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.
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.
I've only had it once and I don't know what variety it was, but despite the smell it just tasted kinda like a honeydew. There was no bitterness or anything
Slugs.
It looks like those lungs they put on cigarette packs
Durian is good. You can buy one easily in Vietnam, and cheap.
Now I'm visualizing a shadowy figure in a trenchcoat in Ho Chi Minh City, beckoning curious tourists from an alleyway...
"Psst... hey buddy... yeah you... want to buy some durian?"
I thought it was so good and bad at the same time. (But I feel the bad lasts longer!). I've had candy, wafers, and dried forms. The worst has always been that it makes me burp and it tastes like a restaurant dumpster smells.
It's like in a movie when someone's mind is fed ask the knowledge in the universe until they're overwhelmed and turn to dust or explode, but for taste buds.
So, the same flavor as my dog's farts.
Probably the garlic ice cream in garlic restaurant Balthasar in Tallinn.
8/10. Would eat again. Sadly it looks like the place closed down, probably during covid-19 :-(
I had garlic ice cream at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in California. Everyone leaving the free sample line had the exact same expression on their face as they tried the first taste:
Slightly scrunched up have with an expression that said, "I was really expecting this to be horrible but it's not bad. Not great, but not bad."
If you want to try a very divisive cocktail, you need to go no further than the classic Negroni. I absolutely love them, but they are not for everyone. Extremely bitter and astringent - you certainly don't gulp this one down. To me, it's the most "adult" of adult alcoholic beverages. You either love or or despise it.
Wanna try it?
Equal parts:
- Gin.
- Campari.
- Sweet Vermouth.
Negronis are my absolute favorite drink, but most people I know hate them. Absinthe is just as divisive.
I hate the negroni. Don't understand it, it's way too sweet, way too bitter, but mostly just sickeningly sweet. Like if it was dumped into a glass of soda water or lemon water it would probably be ok.
Absinthe I think is just divisive because licorice/anise flavor is polarizing. I like it in cocktails, like Sambucca too. I love licorice flavors in general though.
I saw a recipe on.Bon Appetit for an orange juice and coffee drink, my initial impression was "no way" but I modified it a little and really liked it.
Cold brew, fresh squeezed orange juice, and Topo Chico fizzy water, poured over ice.
I also like the salad that is fennel, oranges and olives and onions, and also the Mexican fruit salad that's pineapple, mango, jicama, onion, with citrus juice dressing and cotija sharp crumbled cheese.
I think that's it for combinations that sound awful to me but taste good to me.
I believe there's a coffee and campari drink that's similar
I like Campari in orange juice quite a lot, and love it in grapefruit based cocktails. Siesta with 2x the Campari is actually so good after the first sip to calibrate. In coffee though? Seems like it would amplify the unpleasant flavors in both.
Minus the coffee with OJ, the others sound 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
I didn't actually try an of these. Found them in a random store near the beach in Florida
Mmm, Barf soda sounds so tempting... :-D
What a convenient time to share this...
i've had the pickle flavored soda. it's exactly like you expect and nothing more. sweet, fizzy pickle juice
We had a child's party that featured the mustard, pickle, bacon, and maybe 20 others. Not the pimple or barf ones.
Some were as advertised. Some were good. Some were disgusting.
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.
I had that Kraft Mac and Cheese ice cream. It was very strange. It was also better tasting than it had any right to be.
That being said... I don't want any more of it.
basil ice-cream at Wagamamas it was gross
I've had asparagus ice cream. It was fantastic!
Marshmallow and chips. Dry they were okay, I could separate the flavours, but with gravy added the flavour of the marshmallows mixed in with the gravy and chips and the whole lot tasted horrible.
I'm sorry, what?
Oh like poutine but with marshmallows instead of cheese curds? With just fries and marshmallows I could possibly understand the idea, but that does sound horrible.
How can I delete someone else's post?
