They say even when pizza is bad, it’s still pretty good. What food is the opposite and has the widest swing between good and bad?
They say even when pizza is bad, it’s still pretty good. What food is the opposite and has the widest swing between good and bad?
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My vote is nachos. They can be absolutely amazing or a flavorless, soggy mass of chips and cheese food.
Sushi
High quality sushi is one of the best foods, gas station sushi is dog food.
Apples
Scrambled eggs. There’s like 5 seconds between prime and a dry disaster.
String Cheese. Nearly every brand is vastly different IMO. Consistency, flavor, dryness, firmness are all different it seems.
Every seafood.
Salmon…..
or fish…
or just seafood in general.
Sea urchin. When fresh its an interesting dish. When old, it’s sewage soaked in sea water.
BBQ ribs
One of my favorite foods is my Mom’s meatloaf. I don’t know what she does with it, or if it just reminds me of childhood, but I absolutely love it.
I will never seek out meatloaf from any other source. Not out of nostalgia, but have it on good authority that it is really easy to make a terrible meatloaf.
Grapes, some are real sweet and juicy, some are sour
McD’s filet-o-fish. Divine when it’s fresh. Inedible 20 minutes later.
Risotto. It can be a heavenly dish, and it’s a staple at some of the best restaurants in the world. But at the other end of the scale it’s a glutenous, sticky mass.
Steak. Beautifully cooked, good cut, and unctuous. Or fatty, chewy, tasteless and dried garbage
French Onion Soup. At it’s best it is wildly full of rich flavor. At it’s worst, it’s onion flavored water.
Chicken its so easy to make it dry
Lasagne. When it’s bad it’s awful
French fries. (Out of the ball park swing at In-N-Out btw)
Anything with sour cream in it. Sour cream in a burrito when it’s right off the grill is amazing. Once it’s been left out for a bit and you eat it it solidifies and I just don’t want to eat it anymore.
a crisp, juicy beefsteak tomato w/ a little olive oil & salt is refreshing & delicious.
a mealy, soft jimmy johns tomato slice can fuck all the way off.
Fresh garden tomatoes vs out of season store bought ones.
If you can not get home from Taco Bell within 15min, its a waste.
French fries
Honestly, most cooked vegetables.
Steamed broccoli can be the best damn thing on the plate. But 98% it’s trash.
Insert any vegetable and any way of cooking it.
a drink, but dunkin donuts coffee. you never know if you’ll get a great cup or literal garbage. and it could be on the same day.
Watermelon, some are amazing and some have no flavor at all.
Brussel sprouts.
Boiled or steamed they are disgusting.
Roasted Brussels sprouts are amazing. They taste like a completely different vegetable.
Baby carrots, same bag you’ll get one that’s tart, one that’s sweet and then one that just tastes like dirt
Bananas. They have a very brief period where they’re perfect, a top 3 fruit even. But a few hours off and they’re just okay, and a few days off makes them bad.
For me it’s coleslaw. You get the right person to make it and it’s soooo good, you get the other 99 out of 100 people to make it and it’s a slimy disgusting mess.
Fruitcake. A lot of them deserve their reputation, but a good one is completely different.
tomatoes. i love a good tomato — juicy, flavorful, etc. i HATE a dry mealy bland tomato
Peaches- it’s either delicious and wonderful or a woody/mealy disappointment.
Cake. If you’ve had a nice slice of cake from a proper bakery, every other slice of sheet cake will taste like sugar and ash.
Fried okra. When it’s done well it’s delicious, when it’s done poorly it’s a loogie in a fried shell.
Cantaloupe. Perfectly ripe cantaloupe is heavenly. Otherwise it is wet cardboard.
Eggplant.
Literally any seafood.
When it’s good, it’s great, when it’s bad, it’s food poisoning.
I was going to say Sushi, but honestly any seafood is terrible if it’s too low in quality. Rubbery, full of ammonia, and possibly poisonous if it’s spoiled. One bad oyster or mussel can give you a terrible case of diarrhea and if it’s rough enough you can die from that.
Someone’s already said seafood, so I’ll say rice.
Bad rice is terrible; mushy, crunchy, burnt…there’s no saving bad rice.
Coffee.
Bad coffee is bitter and youd insist you poured battery acid in your stomach. Where as good coffee, is smooth flavorful and you can drink it plain black with no issue or load it up with stuff with no issue. That line between good and blatantly bad is very very thin
Eggs. When they’re cooked right — soft scrambled, poached, or in a perfectly made omelet — they’re amazing. But when they’re overcooked, rubbery, or sulfur-smelling? Instantly ruined.
Fruit. Can definitely be the best thing in the world or completely disgusting.
Pasta.
I grew up on dry boxed pasta with a jarred sauce and some hamburger thrown in, or we’d go to a local Italian restaurant that was more Italian-American that I thought was great. Then I had fresh hand-made pasta with fresh ingredients in the authentic Italian style and my perception changed completely. A fresh ragu, bucatini, campidanese, agnoletti, bolonese, amatriciana, etc.
Whoever said that is wrong. Bad pizza can be so revolting.
Not necessarily a top contender but there’s a real difference between good and bad pad-Thai.
Salad. I love good salad. Bad salad is trash.
Biscuits and gravy.
Done properly, it’s amazing. But gravy is surprisingly easy to mess up.
Spinach.
Put that it a can and it is hot garbage.
Eat fresh and it is divine.
well fish?