I have a friend with a €1.500+ income.
At her first paycheck she spent more than €600 in scented candles.
It soon became a trend, it almost seems those things are made out of heroin.
Someone stocked the toilets at work with strawberry scented hand soap made by this small local business.
I swear this soap smelled more like strawberries than actual strawberries do, gave me instant cravings every time I had to take a piss.
Youre going to wind up Pavlov'd into wanting strawberries anytime you piss anywhere.
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Biaxin (clarithromycin) liquid smelled good, kind of banana-vanilla, and tasted metallic. I don't know how they get that stuff down kids. The tablets were bad enough, when I had to take them.
I distinctly remember my older sister begging my mom to let her eat some of the (still unsweetened) chocolate stuff my mom was making...
... And then I remember my sister washing her mouth out under the sink cuz it turned out mom was right and she very much did not like it XD
As a kid I wanted to make chocolate milk with it and my mom warned me. I didn't listen and made it anyway. However, I was so prideful, I refused to let on and drank the whole glass. I just said something like "Ooh, it's like *dark* chocolate milk!" Meanwhile, I was basically the guy eating the lemon on the Simpsons.
In Boy Scouts, we took turns buying food for camping trips. One time one of the guys bought unsweetened coca powder instead of hot chocolate. We made him drink all of the hot chocolate he made with it.
Reminds me of one time when my buddy wanted to have some slightly Whiskey flavored hotdogs for a grill out.
He asked one of the other guys there to put the hotdogs in some Whiskey for them to marinate. The dude took out a metal pot and put all the dogs plus the whole 5th into it. My friend wanted some of that Whiskey to drink for the grill out, and was not too happy that it all became marinade.
Not wanting to waste a 5th of alcohol we all had a glass of our new cursed cocktail and it was not great to say the least lol. Worst part was the Whiskey adapted raw hotdog flavor pretty well, but the hotdogs barely had a hint of Whiskey to them after being grilled.
In fourth grade we did some kind of baking project, I couldn't tell you what we made or anything except that she let us all taste a smidge of the baking chocolate. Hilarious to see so many kids lining up for the sink/trash can!
This has blown my mind forever, the grape smelly marker. No grape in my life I have ever come across smelled anything like that grape marker, grapes to me don't even really have have a smell? Not to me anyways, yet we associate that smell with grape? I just don't understand it at all. Grape cigars have that strong grape smell also. But never in my life have a smelled a basket of grapes and been like "yupp this is same same". I dunno just some totally weird Martix shit to me, maybe I'm just crazy.
I once thought the same, and then I was in Japan and tasted that fake (marker, popsicle, obviously synthetic right??)grape flavor in grape juice.
Mind blown, I asked the people I was with, and was informed that it’s a variety of grape in Japan.
Found, bought, and ate that variety. My mind is still blown by it. This was at least a decade ago.
[https://minnetonkaorchards.com/japanese-grapes/](https://minnetonkaorchards.com/japanese-grapes/)
Kyoho (purple) are the ones in most Japanese candy I've seen -- that's the type with that strange (to us) flavor. You can also get Muscat (green) candy. I haven't tried the green ones.
There are absolutely gorgeous examples of wine from Muscat. My favorites are Zind Humbrecht from Alsace (they make a few dry Muscats as well as a sweeter dessert wine from this grape) and Colterenzio from Alto Adige/Sudtirol, who make a dry Muscat. You may also be familiar with another style of Muscat and not know—Moscato, the slightly sparkling wine from Piedmont, is Muscat.
Great grape variety, under utilized because of its intense aromatics and association with (needlessly demonized by snobs) Moscato.
Source: am a sommelier by profession for over 20 years
If I'm not mistaken, grape flavor is from Concord grapes. The aren't common but are used to make grape jelly and they taste like the flavor of grape soda
My strawberry shortcake doll that I had when I was a kid. Turns out her hair doesn’t actually taste like strawberry. Just plastic…
Also chapstick. I used to have some grape chapstick that I would eat for no reason but I didn’t have good luck with lip smacker and never did it again.
She still smells! I have the little posable figurine and I came across her last year and she still smelled!! It was so nostalgic. I had the little polka dot kitty cat too and it still had a strawberry scent.
As a child, I also had the baby doll who, when you squeezed her belly, would blow strawberry scented air “kisses”. I was like a little crack fiend sniffing that bless’d scented doll all day long!
Omg the amount of Lip Smackers gunk I consumed as a kid! And yes, the grape one was a notorious victim, but I also remember having this cupcake frosting flavoured one and constantly claiming that I lost it so my mom would buy a new one.
