29 Foods That Aren’t Worth Their Hype And Price, According To People Online
Interview With ExpertFood is something none of us could live without. Since eating the same stuff over and over again would be boring, humans always try to find new ways to cook or new food items to consume. From these attempts, we sometimes get ingenious ideas that quickly become a staple in our diets, yet other times, these trials aren't so good. Or they become popular and overrated at the same time despite their mediocrity. Today's list is about exactly that – foods that are either overrated, too expensive, or both in netizens' eyes.
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Starbucks
Their coffee is awful, which is why they have to load it with milk and whipped cream and sprinkles.
At some point Starbucks tried to conquer the Italian market... I'm a little bit ashamed that it still exist in France even if i don't know anyone that likes it.
They came and left Australia with the claim Australians don't know good coffee....we are very well known for our cafe culture and love of good coffee. Now they are back again, hoping the younger generation will pay their OTT prices cos tiktok and instagram likes...pfft.
Load More Replies...Nope. Most nice third wave coffee shops will actually make your cup to order. They don't over roast. And you can actually taste what coffee should taste like
Load More Replies...i will admit to LOVING the fall flavors, but otherwise, their coffee is SO mediocre
Those overloaded, tall, "Instagrammable" hipster burgers. This b******t is what I mean.
So many "upscale casual" restaurants seem to think the pinnacle of dining is a burger that costs $15-$25, is loaded with pointless ingredients meant to sound high-end (like truffle aioli and wagyu beef), and requires you to unhinge your jaw like a f*****g snake to take a bite. Not to mention the fact that they are usually an absolute mess and are usually okay-at-best in taste.
A burger has to be wide. If it's tall I have to eat it like a kebab on the stick it comes with just to hold it upright for the first few minutes it arrives. Always a wide burger. Then you taste everything at once. Which is what you want.
Wagyu beef though IS quite expensive. Truffle aioli is expensive because of the truffle it contains... I'm personally happy with a McDonalds Big Mac burger if I'm in a burger mood.
I would literally laugh out loud - unashamedly - if they brought the burger in the picture to my table.
A burger is the more profitable meal for a restaurant, they can make huge benefits.
Fast food. It used to be the cheaper option. Now I could go have a nice family dinner at a sit down restaurant for what fast food is costing.
In my area-local jacks up the prices. If local wants me to support them, they have to support me too
Load More Replies...Naah, ok it's not healthy but where i live it's way cheaper than any restaurant.
I'd say 3/4ths, it goes right through you, therefore you have only 'rented' the meal.
Load More Replies...The price meal combos has gone completely off the rails, and it's not as though the quality has increased to match. It's not even worth it anymore.
Get fast food apps. My husband and I can find a kick a*s deal somewhere. With some places you earn points for free food
I am paid to be a tech guy. I don't want to give anyone else my damn info....
Load More Replies...I was in a Sam's (US Big Box membership-only warehouse club store) and watched a guy purchase one of their $4.99 rotisserie chickens and then sit down at one of the eat-in tables for people who buy pizza or hotdogs and sit down. He had a bunch of napkins and ate the entire chicken, putting the skin and bones in the "lid" of the chicken container. For $4.99 plus tax, he had a high protein relatively healthy meal (he didn't eat the skin), can't beat that.
But the skin is the best part! And it's a salt bomb.
Load More Replies...I see a lot of people complaining about the cost of fast food and they're some of the same people complaining about fast food workers not being able to make a decent wage a few years ago. They upped their prices to pay workers more and to offset massively high product costs. Anyone who goes grocery shopping knows how crazy prices have gotten since covid and it's not any different for restaurants. Sit down restaurants can often subsidize those costs because they make money from alcohol/bar purchases or from smaller portions. Prices are high everywhere.
As you can see from this list, there are many food items and meals people view as overhyped and overly expensive. To talk about it, Bored Panda got in touch with culinary historian Karima Moyer-Nocchi.
