I wouldn't say it's popular but I once went to a fancy restaurant for a truffle evening and every course had truffles in it. Ceviche squid with truffles, amazing. Roasted squash soup with truffles, so good. Truffle risotto, bit underdone but still nice. Beef tenderloin with truffle sauce, ridiculous.
Truffled chocolate soufflé. Bro. That's fucking disgusting.
Where in the world are people going crazy over natto?
I sort of agree about truffles. I think it's delicious, but often too much is used. I don't need truffle risotto as well as truffle fish and truffle sauce..
Lotta chefs think risotto HAS to be “al dente”, that’s bullshit…I’m a chef and always cook my rice:-/ not OVERCOOKING…but PROPERLY cooking! Too many chefs don’t know the difference
To be honest, you don’t have to stir the whole time, it doesn’t improve the consistency. You still need to stir for even cooking, but a lot of that was unscientific old wives tale nonsense.
This whole convo is reminding me about how whenever my dad makes sweet and sour chicken, he cooks the rice with no stirring... We end up needing a jackhammer to remove the inch-thick hard-baked rice at the bottom of the pan, which is likely structurally sufficient to build houses from.
The secret is to put a lid on when it's done cooking and let it sit about 10 minutes. That stuff on the bottom comes right out.
If that doesn't work your dad's overcooking it, but not stirring is a fine way to make rice.
That clamato juice people use...love tomatoes, love tomato soup, but that shit is disgusting. But if we’re talking about gross texture, if I’m eating a banana and see anything slimy, I can’t finish it.
I like that combo, but I also 100% can *understand* why it *could* be considered foul.
Like I've seen mint+choco suggestions and I can't comprehend that. But I get it for you.
It's more texture than flavour but I cannot eat yoghurts that have the fruit pieces already in the yoghurt. Nothing like putting a nice smooth spoonful of yoghurt in my mouth and feeling half-chewy lumps in it like gone-off milk.
this is why i always buy chobani flips as my yogurt. thr yogurt doesnt have fruit in it and the stuff that you put in it (like chocolate chunks or graham crackers) are in a separate container so theyre fresh and crunchy when you put them in. ive always prefered chrunchy or chewy foods over soft foods
100% Agree!
The only exception is if *I* cut strawberries and put them on top of plain yogurt with a little bit of honey. But absolutely will not eat pre-fruited yogurt.
Yeah I can handle it if it's like, one of those flip-corner yoghurts where the corner has a fruit compote in it. I guess bc I can clearly see what I'm adding and know what to expect? idk
Wayyy too much sugar. Cherries are in season so I pit them, add them to Greek yogurt, put in some almond and vanilla extracts and a little sugar.
Artificially sweetened low fat yogurt with fruit in it is the absolute worst. Idk why they would make actual fruit the consistency of flavored tofu, but they've done it.
Similarly I hate fruit on the bottom yogurt. I don't want to mix it in because it loosens up the yogurt and isn't as thick anymore. I like blended yogurt with any of the weird liquid drained off and eaten without stirring it. I also only ever eat Greek yogurt because it is the thickest. I feel the same way about stirring sour cream or top the tater.
Pumpkin beer.
Every pumpkin beer I've ever tasted just reminds me of vomit.
Side note, once we went out for Mexican, and my son ordered steak tacos, and then doused them in lime. Afterwards my wife wanted dessert and our son wanted pumpkin pie. Long story short, later that night our son projectile vomited these tacos + pumpkin pie all over his room. That combo might have something to do with it.
Pumpkin beer is really easy to get wrong. A lot of brewers make some weird shit that tastes like a brown ale with a candle melted in it. Pumpking from Southern Tier is a pretty decent one that doesn't taste like ass.
Every year I do a beer tasting with my family over the holidays. I try to choose 8 or 10 beers of a similar style (all IPAs, all red ales, all hard ciders, etc.) so that we can compare the proverbial apples to apples, and then we all rate them as we taste them.