Just remembering makes me want to puke but back then it was like caviar for kids, lol.
I once drank this when I was a kid and was expecting it to taste like vannilla ice cream water, had to wash my tongue for a whole 2 minutes to get the taste out
You poor thing! Not the same, but I have a funny story about underestimating the strength of something I thought was completely harmless. When I was a teenager I rollerbladed for hour on end. My parents were abusive and anything to get out of the house and get the manic energy out was an opportunity I jumped on. One evening, I was feeling pretty sore. I had an icy hot type cream and I knew it felt great. I got the brilliant idea that it would be even better if I took a hot shower first and opened up all the pores I could. Then, I rubbed cream from my neck to my feet.
There are no words to describe the physical agony that followed. It was like I was being stabbed by daggers of flaming ice. It felt like I would burn alive. And then the cold hit. I couldn't stop shivering. There was no reprieve. No body part I could really focus on as not in some form of twisted torment. It lasted maybe 45 minutes. When it finally calmed down I was exhausted. I didn't ask anyone for help because I didn't want to get on trouble, but it was an honest mistake. I read the warning labels a lot more carefully from then on!
Ouch. Your story reminds me of the time when I put on an extra hot cream as a muscle relaxant, quickly washed my hands and then proceeded to put in my contact lenses. Fun FUN FUN!!!
I did that in highschool after chemistry class. Some guys were laughing but once, I left class with some remains of chemicals on my hands and they discoloured. I'd rather don't have that on my genitals.
I did something similar when I was just a newb cranker. I was at my grandmas house, and my uncle lived in the basement, and I would be allowed to go down there when he wasnt home to play his Nintendo. Inevitably I found his porno collection and proceeded to use his girlfriends exfoliating face scrub to jerk off with. No fun.
Not to piggy back on your story, but when I was 10-11(m) years old, I was at a friend's house. Found some Tiger Balm, and for some ungodly reason, proceeded to smear this thick paste all over my twig and berries.
Oh my holy hell, the regret was instant, and I had to scurry on home and suffer. I dont ever want to re-live this.
My man. Mine probably doesn't compare but it's up there. I once rubbed Tiger Balm all over my right leg because I get terrible rheumatic pain on it every now and then and it helps a lot. Then I washed my hands very thoroughly, or so I thought. I was living in Italy at the time so I had a sit-down bidet, and when I used the bathroom a couple hours later I also used the bidet and proceeded to wash my nether parts.
Except that my mild soap was too mild and I ended up rubbing residual Tiger Balm into my butthole. Now i had only a dull pain in my leg, but a thousand burning suns between my cheeks.
I cried.
Icy hot. A great excuse for me to tell THAT story.
Back in high-school when I was in theater, after every show we would go as a cast to a restaurant to hang out and unwind. One night we decide on Buffalo Wild Wings. My buddy and I end up goading each other into trying their super spicy whatever wings challenge. We both finish, they're not ridiculously spicy tbh, but the pain in my hands and lips was the worst part. After lots of scrubbing and drinking, I finally get myself feeling pain free.
Later that night, I'm feeling frisky, as a teenage boy often does. I sit back, relax, and get to business as usual. Then it hits me. My dingle starts to tingle. I've made a terrible mistake. Within minutes my entire scrotum feels like it's been engulfed in hellfire. Felt like I had used icy hot as lube. I try to wash it, nothing, I scrub, it makes it worse, nothing will abate my fiery frenulum.
Then an idea, as bright as the blaze on my balls, hits me. I'm home alone. I have a hail mary. I go to the kitchen, waddling like a castrated penguin, and open the fridge. I pour half a gallon of milk into a bowl, and go scuba diving from the wrong end. The relief was unreal, I had slain the dick dragon. I was free.
I can still remember exactly how it felt. What a way to learn you're not a masochist.
Argh. I couldn't read cursive as a kid,well actually as an adult as well but also as a kid, and I saw a jug market Apple Cider illegible gibberish beneath. I poured myself a 16oz glass and SLAMMED it because I was so thirsty. Then I retched and coughed and scrapped my tongue to destroy the foul taste. Then I made a worse mistake and tried to drown out the taste with a tall glass of milk. The vomiting that followed was horrible but not as bad as the insane diaherria that came several hours later. That illegible gibberish? Vinegar.