She told us that some of the reasons why a lot of foods are becoming very costly are Slow Food labeling and EU certification. For example, certain kinds of onions used to be considered food for the poor, but now cost €1 a piece.
She added, "I understand that there is a protective purpose behind such programs, but it has an impact on food prices. And because you can charge more for DOP (POD) foods, there is a good deal of falsification. This requires certifiers to continue verification, and they can't catch everything."
Gold flake. It tastes like nothing and is just to flex you have money to waste.
Gold has no taste, that's a fact. You can eat it whitout any dammage. But why in the hell would you eat something so expensive without any taste ???
Well, you know the expression 'You can't polish a turd' the answer being 'No, but you can roll it in glitter' maybe this is pre bling treatment??
Yeah, you can get a sheet of edible gold for about $10 on Amazon.
Oysters
Just ashtrays full of snot.
I love Oysters and I love it more that everyone else dislikes them, more for me at the table.
😆 Reminds me of a roommate and I: happily eating them up. Whilst our other roommates were completely disgusted. More for us!
Load More Replies...I had really good fresh oysters once, I’m talking you went out to the harbor to look at the oysters growing then sat down to eat, and they were FANTASTIC.
My daddy always taught me that if you can't say something nice, say something true.
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Shark fin soup. (I had some at an Asian wedding back in the mid-1990's before I learned about the ethics of the industry).
It's disgusting - you're eating cartilage.
Gordon Ramsay did a video on it and he tried one of the highest rated ones - he said the broth was very good but you could put anything in there, chicken, beef, sausage, etc, but the shark fin part wasn't good at all.
I would agree with him, the soup / broth was good, but the shark-fin was disgusting. They could have made the broth into a traditional fish soup and it would have been a lot better.
Honorable mention goes out to anyone who asks for a restaurant's "**most expensive wine**". You're just showing off your money to the people around you and clearly telling the staff you have no idea what you're ordering. You'll usually get a mediocre wine with an expensive price tag.
The only knowledge I have of shark fin soup is that Mrs. Peacock thought it was delicious. But then, she also likes monkey brains, so there you go.
I've never found anyone who would have understood this reference! I love this movie!
Load More Replies...Not only is it tasteless and therefore pointless, it's also cruel. Same with foie gras, although a lot of people say that's delicious. I mean...it's liver- it can't be that good. And the way they make it is so ridiculously horrifying that it should be banned, I don't care how good it tastes. It's bad enough what we *already* do to animals for food, can't we just leave it at that? Can't we draw the horrible line there? Why do we need to invent more and more cruel ways to treat animals in order to have a meal? They don't even kill the sharks after taking the fin, so if they don't die from the harvesting then they can't swim and they die of starvation. It's so disgusting.
Sharks are caught, their fins are sawed off, and then they are dumped back in the water to die a slow torturous death.. DO NOT ORDER SHARK FIN SOUP!
The sharks have their fins removed whilst they are still alive, they are then thrown back into the sea to drown.
Im always told I'm weird but I absolutely love cartilage, so I would probably enjoy it. Although I wouldn't eat it, I love sharks and hate that they are killed for human consumption.
Pigs ears then, at least the rest of the pig gets eaten
Load More Replies...So people are really just out here eating ANYTHING. Never thought (or heard) of having shark fin. I'll just go have some porcupine pie. Wtf
I had some at a Chinese wedding. Yes, absolutely tasteless, almost like eating warm water.
Well the shark was probably enjoying it well enough beforehand
Load More Replies...If you like shark fin soup, replace shark fin with stingrays, they are much cheaper and taste pretty much the same
Today's list includes specific stuff like caviar, avocado, or more abstract ones, like anything that internet meme persona Salt Bae serves.
Our interviewee said that in her opinion ancient grains are overrated. "Anyone who knows the history of cereals, or anything about their cultivation, simply shakes their head incredulously at the whole ancient grain fad."
