Most Overrated Foods

I'm in the mood to discuss food.

I'll start by nominating a few:

boneless Chicken breast
Catfish (will never understand why anyone would eat catfish)
cooked salmon (raw is the only way to go)

And this is blasphemous considering I've lived in Louisiana my entire life, but crawfish is so horribly overrated down here.

 

Funny I like them all. in fact I like everything except liver, cows tongue, pigs feet and tripe.:p

 

i didn't know food could possibly be over-rated???

 

1. You're not a breast man. Boneless chicken is great in a salad I make or in my white chilli.
2. You're not eating fresh caught wild catfish. And the BIG ones are not good. You probably aren't cooking them right either.
3. You just don't know how to cookd salmon or you're eating some Great Lakes salmon and think it's the same as Pacific NW or Alaskan fresh salmon.

Most over rated food....TOFU. Dang yuppies anyway.

 

Mushrooms, and more specifically in my area, morels. People won't even tell other family members where they find them. Its more secretive than hunting spots. Here's a secret...its FUNGUS! :I can't find the little green smilie that is ready to puke, otherwise I would post it here:

 

Caviar That stuff is just plain nasty.

 

Most over rated food....humble pie.

 

See, that's why it's overrated. It needs compliments. Boneless chicken breast alone is very bland.

Catfish = trash fish

I've tried cooked salmon at some of the best seafood restaurants in the NW. Still prefer raw over cooked any day.

 

See now I would consider liver and pigs feet very underrated foods.

 

I love cold smoked salmon. Is that considered cook? I'm not sure. I love cooked salmon though too. I'm not sure I would call it overrated. I don't think most people like the taste of raw fish. Maybe raw fish is underrated.

 

Wings are WAY overrated IMO. Such a huge mess for a nibble of chewy meat that has to be smothered in sauce to eat....I don't understand the attraction.

Honorable mentions go to meatloaf, fried chicken, and ribs.

 

I agree with this with all my heart.

 

If boneless chicken and wings are overrated, would boneless wings being super duper overrated? Could it be the most overrated food? Or do two wrongs make a right?

 

All I know is that those boneless chickens must have one heck of a time getting around.

 

Heretic!!!!! Burn him!!!!!!!!!

 

General Tso's chicken is highly overrated. In no way does it deserve its own thread

Catfish is not a trash fish. At least when you get some of the nice channel cats, they are very predatory fish. My dad caught one with a 10" creek chub in it.

Pork chops are over rated. So is spagetti.

Edit to add

This may be wrong on a hunting board, but venison is over rated. By itself, I really don't find it that appealing compared to a good steak.
That said probably 95% of the red meat in my diet is deer, I jsut have to spruce it up at times.

 

Pork chops are definitely not overrated. CRAZY! Fried pork chops with horseradish = awesome. Blackened salmon is also one of my fave. I'm in the same boat with boneless chicken breast. Not a fan. Number 1 overrated food is capers. Any food with capers on them sucks IMO.

 

I consider any meat that requires lots of compliments to be overrated.

With that being said, simple seasoned pork chops are delicious.

 

Morel over rated, Vito what are you saying!!!!!

Mexican food and I mean all of it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

If we're talking about the crappy chain restaurants that litter the vast majority of this country, then I'm with you.

But travel down to SW Texas and south New Mexico, and those little hole in the wall places might just change your mind.