Was it good?
Broom flavored soda. Buddy of mine made homemade sodas and did fun experiments and one went wrong so he called it broom soda because that’s exactly how it tasted. He added to much sugar somewhere and it partial melted and had this weird texture that mimicked sand. It’s such a weird drink to describe.
4/10 fun to laugh about but not to try more than a swig.
Here in Finland some product developers have a weird obsession over adding the taste of salty liquorice to everything.
So naturally there are also sodas and other products which taste of salty liquorice. And a whole bunch of combinations to things like “cinnamon bun + salty liquorice” like wtf who would ever enjoy that
Old bay flavored beer. I mean, crabs with beer tastes good, so how bad could it be? Very.
It’s starting to seem a little like some of the people making beer have never tried one.
Stinky tofu. Smelled like literal shit, tasted like literal shit.
…I think maybe you just offended your waiter…
Oyster flavored ice cream. First surprise was that it actually tasted like oysters, second was that it was actually good as a ice cream. I wouldn’t mix it with more “normal” flavors though
What the actual fuck?
Yes! I don’t know who came up with this bizarre flavor but it really is good tasting
Durian.
Texture of banana but with a huge seed. Tastes like a strange combination of rotten eggs, whipped cream, vanilla ice cream, diced garlic, onions, cheese, and… caramel?
It’s fucked. Never again.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durian
The unusual flavour and odour of the fruit have prompted many people to express diverse and passionate views ranging from deep appreciation to intense disgust. Writing in 1856, the British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace provided a much-quoted description of the flavour of the durian:
The five cells are silky-white within, and are filled with a mass of firm, cream-coloured pulp, containing about three seeds each. This pulp is the edible part, and its consistence and flavour are indescribable. A rich custard highly flavoured with almonds gives the best general idea of it, but there are occasional wafts of flavour that call to mind cream-cheese, onion-sauce, sherry-wine, and other incongruous dishes. Then there is a rich glutinous smoothness in the pulp which nothing else possesses, but which adds to its delicacy. It is neither acidic nor sweet nor juicy; yet it wants neither of these qualities, for it is in itself perfect. It produces no nausea or other bad effect, and the more you eat of it the less you feel inclined to stop. In fact, to eat Durians is a new sensation worth a voyage to the East to experience. … as producing a food of the most exquisite flavour it is unsurpassed.[a]
Wallace described himself as being at first reluctant to try it because of the aroma, “but in Borneo I found a ripe fruit on the ground, and, eating it out of doors, I at once became a confirmed Durian eater”. He cited one traveller from 1599:[b] “it is of such an excellent taste that it surpasses in flavour all other fruits of the world, according to those who have tasted it.” He cites another writer: “To those not used to it, it seems at first to smell like rotten onions, but immediately after they have tasted it they prefer it to all other food. The natives give it honourable titles, exalt it, and make verses on it.”
While Wallace cautions that “the smell of the ripe fruit is certainly at first disagreeable”, later descriptions by Westerners are more graphic in detail. Novelist Anthony Burgess writes that eating durian is “like eating sweet raspberry blancmange in the lavatory”. Travel and food writer Richard Sterling says:
its odor is best described as pig-excrement, turpentine and onions, garnished with a gym sock. It can be smelled from yards away. Despite its great local popularity, the raw fruit is forbidden from some establishments such as hotels, subways and airports, including public transportation in Southeast Asia.
Other comparisons have been made with the civet, sewage, stale vomit, skunk spray and used surgical swabs.
Durian is amazing if you’ve had it when you were younger. So if you got a young one, train them to try out new foods, fruits, vegetables, then they won’t be picky eaters. I had durian when I was younger and love the shit out of it. Those who aren’t, are likely to be disgusted by it.
the smell is fucking epic. I was sad that I smelled it before trying durian ice cream, I think it’s ruined it for me.
Why is it ruined for you? I’ve had durian before durian ice cream and they are both really good.
the smell of durian makes me ill. Durian ice cream doesn’t have the smell, but the flavor profile still makes me think of the smell lol I guess stupid brain sensory issues
There are lots of varieties of Durian that bring out all those flavors (and possibly more) to various degrees. Supposedly some of them can be good if you acclimate and enjoy funky fruit.
The small dehydrated piece a friend brought me from Vietnam recently had tasted like if you went to a pizza joint and mixed the little containers of garlic butter and bleu cheese sauce, then added some pineapple and gasoline and a hint of vanilla custard for good measure. It was extremely weird and mostly reminded me of garbage. And for the rest of the day, the smallest burp brought back its vile ghost.
So, the same flavor as my dog’s farts.
I had a Spicy Maine root soda last night. It was truly awful.
They have one called “Pink Drink”. It’s not available bottled, The only place I ever had it was at Austin City limits Festival a few years before the pandemic. It’s kind of a Prickly-pear Lemonade flavored soda. It was without a doubt the most delicious, refreshing beverage I have ever consumed, and the fact that I’ve never been able to find it since then is actually one of the biggest disappointments of my life.
Would it happen to be this? https://freshellakitchen.com/product/maine-root-pink-drink/
Yup. Looks like I’m making a trip to Dallas this weekend…
Good luck with trip!
One of those Harry Potter jelly beans that tastes like snot.
Prepare to get crazy mad, but I absolutely despise marshmallows.
They feel so weird especially in my mouth. I feel like I’m eating a bunch of candle wax mixed with white sticky liquid (can’t say anymore hints) mixed with whipped cream and powdered sugar and glue and coconut (which I already don’t like) and expired milk but without the sourness, all this while it’s in the process of solidification, with lots of air trapped inside, and yet it all tastes like the most artificial, fakest recreation of apple flavor I’ve ever tasted. I feel like I immediately get drunk, high, and on drugs all at the same time as soon as I put just one of these puffcylinders into my mouth. I can’t even swallow it, it tastes this bad.
And you’re expecting me to burn this piffy puffle substance then mix it with chocolate and biscuit? This is giving me an absolute stroke.
Prepare the downvotes. I have just roasted (pun not intended) everyone’s favorite gelatin snack, and it might as well be the most offensive thing I’ve said about food.
the most offensive thing I’ve said about food.
You had me at “anymore”. I think you meant “any more”, the same way “what’s up Chuck” is not like “what’s upchuck”.
I’m pretty sure I did not say “anymore” in my initial comment, I just re-read it.
Also, what even is upchuck? Is it like updog?
Cilantro toothpaste. I like the other flavours this company has but this one is awful.
Tastes like soap I am guessing
I’m not one of the people that tastes cilantro like soap, but I still find it disgusting.
Toothpaste is just teeth soap if you think about it.
How long did you think about it?
I was high at that time, so 20 minutes?
Those weird flavored mints you get from chinese restaurants as you leave. They could be worse for sure.
Orange (or similiar) juice with apple/grape cider.
Yes, unique feeling on the tongue.
Like a non alcoholic mimosa.
Smash! It’s bugel chips coated in chocolate. Very good, but i can’t by it cause I’d eat the whole bag and get sick.
Battered Mars bar.
Peanut butter. It’s vile.
This might not seem weird to many buy as a north american I had never encountered anything like it.
Shiso spice on rice.
It was a completely foreign flavor to me; like nothing I’d ever tasted before. Not a single thing in the north american diet is remotely close to what it tastes like. I saw there awestruck for a moment.
Its incredible. I was instantly hooked.
You can buy it online from Amazon wherever you’re located. I got a bunch when I was going through a period experimenting with East Asian spices and condiments.
