Was it good?
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.
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
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.
Durian is good. You can buy one easily in Vietnam, and cheap.
Cilantro toothpaste. I like the other flavours this company has but this one is awful.
Tastes like soap I am guessing
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?
I’m not one of the people that tastes cilantro like soap, but I still find it disgusting.
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
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.
Does it taste like actual licorice or store brand licorice ?
I don’t know what the difference is. Liquorice and salty liquorice are similar but separate products.
I once met a Finnish and he gave me something like (salty?) liqorice candy. It was basically black jelly, shaped like small hockey puck. Pretty good.
Did it get stuck to your teeth when you tried biting it? May have been a Merkkari
It is possible. It’s been some time, though, so can’t be 100% sure.
Love that shit! But I’m finish-adjacent. Sweden.
There is an ice cream company in the state of Montana, USA, that has liquorice ice cream. I don’t remember if it was salty but it had food coloring that made things interesting…
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.”
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That does sound really weird. They really have bacon flavoured everything in some sense and it’s always a weird flavour
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.
Minus the coffee with OJ, the others sound good.
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.
some bizarre fermented raw pork sausage. The taste was mild but the texture was like someone ran a tire through a cheese grater and then compressed the identical shaped tire shreds into a skinny sausage.
when you bit it all these rubbery bits just sort of wriggle away from each other in your mouth . Difficult to explain. The first one was hard to get down but i did eat a second one a few weeks later
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…
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.
i’ve had the pickle flavored soda. it’s exactly like you expect and nothing more. sweet, fizzy pickle juice
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.
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!
Grilled cheese and tomato soup flavored cheese curls. It was pretty spot on.
those sound highly addictive.
Stinky tofu. Smelled like literal shit, tasted like literal shit.
…I think maybe you just offended your waiter…