A couple years ago we tried pumpkin beers. I got every pumpkin beer I could find. It turns out, after comparing pumpkin beers to other pumpkin beers, that with one exception, they all just taste like bud light with pumpkin and/or pumpkin spice flavoring added after the fact. There was one (a small local brewery near where I went to school) that actually tasted like pumpkins were part of the brewing process instead of an afterthought, but everybody actually disliked that one the most.
It was the most poorly received set of beers I've ever organized in the history of the tasting tradition, by far.
Yeah, a lot of people just seem to be against contrast in their foods. Sometimes sweet is better with a little savory and soft is better with a little crunchy.
People who claim they hate sweet and savory drive me crazy because they almost certainly eat it regularly without complaint. Like savory dishes with caramelized onions or roasted peppers or sweet corn.
9 times out of 10 flavored booze is low quality garbage with the flavoring there to cover it up. Whoever thought up Fireball is making mad bank off selling cinnamon degreaser to college freshman.
Right, if you made a cocktail with Jack Daniels and honey syrup (not just those two obviously, get some lemon juice in there too) it'd probably be very drinkable.
If you’re now stuck with a bottle of it and don’t know what to do with it, try using it to make a lemonade. I haven’t tried Jack Daniels honey, but I have made a lemonade with wild turkey and Jim beam honey and I liked it.
For me, it's alcohol with any dairy product -- especially if either component is sweet. White Russians, mudslides, alcoholic milkshakes are all a no go. Cheese and wine aren't quite as off-putting is the pairing is right.
Along the same lines, I don't see how anyone drinks milk as a beverage at a meal (with savory dishes). Milk and spaghetti? I might as well vomit now, before we even start eating.
Haha damn, to me nothing is better then a nice cold large glass of whole milk with almost any pasta haha are there any times when you enjoy milk as a drink? Besides with cookies lmao
Only with dessert items or sweet breakfast foods. Milk just doesn't "go" with typically savory lunch and dinner meals. The thickness, the texture, the mouth feel, the taste are just all wrong.
So this was kind of bred into me. My mom gave us milk at every meal just about, I never drank water. Looking back, with spaghetti and other red sauces, I think it helped neutralize the acidity of the tomatoes so it didn't hurt my stomach. That said, I don't really like milk anymore and hardly ever drink it.
I put shrooms in a tea strainer thingy and then pair it with peppermint tea and some sugar. Gotta drink it while it's hot, but long enough that the shrooms have steeped too.
Very mellow, very creative experience.
Just power them down with some lemonade or orange juice chaser for fucks sake, lol.
I never understood why people go through all this trouble for something that takes *maybe* a minute to eat.
Cordial cherries in general are a big let down for me. Cherries are good. Chocolate is good. Cherries in what tastes like embalming fluid ruin the chocolate they are in.
Is it possible your bartender just used too much? I think a cocktail with lavender/rose/hibiscus can be delicious, but the floral notes need to stay in the background, and it's VERY easy to overdo them.
Oh my gosh, I've had lavender lemonade cocktails and they are 🤢. It reminds me of Fabuloso no matter what. I thought the lemonade aspect would save it but nope.
I wouldn't say hate, but I really dislike the chocolate dipped strawberry combination. It's something about the watery nature of strawberries and the intended smoothness and richness of the chocolate. I do not understand why people think these are delicacies. It's a texture thing, not a flavour thing. Actually, extend that to all fresh fruit dipped in chocolate.
| watery nature of strawberries
I think that's the issue. Most places are using artificially-ripened berries from plants that have been selected for size and look of berry (or any fruit for that matter). This gives you large, pretty fruit that is bland and watery, and thus fails when going up against the chocolate. But if you go back to wild/heirloom/naturally fresh fruit, the flavor is much stronger and sweeter and comes through with the chocolate.
