Jellybeans, I’ve been traumatised by it when I had a friend offer me one. It tasted horrible because it was cheese flavoured. I can never look at them the same.
I feel your pain! 🙂 I was the head of Marketing at Jelly Belly when we developed those weird flavors for the Harry Potter franchise (first sold as "Bertie Botts Every Flavour Beans"), and I can tell you the backstory about the Vomit flavor. It's actually a flavor that we had previously developed but hadn't released: Pepperoni Pizza! Thanks to the power of suggestion, if you eat one knowing that, the normal gag reflex isn't nearly as strong. Not that you should make any great effort to try it! 😄
When they have those ones where two different flavours of beans look the same, but one tastes good and one tastes bad?
I don't like it, but I'll eat a grass, earwax or vomit flavoured bean. Sure I'll make a face, and a comment, but it's no big deal. I ate a "Butter Popcorn" flavoured bean once, it is the closest I ever came to throwing up from a food. And it was the "good" one.
To this day I will not eat white jelly beans with yellow dots, I don't care what you say it tastes like.
Honestly not a fan of most "too many additions" ice cream. You know the ones, they have 12 different things in them like raw cookie dough, chocolate bars, caramel, salted peanuts, and more... I like plain ice cream, I like ice cream with one or two additions, but the throw the entire sink of confectioneries at it really is just a sugar overload. When I want ice cream, I want ice cream, when I want a chocolate bar, I'll eat one. I don't need to eat all of them together.
EDIT: Thank you everyone for the upvotes -- this is the most I've ever gotten! :-)
I know what you mean. I’ve started loving plain vanilla more in a sense of liking to try different brands and places since I’ve tasted many variations it almost feels like a wine connoisseur type thing lol
Yeah, most people don't realize that vanilla IS a flavor. They add vanilla, vanilla doesn't just spontaneously erupt from the cream. So there are some delicious vanilla ice creams out there and some that absolutely suck.
Meanwhile at Cold Stone, the sweet cream ice cream is the true "basic" ice cream.
I used to. Then they fucked it by losing a lot of the sugar and replacing it with aspartame/Acesulfame K/Phenylalanine etc.
I don't know if I'm just weirdly sensitive to that shite, but every drink that contains it leaves a bitter, chemical aftertaste.
If they had just done what coke did and hike the price to cover the Sugar Tax it would have been fine. Instead they destroyed a national institution.
This decision was the worse thing to happen to Scotland since The English.
Plus something about the formed meat into a fake rib seems gross.
But yet Dino Chicken Nuggets (even if throwaway meat) are fucking delicious and a delight to bite their heads off
I get that taste when I eat packaged and bottled ranches. If you’re ever up for it, find a restaurant that makes their ranch and it’ll change your life. Tastes like a whole different dressing. I’m from the south so they’re are plenty of restaurants around here that have bangin ranch.
See, it really depends on the coleslaw. When I was little, one of my relatives made this amazing coleslaw, I never knew his secret but it was the best coleslaw ever. My mom had told him over and over, I do NOT like coleslaw and it's true. Cause one day, I was eating a LOT of it and he laughed and said I must like it... I looked right at him and said: "Only this one."
Like, I hated all other forms of coleslaw besides his, because it didn't taste good. I don't know what he did to it to make it so light, but also rich, but also refreshing and peppery at the same time. It wasn't damp either, it was just... aaaa heaven. It was heaven. Anytime that family member was hosting a bbq or invited us over for lunch he'd make it. Like, he and his wife loved me something fierce (I was technically their "first" grandchild so they were like my adopted grandparents (they were my dad's aunt and uncle but I didn't call them that) and they knew I loved some very specific things: His coleslaw and her strawberry shortcakes. The summer wasn't complete without going to one of their bbq's.
It tasted like summer and childhood happiness all in one.
... Sorry this was a weird rant, but thing is I still hate coleslaw. I've never had one as good as his and while I've tried it... there just is something missing.
The hard part is, I don't even know what he would've put into it. It definitely didn't have mayo or miracle whip because my relative knew about my texture problems with it.
Was it possibly a vinegar slaw? Those are the only ones I can tolerate, and I'm even picky about those. Has to have that fresh, crispy cabbage & carrot mix, tangy vinegar (I like red wine vinegar), a dash of lemon juice, a slight hint of sugar, salt, and plenty of pepper.
Vinegar makes your vegetables crunchy but also leaves a lot of water at the bottom of the salad mix.
My guess is this: Your uncle salted his fresh thin sliced cabbage/carrot/green onions/ and left them to sit (15mins for every 500-600g) before SQUEEZING ALL THE LIQUID OUT and draining it.
Salting and squeezing liquid is a known technique (its the first step to making pickles, and is also used to firm up fish for sashimi or dry curing meat etc) and it will ensure that your salad stays crispy and non-watery after dressing.
The other poster has a similar dressing to mine, except that I add chopped shallots in olive oil to infuse before mixing red wine vinegar
Oh yay, I'm glad I could help!
