Most Overrated Foods (odor, clams, consume, crab)

[Native Transplant]

Yeah, I like waxy and sugary, myself, for cake icing. But I do love the idea of a croissant with Nutella. Maybe even as a froyo topping.

[495neighbor]

Frozen yogurt. As much sugar as a real dessert without the taste. Pasty sandy consistency with fake flavor similar to the power toothpaste the dental hygienist uses for your bi-annual teeth cleaning, only cold and served with an additional pound of candy and syrup to cover up the real taste.

Pour over coffee. I can be a coffee snob but this is even too frou frou for me. Tastes like stale coffee where someone forgot to filter the grounds and then left old coffee to burn down to the bottom of one of those old Mr. Coffee office coffee machines.

[tribecavsbrowns]

Originally Posted by Native Transplant

Funny. I like Nutella, but given other options, i'll take those other options. I like it, but I never know what to put it on. Crepes are unstisfying. It wouldn't do as a cake frosting. I don't like to dip things in it.

Pancakes! Like PB, it could be a good pancake topping!

Ice cream. That's overrated. How about fro yo, or maybe cake?

Like hell it is.

I'm going to go eat some now just because you said that.

[Eazine]

Lobster and pasta noodles of any sort. Asian noodles are ok.

[coolgato]

Truffles - they stink and cost almost as much as diamonds. Pigs are trained to look for them in France, but I don't think they even want to eat them - just doing a job they were trained to do and wondering why the heck people like the stinky "black diamonds." The only truffles I like are made out of cacao.

[Calvert Hall '62]

Another thing I don't get is the love affair with saffron. Yeah, it's labor intensive and therefore costly, but just because something is expensive, does that make it good? Tastes like hay; makes me want to whinny and run around the race track at Pimlico.

[CCc girl]

carbs

[coolgato]

Originally Posted by Calvert Hall '62

Another thing I don't get is the love affair with saffron. Yeah, it's labor intensive and therefore costly, but just because something is expensive, does that make it good? Tastes like hay; makes me want to whinny and run around the race track at Pimlico.

Yes, totally agree! I had always wanted to try saffron - so many stories about it, and since I love reading recipes, saffron was a major star in the recipes I wanted to try. The reality fell far short of my saffron dreams. With a pretty name like saffron and the flavors I conjured up in my head, I thought it was going to be great, but saffron taste is weird, kind of gross even, sort of even medicinal. I hated it. It was expensive, too! I had to try it, just to get it out of my system. Now, I avoid recipes that have saffron as an ingredient

[Berrie143]

Sushi is WAAAAYYYY overrated. I just don't get the whole sushi craze and out here in So Cal there are sushi restaurants on every freaking corner! They're like Starbucks now, I swear. Let's see....I also think that saffron is overrated and Nutella, too. For some reason, Nutella tastes chalky to me and I don't really enjoy it. Oh, and nuts in cookies/fudge/cakes/brownies! People get all gaga about having nuts in these particular desserts and I always leave them out or just don't bother with recipes that call for them.

[Dirt Grinder]

Originally Posted by coolgato

Truffles - they stink and cost almost as much as diamonds. Pigs are trained to look for them in France, but I don't think they even want to eat them - just doing a job they were trained to do and wondering why the heck people like the stinky "black diamonds." The only truffles I like are made out of cacao.

Have you eaten truffles? They are great when used properly. I've even put truffle grindings in scrambled eggs . Now, if you're talking about truffle oil - that's some horrible stuff.