Another interesting and, in netizens’ eyes, overhyped food item that appeared on this list was gold flakes or edible gold. Basically, it’s not as much a food item as it is a food additive that is used to make meals more extravagant.
While edible gold is safe to eat, it has no nutritional value or health benefits. The purity of it must be 23–24 karats, and if it's above that, it might contain other metals that can be toxic if consumed.
And since it’s gold, it is quite costly. So, it’s no surprise it ended up on this list, since basically, it's something expensive you add to food, but it doesn’t enhance its nutritional value or taste. Yet, enhancing food appearance is a trend that makes it worth it for people to spend extensive amounts of money on such things as edible gold.
Anything salt bae serves.
The guy disgusts me so having anything down his forearm is a hard no.
He opened a restaurant in Boston. I never saw anybody inside or out. It closed in less than a year.
Anything where a single plate is over $100. I feel like flavor peaks around $40-$50 and everything beyond that just tastes weirder to seem fancy.
I'd like to think if I could afford it, I still wouldn't cos what a waste when I could be spending on active life experiences, like theatre, sporting events and travel.
Load More Replies...If you go to a restaurant where prices are over $100, you're crazy. Even if they're using really high end ingredients...if you look at the plate in the picture with the 1 single shrimp on it.... are you kidding? I don't care if that's the best shrimp in the world, I want at least 6-8 of them on my plate for this price. I came for dinner, not a sample.
Avocado toast. I'd be able to afford a house in a good neighborhood and support a family of five on a single income if I hadn't eaten that in my 20s.
I must be doing something wrong. I've never had it, but still not a millionaire.
Load More Replies...I like to watch music reaction videos of young people discovering their favorite Hip-Hop song was written by Led Zeppelin. Avocado Toast reminds me of that.
Payback for all the black blues songs stolen (uncredited till he was sued) by Jimmy Page.
Load More Replies...What is it with avocado toast anyway? Why and when did it get so famous? Yes, I like eating sliced avocado on bread with some salt, pepper and lemon juice, but I make them at home and would never get the idea to buy it somewhere.
Its poor people food for me, I used to make it when I needed to stretch an avo between two or three people
Load More Replies...Avocados are 50c each in NZ at the moment...cheap breakfast to have it on toast. 🙂
Speaking of food trends, we like to throw the “trend” word around without actually thinking about what it means and if the thing we give the trend crown to is actually a trend or just a fad.
Fads are things whose popularity rises quickly and falls just as fast. To look at it from a food popularity perspective, fads typically rise from social or any other kind of media’s attention. Like a product or an ingredient shouted out by a TV chef or social media influencer basically out of nowhere, which then gets sold out and quickly forgotten about by the majority of the public.
At the same time, trends are a bit more stable form of popularity. Usually, they evolve more gradually, are more long-lasting, and can even lead to a change in the culture.
Again, let’s look at it from a food perspective. Adding salty flavor to sweet foods, or as some apparently call it, swicy, is a trend that developed over the years. People were exposed to it in various ways – for example, with the rising popularity of swicy treats like salted caramel, sweet and salty popcorn, and many others, which became staples in the snack world.
Buffalo Wild Wings. Wings are simply overpriced as hell.
Why would anyone choose chicken wings over drumsticks? They're messy to eat, there's less meat on them and full of bones.
They hold proportionally a lot more coating and sauce, that's why.
Load More Replies...I make them at home. Very easy. High calorie. 100+ a wing. How many wings can you eat? Yeah.. that's why I rarely buy wings either out or in. 11 wings is like my daily calorie amount. Just eat 2 here and there throughout the day.
I don't even bother stripping the meat off wings when making stock from a whole chicken.
It's one way to get rid of a part that would not get eaten otherwise. I'm waiting on chicken necks to become the next big thing.
Anything from Panera Bread. I heard it described best a few years ago: "overpriced hospital food".
