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Social media is a great place to look for meal ideas. Nowadays, you can find recipes for almost all diet preferences: keto, vegan, vegetarian, Mediterranean, and so on. All you have to do is put two or three words into a search box and you're bombarded with hundreds of recipes. TikTok can be great in that there's also video instructions.

However, some recipes people share on there can be real duds. That's what the user @imtiredofmyusername found out the hard way. They made a video about how one recipe they tried out turned out to be "inedible" and "a flop." So people in the comments started going off about other viral recipes on TikTok that they expected to be delicious but made them gag – and not in a good way.

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30 Recipes That People Tried After Seeing Them On TikTok And Regretted It The feta pasta needs to serve time.


I thought my husband was gonna leave me after the feta pasta.

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Fat Harry (Oi / You)
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7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I make this all the time. I lightly fry some sliced shallots, add some garlic and set aside. I put a bit of olive oil in a baking dish, add tomatoes (more than in the picture) and feta. Then I mix the shallots into the tomatoes. Then sprinkle over ground black pepper and sumac and bake for 30 minutes. Mix it all up, add some fresh parsley and the pasta (and a bit of the pasta water) and serve. It's become a regular in our house.

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    30 Recipes That People Tried After Seeing Them On TikTok And Regretted It I made 'healthy' cookie dough out of cottage cheese that 'tastes JUST like the real thing!'. It did not and was horrendous.

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    rullyman
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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don't understand the desire for these recipes... eat a balanced diet. Cottage cheese one day, bit of cookie dough the next. Diet foods are nearly always an abomination.

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    #3

    30 Recipes That People Tried After Seeing Them On TikTok And Regretted It me when the cucumber dipped in soy sauce tastes exactly like cucumber dipped in soy sauce

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    rullyman
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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeah? And it's good. A really basic Japanese cucumber salad is chopped cucumber, a bit of mirin, soy sauce, and sesame oil. Garnish with sesame seeds.

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    Horrible recipes on TikTok are a genre of their own. Like the mashed potatoes from Lay's chips or chocolate milk ramen. The difference is that we know these things are gimmicks, and we don't actually expect a good dinner out of them. The recipes in this list, however, are foods that are supposed to work.

    Nowadays, people are always looking for easy and quick lunch and dinner ideas. TikTok can be the perfect place for that. As an app created to shorten our attention spans even more, it's the ideal conduit for short recipe ideas. However, this list has plenty of proof that what's trending isn't necessarily always worth making.

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    30 Recipes That People Tried After Seeing Them On TikTok And Regretted It Lasagne soup

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    Gary
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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I've a feeling if you take the pound of soft cheese off the top that will be fine with a lump of bread.

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    30 Recipes That People Tried After Seeing Them On TikTok And Regretted It The million dollar spaghetti, everyone will pay for their crimes against my taste buds

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    #6

    30 Recipes That People Tried After Seeing Them On TikTok And Regretted It The canned chicken crust Caesar salad pizza.

    "It was pizza crust made of chicken that you put salad on, and it was supposed to be like eating a crunchy chicken tender with Caesar salad. But the chicken was so dry in order for it to get crispy

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    So, are the recipes really that bad? Or do the people who call them 'flops' just happen to make a mistake or two? Turns out, it can be neither. Former editor for The Kitchn and graduate of the Cambridge School for Culinary Arts Emma Christensen writes that many other factors influence whether a recipe turns out good or, in this case, inedible.

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    "Recipes (and the people who write them!) aren't fail-proof and they also can't take into consideration every variable in your kitchen, like how cold your eggs are or how strong your whisking arm is."

    She tells people not to get discouraged about their cooking skills. And we shouldn't blame the recipe, either. She says home cooks shouldn't be afraid to make judgments and decisions. Tools and appliances can differ significantly, so if the recipe calls for cooking or frying something for 15 minutes, check if it's actually cooked, and don't be afraid to cook it for an extra two minutes if needed.

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    30 Recipes That People Tried After Seeing Them On TikTok And Regretted It Avocado basil pasta RICKY WHEN I CATCH YOU

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    Say No to Downvoting
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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Cooked avocado always has a vomity taste, to me. I love avo, but only in it’s raw form.

