Most overrated food

[ponyo]

My vote is Japanese ramen. It's good but the pork, chicken, or soy broth does nothing for me.

 

[MrSquished]

My vote is Japanese ramen. It's good but the pork, chicken, or soy broth does nothing for me.

You are trying the wrong restaurants. A solid pork bone broth, with nice thin al dente noodles and a few pieces of tender pork. Now that's a meal to be treasured. I've tried 10 Japanese Ramen joints in the city and found the best few. Not all ramen is created equal. A good pork bone broth will make your knees tremble. It's my go to comfort meal, winter or summer.

 

[angminas]

My most overrated foods:

Sandwiches with 800-foot-thick slabs of bread.
Sandwiches that are so overfilled that you can't possibly eat them without looking like a toddler.
White bread. Why even bother?
Cheesecake. It's sorta good sometimes, but that's it. I've never had a cheesecake that really impressed me.
Extremely spicy foods / eating peppers whole. If I want to be miserable, I can watch the news for free.
Bacon. See cheesecake.

 

[LevelSea]

crudites, beets & feta salad, lobster mac

 

[sandorski]

Seafood - they live in the world's sewer.

 

[evident]

Lobster. While delicious, Absolutely not worth the price. I'd rather have shrimp at a fraction of cost.

 

[Carson Dyle]

Bacon. Not sure anything even comes close these days.

 

[mxnerd]

Japanese ramen - soup is always too salty, too thick.

Teriyaki whatever - also too salty & too sweet.

 

[Dr. Detroit]

The overstuffed sandwich with 38 ingredients smothered in sauce - just keep it simple!

Deep fried mac & cheese bites - crunchy balls of grease. ugh!

Fusion burritos - Just stop cramming everything you can into a flour tortilla and charging $12.95 for a log of rice with a few bites of "fusion" gristle

 

[louis redfoot]

Lobster. While delicious, Absolutely not worth the price. I'd rather have shrimp at a fraction of cost.

yeah man, shrimp is optimal. though i have seen some shrimp the size of bananas and they cost as much as lobster.

for me, anything obscenely expensive... caviar, kobe, 5 star dining. it's all shit in a few hours.

 

[bigboxes]

Sushi

 

[SKORPI0]

anything from Olive Garden.

 

[Ns1]

I have yet to be wowed by caviar
Truffles are good but not $15/gram good.

 

[renz20003]

Pizza

 

[cbrunny]

absolutely it's bacon. Don't get me wrong, it is good. I eat it on occasion and usually enjoy it. But if you believe what you see on the interweb you'd think that bacon simultaneously provides instant orgasms and doesn't make you a complete fatass. But it actually does neither of these, and is really just "ok."

 

[Pardus]

anything from Olive Garden.

Olve Garden is fake Italian food loaded with salt. The soup tastes like it was overcooked in a broken microwave, the food if you can call it that, is horrendously disgusting. Last time I was there it reminded me of a hot pocket, cold on the outside and lava hot on the inside.

 

[lehtv]

Pulled pork. Good ol' stews and grilled pork chops are much better.

 

[angminas]

absolutely it's bacon. Don't get me wrong, it is good. I eat it on occasion and usually enjoy it. But if you believe what you see on the interweb you'd think that bacon simultaneously provides instant orgasms and doesn't make you a complete fatass. But it actually does neither of these, and is really just "ok."

https://www.xkcd.com/418/

 

[TeeJay1952]

Heard about Pho on Food network. Described as delicate but nuanced broth of 25 hours prep. Served with bean sprouts, basil leave and fish sauce on side.
Great vegetable beef soup but I has ready for dinner afterwards. (Damn my American palate and appetite.)

 

[dullard]

you'd think that bacon ...doesn't make you a complete fatass. But it actually does neither of these

I agree that bacon is overrated, but bacon itself doesn't make anyone fat. 3 strips of pan-fried bacon has less calories than a 12 oz cola drink. Microwave it instead and you get 6 strips of bacon for the same calories as one 12 oz can of soda. Plus the bacon has nutrients and the protein keeps you full so that you don't eat as many other items. I wouldn't put bacon on the healthy list. But it is far, far from the fatass list.

 

[cbrunny]

I agree that bacon is overrated, but bacon itself doesn't make anyone fat. 3 strips of pan-fried bacon has less calories than a 12 oz cola drink. Microwave it instead and you get 6 strips of bacon for the same calories as one 12 oz can of soda. Plus the bacon has nutrients and the protein keeps you full so that you don't eat as many other items. I wouldn't put bacon on the healthy list. But it is far, far from the fatass list.

 

[IronWing]

Beef steak

 

[lxskllr]

Sriracha

 

[disappoint]

Sriracha

I wonder if anything alive other than human would consider eating that twice.

 

[dullard]

I wonder if anything alive other than human would consider eating that twice.

After having sriracha blue cheese hummus, I don't think I would consider wanting to be alive if I couldn't eat it twice.