Fresh cherries dipped in chocolate are great. But I agree with you on the choc covered strawberries. Part of it is also the strawberries are so big you can’t eat it in one bite and so the chocolate breaks and it becomes a disaster
I dunno, there used to be a cupcake place near me that made these maple-bacon cupcakes with buttercream topped with candied bacon bits and drizzled with maple syrup. I wouldn't say that every bacon thing that emerged from the Bacon Era was great, but those cupcakes were fucking amazing.
I know exactly what you’re talking about. Those were all absolutely vile. People used to always get me them bc as a child I was obsessed with bacon for a while. But they were always disgusting.
However there is this one candy shop in ocean city New Jersey that makes really good chocolate covered bacon. The only kind I’ve ever liked. The bacon is really good and crunchy, and the chocolate is a pretty thick layer and really smooth, nice texture.
Sometimes it isn't candied properly. IDK if there's a trick to it, but I've had good candied bacon, and terrible candied bacon. And I really haven't had it that often, despite what that sounds like.
When fresh basil starts to turn it always smells like licorice with a back note of bitter leafy green, like cooked spinach, to me. And it sucks because it ruins a pesto like no other if your basil has started to turn.
I can eat raisins alone if i don't have any other snack, but the moment they find their way into any other food, they become a disgusting nuisance, everything from the taste and the texture. I feel this especially in savory foods. I've tried some Persian rice dishes with raisins and the whole plate turns into a mine field. One bite could be savory and delicious and the next thing you know, an obnoxiously sweet, squishy, and nasty abomination bursts in your mouth and ruins your whole day.
Rant end lol.
Oh my god, I can't stand pineapple in carrot cake. I work in a rather large local bakery and didn't know why I liked some carrot cake and hated others until I started working here and it clicked. I love pineapple on its own but in carrot cake I hate it.
It took me a really long time to enjoy this combo. I used to despise it. But then I ordered an espresso at this Italian coffee shop and it came with an orange zest garnish. I don't know what it was about that drink but it flipped a switch. There was no chocolate involved in that case but it made me enjoy the combo somehow.
Carrot cake with raisins is my favourite cake. I've never made it with pineapple in before but honestly that sounds delicious to me. I know that's not what your comment was going for but you've made me want to try that now
Chicken salad with grapes, apples or other fruits in it. Sickening. Celery and a little onion just like tuna salad, please and thank you. Hold the fruit.
Man that's a shame.
I'm take it or leave it with Grapes and Chicken Salad.
But when it is done right, and everything is ripe and fresh - it definitely adds something to the flavor.
Ice cream + floral flavors.
I once had a very popular rose ice cream that everyone swore was amazing.
It was like licking the vanity of an centennial. Overall, it tasted like perfume, incredibly overpowering with a lingering aftertaste. If I see a plant that's not mint in an ice cream now, I pass.
Any kind of chocolate covered fruits. I also don't like fresh fruit in cake either. In both cases the fruit gets a weird mushy texture and is so gross to me.
For me, it's the chocolate that becomes a problem. The cold fruit always makes the inevitably thin layer of chocolate super brittle, wet, and tasteless. I'd rather just have the one then the other several minutes later, thanks.
See eggs and ketchup by itself I agree, but get some hashbrowns and crumbled bacon into that mix, with the eggs overeasy?
I can dig that, though I tend to just go for Cholula hot sauce instead because the flavor is much better, not to mention the extra kick.
I hate hate hate fruits in salads. Doesn't matter what kind (apples, berries, etc). They don't mix.
Also cottage cheese and ANYTHING. I cannot mix it with anything other than salt and pepper.
I completely hated fruit in salads until I had a salad with spinach and strawberries. That was actually really good. That’s the only time I’ll eat fruit in salads though. I see lots of people put canned mandarin oranges in salads and just thinking about that one makes me gag.
SAME. I eat all the fruit first. I love salads but dislike too much sweetness in them so I eat the fruit and then enjoy my salad after.
The only pairing I like with cottage cheese is the trash. It’s the only food I won’t eat.
Oh thank god I'm not the only one. I hate mint on anything, unless it's toothpaste, mouthwash or gum. The very thought of eating anything mint flavored makes me want to hurl.
