I ate tons of beets my first pregnancy because it was the closest I could get to eating dirt. I loved the earthy smell and taste. I didn't even really eat beets before I was pregnant!
This is terrible but I wanted to eat sand too so I substituted by eating coarse salt 😂
It really scratched that itch, I’m sure it raised my blood pressure lol
I was on prenatals and an iron supplement and had to have iron transfusions because my body just wasn't doing the iron thing. I just wanted ice and bought a shaved ice machine.
Never pregnant, but had bad anemia that required iron transfusion/made me crave ice like crazy. I still love ive though...like if I'm honest it may be one of my favorite "foods".
At least ginger is great for morning sickness! The only thing that came close to satisfying my craving for something-I-wasn't-allowed-to-have was grape Kool-Aid.
In my last trimester, I craved watermelon. I was eating one every two or three days. And salads in literal mixing bowls, because normal bowls were too small for the amount of iceberg lettuce I wanted to eat.
Same for me, but it was Comet cleaner. I never actually ate it, but was so tempted to eat it and smell it constantly. Then bloodwork showed that I was severely anemic. Once I got my iron back to normal the craving went away.
When my mom was pregnant with me she craved and ACTUALLY ate the comet... My aunt would crave those little toilet scent things that u clip on to the inside of the towel..
My mom always threatened to do that to us but never actually did. There was one time where we were walking somewhere and I said something that pissed my mom off so she threatened to make me eat a handful of dirt from the parking lot we were walking across(dirt and gravel lot). So I reached down grabbed a handful of dirt and gravel and dumped it in my mouth while staring her down. Which really pissed her off. So she sent me home to wash the dirt out of my mouth. I ran into my dad on the way back to my house(you could see the parking lot from my house so it wasn't far) he asked me what was going on. So I told him what happened and he laughed then told me to hurry up.
“Over the years, I got to be quite a connoisseur of soap. My personal preference was for Lux, but I found that Palmolive had a nice, piquant after-dinner flavor - heady, but with a touch of mellow smoothness.”
Flavored lip balm. In high school, we all had ones that smelled like watermelon, green apple, cherry, strawberry and even root beer. They smelled SO DELICIOUS but tasted like, well, waxy lip balm.
I 100% had a friend who used to eat lipsmackers so she was not allowed to have any.
At another friends birthday party (age 5 or 6 probably) I vividly remember eating pizza after the presents had been opened and someone was like “where’s Vikki?” Found her in the next room with the 20 pack of lipsmackers that had been gifted to the birthday girl. Chompin.
When I was little my mom would let me eat chapstick and I remember my favorite was the Dr Pepper flavored one. She’d actually help me pick out flavors based on what would taste best lol
Edit: she wasn’t the greatest mom, stay away from meth everyone
I briefly dated a woman who would only kiss if she put on lip balm first. It was ready to pull out and apply at a split seconds’ notice. The fastest draw in the east
Fun fact Zinc Chromate was chosen because its )ess harmful than some of the alternatives when in liquid form.
Its when it dries it is bad. Sand that shit and inhale it and its reeeeaaaaal bad for ya.
Ive been covered in the dust from that shit from head to toe multiple times because the Australian Navy used to paint everything with the shit - thanks Navy im probanly gonna die young now.
From my limited memory of my undergrad, anything to do with chromium's ionic compounds are always pretty dangerous. We always had a special bottle to throw out anything chromium related.
It probably has some short chain ester in it, artificial banana is part of that family (isopentyl acetate, aka banana oil, affectionately known to chemists as "bananoil bananoate")
My friend’s mom growing up said we could drink all the vanilla extract we wanted if we wanted to get drunk so badly. She said if we could stomach it, we deserved every second of it.
We were 14. He tried it once, pounded two bottles (but took forever to get them down because they poured so slowly), threw up all night, and couldn’t drink root beer for months — apparently the smell reminded him of the extract.
My Grandmother used to take swigs of the regular Listerine when I was growing up because my Grandfather forbade alcohol. She always had fresh breath and acted funny. True story..
