Which food did you find the most underwhelming?

[Fab Foodie]

Ginsters Cornish Pasty... love 'em mate.

Me too.
And many other Pasties too

 

[slowmotion]

Can anybody venture an opinion on truffles? The type that pigs snuffle for in the Perigord. Are they really worth the fuss that is made of them?

 

[Flying_Monkey]

There's some people here who either have no taste buds, have been in Britain too long, or are just making judgments on very little experience. Add up what people have said is underwhelming here and what you have left, I am not quite sure. I think I just feel sorry for some people... oh well, all the more left for the rest of us!

 

[Pat "5mph"]

Garlic. See those beautiful sexy young Mediterranean ladies, then after a few years of lacing all their food with that garlic muck they become wrinkled old crones dressed from head to toe in black as they mourn their lost youth.

Yeh, you, Jimmy, watch it!
Anyway, the most revolting thing I see people eating here is "roll and crisps"

 

[Pat "5mph"]

Not tried mashed swede with haggis?

Oh, lovely, and mashed tooties too, but not from a packet, fresh.

 

[Fab Foodie]

There's some people here who either have no taste buds, have been in Britain too long, or are just making judgments on very little experience. Add up what people have said is underwhelming here and what you have left, I am not quite sure. I think I just feel sorry for some people... oh well, all the more left for the rest of us!

... or just have differing tastes. I think your post by your usual standards FM is one massive pompous overgeneralisation.

The thing about food is that liking or disliking one thing does not preclude liking or disliking another.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

Oh my word, gnocci with basil in a tomato sauce..

yes, my homemade tomato sauce with basil from my windowsill
Any CChatter not liking pasta has not tried mine

 

[Pat "5mph"]

Hmmm.. one of my faves, Couscous with courgettes, Pistachio and chicken with a lime dressing...

For a variation, try bourgouri (crushed wheat) cooks like couscous, but has a crunchier texture, you can buy it in asian grocers.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

The single most disappointing culinary experience of my life was a traditional Afrikaans Potjiekos (pron. "poiky-kos") which was given such a huge build up by all concerned that I was forced to grin maniacally and express my ecstatic reverence of the dish when in fact it was a second rate stew.

To make matters worse it was served with "mealie pap" (maize meal porridge, something like polenta).

Which brings me on to polenta; whenever I am served that, I wonder if there is some "in joke" going on and actually no-one likes it but I am being cruelly teased into politely pretending to enjoy it. Yup, polenta is the emperor's new clothes of the food world.

Fried polenta with Italian sausages in spicy tomato sauce

 

[MossCommuter]

Fried polenta with Italian sausages in spicy tomato sauce

Leave out the polenta and you'll have some nice sausages in tomato sauce. have some bread with it

 

[Pat "5mph"]

Leave out the polenta and you'll have some nice sausages in tomato sauce. have some bread with it

Ok, it's a deal: crusty bread baked by me: maybe olive bread? I's greek but goes with italian sausages!

 

[MossCommuter]

Ok, it's a deal: crusty bread baked by me: maybe olive bread? I's greek but goes with italian sausages!

Kleftiko ftw

 

[colly]

Oysters agreed totally overated like swallowing salty pghlem seasoned with sand!

Yes. Just like a great gob of snot. As my genteel aunty used to say.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

Kleftiko ftw

... had to google ftw ...

 

[Maz]

Cornish pasties. A poor substitute for food.

You must be kidding! Did you post this to be controversial?