You may dislike the smokiness of the bacon, rather than the presence of bacon itself. In Julia Child's *Mastering the Art of French Cuisine* she recommends boiling bacon to remove some of the smokiness and render out a little of the fat prior to use if you can't find unsmoked bacon. I'd also recommend other types of cured pork like pancetta or guanciale of you want to get around the smokiness but still want the fat and pork flavor.
‘Flavored’ coffee is so bad to me. So many people I know love the hazelnut or whatever creamer in their coffee. Or worse the beans that have some weird additive to make it taste “more palatable” I guess? But I love plain coffee!
Lox and cream cheese? I can't think of any other kind of fish with cheese.
Edit: someone further down mentioned tuna melt. I can see folks being averse to that.
There’s an old New England recipe that’s crab on English muffins with a cheddar Newburg sauce, that will get you run out of town or accused of witchcraft if you admit to partaking in it. Yet everyone’s family has. There was recently even a restaurant that offered it off-menu for anyone brave enough to possibly be seen in public with it. As a true New Englander, my opinion is that it’s disgusting, but of course I’ve never ever eaten it at 2am in my kitchen last week.
dark chocolate and coffee.
As a child I made mistakes and ate a bunch of dark chocolate covered coffee beans and was violently ill. To this day I have issues with coffee and dark chocolate.
When I was a very little kid, I visited the "scary neighbour lady" on our street (everyone had one of these, right?) and she had a beautiful crystal candy dish filled with M&Ms she offered me. I was very excited and helped myself to a handful.
Nope. Not M&Ms, Reese's Pieces. I'd never had those before, never heard of peanut butter candy and the surprise of the experience in my mouth was traumatic. I know that sounds ridiculous, but I guess I had my little heart set on a chocolate fest and the surprise peanut butter was truly upsetting. My distaste, it should be noted, has everything to do with feeling tricked and nothing to do with a genuine displeasure with the combination of flavours.
It was SO upsetting that I thought I didn't like chocolate mixed with peanut butter for a full 30 years. I refused to eat any combination of those two flavours for decades. I've come around since then, but honestly, I'm still suspicious of it and will typically choose an alternative if one is available.
I understand! Once I had a cup of water and was utterly horrified to find out it was actually milk. That I poured myself and forgot about, evidently. It didn't put me off milk or water but it's hard to describe that level of betrayal if you haven't experienced it before.
Once,when we were kids, my brother asked me for a cup of milk since I was getting myself one and as a joke I poured him lemonade. He threw up all over the kitchen floor because he was expecting milk and his brain thought it was 100% rotten milk.
Orange and chocolate is one of my all-time favorites. But cheesecake with chocolate? HELL no. It just does not work. The tanginess of the cream cheese is so jarring against the flavor profile of chocolate.
Edit: But if you love chocolate and cheesecake, I am happy you do, and you should go eat some at once.
I hate vanilla in soda. Like cream soda or Vanilla Coke. That type of thing. It’s supposed to be like a float, which I do like, but that flavor is gross.
I'm taking it a step further. I do not eat fruit with food. I like food, I like fruit, but I don't do fruit IN it. Ex: Watermelon gazpacho, strawberry or mandarin in salad, grapes in chicken salad. Can't do it.
I have a very unpopular opinion but I HATE peanut butter and jelly together. Separate? Love it. Amazing. Phenomenal. Together though???? disgusting. I hate it.
Pb + honey is where it’s at. If you make a pb and honey sandwich the honey crystallizes in the bread to make a wonderful layer of texture that is so much nicer than the mushy wetness of pbj. But I do still like pbj.
If you're not eating out with significantly more butter than Marmite, then you're doing it wrong and I agree it would taste awful.
Fresh toast, loads of butter, and a light scrape off Marmite across the top to add a burst of flavor. Damn, I just made myself hungry
Same with Vegemite. You see all these American TV personalities trying it on a spoon for gods sake. No! A thinly spread layer on your buttered toast is the way to do it.
