Meals you like the idea of more than you like eating them
#16
Company Representative - Starwood
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Austin, Texas
Programs: Marriott Employee Level
Posts: 31,593
Best regards,
William R. Sanders
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Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide
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#20
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Formerly HPN, but then DCA and IAD for a while, and now back to HPN!
Programs: Honestly, I've been out of the travel game so long that I'm not even sure. Maybe Marriott Gold?
Posts: 10,677
#21
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Cypress Hills Research Center
Posts: 5,295
Massive 10+ course, 3+ hour tasting menus; even at Michelin starred restaurants. Starts out wonderfully but gets tiresome after awhile. Maybe had I gotten to El Bulli my opinion might be different.
#23
Join Date: Jan 2002
Posts: 2,335
One of my biggest disappointments food-wise was roasted chestnuts. All my life I'd had this wonderful image of "chestnuts roasting on an open fire" and when I finally got to try them, blechhh.
And to tie those two things together, the first Thanksgiving meal I had in France (served to a group of American students) included chestnuts.
#24
Company Representative - Starwood
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Austin, Texas
Programs: Marriott Employee Level
Posts: 31,593
Nope. I actually love to make Thanksgiving dinner a lot more than I enjoy partaking of it.
Best regards,
William R. Sanders
Social Media Specialist
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide
[email protected]
Best regards,
William R. Sanders
Social Media Specialist
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide
[email protected]
#25
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: 10 months VLC, 2 months everywhere else
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Nope. I actually love to make Thanksgiving dinner a lot more than I enjoy partaking of it.
Best regards,
William R. Sanders
Social Media Specialist
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide
[email protected]
Best regards,
William R. Sanders
Social Media Specialist
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide
[email protected]
#26
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Omaha, NE, USA
Posts: 1,421
Flashback.... drizzly night in London, couple of days before New Year, right next to the London Bridge. Bought a small bag of roasted chestnuts...cough, gag...spit. Depressing memory I hadn't brought to the surface in years.
#27
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Athens, GA
Programs: Delta PM,UA 1P,
Posts: 902
For me, I get a craving for something and spend a lot of time preparing it and usually the anticipation was better than the actual food. Part of it is that i usually nibble on stuff as I am cooking so I am not as hungry as I thought I was.
#28
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Downers Grove, IL
Programs: UA Mileage Plus, AA Advantage
Posts: 5,983
Chicken Casserole, it sounds good until you get past the first few bites then it's like what is this??? Haven't had it in 5 years and that was because my parents were out of town and my neighbors invited me for dinner. It was bad......
#29
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Alexandria, VA - DCA
Programs: BA Gold, American Airlines, Marriott Plat, Hilton Diamond, IHG Diamond
Posts: 5,075
Another vote for Ethiopian: We have several highly regarded Ethiopian restaurants in DC and I find them boring and bland at best...
#30
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: BOS
Posts: 1,461
Fish and chips, fried clams, fried chicken, onion rings--my husband says he should take a picture of my face after I'm about 15% of the way through eating any of those so I'll remember next time not to order them. They sound good, but they make feel sick.