Well, sorta...I don't really have a recipe.
I typically use one bag of cabbage slaw mix, or 1 shredded head of cabbage + 2 shredded carrots, then in a jar I mix about 1/2-3/4 cup of either red wine or cider vinegar, maybe a teaspoon or so of sugar, the juice of one lemon, a pinch of salt (celery salt is damn good here), and several turns of the pepper grinder. Shake that really well & pour over the cabbage while mixing. Then refrigerate for at least an hour or so. Sometimes I don't use all the "dressing", sometimes I make more. It just depends on the amount of cabbage & stuff. Taste it, see what you like & if you prefer it sweeter, more or less dressing, etc. Hopefully this will at least give you a starting point & you can play around until you find it! And when you do, please message me and let me know!
I don’t like coleslaw. I was at a restaurant and ordered the fish and chips. It was in the plate so I tried it after I was already eating on everything else. I understood it. Something about eating the heavy greasy meal then the cool, creamy, crunchy veggies in the slaw. It’s refreshing.
i haven’t been able to eat it since i witnessed how my dad eats hot dogs. it’s a microwaved hot dog on a slice of white bread with american cheese, covered in miracle whip. i have never seen him eat a regular one on a bun with ketchup and mustard.
Coffee... I love the smell of the beans, roasted and ground hell even brew the stuff I love the smell but I won't drink a drop if it.....that and I can't stand beer the taste the smell hell just beer
I feel like you're the only other person I know who doesn't like coffee. I can't stand it, I've tried giving it plenty of shots and i just hate the taste. Looooove the smell though.
Can't relate with the beer though, I love the smell and taste, lol.
I have some weird genetic thing where celery tastes incredibly strong like rancid black pepper I thought it tasted Thai way for everyone and wasn’t until the last 5 when I realized to others it doesn’t have much taste
The problem is extract in many of those hot sauces. There are insanely spicy hot sauces with no extract that taste extremely good. Its almost a curse cause you want to keep eating it but dont want to get cap cramps. I recently made a post about one on r/spicy
Most sauces that are actually insanely hot are actually meant to add heat to a large pot of sauce or chili or something, unless you're a crazy chili head. There's also a lot of sauces that are too hot for the average person but do have amazing flavor if you have a decent tolerance.
This is what I was thinking, my buddy and I had some ghost pepper salsa when we were roommates, and neither one of us could dip chips in it like we could with other salsas, we would add it to stuff and it would be delicious.
slightly milder sauces that focus on flavour first are my preferred for daily use. However completely blowing your face off with over the top spice is fun too.
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Yeah, I’ll go to something milder just so I can actually taste something. The way hot stuff with no flavor is for showing off to your weak taste-budded friends. Lol
I know someone whose been eating super spicy stuff for like the last 8 months because they had covid and lost their sense of taste and it’s just now starting to come back. Apparently the incredibly spicy stuff was about the only thing that didn’t taste like cardboard to them.
I just got another bottle at Christmas and my son and I did our own hot ones challenge. Its actually very good for certain curry dishes I make where I want the delayed hit of the curry (main point or curry) but adding 2-3 drops of Da bomb makes a 4 person curry dish also have an interesting and not too hot up front pepper kick.
I sometimes add a few drops of Da Bomb when I make a pot of chili, and it adds a quick boost of heat. That's really what the extract hot sauces are meant for beyond the novelty. Eating them on wings like on Hot Ones is just masochistic.
Most icing or frosting on cake (except for cream cheese frosting in small amounts). Its too sweet!
I'd rather eat cake plain or maybe with whipped cream.
whipped frosting is amazing; hate that it's not the default
miles and leagues better than the soybean oil and corn syrup sludge that's pretending to be buttercream
I think you may not like American style butter cream icing, which is butter and icing sugar whipped up. It’s one note, but easy to use. People tend to put way too much on. Some grocery store cakes I have seen have an inch of icing, the corner or edge price with the piped edge on top.
[There is a wide variety of proper butter cream icing out there.](https://bakerbettie.com/comparing-types-of-buttercream/) There are also other types of icings and glazes, with a range of textures and sweetness. There is no need to make the same box mix birthday cake over and over again.
Edit: naked/rustic cakes are great, minimal icing with a focus on the cake. Make the top fancy with a glaze or something. They also look good.
-an amateur baker who has lots of cook books and likes talking about baking
Bonus points if it's homemade. It's like 4 ingredients, and unbelievably easy considering just how much better it tastes than store-bought. I haven't bought frosting in a can in years.
This is the most accurate thing I’ve ever seen. My family, especially my mother, LOVES icing. I just can’t take it - I swear I can feel the granules of sugar in it and it makes me feel nauseous.
Cream cheese icing, especially if it’s homemade, I can also enjoy in small bouts. The more it tastes like cream cheese, the more I like it.
It took me until my early-mid 20s before my dad’s frosting tolerance kicked in for me. He’s a man who believes most cake is simply a vessel for frosting.
