Comments on: Ask The Audience: Looks bad, tastes good and vice versa

By: Ms Meghan

Ms Meghan — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 00:37:25 +0000

I make a pasta dish with caramelized onions (like, 3/4 of an onion), olive oil, parm. cheese, garlic. It looks kind of blah but tastes freaking amazing.

By: Hilary

Hilary — Fri, 30 May 2008 23:38:29 +0000

Ha – I have something I made recently that fits the looks ugly tastes good category.

http://foodielovespicky.blogspot.com/2008/05/obscene-food-porn.html

As my dad used to say, “I’ll eat it, but I wouldn’t want to step in it.”

Considering I am not from the deep south, my biscuits and gravy were pretty damn good!

By: LoriW

LoriW — Fri, 30 May 2008 19:45:05 +0000

Hey, Tink: my Mom does that dip — but she adds cheese. It’s fab and doesn’t look like baby poop.
Remember ions ago when restaurants put their desert menu on the place mat? Most were photo opped and gorgeous. There was one BBQ joint that slapped a slice of pie on a plate, snapped a picture — and whether the topping slid off or not — printed it on the place mat. Everybody got a dessert — because they knew there was truth in advertising! And it was homemade! Mmm that was good pie!

By: tink

tink — Fri, 30 May 2008 19:29:28 +0000

“Dip”
2 cans Chili with no beans
1 package cream cheese
Tabasco sauce or jalapeños to taste

Nuke in the microwave til all melty, stir together. Serve with Frito’s Scoops.

Looks like baby poop – CAN’T.STOP.EATING

By: fluffernutter

fluffernutter — Fri, 30 May 2008 14:04:40 +0000

Thanks for the bump Home Ec! My dessert needs help: it tastes incredible, and while it’s not a beauty, it’s not homely. It’s the bad name that drags it down. Imagine a fantastically interesting, fairly attractive man stuck with the name Clarence.

By: Jasi

Jasi — Thu, 29 May 2008 19:30:41 +0000

Anything from a Crock Pot! Looks a mess, but usually tastes divine.

My wedding cake was a heavenly tower of satin and strawberry layers that wound up tasting like sawdust and sweetened berry dish soap. Yuck!

By: Tracy

Tracy — Thu, 29 May 2008 18:11:17 +0000

Oh this is easy! I got the best one for looks awful, tastes great. I’m from Arkansas and we eat a BBQ dish called ‘ Big Nasty’. You take a bowl. In the bowl, the bottom 1/3 is chopped pork BBQ. The middle 1/3 is Baked Beans and the top 1/3 is cole slaw. Stir it up with a fork and enjoy. Hey, don’t Yuck My Yum!

By: Dana

Dana — Thu, 29 May 2008 16:36:49 +0000

I spent a summer in Italy…and all of their pastries are beautiful…almost too pretty to eat and maybe that should have been a signal to not eat them…they were always dry and bland.

German pastries, however, are awful looking…like a 4 year old made them…but geesh are they wonderful tasting.

By: AA

AA — Thu, 29 May 2008 15:51:50 +0000

Fried okra .. looks gross, tastes yummy .. boiled okra .. looks like a drowned lizard, tastes like a lizard (no, I didn’t do a comparison)

It seems any dessert that looks too “pretty” is often icky. The messier the better.