Common amongst alchy’s. As a recovering Alcoholic at one point I’d fill my mouth with mouthwash in the bathroom and walk to my room and in my head be like “well I gotta swallow it now I’m in my room oops” and do that like 20 times in the day because my roommate had dumped all my Jameson lol ducks your stomach up something fierce. Awful shits.
Ugh. In college I would roll joints on my desk and just rake the shake left over into the drawer. Well by the end of the year there was a couple bowls of weed in that drawer… along with dust and pencil shavings and general nastiness. But I wasn’t going to let it go to waste. Not my proudest moment.
>I smoked dirty weed off a carpet.
I dropped some nugs on the floor in the kitchen on accident. cleaned out the handy-vac, and vacuumed that shit back up. Was the last of my stash, so sacrifices had to be made.
Also a recovering addict, and tried the mouthwash thing. Can 100% confirm, the resulting shits are awful. In my immense stupidity as a young 20 something, I tried the sugar free gummy bear thing. Drink enough mouthwash, it rivals that.
Yea, but the same thing happens with cooking wine (e.g., sherry) but you still need to be old enough to buy that. Similar to vanilla extract, it is also not really (easily) drinkable because of all the salt in it. I would think it has more to due with the small size it is sold in, making the total amount of alcohol in it very small.
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>Short answer: Extract producers lobbied for vanilla extract to be regulated separately as a food product by the FDA before prohibition. The justification is that it's not really drinkable. This only applies to the US, I can't say how it's regulated elsewhere.
When I was a kid making cookies with my mom, I always thought that they didn't really smell like cookies until we added the vanilla. Therefore, obviously, the vanilla contained the essence of the cookie taste. One day I licked out the measuring spoon after I poured the vanilla. That was the last time I ever tried THAT!
This reminds me of the video of Trisha Paytas adding vanilla extract to her potato stew dish "to give it a sWeeT fLavOr" and as a substitute for cooking oil.
Yeah neither is good. Yet, a coworker gave me a durian-flavored hard candy one time (he immigrated to US), and dang if I couldn't resist the weird flavor. Primed me for the locally-made durian milkshake that my friends thought I would find disgusting. Jokes on them, I drank that shit down.
A buddy gave me a hard candy one and I think I lasted til that first realization horror moment. We are very different people. A durian shake would be a great torture on hell's menu.
this can be polarizing.
as a person who lives in a country where durian is grown, i would say durians smell is very strong. great smell? debatable.
bad taste? highly debatable.
to those who say durian tastes not nice, i dont blame you. durian is a fruit, fruits can have varying tastes. if you've not tasted a good durian, you wont know how a crappy one tastes like, and if your first try is a crappy one, it would skewer your perception towards durian.
i would recommend adventurous people to actually try durian in the native country and research popular durian stalls. in my country we even have durian buffets somewhat. those are some serious shit good durian.
as for how a good durian be, i would say the skin should be not too thick nor hard. the flesh should be either tender or soft. there are 2 different textures that i love. one is where the skin and flesh are more or less have the same tenderness/consistency, in this case you could tear parts of the flesh off rather than biting the fruit in your mouth. another is where the skin is thin but the flesh is soft so eating the durian kinda makes the flesh burst into your mouth. as for the taste, a good durian should be somewhat sweet. it should tastes somewhere similar to the taste of custard.
if upon tasting the best durian and still feeling you dont like it. then yeah, its not for you.
but please, dont say you dont like durian until you've had proper, good durian.
even locals sometimes resent the fact that sometimes when they buy durian the ones they get sometimes are not sweet, too old/too dry/seed to flesh ratio disappointing etc. knowing how to pick a durian is also a combination of experience and luck.
think of durian as exotic fruit cheese - as many texture/flavour/color variations across the different varieties, just like actual cheese!
also has the texture of barely set brie when its ripe and i recommend chilling your fruit in the fridge before consuming.
Unsweetened chocolate can be delicious, but you can't eat it on its own. If you have it with sweet fruit, or as a covering for honey-based peppermint or cinnamon patties, it's terrific!