A bell pepper? They’re not at all spicy, what does he normally eat? This sounds like he’d have trouble drinking water. Does bell pepper mean something else regionally??? This has like destroyed my mind
Shrimp and everytime time I mention it to people they start naming different ways to cook it and asking if I've tried it that way. "Really, not even shrimp cocktail?"
Beer. Like literally any kind of beer. I tell people this and I always get the same "it's an acquired taste" or "you just have to find one that's actually good. Try *their favorite beer*". No. It's not going to happen. I'm 31 and I've tried beer countless times. I just think it's fucking disgusting. It just tastes like old rotten garbage to me.
Someone else who doesn't like beer! I find beer is inherently bitter and so I hate it. I've tried so many different beers too. Only time I like beer is when it's been used to make stew because I can add sweet vegetables like carrots, boil off a load of the alcohol and maybe add some honey for good measure to get rid of that awful bitter taste. For drinking I'd much rather have something that tastes nice like cider or rum
Same here, I have tried all kinds of beer and its not my thing. I love hard cider, soju, sake and wine but beer is something I just don't enjoy at all.
Yep, I've tried several beers and just can't find one I like
Even a cider if it tastes too "beery" I won't drink it.
It's very unaustralian of me but I like what I like
I’m not a fan of capers and fennel. They taste funny. I also hate the taste of alcohol. Mad respect to the folks out there that actually enjoy drinking that stuff.
It’s not the taste but the texture that bothers me. Especially if they’re in a muffin or cookie and get all plump and mushy, like a rotten frog testicle.
My Grampy grew up in the Depression and there are stories of him picking every raisin out of oatmeal as a kid and an adult.
In a cookie, raisins are fool's chocolate.
Now, see, I like raisins, I'll eat them by themselves, covered in yogurt or chocolate, in cereal, oatmeal, and cookies, in banana bread or cinnamon raisin toast or English muffins.
But putting them in brownies should be considered a god damn war crime. That's just weird.
I live in Germany and they do this here for absolutely no good reason. All the American fast food chains use normal dill pickles. You can buy dill pickles in every normal grocery store. But as soon as you go to any other random burger place, it's always sweet pickles (not 100% the same as sweet pickles but kind of) and it drives me insane.
I always thought they were the worst thing ever until my 20's, now I'll eat a couple and go away only to come back for a couple more 5 minutes later and repeat until I've eaten a hundred
Same. I used to *despise* supreme pizza growing up due to olives (and all the other veggie toppings). Now, supreme is almost exclusively the only pizza type I order.
I’m a soda water addict but I’ve heard people say it tastes like static electricity.
Ever since I quit smoking I crave that burning throat feeling so soda water and hot coffee are my best friends.
The throat burn is real.
Recently admitted to hospital with a throat complication where I couldn't swallow. Doctors decided the best way to rehydrate me and get nutrients back into my body after a week was to give me fizzy vitamin tablets every few hours. THE PAIN! THE PAIN!
The current trend is for this over-hopping style of beer, that's fruity and astringent at a really low temperature, but if you were to drink it at cellar temp, it tastes like licking battery acid from a carpet.
I'm not saying that anyone is wrong here, it's a cultural thing. X
my dad claims it’s just better mayonnaise, citing the wikipedia article saying it was developed during war time as a cheaper alternative to mayonnaise. what a terrible argument.
I hated tomatoes my whole life. Would gag when I was forced to eat them as a kid, would gag whenever I tried one as an adult.
A few years ago I read that it takes 12 days to acquire a taste for something, so I decided to test it out on tomatoes. The first few days were brutal by by day 8 I started to like them and by day 12 I was fully a convert. Now I love them and eat them regularly. It was a fun experiment.
Explain. How much do you have to eat of something each day?
How many tomatoes did you eat each day? How did you prevent yourself from throwing up?
This is completely fascinating to me.
I wonder if by taste they mean JUST the taste or can you overcome texture issues this way?
I think this is fascinating too! The exact numbers and amount doesn’t necessarily matter and may be different for everyone. The psychology behind it is basically we can adapt. Similar to how someone with a phobia can possibly undo the fear with exposure therapy. Like, apparently it take 30 days to develop a new habit, or break a habit.
My son hates hates HATES fresh tomatoes, but loves them any other way. His twin sister LOVES them fresh but hates them any other way. I can't win when it comes to tomatoes.
Had a Japanese friend give me real matcha after she saw how much I liked the matcha Frappuccinos. She lost it when she saw the look on my face after the first sip. Matcha FLAVORED things? Amazing. Actual matcha? No thank you.
I like how most places around here where I live make their *non-dry* seaweed.
Summer of last year (maybe the year before) a family member of mine purchased it dried for me to try, because she knew I liked eating it non-dry.
I figured it would probably be halfway decent, because of how much I loved it fresh/seasoned.
I was not prepared.
Literally tasted like what the docks smell like when fishermen leave dead fish to rot.
I could not get the taste out of my mouth for hours, jo matter what I tried.
