Question and Answer

[mrissa]

yhlee and pegkerr and several other people, I forget who, have been answering the "five fictional characters you had a crush on as a kid" question. I was reading along with interest and having a hard time coming up with any besides Egon from "Ghostbusters," because my interest in geeks apparently started somewhere around or before my fifth birthday. "Ghostbusters" came out in 1984, the year I turned six, and there was already no question in my mind which Ghostbuster was the appropriate one.

But then it hit me: the Westmark trilogy. Like, half the male cast of the Westmark trilogy. Florian, Justin, Stock, Theo. Keller. I totally sympathized with Sparrow on the point of Keller.

Is this a disturbing answer? I think it might be.

So anyway, I was answering a question redredshoes had asked about chocolate, and it got me wondering: what food products have you bought that disappointed you? They don't have to be disgusting things, just things that weren't nearly as good as they sounded. Mine (in the comments to the last entry) was Haute Fudge's Grand Marnier fudge. (The kind of fudge you heat and pour over ice cream, not the kind you slice and eat.) It's fine, but...who wants Grand Marnier fudge to be fine? So it lurks in the corner of the fridge, getting finished slowly, because...meh. And we can do better than "meh" for desserts around here.

How about you? What did you think was going to be wonderful that wasn't?

Comments

[heck.livejournal.com]

I had a huge crush on Egon (the animated one, primarily) as a kid. I was Ghostbusters-obsessed for years. He wasn't even my first animated crush -- that was the bass California Raisin, from whenever there was a California Raisins animated series. I was a hopeless dork even then.

As for disappointing food products: raspberry coffee. I love raspberry, and coffee, just not together. Candied ginger, which at least in that case was horribly bitter. Also fried plantains, which had been hyped up by my partner in crime and ended up just tasting like spoiled fried new potatoes. Bleah.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Fried plantains are very, very easy to get wrong. If your partner in crime approved the kind you had and you still didn't like them, that's probably a good indicator, but it took us several tries to fry even a remotely credible plantain, after having them out at a good restaurant.

SIGH. Now I want to go back to that good restaurant (Bodegita del Medio in Palo Alto) and have their plato de vegetales. SIGH.