Article created by: Monika Pašukonytė
Food is something none of us could live without. Since eating the same stuff over and over again would be boring, humans always try to find new ways to cook or new food items to consume. From these attempts, we sometimes get ingenious ideas that quickly become a staple in our diets, yet other times, these trials aren't so good. Or they become popular and overrated at the same time despite their mediocrity. Today's list is about exactly that – foods that are either overrated, too expensive, or both in netizens' eyes.
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Oysters
Just ashtrays full of snot.
Anything where a single plate is over $100. I feel like flavor peaks around $40-$50 and everything beyond that just tastes weirder to seem fancy.
Avocado toast. I'd be able to afford a house in a good neighborhood and support a family of five on a single income if I hadn't eaten that in my 20s.
Anything from Panera Bread. I heard it described best a few years ago: "overpriced hospital food".
Caviar. First of all, you can get ikura/fish eggs at Japanese restaurants for next to nothing. You can get the big ones wrapped in seaweed for a couple bucks, and when I was a kid I really liked the tiny orange roe, and would ask the servers for a side of them, and they'd give them to me for free. Caviar is just a fancier version of those, and often is a lot saltier. Too expensive for what you get.
Edit: Okay maybe roe/ikura isn’t that cheap either. I’ve never bought it in bulk, and I live in Alaska right by the ocean, and it’s always been v cheap at sushi restaurants here but as a whole I could be wrong about the pricing on that.
Anything with gold leaf.
Also fois gras. Fois Gras is tasty but it's so rich you really can only eat a few fork fulls. I went to a restaurant once where the serving was a whole slab of it just because it's "rich food.".
Lobster rolls. $22-28 for two to three ounces of lobster meat slathered in mayonnaise and put in a hot dog bun.
Starbucks
Their coffee is awful, which is why they have to load it with milk and whipped cream and sprinkles.
Gold flake. It tastes like nothing and is just to flex you have money to waste.
Anything salt bae serves.
Airport food.
Macaroons, I can’t understand why there are so expensive.
Honestly, wagyu beef. I had it just to say I've had it. I paid a premium price for a little thing that probably wouldn't even be considered an appetizer. It was okay.
Olive Garden.
Fight me.
Cheesecake Factory cheesecake. Fight me.
The first time younger me tried some almond milk, I concluded:
"This is just a sad, sad substance that rich people drink."
My opinion has changed since.
Chilean sea bass. I love most fish, but this just has the most horrible after taste, like black cod also has. (Also, caught by trawler, so not great for the environment.).
Ribs. It was originally discarded as waste, then we discovered BBQ sauce. Now they're more than steak.