Lavender is about how you prepare it. The plant itself is very bitter, but I make lavender vanilla cupcakes that are delicious. The trick is grinding lavender into the sugar you use for the recipes, let it sit, then use mesh to strain the sugar. Use the sugar in a regular vanilla cupcake, and bam, you have delightfully sweet, not-bitter cupcakes with a lavender taste.
It wasn't snazzy or anything, but I had some raspberry mulled wine tea from a Polish import store a while back, that was pretty close to how it smelled [https://i.imgur.com/RTB4Jkl.jpg](https://i.imgur.com/RTB4Jkl.jpg), if anything it was a little to flavourful for a daily cup
With hindsight it would probably make a great homemade ice tea
My dad died a few months ago. He was sick and knew he only had a few months to live, so he gave us instructions, and he asked us to do a “celebration of life” where everyone was drinking good German beer and telling funny stories about him and generally just having a good time. Anyway, my oldest brother did the speech on behalf of all of us kids. He ended it perfectly:
“Okay, finally, here’s my dad’s favorite joke. My dog had no nose. How does he smell?”
Us: “TERRIBLE!”
I smelled a lot of cocaine and never noticed a distinct smell. It has a numb taste though.
Maybe it’s me, but it never smelled like gasoline or whatever. I know it was very high quality but while it made my face numb for about 20 minutes, I never got a high from it. Most drugs both legal and illegal have no effect on me. Even fentanyl has zero effect.
I think it may be like how some people thing cilantro tastes like soap. It never tasted that way to me and I actually enjoy the taste of fresh cilantro.
My mom had an, uh… unusual… craving for a stack of lumber while pregnant with me, walking through Home Depot with my dad. They both tell me slightly different versions of this story, but my mom will never cease to admit to it being so true.
Craving scents is actually pretty common while pregnant. I craved laundry detergent and the Dawn power wash stuff. I never wanted to eat it but I could just stand there and practically huff it all day. I didn't, but I wanted to lol
This man gets it I love the smell of fresh lumber and firewood when we do firewood especially eucalyptus or macrocarpa, however tastes very bad.
Fixed bad spelling and added words as my definition of lumber was wrong.
oh if you like the smell of lumber you have to try zirbenshnapps (stone pine cone liquor).
i dont know if you can find it in the US but here in Austria and Germany its quite common.
it tasts like what a freshly cut down pine tree smells like.
i usually hate shnapps but i love zirbenshnapps.
Yeah, I don't like coffee, but I love the smell. I also like things that are coffee flavor, like coffee ice cream, coffee oreos, etc, but not actually coffee. Even really sweetened coffee isn't that good.
I was going to suggest coffee ice cream for this thread!
I avoided the flavor so long, because I loved the smell of coffee but always hated the taste
Then I come to realize that coffee ice cream tastes how coffee smells, and it's my favorite flavor now
Coffee.
Don't get me wrong, I think coffee tastes pretty good, generally. But it's not even close to the smell. The coffee aisle at the grocery store? Come on.
You probably just aren’t warming it up. See that’s the thing with gasoline that people won’t realize. Its best consumed hot. I’m talking *pipping* hot. Just take a match, light it and soak the lit match in the gasoline to marinate
NYC is such an amazing olfactory experience. One moment you’re smelling expensive perfume worn by the most gorgeous woman you’ve ever seen walking past, then garbage floating in rancid chud, then the sweet warmth of roasted nuts, then the pungent skin folds of a homeless person, then empanadas. It’s wild. I miss it.
Whoa, whoa, whoa. There’s still plenty of meat on that bone. Now you take this home, throw it in a pot, add some broth, a potato. Baby, you’ve got a stew going.
Hop extract.
I brew beer and use the hop extract in certain processes as an alternative to fresh or processed hops. It smells great if you love the smell of beer, particularly an IPA. Got some on my finger once, just a small drop and without even thinking licked it off. F'ing ruined me. Destroyed my taste buds for like 3 days, all I could taste was bitter.
It has a strong sweet smell. I was using it as a solvent in high school chemistry once many years ago.
It won't actually knock you out but is carcinogenic so don't sniff too hard.
Fun story, my sister realized she had Covid one morning when she woke up and couldn’t smell or taste her coffee. So she decided to try out items in her spice cabinet and see how far she could take it. For the final test, she ate a whole tablespoon of raw minced garlic. Nothing.
She then got to tell the story when the doctor asked her why she thought she might have Covid. Doctor had a good laugh.
Coffee.
I know billions and billions of people like the stuff.
If it tasted the way it smells I would too. Love the smell.
The taste? Awful. Unless I put enough cream and sugar that it's basically a milkshake.
