter the outside and cook it like a grilled cheese. To die for.
Are you, by chance, a rat who controls a French man and helps him with cooking?
If the position’s open, I’m there! But alas, I am a rat for free at this time. :3
I’m sure there’s a French man to be ridden and controlled around here somewhere.
Made even better by the addition of a slice of salami.
Honestly, if you add salami, I would say bump up the jam you put on it, too. The extra umami makes room for more sweet. I bet this absolutely rules.
bump up the jam
Not to be confused with the unrelated 1989 Belgian techno anthem.
You know, it had never occured to me to do cheese and nutella, but that actually does sound like exactly the kind of snack that hits a wide range of flavor notes, that I would make.
Like, I’ve done something kind of comparable, maybe:
An everything bagel, toasted, cream cheese, strawberry jam.
Most people would probably do that on a plain bagel, and find the salty and oniony/garlicy bits and such to be nonconformant with the rest of it being basically smooth and sweet… but i like the whole package of flavors approach, as long as they’re well balanced.
Nutella is swimming in palm oil IIRC. Maybe a cocoa-based version could work?
Is palm oil bad?
It’s a cheap and tasteless alternative to cocoa butter, it’s used in shit tier chocolate.
I’m having a bit of trouble understanding what it’s saying about how bad it is, but I get the impression less is just better always? Either way, though, you can for sure swap out Nutella with anything else vaguely in the same ballpark. What makes the sandwich so good is the cheese and vaguely chocolate flavor. If you do try something else out and decide it’s good, please let me know!
I got plenty of results with:
https://www.google.com/search?q=healthy+nutella+alternativeThat’s where I followed on as well, but it kept seeming like I was finding mixed results on the articles. I don’t know enough about which studies are funded by which groups, and I’m pretty sure I’m finding biased stuff. It’s okay, though, I’m not asking you to look things up for me, I just was curious if you had some kind of insight into the industry or not.
I think if you drill down a bit past the first paragraph citing uncertainty, you’ll find there’s a pretty consistent body of scientific findings naming various ill-health effects. Maybe follow up on those specific studies, supplementing with ScienceDaily and PubMed material as needed?
I’m not a nutritionist, and haven’t spent much time myself researching palm oil studies, but I can tell you as someone who’s tried to keep abreast of nutritional news for decades, so far I’ve only seen negative findings upon palm oil, both as a food and as an ecological agent of destruction.
I don’t know, I think the problem was in ethical issues about how it is cultivated.
It’s got plenty of health issues, too, as per the WP link above.
WordPress?
I’m not going to hate on this at all. I’d probably eat it myself.
Rendang
Used to eat it as often as I could when I visited southeast asiaThat plating in particular looks like a stainless steel prison toilet
Its in a wok.
That’s how it’s traditionally served.
One of the most delicious dishes I’ve had as a fan of curry though I’ve only ever eaten it at a Malaysian restaurant and not homemade.
This is a pretty normal aesthetic for food in South and South East Asia so it looks amazing to me…Seems like the appearance of food is very culturally subjective.
Is it easy to make?
I am by no metric an expert, hell I am barely proficient, as I found a recipe online after I got back from Malaysia, but it’s somewhat simple. It just takes a lot of time and a lot of ingredients that isn’t easy to find where I live.
Sausage gravy.
Probably one of the least visually appealing dishes that’s ever been put in front of me, but it quickly became a favorite!
It looks like a dog ate bird poop and threw up on a biscuit. It’s really good though.
For the other way around:
Wedding cake looks great but usually tastes awful (compared to other cake). These cakes are usually drier, or are starting to get old by the time they get eaten.“Looks great tastes awful” – fruits that have been bred/engineered for shelf appearance over taste (e.g. supermarket tomatoes and apples), and desserts like cakes that have all manner of pretty and intricate decorations on them, but then taste bland or off.
Hard disagree on the apples. Royal Gala are a masterpiece.
I didn’t mean all supermarket apples, just certain varieties (such as the so-called “red delicious”), but I’ll edit my comment to clarify.
Butter chicken?
Chunky Trump pieces with maggots.
Actually, any dish with rice once you see the rice as maggots…
Butter chicken is pretty! At least from my local favorite place it is, we don’t have that weird neon red stuff the UK (and other places?) has
Uh, I have a pretty good one that y’all will love :)
Peanut butter and mayonnaise sandwiches. People look at it and are disgusted, but it’s amazing. The tangy mayo goes so well with the sweet pb.
I’ve been eating peanut butter, mayonnaise, and bologna sandwiches since I was a kid, (though now I use a veganaise that I prefer to mayonnaise). So tasty!
Along the same lines: grilled cheese dipped in maple syrup + hot sauce
I’ve never had it with bologna, I’ll have to give it a shot one day.
I would totally chow down on that grilled cheese, that does sound good!
Oh, I have to disagree with you there. I was trying to make fluffernutter (peanut butter + fluff) when I was drunk, and accidentally made peanut butter with mayo. It took me half an hour to stop vomiting after a single bite.
Do you think that it didn’t sit right with you because the sandwich is bad or because you were drunk?
well, it wasn’t a ‘sit right’ issue, as I hadn’t the chance to swallow it. I had barely begun to chew it before it provoked a response.
under normal circumstances with normal drinkers, probably, but I’m what you might call a… veteran drinker. I’m not one to puke unless… “especially provoked”. for example, I don’t puke from drinking too much (well, not for decades); I’ll certainly pass out first, and that’s after a couple of liters of whiskey over 3-5 hours-- after which point my tongue is typically pretty numb, so it takes a lot to break through that.
I will say that the level of my drunkenness it probably why I puke as much as did, but I wouldn’t have poured in the first place had it not been for the foulness of what I ate.
tl:dr: the answer is that I don’t think so, but it’s possible
I will say this was long enough ago that, if I were to have a different reaction today, I’d have to replicate the experiment to find out, and I only have 750ml of bourbon to test it. if I remember, I’ll wait till I finish and dab a bit of PB+mayo on my finger and taste it to see what happens ;)
lol you should try a bit not drunk. Unless you hate mayo, it’s surprisingly delicious
Perhaps you’re right. But I’ll never know, because it sounds fucking disgusting and I don’t wanna try it again.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I’m an adventurous eater, there are very few foods I will not at least try. I believe in trying just about everything because you never know when you will find your new favorite food. But you do you ;)
I’m an adventurous eater as well. Thing is: I did try it. It did not agree with me, and I am not particularly disposed to try it again.
Edit: I admit that it was under rather precarious circumstances, but I’m just gonna have to take the L on this one
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I can see it, but I’d think there’d be a better source of acid/sour that isn’t as fatty to pair with the PB.
Peanut butter and pickle sandwiches are great!
Hmm, I’ve never considered this.
What’s the ratio of PB to mayo? One side of a slice each?
Yep. Each on one slice of bread. It’s an old cheap meal from the US depression, my grandma ate it as a kid and she fed it to her kids, and them to my generation of cousins.
As to ratio, about even maybe. If the pb is too dry, maybe a bit more mayo.
I just tried it, and it is pretty good! Like a richer version of PB&J
Right? Like it’s not my absolute favorite sandwich, which a blt from my local shop, but it’s a lot better than you would think it should be.
It’s an old cheap meal from the US depression…
Makes sense. I’d have to be suffering a major economic crisis to even consider an abomination like a peanut butter and mayo sandwich lol
Like I said, it’s more tasty than you would think, unless you hate mayo or pb already