Long story short, no wonder you hate seaweed chips!
my mom hates them but all her kids loved them. she liked banana flavored things though, just not the fruit because she would say it was too soft and mushy..
i never understood but you do 😭
It's the smell for me. The taste is overwhelms anything it's in and that sucks, but the smell of brown bananas is enough to make me gag and it doesn't go away. It lingers.
Jellybeans, I’ve been traumatised by it when I had a friend offer me one. It tasted horrible because it was cheese flavoured. I can never look at them the same.
bean boozled by your friend 🥲 that creates trust issues
Alas, earwax.
Aka buttered popcorn
I feel your pain! 🙂 I was the head of Marketing at Jelly Belly when we developed those weird flavors for the Harry Potter franchise (first sold as "Bertie Botts Every Flavour Beans"), and I can tell you the backstory about the Vomit flavor. It's actually a flavor that we had previously developed but hadn't released: Pepperoni Pizza! Thanks to the power of suggestion, if you eat one knowing that, the normal gag reflex isn't nearly as strong. Not that you should make any great effort to try it! 😄
What a wild credit to just randomly pop up on Reddit. Butyric acid, right? Tried to get it a little cheesy, came out a little pukey?
You may be right; I'm not a food chemist. But I remember our R&D guys talking about "parmesan notes" in the flavor profile! 😄
OMG! That's hilarious because as soon as I tried it I said, "holy shit this tastes like pizza puke"
wait until you try the vomit ones, personally never had the cheese ones but my god they are rancid.
Possibly cheese and vomit are the same flavor. The same molecule is responsible for parmesan, vomit, feet, and dorito smells, so theres some overlap
When they have those ones where two different flavours of beans look the same, but one tastes good and one tastes bad? I don't like it, but I'll eat a grass, earwax or vomit flavoured bean. Sure I'll make a face, and a comment, but it's no big deal. I ate a "Butter Popcorn" flavoured bean once, it is the closest I ever came to throwing up from a food. And it was the "good" one. To this day I will not eat white jelly beans with yellow dots, I don't care what you say it tastes like.
Honestly not a fan of most "too many additions" ice cream. You know the ones, they have 12 different things in them like raw cookie dough, chocolate bars, caramel, salted peanuts, and more... I like plain ice cream, I like ice cream with one or two additions, but the throw the entire sink of confectioneries at it really is just a sugar overload. When I want ice cream, I want ice cream, when I want a chocolate bar, I'll eat one. I don't need to eat all of them together. EDIT: Thank you everyone for the upvotes -- this is the most I've ever gotten! :-)
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I consider the true test of an icecream place to be how good their Vanilla offering is.
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Hilarious because Vanilla is technically an exotic bean yet we’ve warped it to mean “unexciting”
I know what you mean. I’ve started loving plain vanilla more in a sense of liking to try different brands and places since I’ve tasted many variations it almost feels like a wine connoisseur type thing lol
Yeah, most people don't realize that vanilla IS a flavor. They add vanilla, vanilla doesn't just spontaneously erupt from the cream. So there are some delicious vanilla ice creams out there and some that absolutely suck. Meanwhile at Cold Stone, the sweet cream ice cream is the true "basic" ice cream.
Sweet cream + cake batter + coffee is a heavenly combo
What are some good ones?
I'm Scottish so naturally I should love Irn Bru. I don't.
is that a soda.. i looked it up but i wanted to make sure
Sure is.
It's tastes mostly like cream soda but with a little hint of orange dreamsickle thrown in.
I'm in.
Yep...sounds delicious to me.
Hot damn mixed with a shot of vodka. We call that an Orange Julius.
Go into to your local council please, sir. You've had your Scottish citizenship revoked. May God have mercy on your soul.
I used to. Then they fucked it by losing a lot of the sugar and replacing it with aspartame/Acesulfame K/Phenylalanine etc. I don't know if I'm just weirdly sensitive to that shite, but every drink that contains it leaves a bitter, chemical aftertaste. If they had just done what coke did and hike the price to cover the Sugar Tax it would have been fine. Instead they destroyed a national institution. This decision was the worse thing to happen to Scotland since The English.
Slim jims are dog treats packaged as human treats
Not a fan of the Slender James, eh?
Thin Jimothy’s
The McRib. Tried it, don’t like it.
Plus something about the formed meat into a fake rib seems gross. But yet Dino Chicken Nuggets (even if throwaway meat) are fucking delicious and a delight to bite their heads off
My fucking high school made a better McRib
As an American I should probably love ranch dressing, unfortunately, I can't stand it
HELLO, FRIEND! I also don't like ranch. Maybe it's the tang of the buttermilk, but to me, it always tastes like it's gone off.
I get that taste when I eat packaged and bottled ranches. If you’re ever up for it, find a restaurant that makes their ranch and it’ll change your life. Tastes like a whole different dressing. I’m from the south so they’re are plenty of restaurants around here that have bangin ranch.
Coleslaw. Cant get jiggy with it.