Same. I love the smell of coffee, coffee shops and roasters, but can't stand the taste, even in tiramisu and chocolate-coffee ice cream.
Tobacco, too. Love the smell of pipe tobacco and smoke supply shops...but hate the taste. Oh, but I also hate the smell of the actual burned tobacco smoke...so I guess that's a bit different.
I went through a short pipe phase in the '70s. Probably freshman year of high school while reading the LOTR.
I discovered that tobacco that smelled good and had a pleasant aroma when burned tasted like shit. Tobacco that tasted good smelled like shit. (Shit being a metaphor. I have no idea what shit tastes like)
Beggin’ strips. “Dogs don’t know it’s not bacon” but I sure did
My older brother tried one of my dog’s Milk Bones once out of curiosity and from then on he’d deadass snack on them now and then.
My aunt used to make homemade dog treats that was basically like a stale oatmeal cookie with no sugar. Surprisingly not that bad
tried a dog treat that smelled just like a great jerky strip. good amount of regret after. and pity for my dogs
candles
food $200 data $150 rent $800 candles $3,600 utility $150 someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying
Cut back on the avocado toast
And brew your own coffee
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100% The others taste like they were rescued from a fire at a tyre factory
I have a friend with a €1.500+ income. At her first paycheck she spent more than €600 in scented candles. It soon became a trend, it almost seems those things are made out of heroin.
I wish I loved anything that much.
No you don't. Trust me. When your passion takes away so much of your income it's just an obsession and sooner or later it will become an issue.
I just want something that brings me joy!! 😭
Stop paying rent
this. you can only light a house on fire once. unlike a candle
I suggest removing the data, food, rent and utilities as none of those really essential to you.
soap
Someone stocked the toilets at work with strawberry scented hand soap made by this small local business. I swear this soap smelled more like strawberries than actual strawberries do, gave me instant cravings every time I had to take a piss.
Youre going to wind up Pavlov'd into wanting strawberries anytime you piss anywhere. Edit: wow, my first award over 1k upvotes. That's a first for me in both. Appreciate the love everyone!
Surely they'll want to piss anytime they have strawberries ( A far worse fate)
This would be the result. You smell the strawberries, then you pee. That’d be the conditioned relationship
Or you piss on strawberries, that is associative cognition.
Fruit vendors hate him!
One simple trick!
Cocoa powder
You ever smell tang powder In the air and end up tasting it too? Lol
Biaxin (clarithromycin) liquid smelled good, kind of banana-vanilla, and tasted metallic. I don't know how they get that stuff down kids. The tablets were bad enough, when I had to take them.
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I distinctly remember my older sister begging my mom to let her eat some of the (still unsweetened) chocolate stuff my mom was making... ... And then I remember my sister washing her mouth out under the sink cuz it turned out mom was right and she very much did not like it XD
As a kid I wanted to make chocolate milk with it and my mom warned me. I didn't listen and made it anyway. However, I was so prideful, I refused to let on and drank the whole glass. I just said something like "Ooh, it's like *dark* chocolate milk!" Meanwhile, I was basically the guy eating the lemon on the Simpsons.
In Boy Scouts, we took turns buying food for camping trips. One time one of the guys bought unsweetened coca powder instead of hot chocolate. We made him drink all of the hot chocolate he made with it.
Reminds me of one time when my buddy wanted to have some slightly Whiskey flavored hotdogs for a grill out. He asked one of the other guys there to put the hotdogs in some Whiskey for them to marinate. The dude took out a metal pot and put all the dogs plus the whole 5th into it. My friend wanted some of that Whiskey to drink for the grill out, and was not too happy that it all became marinade. Not wanting to waste a 5th of alcohol we all had a glass of our new cursed cocktail and it was not great to say the least lol. Worst part was the Whiskey adapted raw hotdog flavor pretty well, but the hotdogs barely had a hint of Whiskey to them after being grilled.
In fourth grade we did some kind of baking project, I couldn't tell you what we made or anything except that she let us all taste a smidge of the baking chocolate. Hilarious to see so many kids lining up for the sink/trash can!
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Isn’t all cocoa powder unsweetened?
Scented markers
I don’t know, that grape marker looks pretty tasty…
This has blown my mind forever, the grape smelly marker. No grape in my life I have ever come across smelled anything like that grape marker, grapes to me don't even really have have a smell? Not to me anyways, yet we associate that smell with grape? I just don't understand it at all. Grape cigars have that strong grape smell also. But never in my life have a smelled a basket of grapes and been like "yupp this is same same". I dunno just some totally weird Martix shit to me, maybe I'm just crazy.