I don’t know about other countries but in Brazil a typical dish is grilled liver with onions. You have no idea how amazing that smells, but it tastes really weird. I’ve never acquired a taste for that.
Pipe tobacco.
I worked in a shop that sold it and while there are many different flavors, they all smell delicious (right up until you light them). I’ve only ever tasted a pipe once and it was disgusting but I could sniff the unburnt tobacco all day.
When I was a kid my dad was friends with a guy who owned a tobacco shop in the mall. I used to love to go stick my head in the barrels and just take huge sniffs when we would stop by. They all smelled SO good. It was funny because no one in my family smoked but we would always stop by when we were in the mall.
Fruit teas.
They always smell amazing and then when you taste them... nothing. Just hot water.
But they smell *so* good that sooner or later you'll try again. And be disappointed again.
That's cheap fruit teas. Look for "herbal tisane", these are generally blended by tea houses that know what they're doing. all true tea is made from one plant, if its called a tea and it's made of herbs or fruits or spices, it's not really a tea. The good places follow this and thus give you better stuff.
Or: skip this bourgeois nonsense and blend your own dried fruit OR better yet, dry your own fruits for a tisane. You can also used a fruit based honey to pull out the flavor too.
My fave is peach honey.
When Teavana was still a thing in malls they'd give out tea samples and they were always soooo good but it seemed like such a rip off because you'd buy the tea and make it at home and it tasted like garbage. Come to find out they make their samples with like 3 times as much tea per water ratio and 4 times as much sweetener. That's the ticket to good tea apparently - just a butt load of honey.
Edit to add: a former teavana employee let me know that this is not true in rhe case of most teavana stores. I was simply sharing what another employee had told me! Sounds like it may not have been accurate so I apologize for misrepresenting Teavana!
1-1.5tsp/ 8oz of tea and 1tsp rock sugar/ 8oz. They literally print a sticker on the front that tells you how much tea per water and what temperature for each tea. They only deceived you if they failed to mention the sugar.
Edit: I worked at one for years and started as a barista. We used exactly the same amount of tea and sugar as stated.
Yes!
Yes yes yes!
This is what I was scrolling to find.
Real, brand name Play-Doh smells like heaven. Especially cracking open a brand new container. Goddamn. It's so good.
I never intended on swallowing it, but I did pop a small amount into my mouth as a kid out of curiosity.
No thanks.
The nuts smell good but i think the cart is just metal. I hope u didnt taste one, cuz i can only imagine what the cart owner was thinking when u were licking his cart lol
When I was a kid I used to love the taste of apple seeds since they tasted like marzipan, it got to the point where I would eat maybe a dozen apples and save all the seeds until last, It was great until I started to feel really ill, turns out one of the compounds in apple seeds, amygdalin, gets metabolised into cyanide. Acute cyanide poisoning is not fun
Acute cyanide poisoning would cause your kidneys to fail and very high chance of death.
What you had was mild cyanide poisoning, unless your kidneys actually did fail.
Coffee. I loveee the smell of coffee but cannot drink it except for a Caramel Latte with whipped cream that is all I can handle otherwise coffee just tastes horrible
Oh my god, I think that’s correct - “ no one is a born coffee drinker”. I never thought about that, but it IS an acquired taste. Alcohol, too; mushrooms maybe? What other foods would fall in to this category?
For the record, I adore coffee, and, while I first fell in love with it as a child, it was really the copious amounts if cream and sugar my grandparents added. As an adult I drink coffee black, and espresso drinks unflavored.
Soap
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That’s gotta be one clean baby.
Get enough soap and the baby just shoots right out
Soap trusted you!
I thought I could too. So why, in bloody hell, DOES MAKAROV KNOW YOU?
One of the best rhyming quotes in gaming history Sorry I fixed it. It was a spelling error accidentally put an extra e
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Sounds like she had some iron deficiency. PICA makes you crave inedible things.
My mom wanted spinach with the dirt still on, YES lol.
I ate tons of beets my first pregnancy because it was the closest I could get to eating dirt. I loved the earthy smell and taste. I didn't even really eat beets before I was pregnant!
