23 Legitimately Good Ideas That Sound Terrible on Paper
You ever had a friend swear on their life that some thoroughly fucked-up food combination was “actually really good,” only for you to try it and, against all instinct, agree? For me, it’s like the first time I got a salad from a Thai restaurant slathered in what seemed like thin peanut butter. Now, I tear into those things like a squirrel at a Chopt on its lunch break.
What I’m trying to say here is, sometimes things have to be experienced or tried to be believed, even in the usually necessarily rote world of science. Throughout history, there’s been ideas where the elevator pitch wasn’t convincing, but the results sure were.
On Reddit, users shared their examples of successful ideas that sound bad on paper, collected below for your begrudging agreement.