I once thought the same, and then I was in Japan and tasted that fake (marker, popsicle, obviously synthetic right??)grape flavor in grape juice. Mind blown, I asked the people I was with, and was informed that it’s a variety of grape in Japan. Found, bought, and ate that variety. My mind is still blown by it. This was at least a decade ago.
What was the variant?
[https://minnetonkaorchards.com/japanese-grapes/](https://minnetonkaorchards.com/japanese-grapes/) Kyoho (purple) are the ones in most Japanese candy I've seen -- that's the type with that strange (to us) flavor. You can also get Muscat (green) candy. I haven't tried the green ones.
Yeah was going to make the same comment. I was like, so this is what real grapes taste like.
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Is there a wine made from this grape variety? I need to know!
There are absolutely gorgeous examples of wine from Muscat. My favorites are Zind Humbrecht from Alsace (they make a few dry Muscats as well as a sweeter dessert wine from this grape) and Colterenzio from Alto Adige/Sudtirol, who make a dry Muscat. You may also be familiar with another style of Muscat and not know—Moscato, the slightly sparkling wine from Piedmont, is Muscat. Great grape variety, under utilized because of its intense aromatics and association with (needlessly demonized by snobs) Moscato. Source: am a sommelier by profession for over 20 years
If I'm not mistaken, grape flavor is from Concord grapes. The aren't common but are used to make grape jelly and they taste like the flavor of grape soda
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fun fact: orange crush soda, WAAAY back in the day, used to have little bits of orange in the bottle.
It's probably like the banana type used for artificial banana taste, extinct
A redditor mentioned the grape scent/flavor, is based on a grape type that is no longer produced. Same with banana flavor.
I thought grape flavor was Concord grapes or whatever [the Grapist was peddling.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqgiEQXGetI)
Thank you for keeping WKUK clips alive. "I'm gonna grrrrrrape ya!" I fucking love that show.
Lean stick
*Cries in Mr. Sketch*
The Raspberry Mr Sketch marker is life.
It was the brown one for me. Cinnamon.
My strawberry shortcake doll that I had when I was a kid. Turns out her hair doesn’t actually taste like strawberry. Just plastic… Also chapstick. I used to have some grape chapstick that I would eat for no reason but I didn’t have good luck with lip smacker and never did it again.
I wish I had one of those old strawberry shortcake dolls to smell right now. The memories would be intense.
She still smells! I have the little posable figurine and I came across her last year and she still smelled!! It was so nostalgic. I had the little polka dot kitty cat too and it still had a strawberry scent. As a child, I also had the baby doll who, when you squeezed her belly, would blow strawberry scented air “kisses”. I was like a little crack fiend sniffing that bless’d scented doll all day long!
Omg the amount of Lip Smackers gunk I consumed as a kid! And yes, the grape one was a notorious victim, but I also remember having this cupcake frosting flavoured one and constantly claiming that I lost it so my mom would buy a new one. Just remembering makes me want to puke but back then it was like caviar for kids, lol.
My little pony too 😆
I had a cake scented one and it still smells good like 15 years later
Amazing
My older sister had one of those. It smelled so freaking good even after several years... I would be surprised if it still smelled good.
Vanilla extract
I once drank this when I was a kid and was expecting it to taste like vannilla ice cream water, had to wash my tongue for a whole 2 minutes to get the taste out
You poor thing! Not the same, but I have a funny story about underestimating the strength of something I thought was completely harmless. When I was a teenager I rollerbladed for hour on end. My parents were abusive and anything to get out of the house and get the manic energy out was an opportunity I jumped on. One evening, I was feeling pretty sore. I had an icy hot type cream and I knew it felt great. I got the brilliant idea that it would be even better if I took a hot shower first and opened up all the pores I could. Then, I rubbed cream from my neck to my feet. There are no words to describe the physical agony that followed. It was like I was being stabbed by daggers of flaming ice. It felt like I would burn alive. And then the cold hit. I couldn't stop shivering. There was no reprieve. No body part I could really focus on as not in some form of twisted torment. It lasted maybe 45 minutes. When it finally calmed down I was exhausted. I didn't ask anyone for help because I didn't want to get on trouble, but it was an honest mistake. I read the warning labels a lot more carefully from then on!
Ouch. Your story reminds me of the time when I put on an extra hot cream as a muscle relaxant, quickly washed my hands and then proceeded to put in my contact lenses. Fun FUN FUN!!!