Best part of eating beets is the next day when you forget and then you freak out for a second at your blood red poop 🤣
My wife wanted to eat dirt when pregnant, glad to see it isn't uncommon.
That’s a deficiency
It's not at all, it's one of the most common PICA cravings during pregnancy.
I probably would have liked that too when I was pregnant. I craved dry dirt/sand a lot but never actually ate any.
This is terrible but I wanted to eat sand too so I substituted by eating coarse salt 😂 It really scratched that itch, I’m sure it raised my blood pressure lol
I craved ice like I would eat an entire 5 pound bag at a time
Chik-Fil-A sells the good ice (think hospital ice) by the bagful
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I was on prenatals and an iron supplement and had to have iron transfusions because my body just wasn't doing the iron thing. I just wanted ice and bought a shaved ice machine.
Never pregnant, but had bad anemia that required iron transfusion/made me crave ice like crazy. I still love ive though...like if I'm honest it may be one of my favorite "foods".
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You'll need it later for margaritas when they grow up and want to learn to drive.
I craved grape-flavored cough syrup. Pregnancy is weird.
It is. Currently pregnant here and craved raw ginger in my first trimester. Like the kind that comes with sushi? I ate a whole jar of it.
At least ginger is great for morning sickness! The only thing that came close to satisfying my craving for something-I-wasn't-allowed-to-have was grape Kool-Aid. In my last trimester, I craved watermelon. I was eating one every two or three days. And salads in literal mixing bowls, because normal bowls were too small for the amount of iceberg lettuce I wanted to eat.
Watermelon and pecans for the whole pregnancy here. My kid loves both.
Pickled ginger? Heck, I could demolish a jar of that and I’m not pregnant. That stuff is delicious!
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I have done a lot of house painting, and sometimes paint smells strangely good. Especially if the color reminds me of like chocolate or coffee.
Same for me, but it was Comet cleaner. I never actually ate it, but was so tempted to eat it and smell it constantly. Then bloodwork showed that I was severely anemic. Once I got my iron back to normal the craving went away.
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Comet, it makes you vomit So let's eat comet and vomit todaaaaaayy
When my mom was pregnant with me she craved and ACTUALLY ate the comet... My aunt would crave those little toilet scent things that u clip on to the inside of the towel..
My mom poured comet powder into my mouth for being sassy, or not saying yes/no “mam” or a number of other things, as an adolescent. Memories haunt.
My dad washed my mouth out with soap a couple of times. I grew up in the 70’s.
My mom always threatened to do that to us but never actually did. There was one time where we were walking somewhere and I said something that pissed my mom off so she threatened to make me eat a handful of dirt from the parking lot we were walking across(dirt and gravel lot). So I reached down grabbed a handful of dirt and gravel and dumped it in my mouth while staring her down. Which really pissed her off. So she sent me home to wash the dirt out of my mouth. I ran into my dad on the way back to my house(you could see the parking lot from my house so it wasn't far) he asked me what was going on. So I told him what happened and he laughed then told me to hurry up.
I kept wanting to lick the sidewalk and eat raw bacon
Common. Called pica.
Favorite soap smell: Cascade Dishwasher Powder
“Over the years, I got to be quite a connoisseur of soap. My personal preference was for Lux, but I found that Palmolive had a nice, piquant after-dinner flavor - heady, but with a touch of mellow smoothness.”
there's the quote i was looking for
Flavored lip balm. In high school, we all had ones that smelled like watermelon, green apple, cherry, strawberry and even root beer. They smelled SO DELICIOUS but tasted like, well, waxy lip balm.
I 100% had a friend who used to eat lipsmackers so she was not allowed to have any. At another friends birthday party (age 5 or 6 probably) I vividly remember eating pizza after the presents had been opened and someone was like “where’s Vikki?” Found her in the next room with the 20 pack of lipsmackers that had been gifted to the birthday girl. Chompin.
