insipidity

I had to kiss some frogs — weird flavors, bitterness in the wrong places, insipidity.

Butter or cream of unique quality may be more essential to French cuisine, but many an unctuous sauce withers into insipidity without mustard.

The action, and the elements of mystery that accompany it, don’t really make up for the insipidity of the melodrama.

“You are considering how insupportable it would be to pass many evenings in this manner—in such society; and indeed I am quite of your opinion. I was never more annoyed! The insipidity, and yet the noise; the nothingness, and yet the self-importance of all these people! What would I give to hear your strictures on them!”

Their real name is “sunchoke,” and they only have a fancy-pants name because some PR person wanted to convince you that they are delicious when in reality they are a key member of the the Jicama/Water-chestnut/Sunchoke Axis of Insipidity.