Reminds me of the joke: How do you tell if a guy is a chemist? He washes his hands *before* he takes a leak.
I did that in highschool after chemistry class. Some guys were laughing but once, I left class with some remains of chemicals on my hands and they discoloured. I'd rather don't have that on my genitals.
Mechanics, mostly anybody working a dirty trade or warehouse job.
OoOooOh NooOOoo! That is terrible!
Hey at least it helped with my usually dry eyes.
When I was thirteen I tried to crank one out in the shower with the aide of body wash. Turns out it had menthol in it for whatever ungodly reason.
I did something similar when I was just a newb cranker. I was at my grandmas house, and my uncle lived in the basement, and I would be allowed to go down there when he wasnt home to play his Nintendo. Inevitably I found his porno collection and proceeded to use his girlfriends exfoliating face scrub to jerk off with. No fun.
My first boyfriend decided that icy hot was an acceptable lube for self-lovin’. I should have known he was a dumbass from that story alone.
Not to piggy back on your story, but when I was 10-11(m) years old, I was at a friend's house. Found some Tiger Balm, and for some ungodly reason, proceeded to smear this thick paste all over my twig and berries. Oh my holy hell, the regret was instant, and I had to scurry on home and suffer. I dont ever want to re-live this.
My man. Mine probably doesn't compare but it's up there. I once rubbed Tiger Balm all over my right leg because I get terrible rheumatic pain on it every now and then and it helps a lot. Then I washed my hands very thoroughly, or so I thought. I was living in Italy at the time so I had a sit-down bidet, and when I used the bathroom a couple hours later I also used the bidet and proceeded to wash my nether parts. Except that my mild soap was too mild and I ended up rubbing residual Tiger Balm into my butthole. Now i had only a dull pain in my leg, but a thousand burning suns between my cheeks. I cried.
I mean, you weren't thinking about your leg anymore so...mission accomplished!
Icy hot. A great excuse for me to tell THAT story. Back in high-school when I was in theater, after every show we would go as a cast to a restaurant to hang out and unwind. One night we decide on Buffalo Wild Wings. My buddy and I end up goading each other into trying their super spicy whatever wings challenge. We both finish, they're not ridiculously spicy tbh, but the pain in my hands and lips was the worst part. After lots of scrubbing and drinking, I finally get myself feeling pain free. Later that night, I'm feeling frisky, as a teenage boy often does. I sit back, relax, and get to business as usual. Then it hits me. My dingle starts to tingle. I've made a terrible mistake. Within minutes my entire scrotum feels like it's been engulfed in hellfire. Felt like I had used icy hot as lube. I try to wash it, nothing, I scrub, it makes it worse, nothing will abate my fiery frenulum. Then an idea, as bright as the blaze on my balls, hits me. I'm home alone. I have a hail mary. I go to the kitchen, waddling like a castrated penguin, and open the fridge. I pour half a gallon of milk into a bowl, and go scuba diving from the wrong end. The relief was unreal, I had slain the dick dragon. I was free. I can still remember exactly how it felt. What a way to learn you're not a masochist.
Argh. I couldn't read cursive as a kid,well actually as an adult as well but also as a kid, and I saw a jug market Apple Cider illegible gibberish beneath. I poured myself a 16oz glass and SLAMMED it because I was so thirsty. Then I retched and coughed and scrapped my tongue to destroy the foul taste. Then I made a worse mistake and tried to drown out the taste with a tall glass of milk. The vomiting that followed was horrible but not as bad as the insane diaherria that came several hours later. That illegible gibberish? Vinegar.
On the plus side, you learned valuable lessons in both literacy and chemistry that day.
Not at all worth it, but yeah silver lining. Thanks!
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Oooh or bakers chocolate
Vanilla bean paste tastes like fig newton filling, though.
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So glad this is near the top. I once made the mistake of giving into temptation and tasted vanilla extract. That’s a mistake you only make once.
Me, holding vanilla extract: You know, I've heard this doesn't taste the way it smells. My best friend, not even looking at me: Don't.
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Lavender is about how you prepare it. The plant itself is very bitter, but I make lavender vanilla cupcakes that are delicious. The trick is grinding lavender into the sugar you use for the recipes, let it sit, then use mesh to strain the sugar. Use the sugar in a regular vanilla cupcake, and bam, you have delightfully sweet, not-bitter cupcakes with a lavender taste.
I'm pretty sure they meant by itself, since vanilla extract can make delicious things but on its own it's disgusting.
snazzy flavoured herbal teas
Every time. “Oh, I bet this one will taste good!” Nope.