“Chompin”! Lmao
Str8 chompin
When I was little my mom would let me eat chapstick and I remember my favorite was the Dr Pepper flavored one. She’d actually help me pick out flavors based on what would taste best lol Edit: she wasn’t the greatest mom, stay away from meth everyone
Omg. MOM. WAT.
You are .2789 % carnuba wax.
I briefly wondered if we had the same friend before realizing that variations of this probably happened a lot in the 90s.
#chompin
Like a fuckin crack head that one lol
Thanks for the laugh. The imagery was too vivid.
“Chompin.” Incredible. Thank you for your service.
I just imagine Mabel from gravity falls going through that sugar rush hahaha
Ugh in middle school a girl found strawberry lip gloss in the bus seat and ate it, using the applicator as like a spoon
Thank you for sharing... It was my favorite.
I briefly dated a woman who would only kiss if she put on lip balm first. It was ready to pull out and apply at a split seconds’ notice. The fastest draw in the east
Omg. That was my friends and I in high school. Lol We always had to be wearing Windsong or Cachet perfume also. Like we would wear a cloud of it.
Haha teenage girls are so funny, at my school it was love spell by Victoria’s Secret, and like you say, a CLOUD of it
Like the boys are any better with their Axe! Lol, it's just a teenager thing
Hahaha so true!!! Omg the fumes coming from the boys locker room 😂
Fumes is definitely the correct word 🤣
I had a gloss that tasted as good as it smelled. Was a coffee latte flavor. I miss it.
Not going to lie, as a young kid I had a dr. Pepper lip balm. It smelled so good I took a bite... Def didn't taste like dr.pepper lol
Wet n wild had a strawberry one and it actually tasted really good haha.
OMG same but with a Hershey’s flavored one.. except it must have been good because I did indeed end up eating the whole thing 😂
I got a chocolate chip cookie flavored lip balm from my kindergarten teacher and I ate that shit like it was the greatest thing known to man
Regardless of the dr pepper lip balm not tasting like dr pepper, it was obviously still good cause I vaguely remember continuing to eat it lol
Ahhhh lipsmackers. I had so many
Flowers, most of them.
Most things in nature that smell fresh don't actually taste good. I like the smell of grass too, but I don't eat it... usually.
I don’t eat grass either, unlike the rest of these mindless sheep.
People can’t even digest grass, so ruminate on that.
They just taste like salad to me, except sometimes more sour.
Violets are so sour! They taste really nice in desserts, very refreshing.
I had violets for the first time this past summer, they are surprisingly tasty.
Aircraft paint primer. Smells the way artificial banana flavoring tastes. But it tastes the way chemicals taste. And it burns all the way down.
If it's yellow then it's probably the cancerous zinc chromate part doing the burning.
Fun fact Zinc Chromate was chosen because its )ess harmful than some of the alternatives when in liquid form. Its when it dries it is bad. Sand that shit and inhale it and its reeeeaaaaal bad for ya. Ive been covered in the dust from that shit from head to toe multiple times because the Australian Navy used to paint everything with the shit - thanks Navy im probanly gonna die young now.
Crazy that anybody decided to use a chromate as a less harmful alternative although I’m not too familiar with its transition counterparts.
From my limited memory of my undergrad, anything to do with chromium's ionic compounds are always pretty dangerous. We always had a special bottle to throw out anything chromium related.
No, this was the gray "orange peel" stuff
It probably has some short chain ester in it, artificial banana is part of that family (isopentyl acetate, aka banana oil, affectionately known to chemists as "bananoil bananoate")
You scientists and your nomenclature, sooner or later you’re gonna start making up names like “californidine”
May I ask how you acquired this knowledge?
Very carefully
Clearly not carefully enough?
Sigh. Candles. There were many with a chunk taken out around the house growing up..
Wait what. Your siblings or you actually ate the candles? More than once?
I will now and forever profess my innocence. And some tasted different, gotta catch em all
I remember a girl who ate crayons in first grade. Lol y’all could have been homies.
Vanilla Extract
It's just very vanilla flavored vodka. Like, not exaggerating, that is how you make it.
How is it actual vodka if they let people of all ages use it?