I wholeheartedly agree. Panera is super crazy overpriced. I thought I'd be nice and went to get a dozen bagels for my coworkers. i'd never been there but, I mean, it's bagels, right? When they told me it's was over 30 dollars i almost choked. And that was before the cream cheese. It's was like 40 dollars for a dozen bagels! And they didn't taste particularly special.
It started out as St Louis bread company and branded into Panera bread all over the country. They sell bread and bread accessories.
Load More Replies...To me it's always been "catered corporate lunch" food. Not awful, but pretty lackluster.
EVERYTHING from Panera is frozen, even the bread. The place never smells like a real bakery. And $11 for a bowl of soup? GTFO!
Himalayan pink salt - the reddish color comes from iron oxide, same s**t as rust. in tibet it is considered low grade salt and they use it to salt the animal feeds cuz it has more minerals lel.
I live near a place that has brine springs. That salt is so pure it needs no processing. They just evaporate the water and you’ve got pure salt. Used to be able to go have a float in the brine baths (they were saltier than the Dead Sea, you couldn’t swim in them, just float). Unfortunately they were early Victorian and the upkeep became too expensive.
I find I have to use more of it when cooking to get the same result as table salt. Maybe that's in my head.
Some woman told me once that pink salt had a special aura. That was all I needed to know 🤡
Actually, the foodies loving this is just a sign of how bad ‘regular’ salt has gotten. Honestly, Morton’s is NOT the same as it was…my mom’s 30+ year old container tastes different than the one I bought at Acme a few weeks back.
Salt is not just salt. There are many different typyes and many doiierent subtle flavours. You don't have to spend a fortune, try Maldon Sea Salt and be pleasantly surprised!
While as we acknowledge fads tend to be unpredictable, some trends can be predicted. The emphasis is on "some," as things sometimes happen that make certain trends happen without anyone thinking they would. Like with COVID-19 and its quarantine – no one really predicted it and what kind of food trends would become popular, like whipped coffee.
And while some trends can become a new normal, some still can be viewed as excessive by some people, and this list is a perfect example of that. Yes, sometimes some food items or meals tend to get overhyped despite their mediocrity, while others get overrated for no apparent reason, but, well, to each their own, right?
What foods do you think are overly expensive and overrated? Share with us in the comments!
Red Delicious Apples!!!
Red Delicious aren't. They just taste of red crunch. No real flavor.
They don’t even have a real crunch. It’s like biting into a styrofoam ball.
Load More Replies...Red Delicious used to be good when I was a kid. But they’ve been overbred for appearance, and now they’re just mealy and tasteless. I will buy almost any other variety of apple before I’ll buy RD.
Apples varieties, once established, are cloned, not bred. But the red delicious has been cloned for too long.
Load More Replies...Try the cosmic crisp, it is a cross between the honey crisp and something else I forget. So good. Cheaper than the honey crisp and imo even better
Load More Replies...Sidebar from this but have any of you tried either a Lucy Rose or Lucy Glo apple? I heard about them maybe a year ago and they sound like they'd be so delicious, but haven't seen them to buy/try.
Agreed! I'm 77 and I can tell you they were never tasty. We just didn't know better back then. All praise to heritage variety hunters!
Airport food.
When I was released from prison, I had to spend hours at the airport. Best food I'd ever tasted!
I had to buy food at an airport Burger King last month. I dont know how they made Burger King even worse, but they did. Nasty af.
I think that airports are the only reason Sbarro is still in business. If they weren't in airports no one would visit them.
Don't forget New Jersey Turnpike rest areas.
Load More Replies...It depends on the airport. Some airports are the size of a city and the restaurants in them can be top notch. Michael Voltaggio's Ink Sack is at LAX and he's got Michelin Stars. There's a well known barbeque restaurant at JFK that smokes their own meats and they're know to have people literally coming to the airport just to get one of their sandwiches.