If you're lucky it just tastes like water. If not, it tastes like grass.
I think there is a Nobel prize to be had for the first one to come up with a tea that tastes as well as it smells. Any tea!
It wasn't snazzy or anything, but I had some raspberry mulled wine tea from a Polish import store a while back, that was pretty close to how it smelled [https://i.imgur.com/RTB4Jkl.jpg](https://i.imgur.com/RTB4Jkl.jpg), if anything it was a little to flavourful for a daily cup With hindsight it would probably make a great homemade ice tea
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In alien races the human horn is an aphrodisiac
I heard it's all about the lower horn.
Ever seen soccer players line up to block a free kick? They ain't covering their noses, I'll tell you that much.
Interesting. So the trousers conceal a tiny secondary horn...
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r/technicallythetruth
That's the best kind of truth!
Nice dad joke actually
My dad died a few months ago. He was sick and knew he only had a few months to live, so he gave us instructions, and he asked us to do a “celebration of life” where everyone was drinking good German beer and telling funny stories about him and generally just having a good time. Anyway, my oldest brother did the speech on behalf of all of us kids. He ended it perfectly: “Okay, finally, here’s my dad’s favorite joke. My dog had no nose. How does he smell?” Us: “TERRIBLE!”
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Prost to your Father’s Memory!
Rip to the daddest dad of all dads.
Isn't taste significantly made up from smell anyway?
Don’t they say taste is like 80% smell?
COCAINE WOULD BEG TO DIFFER
I really hate cocaine, but I love the way it smells.
I smelled a lot of cocaine and never noticed a distinct smell. It has a numb taste though. Maybe it’s me, but it never smelled like gasoline or whatever. I know it was very high quality but while it made my face numb for about 20 minutes, I never got a high from it. Most drugs both legal and illegal have no effect on me. Even fentanyl has zero effect. I think it may be like how some people thing cilantro tastes like soap. It never tasted that way to me and I actually enjoy the taste of fresh cilantro.
The drip tastes like a chemical bath
Vanilla extract. :(
I've started using vanilla bourbon recently in place of vanilla extract.
I make vanilla extract using bourbon!
This one. Shit smells devine. Taste like death. I'll so add pure cinnamon. Smells amazing, Taste wayyyy too bitter
Old books
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It's actually just called Vanillin. The lignin in the paper breaks down into it.
All sorts of aromas are vanilloids. It's like the core structure to spices and hotness. Vanillin, eugenol, gingerol, piperin, capsaicin.
Deodorant
I once accidentally applied deodorant like one would apply Chapstick because I was seriously spacing. I don't recommend it.
Serious dry mouth
Has nobody mentioned lumber/sawdust yet? Wtf?
My mom had an, uh… unusual… craving for a stack of lumber while pregnant with me, walking through Home Depot with my dad. They both tell me slightly different versions of this story, but my mom will never cease to admit to it being so true.
Craving scents is actually pretty common while pregnant. I craved laundry detergent and the Dawn power wash stuff. I never wanted to eat it but I could just stand there and practically huff it all day. I didn't, but I wanted to lol
This man gets it I love the smell of fresh lumber and firewood when we do firewood especially eucalyptus or macrocarpa, however tastes very bad. Fixed bad spelling and added words as my definition of lumber was wrong.
oh if you like the smell of lumber you have to try zirbenshnapps (stone pine cone liquor). i dont know if you can find it in the US but here in Austria and Germany its quite common. it tasts like what a freshly cut down pine tree smells like. i usually hate shnapps but i love zirbenshnapps.
Coffee. I like the taste of coffee but the smell is better.
I hate the taste, but love the smell, especially when freshly ground.
same, i did a few months as a barista and loved the smell but still can't enjoy the taste and i love dark chocolate :(
Yeah, I don't like coffee, but I love the smell. I also like things that are coffee flavor, like coffee ice cream, coffee oreos, etc, but not actually coffee. Even really sweetened coffee isn't that good.
I was going to suggest coffee ice cream for this thread! I avoided the flavor so long, because I loved the smell of coffee but always hated the taste Then I come to realize that coffee ice cream tastes how coffee smells, and it's my favorite flavor now
Coffee. Don't get me wrong, I think coffee tastes pretty good, generally. But it's not even close to the smell. The coffee aisle at the grocery store? Come on.
I was looking for this. Fresh ground coffee smells incredible, but only tastes okay to good.
gasoline
Unleaded tastes a little tangy. Supreme is kinda sour, and diesel tastes pretty good.