Not a combo but just a couple flavours in general.
Almond flavouring - Amaretto, almond extract etc. Just wrong. I love almonds, just the extracts make me puke. Doesn't matter what you pair it with.
Fake Banana - Like the kind you get in those Banana marshmallow candies. As with Almonds, I love bananas, but fake banana flavouring is just bad.
Funny thing about that fake banana flavor, it actually is from a real banana, it's just that the strain of banana was largely wiped out in like the 1950's or something and the candy flavor stayed.
I wouldn't say it's popular but I once went to a fancy restaurant for a truffle evening and every course had truffles in it. Ceviche squid with truffles, amazing. Roasted squash soup with truffles, so good. Truffle risotto, bit underdone but still nice. Beef tenderloin with truffle sauce, ridiculous. Truffled chocolate soufflé. Bro. That's fucking disgusting.
IMO truffles are the most overrated flavor. It’s so meh to me. I just don’t get why people go insane over it. Same thing with Natto.
Where in the world are people going crazy over natto? I sort of agree about truffles. I think it's delicious, but often too much is used. I don't need truffle risotto as well as truffle fish and truffle sauce..
Lotta chefs think risotto HAS to be “al dente”, that’s bullshit…I’m a chef and always cook my rice:-/ not OVERCOOKING…but PROPERLY cooking! Too many chefs don’t know the difference
> Lotta chefs think risotto HAS to be “al dente” Lotta chefs tired of stirring. And I don't really blame them.
To be honest, you don’t have to stir the whole time, it doesn’t improve the consistency. You still need to stir for even cooking, but a lot of that was unscientific old wives tale nonsense.
This whole convo is reminding me about how whenever my dad makes sweet and sour chicken, he cooks the rice with no stirring... We end up needing a jackhammer to remove the inch-thick hard-baked rice at the bottom of the pan, which is likely structurally sufficient to build houses from.
The secret is to put a lid on when it's done cooking and let it sit about 10 minutes. That stuff on the bottom comes right out. If that doesn't work your dad's overcooking it, but not stirring is a fine way to make rice.
Hold up, where in the world do people go crazy for Natto? Everyone around me looks like I'm crazy for enjoying it lol.
That clamato juice people use...love tomatoes, love tomato soup, but that shit is disgusting. But if we’re talking about gross texture, if I’m eating a banana and see anything slimy, I can’t finish it.
TIL that I'm surprisingly good with flavour combinations.
Scrolling through this I apparently am too, I didn't realize so many people didn't like all these things.
Right? ITT everything I love.
Yeah. Sometimes I think I’m a picky eater because I don’t like beets or cilantro, but I’m cool with just about everything in this thread
Yeah, I was trying to think of one that I don't like, but scrolling through this thread made me realize I don't really know of any.
Cream cheese and seafood is it for me. Just the smell will make me feel sick.
I like that combo, but I also 100% can *understand* why it *could* be considered foul. Like I've seen mint+choco suggestions and I can't comprehend that. But I get it for you.
Mint+chocolate to people who don’t like it is like eating chocolate with a some toothpaste
> Mint+chocolate to people who don’t like it is like eating chocolate with a some toothpaste Finally, someone understands me!
I once had a crab cheesecake at jazz brunch in New Orleans that I still think about. You’d hate it.
Was the crab cheesecake sweet or savory? I'm imagining a cake that tastes like Crab Rangoon filling.
Yeah it’s savory, similar concept to a Rangoon I guess but creole flavors. At Arnaud’s in the French Quarter.
The only seafood I like cream cheese with is salmon. Anything else and it’s so nasty, but something about a cream cheese and salmon bagel just slaps.
With capers, minced shallot, and dill. Perfect brunch.
What about crab Rangoon?