Caviar. First of all, you can get ikura/fish eggs at Japanese restaurants for next to nothing. You can get the big ones wrapped in seaweed for a couple bucks, and when I was a kid I really liked the tiny orange roe, and would ask the servers for a side of them, and they'd give them to me for free. Caviar is just a fancier version of those, and often is a lot saltier. Too expensive for what you get.
Edit: Okay maybe roe/ikura isn’t that cheap either. I’ve never bought it in bulk, and I live in Alaska right by the ocean, and it’s always been v cheap at sushi restaurants here but as a whole I could be wrong about the pricing on that.
I tried caviar one time, just a very small can for one toast. Worst 12 euros of my life. Just tasted like salt sea.
I wonder if that is different from the "cheap" stuff. This is €50/kg. Not no nice either :P Stenbitsro...2f2e9d.jpg
roe eggs are quite dissimilar to, say, Beluga or Sevruga caviar which is from sturgeon.
Before the sturgeon were essentially wiped out in North America, caviar was so cheap it was put out on bars like salted peanuts to encourage patrons to drink more beer.
In my mother's state they have a food called “sabhudhana” and it looks exactly like some caviars except it’s vegetarian and is almost like rice. I like pretending I’m Gordon Ramsey whenever I have sabhudhana
I grew up with it. It was a traditional staple in our lives, before it got very expensive and became a hard currency export. Absolutely love it - both black and red. I just wish i could afford it nowadays :(
I tried caviar just once at a cocktail party. High end stuff I was told. I put it in my mouth and didn't know what to do with it? Do I chew it? Swish it in my mouth? I just swallowed it and felt the little slimy bubbles slide down my throat.....ugh! Washed it down with an ice cold vodka martini!
No, you chew it and feel the little bubbles explode. I love it
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Overly fancy cakes. Like ones that are realistic pigeons or some other stupid confection. It’s a cake it’s going to taste like a cake and come out the same as any cake. No one needs to spend hundreds on a cake.
Also wedding cakes are overpriced and taste like s**t. Top tip if you are getting married don’t tell the cake folk that. Just ask for a cake you say the word wedding a big standard cake suddenly is 50 times the price for no other reason than to over charge.
Fondant is nasty and anytime you see a cake in a weird shape or some kind of crazy design, that's what it is. I'd prefer a basic cake with some pretty icing on it to anything with fondant.
Me too. I love a good buttercream. And I've seen some pretty cakes made with it.
Load More Replies...Wedding cakes are expensive because most require a lot of design work. They also have to be stacked with isn't necessarily easy to do well and transported to a venue often in hard to reach places. It's hard as heck to get a highly decorated 24 inch confection into a vehicle 20-50+ miles in heavy traffic with crazy drivers, drive up a mountain road, get the dang thing out of the vehicle and hand carry it to who knows where at the venue while not destroying the handmade sugar flowers and other very fragile design features.Yeah, that stuff costs a lot. My son likes pie and not cake so when he got married, we had pies - all sorts of pies, some make by the bride's grandmothers, friends, me, and a local bakery. People loved it.
The nine kinds of pie that Harold liked best.
Load More Replies...When my wife and I were planning our (small, backyard, officiated by her friend the mayor) wedding, she wanted carrot cake. We found a local baker (a woman who worked for the local Krishna Consciousness restaurant) who made us a truly wonderful carrot cake with walnuts, and a not-too-sweet cream-cheese frosting. Quite untraditional, everybody loved it, and we froze the leftover portion and had small portions as treats for the next six months. We just celebrated our 38th and I don't think we've managed to find another carrot cake we liked as well as our wedding cake...
Our wedding was a BBQ / birthday party / surprise Wedding. I ordered a 1/2 sheet cake with the words "You've Got To Be Kidding". Everyone at the BBQ asked why the wording...I said wait and see. 3 months later, we had a reception with a small 3 level cake for show (Top Tier was a cupcake) and 4 sheet cakes in different flavors that was served to everyone. Total cost for all the cakes? $150.