And by chips he means French fries
Just recently: Dunkin Spiked Coffee
I love coffee, so I had high hopes for this being really good. It tasted like someone mixed sugar, red wine, and coffee. Horrible. Tangy. Oddly sweet. Just weird. I can't imagine a boardroom of people at Dunkin tasted this crap and said "ship it!"
I've had a few of the Jones Soda holiday packs, where they would make the tastes of various winter holidays into sodas. Cranberry sauce soda was ok. Turkey soda, not so much. However, the worst was Christmas Garland, which tasted like Pine-sol.
My partner had another of the holiday packs. He said most of them were okay but not awful, but the Buttered Roll soda tasted like carbonated butter and it was horrible.
A lot of the recent Coca-Cola flavors like the space one have been weird as fuck and sit in a vague middle point between "okay" and "absolutely disgusting." And I mean that in a way that has you questioning whether it's alright or gross.
There was one that tastes pretty nice. I forgot what it was called though. It had a dark purple kinda label.
The taste reminded me of rice pudding.
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.
Grilled cheese and tomato soup flavored cheese curls. It was pretty spot on.
those sound highly addictive.
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/
A few years ago Brachs candy I think it was made Thanksgiving dinner flavored Candy Corn. They had turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce, greenbean, apple pie, and gravy candy corns mixed in a bag. The cranberry apple pie were great but the stuffing tasted like vomit. Everything else was just meh. I never bought a bag again.
I used to work at Starbucks and we'd make weird shit out of curiosity. The best one was uncut cold brew coffee and their strawberry refresher base. Uncut cold brew and lemonade wasn't terrible but way too acidic for my liking.
Thing with the weirdest flavor, or flavor of the weirdest thing?
Thing with the weirdest flavor: Durian. Fucking gross. Ate it by accident (was in a dish I ordered). It tasted exactly like papaya or mango soaked in mop bucket water for 2 days.
Flavor of the weirdest thing: Probably Escargot. That was garlic and snail flavored.
I tried durian pancakes at an Asian market once, and didn't see what all the fuss was about. It tasted kinda coconut-y and onion-y, but not enough to be a big deal.
Ten minutes later I burped and realised I had made a terrible mistaking eating those things.
Escargot is french for snail. And "persillade", which is basically parsley and garlic sauce is the most common thing they're served with. So that makes perfect sense why that tasted like that.
Never had a durian before and I'm not sure I wanna try after that description. Especially since I'm not a huge fan of papayas or mangoes.
Not so weird to me or most Cubans, but prolly to the rest of the world: malta with a spoonful or two of sweetened and condensed milk. Pour the malta into a glass, then add the milk and stir until evenly mixed. Drink. If you're not used to the flavor of malta, this combo may be too much to start off with.
pictures for reference
I like the taste of Malta fine but I find it super sweet. I imagine adding sweetened condensed milk doesn't help that at all.
Peanut butter. It's vile.
Garlic ice cream?
I once had a burger stuffed with crushed Oreos and topped with frosting. That specific combo wasn't exactly good, though I did finish it. The sweetness kinda worked, but it was way too much.
Ever since then though I've been meaning to make something more toned-down, maybe a burger with a honey glaze or something cause I think that'd turn out really good.
During Christmas, our student union used to sell a drink called Julmust. I bought one or of curiosity and thought the first sip was horrible, but by the end of the bottle I was hooked. Was very sad when they stopped selling it
From the wiki:
"45 million litres of julmust are consumed during December ( in Sweden), which is around 50% of the total soft drink volume in December and 75% of the total yearly must sales."
Well frick!
Oof. So I have to go to Sweden now? Argh
Beer flavored peanuts. It tasted like a beer burp. It was, different...
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.
Orange (or similiar) juice with apple/grape cider.
Yes, unique feeling on the tongue.
Like a non alcoholic mimosa.
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.
Battered Mars bar.
Tuna Colada. No.
Tuna the cactus, or tuna the fish?
Fish.
Has to be cactus 😬
Those weird flavored mints you get from chinese restaurants as you leave. They could be worse for sure.