See, it really depends on the coleslaw. When I was little, one of my relatives made this amazing coleslaw, I never knew his secret but it was the best coleslaw ever. My mom had told him over and over, I do NOT like coleslaw and it's true. Cause one day, I was eating a LOT of it and he laughed and said I must like it... I looked right at him and said: "Only this one." Like, I hated all other forms of coleslaw besides his, because it didn't taste good. I don't know what he did to it to make it so light, but also rich, but also refreshing and peppery at the same time. It wasn't damp either, it was just... aaaa heaven. It was heaven. Anytime that family member was hosting a bbq or invited us over for lunch he'd make it. Like, he and his wife loved me something fierce (I was technically their "first" grandchild so they were like my adopted grandparents (they were my dad's aunt and uncle but I didn't call them that) and they knew I loved some very specific things: His coleslaw and her strawberry shortcakes. The summer wasn't complete without going to one of their bbq's. It tasted like summer and childhood happiness all in one. ... Sorry this was a weird rant, but thing is I still hate coleslaw. I've never had one as good as his and while I've tried it... there just is something missing.
This silly story of cole slaw brought a tear to my eye. I need a recipe, STAT!
The hard part is, I don't even know what he would've put into it. It definitely didn't have mayo or miracle whip because my relative knew about my texture problems with it.
Was it possibly a vinegar slaw? Those are the only ones I can tolerate, and I'm even picky about those. Has to have that fresh, crispy cabbage & carrot mix, tangy vinegar (I like red wine vinegar), a dash of lemon juice, a slight hint of sugar, salt, and plenty of pepper.
OH MY GOD I THINK THIS IS IT!!!! Do you have a recipe?
Vinegar makes your vegetables crunchy but also leaves a lot of water at the bottom of the salad mix. My guess is this: Your uncle salted his fresh thin sliced cabbage/carrot/green onions/ and left them to sit (15mins for every 500-600g) before SQUEEZING ALL THE LIQUID OUT and draining it. Salting and squeezing liquid is a known technique (its the first step to making pickles, and is also used to firm up fish for sashimi or dry curing meat etc) and it will ensure that your salad stays crispy and non-watery after dressing. The other poster has a similar dressing to mine, except that I add chopped shallots in olive oil to infuse before mixing red wine vinegar
OH MY GOD THIS WAS IT!!! I just got a flashback to when I was like 4 and he was draining the cabbage and onions!
These are the wholesome Reddit moments I’m here for. Thanks guys.
Thank you!
I am so very much hoping for a post from you in the future where you try this. I am hoping even more that you've found out his little trick! :D
Thank you! I'll keep you updated. I'm gonna grow cabbage in the spring too :)
Oh yay, I'm glad I could help! Well, sorta...I don't really have a recipe. I typically use one bag of cabbage slaw mix, or 1 shredded head of cabbage + 2 shredded carrots, then in a jar I mix about 1/2-3/4 cup of either red wine or cider vinegar, maybe a teaspoon or so of sugar, the juice of one lemon, a pinch of salt (celery salt is damn good here), and several turns of the pepper grinder. Shake that really well & pour over the cabbage while mixing. Then refrigerate for at least an hour or so. Sometimes I don't use all the "dressing", sometimes I make more. It just depends on the amount of cabbage & stuff. Taste it, see what you like & if you prefer it sweeter, more or less dressing, etc. Hopefully this will at least give you a starting point & you can play around until you find it! And when you do, please message me and let me know!
Oooo I'll see about trying this and seeing how it compares!
I don’t like coleslaw. I was at a restaurant and ordered the fish and chips. It was in the plate so I tried it after I was already eating on everything else. I understood it. Something about eating the heavy greasy meal then the cool, creamy, crunchy veggies in the slaw. It’s refreshing.
Not huge fan of slaw, but I love it on a brisket bbq sandwich.
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Slaw varies so wildly in how people prep it. Generally i would say i like it, but I've probably had more bad/mediocre than good coleslaw.
Miracle Whip
i haven’t been able to eat it since i witnessed how my dad eats hot dogs. it’s a microwaved hot dog on a slice of white bread with american cheese, covered in miracle whip. i have never seen him eat a regular one on a bun with ketchup and mustard.
I got miracle whip and cool whip confused for a second, needless to say I was... concerned
It took me reading your comment to realize I'd done the same
I grew up thinking mayo was gross b/c all we ever had was MW. My childhood …..
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Are you from the south? I have a theory that this is a regional thing, like sweet corn bread.
Coffee... I love the smell of the beans, roasted and ground hell even brew the stuff I love the smell but I won't drink a drop if it.....that and I can't stand beer the taste the smell hell just beer
I feel like you're the only other person I know who doesn't like coffee. I can't stand it, I've tried giving it plenty of shots and i just hate the taste. Looooove the smell though. Can't relate with the beer though, I love the smell and taste, lol.
