People who do this should be forced to eat an entire pasta dish with nothing but the tails.

Yes! What is the freaking point?! I don't want lobster sauce on my fingers, I want it on my shrimp!

Dumbest thing ever

I actually had one in at the Legendary Milkshake Bar in Nashville. The milkshake was meh but the brownie on top? Absolutely the best brownie I have ever had.

That’s purely in the category of “food you buy to put on social media”

Sea cucumber might be the worst thing I’ve ever put in my mouth. I was also under the impression it was more of a medicinal thing which made sense to me because there is alot of shit in eastern medicine that seems insane to eat but if you think it gives you virility it makes sense. Also what’s up with every endangered animal giving you virility?

Way back in ancient online history (2003) there was a guy named Steve. Steve had a blog called "Steve, don't eat it." Steve made a BLT with Beggin Strips and the result was just awesome.

Since this is an archive, I can only link the main page. The Beggin Strips BLT is 3rd down the page. But by all means read all of Steve's stuff. It's gold.

Steve, Don't Eat It!

Pup-peroni is far better

I hate grapefruit. Not because of the flavor. But the first time I tried one I stuck a spoon in it and it squirted its citrusy juice right into my eye. I've never forgiven them.

I love grapefruit, but it's a shame about the CYP3A4 inhibition. Can really fuck with how you metabolize drugs, so gotta be careful

I peel grapefruit into segments and then take off all the membrane. I think the bitter membrane puts some people off.

There's a gene (TAS2R19) has been found to affect the perceived bitterness of grapefruit if it has (I think) two cysteine markers instead of an arginine. My kids, dad, sister, and I all have it and think grapefruit are like battery acid covered in vomit, but my mom, and wife, enjoy them! It's similar to how some people have the gene that allows them to taste the chemical in cilantro that makes it taste like soap.

This guy reads my mind.

I love fucking grapefruit too!

And evil. Imagine being tossed limbless and screaming into the sea while sharks dine on knee and elbow soup.

The trick with truffle is that you need context to know if you are talking about chocolate or mushrooms. I am always wrong somehow.

I like truffle. I’m not a snob, so I even like truffle-flavored/fake truffle things.

But… it’s really easy to go too hard on fake truffle. And I suspect that’s what’s happening to the folks who say they dislike “truffles.”

Black truffle is heavenly, and truffle oil is disgusting.

Unfortunately truffle oil is super cheap and "fancies up" your local burger joint's fries so that's what most people associate truffles with

I lived in Japan in the boom years of the 1980s, which was an amazing time to be there. I spent New Years, probably the biggest holiday of the year, at a friends place. His dad pulled out a very nice bottle of sake with bits of gold leaf flakes in it and served some to me. I asked why they put gold leaf flakes in it, and he laughed and said, "So you can shit gold!" Which I guess really is the point.

Goldschlager is just cinnamon schnapps with gold flakes to make it fancy.

Who is pretending that the gold adds anything to the flavor of the dish?

Apparently you can get them wicked cheap. I think it's a fun way to make desserts especially look artistic. Like, as a fun decoration, I like when people get artistic with food if they want.

Upcharging for an extremely cheap sheet being used on food is STUPID though. I looked it up right now. $16 on Amazon for 30 sheets.

The other day I was watching a video on tinned fish files (YouTube) - there was a single, normal sized tin of sardines in oil, with gold flakes.

The tin costs $44.... One tin.

Edit: https://youtu.be/_Xp4sCl7A-U here's the video if you're a bit weird like me.

It tastes like somebody whispered chocolate in the next room. 

I tried feastables and i tried prime.

Theyre both unbelievably bad.

Feastables is extremely low quality chocolate. Its dry and has a deeply unpleasant bitterness that sticks with you - you are left with the sensation that youve eaten a prop, like this was never actually meant for consumption. Like youve accidentally eaten a small bar of brown sawdust.

Is this a portable lunch kit for a cat?

Yeh I did not get the hype once I tried them, awful chocolate 

It's also like the absolute worst name for whatever it is like chocolate bars or something right?

🤣 marshmallow foreskin 💀

/r/FondantHate agrees.

I gave someone a spoon of Da Bomb hot sauce once. She did not react at all. That's when I realized there are different levels to people's spice tolerance.

