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36 Comments:
baklava
ceforrester at 10:17AM on 06/28/07
pasta salad
emily20008 at 10:37AM on 06/28/07
wax fruit
well, someone had to say it ... ;-)
Looks better than it tastes: Lobster-stuffed salmon, with lots of sage in the stuffing. Too many strong flavors fighting a major war.
Tastes better than it looks: Steak tartare
LunaPierCook at 10:58AM on 06/28/07
Flan!
Annmarie at 11:32AM on 06/28/07
caviar.
tastes better than it looks: haggis and lutefisk.
caley at 11:33AM on 06/28/07
Those beautiful but totally tasteless "tomatoes-on-the-vine" sold at supermarkets
1stmakearoux at 11:40AM on 06/28/07
figs....
Kbear919 at 12:10PM on 06/28/07
Meringue cookies, the real hard ones. What's with them? Save the calories, no matter how few! (I'll take Caley's word on haggis and lutefisk...)
superberri at 1:01PM on 06/28/07
The pies in the little twirling refrigerator case down at the diner always look better than they taste.
DaveFaris at 1:03PM on 06/28/07
sushi
Vitello Tonnato at 1:04PM on 06/28/07
Split pea soup
hereandthe at 1:04PM on 06/28/07
I'll second the pies in the bakery case....they always taste like refridgerator!
mepolo at 1:09PM on 06/28/07
Brussels Srouts-start off good but by the 3rd bite or so I am finished.
lpennin104 at 1:43PM on 06/28/07
pies and cakes in diners, cinnamon buns.
lashes457 at 2:23PM on 06/28/07
Vodka Martini, shaken, not stirred.
desseyn at 3:27PM on 06/28/07
Cupcakes at groceries.
clumsycook at 3:50PM on 06/28/07
Tomatoes look better then they taste (sorry, just don't like em)
on the other side of things...
Tuna caserole tastes better then it looks
Lilartist at 4:16PM on 06/28/07
"Chinese" food . . .
DocChuck at 5:38PM on 06/28/07
All the baked goods in grocery stores or food markets----cookies, brownies, pies, cakes, cinnamon rolls, etc.
JEP at 6:11PM on 06/28/07
I agree with JEP all sweet items from grocery stores food markets and diners all empty calories and not flavor. I found one exception ....the muffins at the local Co-op Market, nice and moist and lots of flavor, especially the cranberry/nut, the date and the peach...great! But stay away from those grocery store and diner sweets!
elaine at 8:13PM on 06/28/07
That rainbow cake that is sold by the slice at Canter's. It's inedible!
MLT at 8:15PM on 06/28/07
andouillette
Dish at 8:23PM on 06/28/07
Most croissants. Oily, heavy, ick.
Thanks for adding sushi to the list! That's the other thing I was thinking of.
kmnola at 9:09PM on 06/28/07
Those giant cookie cakes you get at the mall. Hard cookie + artifical frosting = gross. But they are fun to look at.
Uni tastes so much better than it looks.
Jj6407 at 11:50PM on 06/28/07
Papaya
Carosone at 1:00AM on 06/29/07
Marzipan anything.
FKC at 1:29AM on 06/29/07
Croissants and cinnamon rolls. Never met I liked-- somehow nigglingly unsatisfying. : x
Christina at 2:25AM on 06/29/07
Cakes with rolled fondant icing. It's June, high season for gorgeous looking yet icky tasting rolled fondant cakes.
Calichef at 4:48AM on 06/29/07
looks better: salad
tastes better: chopped liver
kqrbob at 9:10AM on 06/29/07
Beets: lovely color, taste like dirt. (Except, oddly, at a Swedish restaurant near me. I have no clue was to how they dedirtify them.)
Barbara Hanson at 12:15PM on 06/29/07
Black-and-white cookies
maasikas at 2:42PM on 06/29/07
maasikas - I agree on the black and white cookies, but every once in a great while I hit a good one...forcing me to keep trying.
The birds near my home have eaten a lot of bad black and white cookies missing just one bite!
Vitello Tonnato at 3:15PM on 06/29/07
ANYTHING with cilantro. Honestly, I don't know how people eat the stuff.
Osuforia at 3:24PM on 06/29/07
Canned nacho cheese. On the tastes-better-than-it-looks: liver and onions.
hatlady at 6:27PM on 06/29/07
Err.. cupcakes. I'm guilty of baking lots and lots of them, and even though they tasted good, the main reason people love them is their appearance. I'd say 99% commerial cakes look better than they taste. Seriously, opera cake, sacher torte.. *yawn*
winny at 2:13AM on 06/30/07
Dragonfruit
Dreamzoxo at 12:38PM on 07/01/07