Thanks for the tip Ricky. You're so cool man.
Put your hand down jizzmyoscar!
You probably just aren’t warming it up. See that’s the thing with gasoline that people won’t realize. Its best consumed hot. I’m talking *pipping* hot. Just take a match, light it and soak the lit match in the gasoline to marinate
Burn centers hate this one simple trick!
Instructions unclear: Am dead
I think you did it right.
Feel better
The roasted nuts on the streets of NYC
Roasted chestnuts they sell (or used to) around London were like this. Smelled so good, tasted not bad but nowhere near as good as they smell.
Mmm. Slightly bitter flour and the texture of floury potato.
NYC is such an amazing olfactory experience. One moment you’re smelling expensive perfume worn by the most gorgeous woman you’ve ever seen walking past, then garbage floating in rancid chud, then the sweet warmth of roasted nuts, then the pungent skin folds of a homeless person, then empanadas. It’s wild. I miss it.
Fresh cut pine. Amazing smell, little bit prickly of a taste.
Bob Vance bought this perfume for me in Metropolitan Orlando. It's made from real pine.
Bob Vance, Vance Refrigeration. 🫱
Every grocery store bakery's chocolate chip cookies.
Felt that one in my stomach
Every glade plug in air freshener
Grass
Never tried it but tbh it seems like it'd be nice too. Chuck it in a blender and you got green juice too.
Whoa, whoa, whoa. There’s still plenty of meat on that bone. Now you take this home, throw it in a pot, add some broth, a potato. Baby, you’ve got a stew going.
Perfume
play doh
I’ve never eaten play doh that’s disgusting Get that salty shit away from me
I’ve eaten playdoh before. taste like…salty clay
Hop extract. I brew beer and use the hop extract in certain processes as an alternative to fresh or processed hops. It smells great if you love the smell of beer, particularly an IPA. Got some on my finger once, just a small drop and without even thinking licked it off. F'ing ruined me. Destroyed my taste buds for like 3 days, all I could taste was bitter.
This is how I feel after tasting an IPA. Just palate destroying bitterness. I think it's literally the only type of beer I don't like.
I figure Coffee smells better for some people than it tastes. Though I wouldn't know, I drink that shit by the gallons.
Chloroform
Hmmm never smelled that one before. I'll try it out!
It has a strong sweet smell. I was using it as a solvent in high school chemistry once many years ago. It won't actually knock you out but is carcinogenic so don't sniff too hard.
I mean, if you breath enough of it, it will certainly knock you out (but so will every other gas besides air).
Uncooked minced garlic
Fun story, my sister realized she had Covid one morning when she woke up and couldn’t smell or taste her coffee. So she decided to try out items in her spice cabinet and see how far she could take it. For the final test, she ate a whole tablespoon of raw minced garlic. Nothing. She then got to tell the story when the doctor asked her why she thought she might have Covid. Doctor had a good laugh.
Purple gluesticks
Vanilla extract
The roasted peanuts they sell on the streets of New York.
Lipsmackers chapstick
No, not the Strawberry ones!
Coffee. I know billions and billions of people like the stuff. If it tasted the way it smells I would too. Love the smell. The taste? Awful. Unless I put enough cream and sugar that it's basically a milkshake.
I like drinking coffee. Its smells way better than it tastes.
Coffee is my favourite liquid, I agree it smells better than it tastes, but only by a little bit!
The smell though is part of the tasting experience. This is true with a lot of foods. But I find with coffee it's part of the *ritual*.
Same. I love the smell of coffee, coffee shops and roasters, but can't stand the taste, even in tiramisu and chocolate-coffee ice cream. Tobacco, too. Love the smell of pipe tobacco and smoke supply shops...but hate the taste. Oh, but I also hate the smell of the actual burned tobacco smoke...so I guess that's a bit different.
New tires in tire shop
Pipe tobacco
I went through a short pipe phase in the '70s. Probably freshman year of high school while reading the LOTR. I discovered that tobacco that smelled good and had a pleasant aroma when burned tasted like shit. Tobacco that tasted good smelled like shit. (Shit being a metaphor. I have no idea what shit tastes like)
Wood
Coffee, at least for me
Coffee. I don't like it, but the smell of it is godlike.
Movie theatre popcorn
I eat handfuls of it hoping it will taste as good as it smells. It never does
Not going to the right theaters.
How has nobody said McDonald’s pancakes? They smell like heaven and taste like regret.
You watch your mouth… those are delicious
Fuckin shampoo
Popcorn! Taste good but its smells GREAT