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.
Slugs.
It looks like those lungs they put on cigarette packs
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.
This is the most fun I've had reading text so far today, it's like I was transported to another time and place without leaving the comfort of my own couch.
Cilantro toothpaste. I like the other flavours this company has but this one is awful.
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 :-(
Salty liquorice ice cream, probably.
It's not a weird taste to me but I'd imagine the vast majority of non-Finnish people would absolutely hate it.
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.
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.
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.
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:
I didn't actually try an of these. Found them in a random store near the beach in Florida
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.
I used to work in a bar. Somebody ordered a Malibu (coconut liqueur) with tonic water. I tasted some out of curiosity. It was weird, but not in a good way.
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!"
One of those Harry Potter jelly beans that tastes like snot.
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.
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.
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?
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.
Grilled cheese and tomato soup flavored cheese curls. It was pretty spot on.
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.
They taste like coke mixed with perfume. Just because something smells good, doesn't mean it will taste good.
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.
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.
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 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.
Tuna melt with peanut butter. It was really good and I've never had it again.
Garlic ice cream?
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
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.
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!
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