Food you bought on a whim that turned out worse than expected

[markman]

Originally Posted by Hondaslayer

Where is here?

Can you order an iced tea and get what you want, or do you need to specify sweet tea?

This is a valid question. Where I live, if you ask for tea you're getting diabetea. To me it's syrupy, but the people around here love it. I'm guessing the 7-11 tea you're talking about is even more overly sweetened.

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[lag]

The sweet tea line seems to be somewhere in VA on the east coast. South of that if you ask for tea outside of chain restaurants, from past experience, it's going to be sweet tea. North of this line in VA it's not going to be sweet. If you ask for sweet tea without asking what they think sweet tea is north of this line you're going to get GD raspberry tea.

[The Dayman]

Originally Posted by Hondaslayer

Where is here?

Can you order an iced tea and get what you want, or do you need to specify sweet tea?

Saint Louis. You have to specify unsweetened if that's what you want, otherwise they're bringing you sweetened by default.

[El Wray]

Yea.. here it's always been one way. You order tea and they give you a glass of very bitter unsweetened. Period. Needs diabetes number of packets to make it marginally drinkable. Some places do it so poorly where the tea to water ratio is all jacked so it winds up even worse and nothing you can do to fix it. If you're at a half decent restaurant the help staff can usually be trusted to make an Arnold Palmer that doesn't suck. Otherwise if you've a hankering and absolutely must have tea, only safe option is hot. At least there most places spend a little more for the bags and you get to mess with it to your own taste.

[El Wray]

Tastes like pouring $5 down the drain.

[markman]

Originally Posted by El Wray

Tastes like pouring $5 down the drain.

Odd, because non-diet coffee creamer has got to be the hardest food item to eff up.

[Dentt42]

Originally Posted by El Wray

Tastes like pouring $5 down the drain.

Like markman said, how the hell are they messing up pasteurized milk and sugar?

[parker]

I'm wondering if the expiration date dictated it's destination.

[Hondaslayer]

Not really worse or better just kind of, eh?

The pop tart back half ****s the whole thing up. If it were all pretzel it would be great. Charge more, make it a chocolate filled pretzel.

It’s not bad, it’s just.. eh.

[El Wray]

Originally Posted by parker

I'm wondering if the expiration date dictated it's destination.

I thought this, but expiration is in October. I shook the **** out of it a little after I posted thinking it may help. It very slightly improved, but didn't save it.

[Hondaslayer]

Originally Posted by markman

This is a valid question. Where I live, if you ask for tea you're getting diabetea. To me it's syrupy, but the people around here love it. I'm guessing the 7-11 tea you're talking about is even more overly sweetened.

:fingergunz: I used to stay in areas where you did not have to specify. It was lovely.

But yeah, this is literally water, sugar syrup and tea powder. Just bleh. The raspberry tea was ok.

[markman]

I didn't *buy* it, but I kept hearing about espresso tonic... I was excite, because I love espresso, and I love gin & tonic.

I picked up some good tonic (not the cheap seagrams stuff), made some good espresso, and I tried several recipes... and none of them were spectacular. They varied from meh to awful. The best version used ginger syrup and a generous squeeze of lemon juice, but it was still nothing to write home about.

Conclusion: espresso tonic is hipster nonsense.

[Integra96]

Originally Posted by markman

I didn't *buy* it, but I kept hearing about espresso tonic... I was excite, because I love espresso, and I love gin & tonic.

I picked up some good tonic (not the cheap seagrams stuff), made some good espresso, and I tried several recipes... and none of them were spectacular. They varied from meh to awful. The best version used ginger syrup and a generous squeeze of lemon juice, but it was still nothing to write hope about.

Conclusion: espresso tonic is hipster nonsense.

Not if you drink it out of a $50 Yeti cup.

[El Wray]

Originally Posted by Integra96

Not if you drink it out of a $50 Yeti cup.

Was also missing the hint of curled mustache beard butter

[El Wray]

Feels like deja vu. This time with MCT oil.


Not sure why I got this.. and I don't know what the **** a monkey fruit is or why we'd use it for sweetener. In any case might try and kill it quickly rather than pouring it out.

[turntable]

Vita-coco coconut water. It was like drinking watered down milk that someone jizzed in.

[XanRules]

Trader Joe's Toffee Pretzels taste like a movie theater lobby smells.

[Kubek]

My experience is not exactly about specific food, but more about preparation and service. I went to one of the neighborhood restaurants and wanted to get calf liver with onions, I love this stuff. I know that it's hard to get a nice piece of meat without veins, and when I was ordering it, I told waitress, please make sure that it doesn't have a lot of veins. When I got my dish and started cutting it and it was basically all veins. I called the waitress to show her what I got, she apologized and offered something else but I already lost the appetite. It was so traumatic experience , that I never went back to the same place and I remember it after almost 20 years.

[wildnuts]

Originally Posted by XanRules

Trader Joe's Toffee Pretzels taste like a movie theater lobby smells.

Confusing. Usually the lobby smells like buttery popcorn goodness. How does that make it bad?

[XanRules]

I can't think of a better way to explain it. Vaguely salty, sort of sweet in a weird, chemical kind of way, as though someone had spilled a bunch of popcorn and soda on the floor next to you a few hours ago and you could sort of still smell it after trying to clean it up.

[Hondaslayer]

Originally Posted by El Wray

Feels like deja vu. This time with MCT oil.


Not sure why I got this.. and I don't know what the **** a monkey fruit is or why we'd use it for sweetener. In any case might try and kill it quickly rather than pouring it out.

Monk fruit.

It’s lower carbs than sugar, according to the people on diet sites. Only 4carbs per tsp. Sugar is double that at 8 carbs.......
















Per 2 tsp.

[The Motel Fella]

It sounded cool.
It is what it says it is: Coffee mixed with Coke. But the experience is akin to a going-flat vanilla coke with coffee flavoring.
EDIT: WTF is up with that image size.

Don't buy it. You'll regret it.

[The Dayman]

It's no cinnamon coke.

[The Motel Fella]

That it is not.

[Skeet6]

Canned Cod Livers. Yup - even worse than it sounds.
Mike B