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Rendang

Used to eat it as often as I could when I visited southeast asia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baba_ghanoush

Looks like slop, tastes like a party in your mouth.

Pretty much all seafood. Shrimp in particular tastes fantastic but looks like something you’d try to flatten with a shoe.

The tater tot hotdish I grew up with. ... Under the tots at least.

Most curries look like vom slop and taste HEAVENLY

Peanut brittle.

Some may disagree, but I always thought it looks like frozen vomit

I'm gonna catch hate for this, but I don't care. I have a thing that physically looks awful, but also seems conceptually awful.

Sometimes, if I have the money and I wanna get a little treat, I'll buy a block of cheese, Nutella, and bread, and make a Nutella and cheese sandwich. I do not know why or how I got to the point where I ate it, but I did and I love it.

Usually, I'd get like a pecorino romano cheese, cut a couple slices of dark (full grain) bread, and just paste it in place with Nutella, and that would be a little desert for me. If I have a lot of cheese on there, I might add raspberry jam (not too much or it gets waaaaay too sweet).

Kebab:

Refried beans literally look like diarrhea doodoo. Thankfully they taste way better.

Xinxin de bofe. A brazilian food made (As far as I know) only in Bahia, created by the slaves during imperial time. It's good af, but it was hard to convince me to try the first time.

A good split pea soup, for sure.

Edit: and macarons look super pretty but taste..meh? Imo. Like if you were to imagine what Barbie food tasted like, it’d be a macaron.

Looks awful, tastes great? Lots of fried foods are the first things that comes to mind. They look beige and bland more often than not, but can be really good (in moderation, too much makes me sick).

Looks great and tastes awful goes to bananas. They look good and all but my goodness they suck.

A whole roasted pig. It's horrifying to look at, but so damn yummy.

Mämmi

My guess is we have a few folks here that didn't grow up with curry which in my humble opinion looks and tastes great (subjective, I know) but if I had to pick one it would be octupus. Something about the suction cups.

For the other way around:
Wedding cake looks great but usually tastes awful (compared to other cake). These cakes are usually drier, or are starting to get old by the time they get eaten.

Shit on a Shingle

It's chipped beef in gravy on toast. I like to fancy it up with mushrooms and homemade gravy, but it never looks good lol. Tastes amazing though!

Sausage gravy.

Japanese curry looks like... the end-result of a stomach issue, but if they make it right it's sooo good, especially on chicken katsu.

Pretty much same story as curry, but good ol' Texas chili looks pretty unappealing. Of course it's damn good assuming it's made right.

In Nice there’s a kind of swisschard gnocchi that’s called merda de can (dog’s shit) because of its appearance.

Judge by yourself (image taken from here).

The shape can be different depending on how you make them, but it always looks a bit suspicious.

"Looks great tastes awful" -- fruits that have been bred/engineered for shelf appearance over taste (e.g. certain varieties of supermarket tomatoes and apples), and desserts like cakes that have all manner of pretty and intricate decorations on them, but then taste bland or off.

Thai Pounded Jackfruit

very tasty

Uh, I have a pretty good one that y’all will love :)

Peanut butter and mayonnaise sandwiches. People look at it and are disgusted, but it’s amazing. The tangy mayo goes so well with the sweet pb.