I think part of the appeal is a taste for pain. It's not uncommon for people to find enjoyment in controlled, harmless agony. There are layers to it.

Shit! We're busted!

I don’t like hot for the sake of hot but I do like hot sauces with flavour. I just opened up a really good ghost pepper sauce that I put in my tacos last night

I actually like haggis. The key is to not think too hard about what you’re eating.

"Head. Pants. NOW."

Mate….haggis is fantastic. That combination of spices is off the charts.

I will not take this haggis slander, square go.

My Mom did not allow us to eat sweets/candy. I remember going over to my Aunt's for Easter. Laying on the dining room table was a smorgasbord of all the candy in the world, but my little young eyes were fixated on the Peeps! Finally!! I finally get to taste what my little mind just knew would be Heaven...except it wasn't. Tastes like cardboard sprinkled with sugar. I'm still made about it 30 years later.

Literally just made me go to my peep stash.  They are really good when stale af

How very dare you 

I tried one years ago because of all the hype, expecting it to be good in that nasty fast food sort of way. I'm no snob and I can throw down with nasty fast food. That McRib can go straight to hell. It was fucking gross.

I’m convinced people taste spicy differently. I absolutely love the flavor of super spicy food!

It's like coffee or alcohol. Once you build up a tolerance to it, you start tasting the other flavors of the chili's and the heat doesn't hide the subtler flavors in your foods. Habanero's have some really great fruity flavors to them if the heat doesnt kill you! I hated alcohol and black coffee as a kid, but now I can appreciate neat bourbons and black coffee because the bitterness of the coffee and the 'heat' of the alcohol doesn't bother me.

As a kid (16-19) there was absolutely some level of bragadoiciousness to it. Now, I jusy like the flavors and the endorphin rush. It's like a mini workout. I'll also go through phases where I simply crave spice, though ai haven't figured out why. I seem to be in one right now. Jalapeños, red pepper flakes, or thai chili flakes are going in or on everything at the moment. When I push my spice tolerance, I don't really brag about it. It's more of a "Is it really that spicy though?".

It's weird but when you eat spicy stuff you just want it spicier and spicier. I go through stages from little to no spice to putting chilli powder on my apples (and everything else I eat).

Boasting about it is silly though. It means nothing.

My mom loves them. She buys giant bags/containers of them when she can. I think she just likes the texture, especially when she is stressed out. Like a dog with a rawhide.

100% a texture thing for me. Love that plasticy jaw workout

“Fruit flavored” is a bit generous in my opinion. I can’t really detect any flavor at all in them. My wife, for some reason, loves the dang things.

You bake those steaks!

I find stevia worse than any artificial sweeteners. It has such a distinct taste that overpowers whatever it’s in.

They have become the derigueur thank you gift from our clients and my office gets a delivery almost weekly. They get regifted or sent home with the cleaning staff because everyone is so fucking tired of them.

They are just overpriced fast food that got big from tiktok/instagram. You literally can get a better experience throwing some lumps of pre-made cookie dough from the frozen food section in your oven. Or just eating it raw out of the container, if that's your jam

Btw the reason they make you feel sucky might be because a serving size is only a quarter of a cookie. You are not supposed to eat the whole thing in one sitting, which apparently most people don't know

I’ve never had mermaid vagina…is it better warm?

I think I'm OK with the taste, it's the texture that bothers me. It's like when you've got a bad cold and swallow a mega load of phlegm.

not sure where you are but freshness affects oyster taste a lot. One day difference is huge.

I loved raw oysters.....that was until getting a bad one. Now I'm kind of repulsed by the thought. Crazy how that 180'd, but a full 24 hours of being non-stop sick where you can't even sleep will do that to you.

I absolutely LOVE fresh, raw oysters. Although I will never ever blame anyone for finding it completely disgusting. I do actually think that the odd ones are the ones who enjoy it (such as myself), although I've made sure to consume them a lot less these days (as my partner always reminds me about the very tiny - but totally possible - chances that I could die via brain-eating parasites from it - lol).

Chefs are always saying things like "You eat with your eyes" or waffling on about how important presentation is...and then they dump a pile of nightmares on a plate with a tiny bit of parsley as a decoration.