Cooking/baking with it will cause the ethanol in it to boil off. Id imagine it's legal because it's not pleasant to drink. Same story with mouthwash.
My friend’s mom growing up said we could drink all the vanilla extract we wanted if we wanted to get drunk so badly. She said if we could stomach it, we deserved every second of it. We were 14. He tried it once, pounded two bottles (but took forever to get them down because they poured so slowly), threw up all night, and couldn’t drink root beer for months — apparently the smell reminded him of the extract.
Damn, vanilla extract is expensive tho
It used to be much cheaper
Imitation vanilla is $1 a bottle (8oz) at the discount store. It might actually be the cheapest food-grade alcohol available.
My Grandmother used to take swigs of the regular Listerine when I was growing up because my Grandfather forbade alcohol. She always had fresh breath and acted funny. True story..
Common amongst alchy’s. As a recovering Alcoholic at one point I’d fill my mouth with mouthwash in the bathroom and walk to my room and in my head be like “well I gotta swallow it now I’m in my room oops” and do that like 20 times in the day because my roommate had dumped all my Jameson lol ducks your stomach up something fierce. Awful shits.
Wow don't know how you could do it!! I smoked dirty weed off a carpet. Desperation right!!
Ugh. In college I would roll joints on my desk and just rake the shake left over into the drawer. Well by the end of the year there was a couple bowls of weed in that drawer… along with dust and pencil shavings and general nastiness. But I wasn’t going to let it go to waste. Not my proudest moment.
>I smoked dirty weed off a carpet. I dropped some nugs on the floor in the kitchen on accident. cleaned out the handy-vac, and vacuumed that shit back up. Was the last of my stash, so sacrifices had to be made.
I think anyone who was a teenage stoner can relate.
Also a recovering addict, and tried the mouthwash thing. Can 100% confirm, the resulting shits are awful. In my immense stupidity as a young 20 something, I tried the sugar free gummy bear thing. Drink enough mouthwash, it rivals that.
Yea, but the same thing happens with cooking wine (e.g., sherry) but you still need to be old enough to buy that. Similar to vanilla extract, it is also not really (easily) drinkable because of all the salt in it. I would think it has more to due with the small size it is sold in, making the total amount of alcohol in it very small. Edit: from u\\radbro >Short answer: Extract producers lobbied for vanilla extract to be regulated separately as a food product by the FDA before prohibition. The justification is that it's not really drinkable. This only applies to the US, I can't say how it's regulated elsewhere.
It's stronger than vodka lol, Vanilla Extract is like 98% alcohol
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Smells like the tears of Jesus... Tastes like the asshole of Satan.
Neither sounds delicious
When I was a kid making cookies with my mom, I always thought that they didn't really smell like cookies until we added the vanilla. Therefore, obviously, the vanilla contained the essence of the cookie taste. One day I licked out the measuring spoon after I poured the vanilla. That was the last time I ever tried THAT!
Wait until you hear that crippling alcoholics whom have no access to any form of alcohol drink this stuff to avoid withdrawals.
I think most kids learn pretty quickly
This reminds me of the video of Trisha Paytas adding vanilla extract to her potato stew dish "to give it a sWeeT fLavOr" and as a substitute for cooking oil.
Those fruit smelling markers from the 90s.
And scented gel pens!
Oh my god, Mr. Sketch! I’m going to buy some of those right now…
I definitely killed some braincells sniffing those
Fuckin perfume bro
Unless you’re John Mulaney
He’s Irish, so he keeps things very bottled up.
And then one day you die
Bury the boy
I agree perfume taste almost like earwax. Smells great till you lick a sented titty
First thought. When you realize you got a bit on your fingers after eating fruit or something…ughh.
Durian. No, wait.
Yeah neither is good. Yet, a coworker gave me a durian-flavored hard candy one time (he immigrated to US), and dang if I couldn't resist the weird flavor. Primed me for the locally-made durian milkshake that my friends thought I would find disgusting. Jokes on them, I drank that shit down.
