overrated foods/dishes

[stayclassy]

Originally Posted by LTJazz

The recent bacon craze. While tasty, it does not belong on, in, or around all foods. Not to mention, there are some other very tasty pork products one can enjoy aside from bacon.

Like Fatback

 

[sho'nuff]

Originally Posted by cheessus

calamari

youre absolutely crazy!!

 

[sonick]

Originally Posted by sho'nuff

youre absolutely crazy!!

+1, especially if it's grilled.

 

[cheessus]

i meant to say deep fried calamari. grilled is good.

 

[sho'nuff]

Originally Posted by cheessus

i meant to say deep fried calamari. grilled is good.

breaded deep fried is good too maN!

 

[stayclassy]

^ calamari just cant be prepared wrong

 

[nahneun]

I don't know about Momofuku Ko, but the rest of David Chang's restaurants are terribly overrated. The dude can't even speak Korean.

 

[jasperjasper]

1. Offal
2. Raw Oysters
3. Raisins

 

[TheButler]

Originally Posted by stayclassy

^ calamari just cant be prepared wrong
You just need one plateful of rubber bands to disprove that theory.

Calamari is great as long as it is fresh and not overcooked. It's easily ruined though. I'm guessing people who find it over-rated haven't had it done properly.

 

[Piobaire]

Originally Posted by TheButler

You just need one plateful of rubber bands to disprove that theory.

Calamari is great as long as it is fresh and not overcooked. It's easily ruined though.

Here is a question: wtf does Ontario have against calamari? I've never once gotten good calamari in Ontario. All my family back home there thinks I'm nuts when I tell them calamari should not be big rubber bands, but after several tries, in several cities in Ontario, I know why people that live there think calamari = chewy rubber bands.

I've concluded that, for some reason, Ontario gets substandard product.

 

[cchen]

You need to head into Toronto and find a good Cantonese place. Order salt and pepper calamari. Deep fried goodness with tender calamari

 

[Piobaire]

Originally Posted by cchen

You need to head into Toronto and find a good Cantonese place. Order salt and pepper calamari. Deep fried goodness with tender calamari

If I'm in TO doing Chinese food, which happens about once very three years, I'm more interested in other stuff. I can easily get good calamari, prepared in numerous ways, where I live now. My recent visit back home to Ontario reminded me about the sorry state of calamari there.

 

[MetroStyles]

Definitely lobster.

 

[Big Pun]

olives
apple pie (actually most pies besides pumpkin)

 

[XenoX101]

Originally Posted by Macallan9

pizza of any kind
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TIP: to embed Youtube clips, put only the encoded part of the Youtube URL, e.g. eBGIQ7ZuuiU between the tags. Pizza to me is one of the few dishes that break the 'price to quality' ratio. It's the best tasting fast food yet somehow also the cheapest ($8 a large pizza, shared between two people). I even prefer it to some average restaurants that charge $15-20 a main. Put simply a well prepared pizza with great ingredients is a force to be reckoned with in my books, both in price and taste. And paradoxically I find restaurant pizza to taste worse than the kind you get from Vinnie who gives you a free garlic bread with two pizzas or more.