Most overrated cuisine

Thanatos0320

For me, I think the Americanized foods are overrated (e.g. Japanese and Mexican). Sushi is something I'll never really understand, and tex-mex seems to use just 6 ingredients to make their dishes which all seem to have a ton of cheese.

ForMud

I gotta say Mexican. I'm talking about what big chain restaurants are putting out there....Nasty
Now some of the small family run places around here are great. We have a place next door where I work I love. Everything is made fresh daily......The only problem is all the smells from their cooking in the morning drifts over to our place and I start getting hungry.
It helps our business around lunch because I have some customers stop by to buy things off us so their men can run next door to buy something for lunch.      
 

peter4jc

Irish cuisine...

Rhamlin

Possum. It just has to be done right. (In gravy)

Yakster

French restaurants

ForMud

Rhamlin said:

Possum. It just has to be done right. (In gravy)

Yes.....Also known as "The other gray meat."

The back bumper of one of my pick ups.

CalvinAndHobo

This is going to anger a lot of people, but I'm picking a specific sub genre of american food. The one that says you should not season high quality meats, and just let them stand on their own with their natural flavor, as if seasoning will make them taste worse. 

ForMud

^  Very light salt and pepper, let sit till room temp then cook to rare/med rare is how I roll. 

silvermouse

seagull. The fishermen in Provincetown, back when it was just a fishing villiage, used to catch seagulls and pen them for a week, feeding them anything except fish, harvesting them instead of chickens for Sunday dinner. 

First_Warrior

Red Fox. Years ago a bunch of us had a annual supper that was made of the critters we killed in the previous hunting season. Venison, dove, duck, and even a squirrel sometimes. One fellow was a trapper so we even ate muskrat. This trapper guy was hosting our event and thought it would be good to try fox. He cleaned it and put it in his wife's oven. When the rest of us showed up a horrible stench was in the air. It stank so bad that we all went home and left him by himself to explain to his wife ( she was not home at the time) the finer points of cooking a carnivore.

silvermouse

I had raccoon once, it had been living by the herring run before it discovered my friend's chickens and met its final demise. It was awful. I won't eat carnivores unless the apocalypse has arrived. Groundhog,on the other hand, especially the ones I catch in my garden, is pretty tasty. My wife calls the legs 'pot roast on a stick'.

Wylaff

I got to eat lion once. it was cool to say I did it, but it was truly disgusting. Animals tend to taste like their diet. Anything that eats rotting carcass is going to taste like rotting carcass. I would still do it again. Just to say I did it. That and shark put me on the peak of the food chain. 

Martel

I think some people misunderstand the term, "overrated!"

French
It's pretentious.  There's a lot of good stuff in French food, but it's not the end-all-be-all of cooking.  I get why "classically" trained chefs are taught French methods, but a lot of those skills don't actually make the food better. 

Next on my list is BBQ.  I love it, don't get me wrong, but after a lot of it when living in Memphis, I just don't buy into the hype surrounding competitions and things.

dirtdude

Pangolin is not all it's talked up to be.

CharlieHeis

Martel said:

I think some people misunderstand the term, "overrated!"

I think it started with the word cuisine being confused with "critter". 

webmost

CharlieHeis said:

Martel said:

I think some people misunderstand the term, "overrated!"

I think it started with the word cuisine being confused with "critter". 

Eggs Ackley. Possum ain't cuisine; it's road kill.

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Chinese. You got less meat diced smaller & spread sparser, for wee tiny people sporting teeny tiny teeth. And just the smell of it... ugh.

MSG
does not rhyme with me.

Yakster

Everyone's being too polite in not calling it redneck / cajun / hillbilly cuisine.

90+_Irishman

I had caribou once and it was unbelievably good, same with rattlesnake nachos. I gotta give another win to French cuisine though, way overrated and not something I ever seen out or order

ForMud

Yakster said:

Everyone's being too polite in not calling it redneck / cajun / hillbilly cuisine.

AKA; Poor folk food. 

Had one old guy in Kentucky tell me "If you ever grill opossum and raccoon at the same time, leave the head and pawls on so you can tell them apart"

Yakster

Don't get me wrong, I love Cajun cuisine.

Yakster

Not a huge fan of chicken feet, and not sure about chittlings.

ForMud

The feet are the most profitable part of a chicken.....I'm sure how or why I know that. 

Echambers

I don't think there is such a thing as an "over-rated" cuisine. But I think there are a lot of bad executions of good cuisine. 

Bob_Luken

Yakster said:

Everyone's being too polite in not calling it redneck / cajun / hillbilly cuisine.

Best venison I ever had was roadkill. True story.

firehouseguy

Foie gras 

silvermouse

Bob_Luken said:

Yakster said:

Everyone's being too polite in not calling it redneck / cajun / hillbilly cuisine.

Best venison I ever had was roadkill. True story.

same here.

Patrickbrick

Chipotle, is horrible and anything bobby flay makes/endorses.

jd50ae

French.

WaterNerd

I can't stand this place. Tasteless food. I think we have 5 in town. Each one next to a Starbucks. I go to the little mom and pop sandwich place in town. Place is amazing

jd50ae

Subway don't get it....Starbucks sucks

Poopy_Jones

Olive Garden. F#%king horrible