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    #8

    30 Recipes That People Tried After Seeing Them On TikTok And Regretted It made a sesame noodle recipe, it called for 2/3 cup of peanut butter... imagine my surprise when I now have peanut butter noodles

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    #9

    30 Recipes That People Tried After Seeing Them On TikTok And Regretted It I tried to make cauliflower wings the other day, came out soggy, extremely stinky, and stinky x2

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    Dani
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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Can we not eat the healthy food some days and unhealthy other days... these mash ups just give us the worst of both added calories to healthy foods and lack of satisfaction from healthy foods

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    And let's face it, it's not like we always follow the recipe to a T. I myself have substituted peanut butter with tahini for many a salad dressing. Whether you're substituting ingredients or equipment, there is a chance the end result might not be as it was shown in the TikTok video. Especially when it comes to baking: there's the saying "cooking is art, baking is science" for a reason. Don't cut half the sugar from a cupcake recipe to make it more "healthy" and expect it to turn out just as the recipe intended.

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    some "viral recipes" are afraid of seasoning and spice

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    #12

    30 Recipes That People Tried After Seeing Them On TikTok And Regretted It I have made marry me chicken 3 times thinking it was me…no it’s just bland

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    Most recipes that involve dough nowadays involve a Kitchen Aid or a mixer of a similar kind. I learned the hard way that substituting tools and equipment can also hinder the baking process. Kneading donut dough by hand is a good workout, but if you're a beginner and doing it for the first time (or don't have enough arm strength like me), your donuts might not puff up. If you're using a mixer, six minutes might be enough. If you have noodles for arms, the dough may need a bit longer.

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    cloud bread

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    This was me with slow cooker pasta. Literally liquefied the pasta don't reccomend

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    rullyman
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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Pasta is not meant to be cooked low and slow. It needs a rapid boil to Al dente stage

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    30 Recipes That People Tried After Seeing Them On TikTok And Regretted It Me with the Big Mac salad

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    Cathy Homan
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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That is good. Biggest mistake is not cooling the meat. If done right it's amazing

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    One thing I personally always had a gripe with was ovens and their temperatures. When I bake something in my oven, I always have to add an extra 10-15 minutes to the time written in the recipe. It's annoying, mostly because I can never bake a perfect macaron, but at least I know it's not the recipe's fault. "Ovens are often several degrees warmer or cooler than the numbers on the dial," Christensen explains. The solution? An oven thermometer, and even a cheap one will do the job.

    #16

    30 Recipes That People Tried After Seeing Them On TikTok And Regretted It Tried to make apple crackle squares… tasted like apple suspended in an eraser.

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    #17

    30 Recipes That People Tried After Seeing Them On TikTok And Regretted It I made the green goddess chopped salad. It made me gag.

    I made that Green Goddess guacamole salad and it was so revolting... I've never made another viral recipe since.

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    Illifred
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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    For me, this is the only good one amongst all these WTF-recipes I've tried.

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    #18

    30 Recipes That People Tried After Seeing Them On TikTok And Regretted It The almond milk Alfredo still makes me gag

    tcovbby , Jo del Corro Report

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    rullyman
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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I make creamy pasta with almond and other plant "milks" all the time and it works just fine. You can still make a decent bechemel with most of them

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    Food blogger Terrie Gura calls out TikTokers who post ridiculous recipes. Mostly those that immediately sound or look too good to be true. "If you honestly believe that self-rising flour and mashed sweet potatoes will produce the fluffiest dinner rolls you've ever seen, and that they can be baked in the microwave, then you might also be interested in buying some oceanfront property in Kansas," she quips in a blog post.

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    30 Recipes That People Tried After Seeing Them On TikTok And Regretted It I made the spaghetti with the red sauce and Alfredo mixed together… have not made it since

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    Dixie Girl
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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No. You layer it. Pasta-alfredo sauce- mozzarella cheese on the bottom layer, red sauce and browned ground beef on top. Do not mix. Bake until bubbly. More mozzarella on top for a few more minutes. Heavenly.

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    #20

    me when i tried the cup noodle ramen and milk

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    PeepPeep the duck
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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Omfg whyyyyyyy? I’m stoned right now and it just sounds horrific, the old hospitality manager in me cries but imagining my Asian families faces when I tell them people were doing this, makes up for it

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    #21

    30 Recipes That People Tried After Seeing Them On TikTok And Regretted It I once made adobo chicken from a TikTok recipe and my husband and I gained like 6 lbs from the salt

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    Gura also calls out recipes that give too many or too few details. Some authors, she says, assume that we're all culinary graduates. "What if I didn't know, for example, that 'mix all ingredients together' really means to cream together the butter and sugar until fluffy, then add the eggs one at a time, blending after each, then stir in the vanilla and then stir in the flour?"

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    30 Recipes That People Tried After Seeing Them On TikTok And Regretted It Me with a soup that cost me $25 in ingredients lol

    elleemeeee , Votsis Panagiotis Report

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    UncleJohn3000
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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My family's traditional Mexican chile-con-casa recipe was exquisite and took hours to prepare. There were multiple cheeses, separate emulsion stages, multiple critical periods where X has to happen Now!, etc. Many years later, I ran across a cheese dip made of Velveeta and Rotel tomatoes. Exact same dish.