Load More Replies...Turning food into inedible sculptures is such a weird thing to me. Dial it back and make a quality cake. It will still look good. (Also stop soaking cakes in syrup to hide how dry you make them 🫢).
Macaroons, I can’t understand why there are so expensive.
The picture is of macarons, not macaroons. Two very different sweets.
Correct! From Webstaurantstore: "A macaron is a meringue-based sandwich cookie that is tinted with food coloring. A macaroon is a drop cookie made with shredded coconut. The preparation for these two cookies is also very different."
Load More Replies...Very difficult to do, even in France and if you are good at cooking, that's really difficult to make great ones.But yeah for sure they are still way too expensive
Difficult doesn't mean better. A chuck roast is always better than a ground chuck hamburger and a handful of almonds is better than any dessert made with almond flour.
Load More Replies...Macarons (the things in the picture) are very good if made right. Macaroons, the coconut blobs, are fine. The chocolate dipped ones are pretty good.
Anything with gold leaf.
Also fois gras. Fois Gras is tasty but it's so rich you really can only eat a few fork fulls. I went to a restaurant once where the serving was a whole slab of it just because it's "rich food.".
I won't go near any pate these days because of how it's made, not tasty enough to start and disgusting processes in making any of them.
Load More Replies...The production of foie gras by force-feeding ducks and geese is an inhumane practice that causes physical pain and distress in birds. Animal protection groups have conducted undercover investigations on foie gras farms to reveal the cruelty of force-feeding and confinement.
Foie Gras is not so expensive in France and i do love it even if i only eat it for christmas or new year's eve
I worked in the meat industry for 15 yrs. Most Fois Gras geese are treated better than ANY other slaughtered meat crop. You want to talk about cruel? Mass produced chickens and chicken eggs. There are so many hobby farms who raise chickens. If you must buy chicken or chicken eggs... buy local.
Foie Gras = animal torture. I refuse to even go to a restaurant that serves it.
Same here. I won't go to a restaurant that serves veal for the same reason.
Load More Replies...If you saw what they do to the poor geese, you would never eat Fois Gras.
Lobster rolls. $22-28 for two to three ounces of lobster meat slathered in mayonnaise and put in a hot dog bun.
I can understand the cost here. Lobster is more difficult to get, the meat on them doesn't always yield a lot and prepping it can be difficult, too. A minute or two in either direction can ruin it. It's more about the difficulty in catching them. It's not like crab or shrimp where you can catch hundreds at a time. In most places you're limited to being able to catch 10-15 lobsters per day by state regulation. So, yeah, they're going to charge more. Gassing up the boat alone costs more than you end up getting for the lobsters so you usually have to supplement that with oysters and shrimp. They the places they sell to have to up their costs to cover what they're being charged. So... it makes sense.
Why get something as delicious as lobster and chuck it on sweet, cheap bread with glops of mayo?
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Lobster. I say this as a new englander, that s**t is overrated! I mean, it’s good. But it’s not *that* good, you know?
It used to be poor man's food. And then the rich started to get interested and it was rebranded.
same as oysters. Sam Weller said: "It's a wery remarkable circumstance, Sir", said Sam, "that poverty and oysters seems to go together." from Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens.
Load More Replies...Lobster is imho NOT overrated! I have just eaten it once or twice, but it was heavenly good 😍
I love lobster. It IS *that* good. Maybe yours wasn't prepared well. I always wonder, though, who was the first human to look at a lobster and think 'I'd eat that". Looks like an oversized insect.
Edamame. It's f*****g soy beans with salt. And i like it.
Until very recently, Costco (ours, at least) sold large bags of it at a very reasonable price. Sadly, that seems to have gone the way of all good things Kirkland.
Edamame is amazing, and dirt cheap at my local Chinese food restaurant. $5 and I have a take-out container filled to the brim!
Love it. you can get it a Walmart for about $2.50 in the frozen section.