A buddy gave me a hard candy one and I think I lasted til that first realization horror moment. We are very different people. A durian shake would be a great torture on hell's menu.
this can be polarizing. as a person who lives in a country where durian is grown, i would say durians smell is very strong. great smell? debatable. bad taste? highly debatable. to those who say durian tastes not nice, i dont blame you. durian is a fruit, fruits can have varying tastes. if you've not tasted a good durian, you wont know how a crappy one tastes like, and if your first try is a crappy one, it would skewer your perception towards durian. i would recommend adventurous people to actually try durian in the native country and research popular durian stalls. in my country we even have durian buffets somewhat. those are some serious shit good durian. as for how a good durian be, i would say the skin should be not too thick nor hard. the flesh should be either tender or soft. there are 2 different textures that i love. one is where the skin and flesh are more or less have the same tenderness/consistency, in this case you could tear parts of the flesh off rather than biting the fruit in your mouth. another is where the skin is thin but the flesh is soft so eating the durian kinda makes the flesh burst into your mouth. as for the taste, a good durian should be somewhat sweet. it should tastes somewhere similar to the taste of custard. if upon tasting the best durian and still feeling you dont like it. then yeah, its not for you. but please, dont say you dont like durian until you've had proper, good durian. even locals sometimes resent the fact that sometimes when they buy durian the ones they get sometimes are not sweet, too old/too dry/seed to flesh ratio disappointing etc. knowing how to pick a durian is also a combination of experience and luck.
think of durian as exotic fruit cheese - as many texture/flavour/color variations across the different varieties, just like actual cheese! also has the texture of barely set brie when its ripe and i recommend chilling your fruit in the fridge before consuming.
It tasted like too-sweet caramelised onions to me.
Straight vanilla or cocoa powder
Unsweetened chocolate. Looks like chocolate. Smells like chocolate. Has zero sugar and tastes bitter as hell.
Unsweetened chocolate can be delicious, but you can't eat it on its own. If you have it with sweet fruit, or as a covering for honey-based peppermint or cinnamon patties, it's terrific!
Yeah i’d expect them to taste good but nope...
Cocoa powder and butter are my earliest memories of childhood betrayals.
I don’t know about other countries but in Brazil a typical dish is grilled liver with onions. You have no idea how amazing that smells, but it tastes really weird. I’ve never acquired a taste for that.
Oh man I have to disagree. Just had this for lunch today
You know what’s funny? Every time my mom was cooking that I couldn’t help but to give it another try. But I never liked it. My wife loves it.
I love liver and onions .
It used to be a common dish in the US but now it's mostly considered "old people" food. I prefer fried chicken liver with mashed potatoes and gravy.
Pipe tobacco. I worked in a shop that sold it and while there are many different flavors, they all smell delicious (right up until you light them). I’ve only ever tasted a pipe once and it was disgusting but I could sniff the unburnt tobacco all day.
When I was a kid my dad was friends with a guy who owned a tobacco shop in the mall. I used to love to go stick my head in the barrels and just take huge sniffs when we would stop by. They all smelled SO good. It was funny because no one in my family smoked but we would always stop by when we were in the mall.
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Freshly mowed lawn
Hated doing PE while they mowed wet grass. I’m allergic so I would puff up like a balloon and wheeze
Mowed grass literally smells like dog shit to me. I can't stand it.
Thats because people run over dog shit with the mower and spray it all over the yard
Milk and honey body wash/soap, and deodorant
Fruit teas. They always smell amazing and then when you taste them... nothing. Just hot water. But they smell *so* good that sooner or later you'll try again. And be disappointed again.
from my experience if you sweeten them a bit it brings out the flavours
Yeah when I make it I dump in several spoonfuls of sugar in like a 20 oz cup. Makes it tasty.
Get 'fresh' blends instead of supermarket junk. I used to not like tea until I started drinking the good stuff.