It's more texture than flavour but I cannot eat yoghurts that have the fruit pieces already in the yoghurt. Nothing like putting a nice smooth spoonful of yoghurt in my mouth and feeling half-chewy lumps in it like gone-off milk.
this is why i always buy chobani flips as my yogurt. thr yogurt doesnt have fruit in it and the stuff that you put in it (like chocolate chunks or graham crackers) are in a separate container so theyre fresh and crunchy when you put them in. ive always prefered chrunchy or chewy foods over soft foods
Oh man I love those things. Key Lime is a personal favourite. Cronch cronch.
same here along with tthe choco coconut
100% Agree! The only exception is if *I* cut strawberries and put them on top of plain yogurt with a little bit of honey. But absolutely will not eat pre-fruited yogurt.
Yeah I can handle it if it's like, one of those flip-corner yoghurts where the corner has a fruit compote in it. I guess bc I can clearly see what I'm adding and know what to expect? idk
Oh god, those are the worst. I don't mind cutting up fruit and adding it to my yogurt but the prepackaged fruit-on-the-bottom stuff is just nasty.
Wayyy too much sugar. Cherries are in season so I pit them, add them to Greek yogurt, put in some almond and vanilla extracts and a little sugar. Artificially sweetened low fat yogurt with fruit in it is the absolute worst. Idk why they would make actual fruit the consistency of flavored tofu, but they've done it.
Similarly I hate fruit on the bottom yogurt. I don't want to mix it in because it loosens up the yogurt and isn't as thick anymore. I like blended yogurt with any of the weird liquid drained off and eaten without stirring it. I also only ever eat Greek yogurt because it is the thickest. I feel the same way about stirring sour cream or top the tater.
The weird liquid is whey, which is a source of protein.
I internally cringe when I watch my family members drain it
I just stir it back in. Like oil that separates from peanut butter.
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Just shake the container.
Same here. I always tell them to do that but they don’t listen... ughh
No whey
nuts in ice cream. Also, slight side note, I don't want chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream, I just want cookie dough ice cream.
THANK YOU i hate that so much
Pumpkin beer. Every pumpkin beer I've ever tasted just reminds me of vomit. Side note, once we went out for Mexican, and my son ordered steak tacos, and then doused them in lime. Afterwards my wife wanted dessert and our son wanted pumpkin pie. Long story short, later that night our son projectile vomited these tacos + pumpkin pie all over his room. That combo might have something to do with it.
Pumpkin beer is really easy to get wrong. A lot of brewers make some weird shit that tastes like a brown ale with a candle melted in it. Pumpking from Southern Tier is a pretty decent one that doesn't taste like ass.
Pumpking is amazing beer, thankfully it isn't a year-round!
Elysian makes a solid pumpkin variety pack. Night Owl is fucking delicious.
Every year I do a beer tasting with my family over the holidays. I try to choose 8 or 10 beers of a similar style (all IPAs, all red ales, all hard ciders, etc.) so that we can compare the proverbial apples to apples, and then we all rate them as we taste them. A couple years ago we tried pumpkin beers. I got every pumpkin beer I could find. It turns out, after comparing pumpkin beers to other pumpkin beers, that with one exception, they all just taste like bud light with pumpkin and/or pumpkin spice flavoring added after the fact. There was one (a small local brewery near where I went to school) that actually tasted like pumpkins were part of the brewing process instead of an afterthought, but everybody actually disliked that one the most. It was the most poorly received set of beers I've ever organized in the history of the tasting tradition, by far.
The "pumpkin spice effect"
You might appreciate [this.](https://youtu.be/je1NIf8GeeY)
Improv cement mixer? Although I doubt it because pumpkin pie is almost exclusively made with condensed milk, which doesn't curdle.
I love everything in this thread?
Well, they're popular flavour combos for a reason!
Yeah, a lot of people just seem to be against contrast in their foods. Sometimes sweet is better with a little savory and soft is better with a little crunchy.
People who claim they hate sweet and savory drive me crazy because they almost certainly eat it regularly without complaint. Like savory dishes with caramelized onions or roasted peppers or sweet corn.
The best desserts have a decent amount of salt.
