30 Foods That Are Not As Good As The Hype May Make You Believe, According To Folks In This Online Community

That's true and as a baker I can tell you why. You can't get that impeccable, perfect and artistic look with grannies recipes. They aren't stable enough. A tasty, moist cake would crumble and break if you tried to make it look like Harry Potter's right sock standing up or a unicorn's booty. You can't whip a standard buttercream frosting into the shape of Yoda's toothbrush. You need recipes that are more stable and more malleable to create something that looks like that. That's going to take away from the taste. Those cakes and frostings are mostly sugar. They bake dry and crumbly because that's more stable if you stack it and the frosting is usually just butter or cream cheese with tons of sugar. If you're lucky some freeze dried, powdered strawberries. Because adding strawberry puree means you'll get somewhat softer cream that you can't dress on looking like roses. It won't give you those sharp edges you need to form the petals.

And too often, they use foudant instead of just sticking to a good buttercream

Fancy icing. You are absolutely correct it's not about the quality of the cake

I feel the same way about those silly cake decorating TV shows. I don't want fancy. I want delicious. You want fancy? Please also provide delicious. Or maybe just rent a plaster of Paris fancy cake shell and hide the real stuff under it.

The cake is never good enough, and there's always too much icing/frosting for my tastes. When I choose to eat cake, I want to be able to taste, and enjoy the cake.

McDiabetes.

In most cases the food looks shocking but doesn't taste good. It's just a huge mess hyped up

I don't mind getting messy while eating, but a cake on a milkshake??? Put the cake on a fecking plate!

my favorite is a Bloody Mary with a mini-cheeseburger on a swizzle stick

That's how I feel about bubble tea.

The reason banana flavouring tastes so wierd is because you're used to the Cavendish banana and the flavouring is based on the (now nearly extinct) Gros Michel banana.Or so I'm told. Sadly, I've never had a Gros Michel banana.

I resent this hatred for cherry flavoured foods. It's among my favourite tastes 😍 Maybe this is cultural but where I'm from cough drops taste like licorice, and you can get food with fresh cherries. And cherry flavouring is delicious. I did buy a tart with cherry flavor in a convenience store in the US once though, and that was disgusting. 😐

I recall reading something that the banana flavoring we know is based on a strain of banana that went extinct.

I don't like most fruit flavored things, but love the actual fruits. They never taste like the real thing

Youtuber Gabi Bell goes into a general explanation as to why banana flavored items taste fake. It's actually pretty interesting. Look up "Why Banana Flavor Doesn’t Taste Like Banana" if you want to see why. But, as another commenter mentioned, the flavor is based on an extinct variety of banana that was prevalent when the artificial flavor was created.

Literally just there for people to waste money. "I'm so much richer than you peasants, my food is coated in pure gold!"

Mmmm...tastes like class oppression

very Donald Trump-ish

I worry more about the rosemary garnish. Rosemary and cake? ick.

I “somehow” remotelly get the need to use it. Not everything we do is for food to taste better, sometimes the looks is important too. Though I’m far from buying golden leaves to put in my food, I once seen a bottle of high end vodka with tine specks of edible gold. It was GORGEOUS! Of course it was pricey as hell, of course I wouldn’t buy it, but damn, it was gorgeous… the little flashes of golden light just randomly blinking. And people ARE vain… And there are many more things that everyone buys but not need, the edible gold is just easy target, because it’s literally useless, except for looks.

I agree. I don't need my seasoning to include bouncing off someone's forearm.

Salt bae is the dictionary definition of "pfft".

Dude is a total DBag anyway.

Is this the guy who was on the pitch during the last World Cup, and people wanted to know why?

He's an a*s

I order deconstructed food all the time... at the grocery store...

As a very picky eater, I appreciate deconstructed food because I don't like food touching other food. I do understand the hate for it though with eaters who are less picky.

Reconstructed food, OTOH, can be incredibly creative. One chef reconstructed New England Clam Chowder: potato and chive gnocchi, clam sauce, bacon lardons, crispy fried shallots, and a celery leaf salad. It sounds amazing.

Absolutely!!

I confess due to being allergic and intolerant to many foods I am a deconstructionist. I need to know what I’m eating as I don’t want to be sick or in pain or have breathing difficulties etc. I react to more than just food so unconsciously I now consider everything around me. So yes I’m definitely a separatist concerning food.

sorry, I lost focus. For some reason, I am still picturing cross-eyed cows bumping into each other and I'm giggling 🙄

I read this stuff and think of the old adage that "there's no accounting for taste" and picture these folks getting down to eye scratching and hair pulling over a wee little chunk of meat. Now, I'm a meat eater, no apologies, but give me a nice prime rib and keep all of your steaks. More tender, lots more flavor, and no up charge for coming from a cross-eyed cow. 😂😂😂