I love that they have a photo of completely different food. Did someone read "beans" and think that a picture of anything called a bean would do? Not even sure those are green beans. it might be pea pods. Although strangely enough peas are a legume just like soy beans are, and green beans are not legumes. Either way, those are not soy beans.
Honestly, wagyu beef. I had it just to say I've had it. I paid a premium price for a little thing that probably wouldn't even be considered an appetizer. It was okay.
I get it from a local farm here in WI. It is really good. Plus I can get a pound of ground wagyu beef from them for about $4.80 a pound
Any where outside of Japan it's typically not true wagyu. It's a crossbreed. Some places might have the real stuff but the importing is largely why it is so expensive north America.
Load More Replies...Today I saw a steak for sale in a supermarket. It was labeled "A5 Wagyu." It was about 31 grams and priced at $101 US. Did not buy.
Got to cook it yourself. Cuts like butter with a knife and tasted so rich
Olive Garden.
Fight me.
I was there recently, after a long hiatus. Salad and bean/pasta soup are still excellent.
Load More Replies...This I will fight you on. It's my favourite crappy food place. Soup, salad, bread sticks for $7.95.
Snobby people always trash talk about places an average person can afford.
Green Mill is in the same price range and the food is much better, imo. It's all just opinion, up until stupid things like gold leaf on the food, which is objectively ridiculous.
Load More Replies...Nothing is wrong with that place. Its a matter of personal preference
If you really don't like Italian food and want to avoid it, Olive Garden is a very safe place for you.
Minnesota pizzerias probably serve better Italian food than Olive Garden
Load More Replies...Went there today coincidentally for the first time, as far as I can remember, was underwhelmed
The food is meh at best. But if you like it, go for it. My niece does.
Used to know someone who worked there. She said everything was frozen and microwaved.
Most of this seems to be a lot of discussion of personal taste, but I'll throw my hat in the ring.
Avocado.
It's fine. It's just fine. They are expensive as hell because they aren't really native to anywhere outside of California and the Baja peninsula of Mexico, every influencer thinks they made a recipe by sticking avocado on something and posting it to Instagram, and you seemingly can't avoid hearing people opinions about it.
"Have you tried the Mexican food here? It's so authentic." Shut up, Becky. Everyone knows about avocados now. It's not some secret fruit that only foodies know about.
I like an avocado sandwich - Avocado sliced, sliced onions, mayonnaise and sprouts on bread or on a roll. Basically a guac sandwich.
I remain completely puzzled about avocados. I started eating avocados as a kid in New Mexico. I love them just about any way to fix them. But they were always cheap and tasty. Then overnight they became the "IN" thing and the price jumped into the stratosphere. The fruit didn't change, people's perception changed. They are great in a salad, a dip, a side to whatever else you eat. They are not magic - they are a fruit. I like them and use them, but I won't pay $3 for a simple fruit just because some hipster thinks they are IN.
I love avocado!!!!!! I have a very lean and simple diet. Avocado is my fun food to eat with whatever I can eat like home cooked beans and brown rice. I like it with plain tofu or salmon. I use little salt. I spend little money on food a month. Very little money on food. It's my healthly fat in my diet. I don't drink coffee, I don't drink alcohol and I don't go out to eat. It's rare I go out to eat. I usually pick something different from the grocery store. This time a huge watermelon. I actually buy sparkling water as my treat, usually. I am very happy with my diet. I have energy. I have good skin and hair. I remain lean with muscle and it also helps with depression. I'm hydrated. I don't worry about money and food as I already eat very cheap and well rounded in nutrition.
Pure avocado needs something to support and enhance its flavour. Try a bit of salt and pepper and maybe some lemon juice.
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Cheesecake Factory cheesecake. Fight me.
You the worst kind of person in the world and my fists are up and ready to go.
The restaurants are gigantic and noisy. The food is anything you want as long as it's chicken. Enjoy.
