Food we think we like but don't.

You really should try mnaking them with Maltese sausages... mmm. www.tal-forn.com/2013/06/zalzett-malti-maltese-sausage-2/

Usually Right
My MiL used to say the same, drink anyone’s coffee but only her own builders tea. I tend to agree, tea out is often a let down.

Chocolate eclairs my mother keeps buying for me. Just air and little taste.

M0nica

Coffee (real, not instant) smells delicious, but the taste is always a disappointment.

3 things always smell better than they taste; coffee, frying bacon, and baking bread. I still like all three, but the smell is best.

Eat one perfect …. and then disappointment surely follows .

I don’t expect to find perfect New York cheesecake again.

Walnuts, I recently admitted to myself that I don't like them. My mother loved a Walnut Whip, I think I just liked what she was having. 58 years old before I realised.

Just treated us to a box of fondant fancies which we used to love but oh no so sweet now!!

I hate UK tomatoes, they need sunshine heat in Mediterranean temperatures to be really tasty. Those grown in commercial greenhouses are usually not in soil but in blocks and are fed water and nutrients. They have a white core and are pretty tasteless. Used to love tomatoes from the Channel Islands. When did they disappear?

Interesting answers. I would agree with Kalu though.

Red Velvet cake or cupcakes.
I always think that the idea is good and they look good, but always disappointed by the dryness and what I think is as a strange taste to both !

I always eat the things I love, whereas I gave up drinking 20 years ago because I realised I only drank because my friends did and that I really didn't like it at all. I didn't get drunk all the time but even getting tipsy didn't do anything for me.

GrammarGrandma

Coffee never disappoints me - unless it's instant!

Instant coffee just isn't coffee for me. My DH happily drinks instant but I have just one cup of proper coffee every morning. I quite like the ritual too, start with the beans and warm my frothy milk.
The thing I expect to like is pork pie, but after the first couple of mouthfuls it's just too greasy and claggy.

Coffee made from freshly toasted coffee beans smells gorgeous, but I can stand the taste.One more anti coffee.

I have been very disappointed twice by pizza lately so is it me or are they really that awful. One was greasy and the other just boring. I may give pizza a miss.

As for cakes of all kinds, you really need a good cake baker making them! Shop bought cakes are nearly always tasteless, tea room cakes often the same. They need to be soft, moist and VERY flavoursome. Not many cakes meet those high standards so they are often a disappointment. You may have to eat 10 cakes to find one which is exquisite. ?

Just to add, cakes often look amazing but it's the texture and flavour which count. No amount of clever decoration can make up for a dry, heavy or tasteless cake.

I agree, re pizza Chestnut. There used to be a pizza restaurant in my home city which made gorgeous pizza, but it closed down many years ago. Most other pizza is bland and greasy. Same with cake, IMO.

Betty's Fat Rascals,the rest of the family adore them ,they look good and smell good but one mouthful is sufficient, the same for hot cross buns the smell is delicious one mouth full I've had enough and know I will be reaching for the Gaviscon.

I also struggle with pizza, the best pizzas I have had (including Italy) have been at a Eurocamp site just outside Port Grimaud and Champagny in the French Alps (excuse spellings) no others have come close.

Love/hate relationship with olives. My head keeps saying I don’t like them, but when I start, I keep on and on. Good for me anyway.
I agree re pizza, awful, but not ‘real’ thin crust homemade pizza in Italy or somewhere Italian here.
My mother preferred fresh crusty bread and butter to any type of cake.

Fancy coffees never live up to my expectations..
5 inches of froth on the top, followed by tepid milk, then a bitter, too sweet sludge at the bottom, at £4 a go.
I prefer my instant Nescafe.

I like green olives but why do the black ones taste nasty?
They make me want a drink as they are often salty - is that
why they are brought to the table in some restaurants?

Some of my family like fruit teas and green tea and they always sound so appealing.

But I don't like them, I really don't.

My dear Dad described his first taste of watermelon as one of his great disappointments in life!

I used to always tell myself I liked Eton Mess. I'd order it in restaurants and then be really disappointed. The reason? My first experience of Eton Mess was a version from WW. It was made with non fat/low fat natural yoghurt, fresh berries and a light fluffy in the middle meringue. I think the yoghurt made the mess lighter and less sweet.

Occasionally , if DH & I are tired after a busy day we ‘treat’ ourselves to fish and chips . Then spend the rest of the evening feeling bloated & saying why did we do that!