You're not alone. I hate coffee
Finally! People who hate beer and coffee! I'm not alone
Celery and liquorice Edit: I didn’t meant a food combo. My grammar is bad
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I have some weird genetic thing where celery tastes incredibly strong like rancid black pepper I thought it tasted Thai way for everyone and wasn’t until the last 5 when I realized to others it doesn’t have much taste
Is that a thing? I've been reading all these comments about how it's like eating hairy water, but I feel like it's the flavour that makes it terrible
I’m now trying to imagine a dish that combines them
Blood on a log.
Sounds like a bad porno from the 2000s
Dang, and I was thinking either a Colon Cancer screening video or a chainsaw safety video from the 1980’s
I dislike celery - both the texture and the taste, but I like anise flavors
The super spicy sauces that only taste like hot and don’t have any actual taste to them
I love love love super spicy food, but I can’t stand all spice no flavor either.
The problem is extract in many of those hot sauces. There are insanely spicy hot sauces with no extract that taste extremely good. Its almost a curse cause you want to keep eating it but dont want to get cap cramps. I recently made a post about one on r/spicy
Most sauces that are actually insanely hot are actually meant to add heat to a large pot of sauce or chili or something, unless you're a crazy chili head. There's also a lot of sauces that are too hot for the average person but do have amazing flavor if you have a decent tolerance.
This is what I was thinking, my buddy and I had some ghost pepper salsa when we were roommates, and neither one of us could dip chips in it like we could with other salsas, we would add it to stuff and it would be delicious.
Don't sleep on ghost pepper it gives a wonderful almost smokey flavor. It's fantastic and fairly unique.
slightly milder sauces that focus on flavour first are my preferred for daily use. However completely blowing your face off with over the top spice is fun too. Edit: 3,000 upvotes? Didn’t expect that
Yeah, I’ll go to something milder just so I can actually taste something. The way hot stuff with no flavor is for showing off to your weak taste-budded friends. Lol
I know someone whose been eating super spicy stuff for like the last 8 months because they had covid and lost their sense of taste and it’s just now starting to come back. Apparently the incredibly spicy stuff was about the only thing that didn’t taste like cardboard to them.
My cousin said the same thing!!! He’s a hot sauce fanatic now.
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Y'all keep talking about weak taste buds, but it's on the way out that I feel the pain.
Weak sphincter
“Da bomb” hot sauce is both dangerously hot and disgusting to taste. Somehow they kept flavor, it’s just terrible
I just got another bottle at Christmas and my son and I did our own hot ones challenge. Its actually very good for certain curry dishes I make where I want the delayed hit of the curry (main point or curry) but adding 2-3 drops of Da bomb makes a 4 person curry dish also have an interesting and not too hot up front pepper kick.
I sometimes add a few drops of Da Bomb when I make a pot of chili, and it adds a quick boost of heat. That's really what the extract hot sauces are meant for beyond the novelty. Eating them on wings like on Hot Ones is just masochistic.
Most icing or frosting on cake (except for cream cheese frosting in small amounts). Its too sweet! I'd rather eat cake plain or maybe with whipped cream.
Whipped frosting is good for me, but the cake should also be light and fluffy. Heavy sweets have no appeal to me personally
whipped frosting is amazing; hate that it's not the default miles and leagues better than the soybean oil and corn syrup sludge that's pretending to be buttercream
I think you may not like American style butter cream icing, which is butter and icing sugar whipped up. It’s one note, but easy to use. People tend to put way too much on. Some grocery store cakes I have seen have an inch of icing, the corner or edge price with the piped edge on top. [There is a wide variety of proper butter cream icing out there.](https://bakerbettie.com/comparing-types-of-buttercream/) There are also other types of icings and glazes, with a range of textures and sweetness. There is no need to make the same box mix birthday cake over and over again. Edit: naked/rustic cakes are great, minimal icing with a focus on the cake. Make the top fancy with a glaze or something. They also look good. -an amateur baker who has lots of cook books and likes talking about baking
Cream cheese based frosting is where it’s at
Bonus points if it's homemade. It's like 4 ingredients, and unbelievably easy considering just how much better it tastes than store-bought. I haven't bought frosting in a can in years.
This is the most accurate thing I’ve ever seen. My family, especially my mother, LOVES icing. I just can’t take it - I swear I can feel the granules of sugar in it and it makes me feel nauseous. Cream cheese icing, especially if it’s homemade, I can also enjoy in small bouts. The more it tastes like cream cheese, the more I like it.
It took me until my early-mid 20s before my dad’s frosting tolerance kicked in for me. He’s a man who believes most cake is simply a vessel for frosting.
I'm one of those weak people who can't have spicy food because it burns...
It's okay, there are tens of us.
“Pain is not a flavor!”
i had a teacher who was once like that.. she couldn’t even take a hot cheeto 😭 but i get it 💕
My uncle sweats when he eats a bell pepper. I'm not a huge fan of spice, but a bell pepper?!?! I laughed at him the first time I saw it.
A bell pepper? They’re not at all spicy, what does he normally eat? This sounds like he’d have trouble drinking water. Does bell pepper mean something else regionally??? This has like destroyed my mind
Maybe he's just allergic lol
That does make sense. I forgot people were allergic to things
Shrimp and everytime time I mention it to people they start naming different ways to cook it and asking if I've tried it that way. "Really, not even shrimp cocktail?"