The first time younger me tried some almond milk, I concluded:
"This is just a sad, sad substance that rich people drink."
My opinion has changed since.
We have brands that call it almond, soy, oat, etc. beverage, and it hasn't deterred anyone from drinking them. I'm baffled by the anger that plant 'milks' cause. It hurts no one. Coconut and soy milk have been produced for thousands of years, and have always been called 'milk' because of the thick, white consistency. Why now, suddenly, is it a problem?
Load More Replies...I just have lactose free milk. No fake milk tastes right in tea.
Load More Replies...It's not for 'rich people' Some of us humans can not drink cow milk. Admittedly I prefer oatmilk.
It's got way more nutrients and less calories. I only drink almond milk. It has high protein and calcium. I get vit d from the sun. I'm out exercising everyday. If not almond milk then 0% fat free greek yogurt with 0 sugar. Stuff that tastes gross but has high protein and calcium. I also home cook soy beans as the calcium and protein is extremely high. Soy bean is also a whole protein. Which is rare for a plant based protein.
If you make almond milk by yourself, you can use the shredded almonds in cakes or biskuits.
No choice for me allergic to dairy, and the nut juice is a good alternative, squeezed oats is pretty good too
We drink almond milk because it lasts for-ev-er in the fridge. There's just 2 of us and cows milk goes bad before we can use it all.
Chilean sea bass. I love most fish, but this just has the most horrible after taste, like black cod also has. (Also, caught by trawler, so not great for the environment.).
The TRUE sea bass that one could get in my much younger days was glorious. "Chilean sea bass" is just trying to ride on that reputation.
The rebranding of Patagonian toothfish as Chilean sea bass is part of the seafood industry's response to a problem it created: overfishing.
DUDE i LOVE chilean sea bass. i cedar plank it.....dunno if your just not getting it fresh or not, its a smooth, buttery type of fish
This is just another fish that would have been thrown overboard when the good tasting fish species had yet to be over-fished and the stocks depleted.
Ribs. It was originally discarded as waste, then we discovered BBQ sauce. Now they're more than steak.
They ain't doing well matching pictures to food today
Load More Replies...Again, so messy to eat, but I do like them. Just lick fingers afterwards!
Same with chicken wings. Until 1964 when a restaurant co-owner left some wings in hot sauce as a snack for her son and his friends, they were normally considered waste to be tossed.
They were called spare ribs when I was a kid. Because they were the spare bits leftover once you cut off all the good meat.
mmm I never used to eat them until I tried Char Sui pork ribs and fell in love. Now I make the char sui myself and it's the best thing ever. My friend loves it so much she had me make some for her wedding. I love making Chinese-takeout style foods myself. I feel like Italian, French, American...you can sort of figure out how to make those yourself but Asian foods are like a mystery. You need to buy ingredients you've never worked with or don't even come in English packaging. It's so much fun. I've discovered a love of so many things.
Every piece of meat that contains more bones than meat should be much cheaper. This is like chicken wings. I love them both but the price is ridiculous.
They're both much cheaper in a butcher's than most other parts of the same animals. Not sure where you're getting them that they're so much more expensive, but presumably you're talking about restaurants, where the cost of ingredients is only a small part of the price you pay.
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Not as expensive as others on this list, but for a "staple" bell peppers are a terrible pepper and way overpriced.
Green bell peppers: yuck. But the various ripe varieties (as shown in that photo) can be great.
I wonder what they mean by "a terrible pepper"?? What did poor bell peppers do wrong?
So we can conclude that american food is not so good and expensive ? Cause there is really someone who have put apples on this list ? Seriously ?
A specific strain of apples, yes.
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So we can conclude that american food is not so good and expensive ? Cause there is really someone who have put apples on this list ? Seriously ?
A specific strain of apples, yes.
Load More Replies...My points have been stuck at 888 for months. I get the notification when someone upvotes my comments, but the number doesn't change, Does anyone else have this problem?