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    30 Recipes That People Tried After Seeing Them On TikTok And Regretted It The Oreo mug cake

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    LuckyL
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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    tried it - it kind of worked. Or at least, I expected less.

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    #24

    I made 'the best snickerdoodles ever' and they were literally rocks, and they didn’t even flatten out, they were still ball-shaped

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    PFD
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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well literal rocks wouldn't flatten out, shoulda tried a recipe that used food. Some people eh

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    Let's tackle the feta pasta debate. Is it really that awful that it deserves a place among these many flops? It's one of my personal favorites from the viral TikTok recipes I've tried. And some renowned chefs would agree. Like Rachel Gurjar from Bon Appetit: she suggests adding some heat by way of Calabrian chile paste to offset the richness of the cheese.

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    #25

    The chopped Italian sub tasted like a soggy salad

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    Praea Kitten
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    6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Did you at least shake the water off of the lettuce after you washed it? That should help

    #26

    Me after finding out the viral Mac and cheese really does just taste like macaroni noodles and cheese

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    #27

    anything with cottage cheese

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    Washington Post's Aaron Hutcherson claims that the feta pasta is worth the hype, too. However, one thing that gave him pause about this recipe was the tomatoes. The dish would be most tasty during the summer when fresh tomatoes are at their peak, but the recipe went viral during winter.

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    On the other hand, he writes that not "many people will notice much of a difference in the taste of this overall recipe given the assertiveness of the feta."

    #28

    Those caramel dumplings for me. The texture wasn’t it.

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    #29

    The fried and then boiled pasta was disgusting

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    30 Recipes That People Tried After Seeing Them On TikTok And Regretted It That nasty nasty nasty disgursting sun dried tomato pasta. My friend made it for me when I went over her house. I was so depressed

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    Have you tried any of these viral recipes, Pandas? Which ones do you think are overhyped? Are any of them worth people's time and attention? Leave a comment and let us know if you agree with these entries. And if you have more viral recipes that disappointed you, list them down below and save other Pandas from a sad, bland meal!

    #31

    I try to heavily avoid red sauce of any kind mixed with cottage cheese, as a substitute. It can work in say, polo con créma, but the pasta sauce was DIABOLICAL

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    bang bang chicken was a dud

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    #34

    The cottage cheese wrap I tried the other day

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    #36

    the salmon bowl, it felt like I ate someone's chewed up sushi with a piece of paper

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    #37

    The egg boil trend got me I’m afraid to admit

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    Beth Wheeler
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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    As in hard boiled eggs? You put them in a pot of water and boil them until done. Take them out and put them in an ice water bath to stop cooking and make them easier to peel.

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    #38

    homemade gniocci and lemon pasta were barely edible...

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    #39

    I tried pumpkin pie brownies and not only was it not the consistency of a brownie despite following the recipe to a T, it did not task like pumpkin pie nor brownies

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    #40

    Me making banana oat pancakes

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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I personally have been making them for years (didn't know it was a tiktok thing) and my only issue is being patient enough to not turn up the heat and burn them.

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    #41

    That whipped coffee from like peak TikTok, it was sooo bitter

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    Ample Aardvark
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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don't get it. Whipped coffee has a lot of sugar, maybe this person never had coffee before?

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    #42

    Gigi hadid pasta my whole fam and I hated it sm

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    Becky Samuel
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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The lack of effort in the writing of this entry hurts my brain.

    #43

    That’s happened to me, that Olive Garden dressing chicken, way too salty and sour

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    #44

    when i make the hong kong style french toast

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    #45

    A lot like the pistachio chocolate bar. Pistachio cream is not nice. People are grimacing then saying it's delicious

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    Melona ice cream

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    WindySwede
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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Doesn't seem to bad? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melona

    #47

    the potato dumplings...

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    Roan The Demon Kitty
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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    as in..? Gnocci? Kroppakka? schupfnudeln? cepelinai? chapalele? knedle? kopytka? shliskes? >.>

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    #48

    instant scroll of it says with only 2 or 3 ingredients

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    clairebear
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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They say that but don't include the 15 seasoning and spices they use.

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    #49

    Beef broccoli

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    #50

    Food from other countries. Like I refuse to make kimchi bc idk how real kimchi is supposed to taste, I never eaten it

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    R Dennis
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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I had awful kimchi at a restaurant and it was so awful I avoided Korean food for 20 years. I started watching Korean Englishman on YT and gave it another go. It turns out that restaurant was just awful, we now keep kimchi in our fridge.

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