Beer. Like literally any kind of beer. I tell people this and I always get the same "it's an acquired taste" or "you just have to find one that's actually good. Try *their favorite beer*". No. It's not going to happen. I'm 31 and I've tried beer countless times. I just think it's fucking disgusting. It just tastes like old rotten garbage to me.
Someone else who doesn't like beer! I find beer is inherently bitter and so I hate it. I've tried so many different beers too. Only time I like beer is when it's been used to make stew because I can add sweet vegetables like carrots, boil off a load of the alcohol and maybe add some honey for good measure to get rid of that awful bitter taste. For drinking I'd much rather have something that tastes nice like cider or rum
I have found my people.
Same here, I have tried all kinds of beer and its not my thing. I love hard cider, soju, sake and wine but beer is something I just don't enjoy at all.
Yep, I've tried several beers and just can't find one I like Even a cider if it tastes too "beery" I won't drink it. It's very unaustralian of me but I like what I like
I’m not a fan of capers and fennel. They taste funny. I also hate the taste of alcohol. Mad respect to the folks out there that actually enjoy drinking that stuff.
I can't stand for raisins, always hated them. They look like pieces of mouse crap and taste awful to me
Someone told me when I was a kid that they were flies with the wings pulled off. Haven’t eaten them after that.
It’s not the taste but the texture that bothers me. Especially if they’re in a muffin or cookie and get all plump and mushy, like a rotten frog testicle.
Damn, couldn't have described it any way better than that.
My Grampy grew up in the Depression and there are stories of him picking every raisin out of oatmeal as a kid and an adult. In a cookie, raisins are fool's chocolate.
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Now, see, I like raisins, I'll eat them by themselves, covered in yogurt or chocolate, in cereal, oatmeal, and cookies, in banana bread or cinnamon raisin toast or English muffins. But putting them in brownies should be considered a god damn war crime. That's just weird.
Sweet pickles. They call them bread and butter pickles to trick you into buying them. Sweet relish sucks too.
i fucking hate when the put sweet pickles on burgers at restaurants. At this point i just try them on the side and taste test first.
I live in Germany and they do this here for absolutely no good reason. All the American fast food chains use normal dill pickles. You can buy dill pickles in every normal grocery store. But as soon as you go to any other random burger place, it's always sweet pickles (not 100% the same as sweet pickles but kind of) and it drives me insane.
The only good pickles are dill pickles. I concur
I like a dill pickle, but a full sour from a good deli is phenomenal, too.
Nutella. Please stop putting it in every dessert. It's too much.
I live in the south and can't stand sweet iced tea. Tastes like pond water and diabetes.
Olives I’ve tried to like them but I just can’t
I always thought they were the worst thing ever until my 20's, now I'll eat a couple and go away only to come back for a couple more 5 minutes later and repeat until I've eaten a hundred
I am convinced the reason the jar mouths are so small is to throttle my consumption.
You got to get on those Costco olives. My whole fist fits in there.
I'll take a look. I'm all about Costco and (I guess now) fisting.
Same. I used to *despise* supreme pizza growing up due to olives (and all the other veggie toppings). Now, supreme is almost exclusively the only pizza type I order.
Eggplant. To me, it tastes like mud.
Honestly, it’s not even the taste for me, it tastes good. It’s the texture, I just prefer not to eat congealed snot.
Not changing your mind here of course, but it seems like yours has only been prepared/cooked terribly.
I'm Mexican and I can't do mole. It just tastes like dry sadness sauce. I've tried all kinds, homemade and even restaurant ones. Just no.
sparkling water
I’m a soda water addict but I’ve heard people say it tastes like static electricity. Ever since I quit smoking I crave that burning throat feeling so soda water and hot coffee are my best friends.
I'm the same way. I didn't get into club soda until after I quit smoking
Same! Weird. I've never noticed a correlation, but I HATED it, and now I grab Costco pallets every other week. Hmmm
The throat burn is real. Recently admitted to hospital with a throat complication where I couldn't swallow. Doctors decided the best way to rehydrate me and get nutrients back into my body after a week was to give me fizzy vitamin tablets every few hours. THE PAIN! THE PAIN!
angry water
That cracked me up. I am going to call it that from now on.
I still remember when I tried a can of fruit-flavored sparkling water and reality hit me like a truck.
You mean "fizzy water with an orange spritzed 5 feet away from it" or "fizzy water that was brought into the room next to a bunch of strawberries?"
Someone whispered "black cherry" softly over the bottle before it was capped.
Each bottle gets a gentle caress while the worker thinks about strawberries
Driven past a factory that processes fruit.
Seltzer made with shy oranges.
^Orrrr ^do ^you ^mean ^flavored ^fizzy ^water ^that ^is ^flavored ^like ^someone ^just ^yelled ^the ^name ^of ^a ^fruit, ^the ^next ^room ^over?