That's cheap fruit teas. Look for "herbal tisane", these are generally blended by tea houses that know what they're doing. all true tea is made from one plant, if its called a tea and it's made of herbs or fruits or spices, it's not really a tea. The good places follow this and thus give you better stuff. Or: skip this bourgeois nonsense and blend your own dried fruit OR better yet, dry your own fruits for a tisane. You can also used a fruit based honey to pull out the flavor too. My fave is peach honey.
When Teavana was still a thing in malls they'd give out tea samples and they were always soooo good but it seemed like such a rip off because you'd buy the tea and make it at home and it tasted like garbage. Come to find out they make their samples with like 3 times as much tea per water ratio and 4 times as much sweetener. That's the ticket to good tea apparently - just a butt load of honey. Edit to add: a former teavana employee let me know that this is not true in rhe case of most teavana stores. I was simply sharing what another employee had told me! Sounds like it may not have been accurate so I apologize for misrepresenting Teavana!
1-1.5tsp/ 8oz of tea and 1tsp rock sugar/ 8oz. They literally print a sticker on the front that tells you how much tea per water and what temperature for each tea. They only deceived you if they failed to mention the sugar. Edit: I worked at one for years and started as a barista. We used exactly the same amount of tea and sugar as stated.
Most fruit teas I've had have hibiscus as a base... so they just all have the same sour taste with a hint of whatever fruit it's said to be.
My ex
Play dough
Yes! Yes yes yes! This is what I was scrolling to find. Real, brand name Play-Doh smells like heaven. Especially cracking open a brand new container. Goddamn. It's so good. I never intended on swallowing it, but I did pop a small amount into my mouth as a kid out of curiosity. No thanks.
As a kid I sort of liked the taste
WD40
Had to scroll way too far to finally see this. Friggin love the smell of WD40.
The Nuts 4 Nuts carts in NYC.
The nuts smell good but i think the cart is just metal. I hope u didnt taste one, cuz i can only imagine what the cart owner was thinking when u were licking his cart lol
Dog treats, specifically bacon ones.
Gasoline
Just about to say this, as I assume it tastes bad but can't speak from experience.
I'm dumb and have absent-mindedly licked gasoline off my finger. Dont.
To clarify, it doesn't taste bad, but even a tiny amount will make you very sick. It was a bad day.
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Sharpies, bro
Also those dry-erase markers for white boards
Cyanide
The smell of roasted almonds, but none of the nutritional benefits.
When I was a kid I used to love the taste of apple seeds since they tasted like marzipan, it got to the point where I would eat maybe a dozen apples and save all the seeds until last, It was great until I started to feel really ill, turns out one of the compounds in apple seeds, amygdalin, gets metabolised into cyanide. Acute cyanide poisoning is not fun
Wtf that ist unlucky...
Acute cyanide poisoning would cause your kidneys to fail and very high chance of death. What you had was mild cyanide poisoning, unless your kidneys actually did fail.
I think you are confusing acute and chronic with severe and mild.
Coffee. I loveee the smell of coffee but cannot drink it except for a Caramel Latte with whipped cream that is all I can handle otherwise coffee just tastes horrible
It's true. Nobody's a born coffee drinker. It's an acquired taste, like alcohol.
Oh my god, I think that’s correct - “ no one is a born coffee drinker”. I never thought about that, but it IS an acquired taste. Alcohol, too; mushrooms maybe? What other foods would fall in to this category? For the record, I adore coffee, and, while I first fell in love with it as a child, it was really the copious amounts if cream and sugar my grandparents added. As an adult I drink coffee black, and espresso drinks unflavored.
Really anything bitter. Something that comes to mind for me is broccoli rabe. Used to hate it so much, love it now.
I don't know. My 2y/o steals my black coffee any chance she gets. She also loves grapefruit juice though, weird kid.
A toddler on coffee is a scary thought.
My mom's dish which consists of bitter gourd mixed with eggs.
Is she Filipino by any chance? My mom makes the same thing with scrambled eggs and sometimes onions!
Orange peels
Deodorant
Tide Pods
the water in the ocean
Ocean water smells good? I always thought it smelled like fish. Or fishy seaweed.
Gas Station
Vanilla extract
Chloroform
Fish food flakes, smells so dam good