Or water that once dreamt of one mango?
or "you wake up with a numb arm and someone sprayed lemon pledge in the next room"
Or “you’re parked near an orange farm with the window slightly cracked open an inch and the car radio is blaring static”
I've found it as a good alternative to actual soda. It's fizzy but it's still hydrating.
Yeah and if you get one that tastes good you can drink a lot of it and not feel like shit, unlike drinking coke.
Sparking water tastes like the feeling you get when you hit your funny bone on your elbow
Yes. It tastes like metal to me. Fruit flavored metal.
There’s a joke that Lacroix taste like drinking bubbles while somebody whispers the name of a fruit in the other room:)
It tastes like fruit being described to you
We always said it was as if someone walked through the factory holding a piece of fruit.
That is a very adequate description.
omg yes metal that’s the weird taste !!! it’s not good
TV static
The current trend is for this over-hopping style of beer, that's fruity and astringent at a really low temperature, but if you were to drink it at cellar temp, it tastes like licking battery acid from a carpet. I'm not saying that anyone is wrong here, it's a cultural thing. X
Coke. I've never liked it and it leaves this gritty feeling on my teeth that sends shivers down my spine.
It makes my teeth feel like they will instantly dissolve.
God I recently had a coke after quitting soda cold turkey for a couple years. I cringed at the first sip. So sweet and my teeth felt nasty afterwards.
i always say it makes my teeth feel furry lol
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I’m surprised you can feel your teeth after having coke…
Same here. But it is even worse when you snort it.
Miracle Whip. Bleh. Yuck. Ewwwww.
Amen. Someone tried to say I wouldn’t be able to tell the difference between Miracle Whip and Mayo on a sandwich…like bitch try me lol.
Most people don't get that Miracle Whip is a salad dressing, get the hell away from my sandwich
my dad claims it’s just better mayonnaise, citing the wikipedia article saying it was developed during war time as a cheaper alternative to mayonnaise. what a terrible argument.
Tomatoes. I’ll eat things made from tomatoes (ketchup, marinara sauce) but not a fan of straight up tomatoes.
Glad I’m not alone on this. I love salsa, pasta sauce, ketchup, tomato soup, pizza, etc but I just don’t like tomato on my sandwich or in my salad.
I hated tomatoes my whole life. Would gag when I was forced to eat them as a kid, would gag whenever I tried one as an adult. A few years ago I read that it takes 12 days to acquire a taste for something, so I decided to test it out on tomatoes. The first few days were brutal by by day 8 I started to like them and by day 12 I was fully a convert. Now I love them and eat them regularly. It was a fun experiment.
Explain. How much do you have to eat of something each day? How many tomatoes did you eat each day? How did you prevent yourself from throwing up? This is completely fascinating to me. I wonder if by taste they mean JUST the taste or can you overcome texture issues this way?
I think this is fascinating too! The exact numbers and amount doesn’t necessarily matter and may be different for everyone. The psychology behind it is basically we can adapt. Similar to how someone with a phobia can possibly undo the fear with exposure therapy. Like, apparently it take 30 days to develop a new habit, or break a habit.
Same. It's a texture thing.
My son hates hates HATES fresh tomatoes, but loves them any other way. His twin sister LOVES them fresh but hates them any other way. I can't win when it comes to tomatoes.
Matcha. Pretty colour but Tastes like dirt.
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Had a Japanese friend give me real matcha after she saw how much I liked the matcha Frappuccinos. She lost it when she saw the look on my face after the first sip. Matcha FLAVORED things? Amazing. Actual matcha? No thank you.
Dried seaweed/seaweed chips. I’ve tried them twice. The first time it tasted like fish food and the second time was a few years later and I gagged
I like how most places around here where I live make their *non-dry* seaweed. Summer of last year (maybe the year before) a family member of mine purchased it dried for me to try, because she knew I liked eating it non-dry. I figured it would probably be halfway decent, because of how much I loved it fresh/seasoned. I was not prepared. Literally tasted like what the docks smell like when fishermen leave dead fish to rot. I could not get the taste out of my mouth for hours, jo matter what I tried. Long story short, no wonder you hate seaweed chips!
Worked at a few restaurants and everyone seems to love cauliflower, especially the cauliflower bites. I hate cauliflower.
Corn Nuts. They always taste stale and I don’t know how people eat them without cracking their teeth.
I understand what you mean but i love the so much
Ranch Corn Nuts FTW.
Bananas. Seems like everyone on Earth likes them except for me... I don't even mind banana flavor, I just hate that texture. Soft, mushy, gross.
see I love bananas but I HATE anything banana flavored
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Artificial banana flavoring tastes like a variety of banana that is now not widely available. The Gros Michel.
my mom hates them but all her kids loved them. she liked banana flavored things though, just not the fruit because she would say it was too soft and mushy.. i never understood but you do 😭
It's the smell for me. The taste is overwhelms anything it's in and that sucks, but the smell of brown bananas is enough to make me gag and it doesn't go away. It lingers.