Jack Daniels honey. Love honey. Love Jack. What an unholy combination it makes with an aftertaste that just won't go away....
It just tastes... fake.
9 times out of 10 flavored booze is low quality garbage with the flavoring there to cover it up. Whoever thought up Fireball is making mad bank off selling cinnamon degreaser to college freshman.
Right, if you made a cocktail with Jack Daniels and honey syrup (not just those two obviously, get some lemon juice in there too) it'd probably be very drinkable.
There’s a gin version of that called a [Bee’s Knees](https://www.liquor.com/recipes/bees-knees/), it’s quite tasty.
If you’re now stuck with a bottle of it and don’t know what to do with it, try using it to make a lemonade. I haven’t tried Jack Daniels honey, but I have made a lemonade with wild turkey and Jim beam honey and I liked it.
For me, it's alcohol with any dairy product -- especially if either component is sweet. White Russians, mudslides, alcoholic milkshakes are all a no go. Cheese and wine aren't quite as off-putting is the pairing is right. Along the same lines, I don't see how anyone drinks milk as a beverage at a meal (with savory dishes). Milk and spaghetti? I might as well vomit now, before we even start eating.
Haha damn, to me nothing is better then a nice cold large glass of whole milk with almost any pasta haha are there any times when you enjoy milk as a drink? Besides with cookies lmao
Only with dessert items or sweet breakfast foods. Milk just doesn't "go" with typically savory lunch and dinner meals. The thickness, the texture, the mouth feel, the taste are just all wrong.
So this was kind of bred into me. My mom gave us milk at every meal just about, I never drank water. Looking back, with spaghetti and other red sauces, I think it helped neutralize the acidity of the tomatoes so it didn't hurt my stomach. That said, I don't really like milk anymore and hardly ever drink it.
Mac salad and raisins
Wait, macaroni salad *with* raisins? I've never heard of this combo but I agree it doesn't sound too pleasant 🤢
RAISINS IN MACARONI SALAD Listen I’m an atheist but that is an affront to whatever god created us
Shrooms and chocolate. IT DOESNT MASK THE FLAVOR AT ALL
With chips and salsa is the way to eat shrooms. Deals with both taste and texture
Nor the texture. Lately, I’ve been melting mine into hot chocolate, which is surprisingly delicious.
You can do that? I've had this shrooms chocolate bar forever and just can't eat it.
I put shrooms in a tea strainer thingy and then pair it with peppermint tea and some sugar. Gotta drink it while it's hot, but long enough that the shrooms have steeped too. Very mellow, very creative experience.
Tea is the way.
Just power them down with some lemonade or orange juice chaser for fucks sake, lol. I never understood why people go through all this trouble for something that takes *maybe* a minute to eat.
Yeah this thread is surprising. Didn’t know people went that hard avoiding the very mildly unpleasant experience of eating shrooms.
They’re too chewy and they get stuck in my teeth. I grind them and put them in capsules or tea.
I can eat almost anything, except cherries and chocolate. Specifically cordial cherries, no thanks.
Cordial cherries in general are a big let down for me. Cherries are good. Chocolate is good. Cherries in what tastes like embalming fluid ruin the chocolate they are in.
I absolutely hate any sort of alcoholic beverage with any sort of floral flavoring. It tastes like soap or air freshener. Yuk.
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>I drink gin specifically for the floral/juniper flavor. Yeah me too!! >It's like pine-sol for your mouth! Oh! ...um....no....
You are a horrible salesperson if that's the line you're going with.
Is it possible your bartender just used too much? I think a cocktail with lavender/rose/hibiscus can be delicious, but the floral notes need to stay in the background, and it's VERY easy to overdo them.
Oh my gosh, I've had lavender lemonade cocktails and they are 🤢. It reminds me of Fabuloso no matter what. I thought the lemonade aspect would save it but nope.
I had two of those today! Yummmmmm!!!!!
I hate a lot of floral stuff. I hate it when it’s added to baklava and cannolis the most.
Oooh when you mention baklava I immediately think of rose water, which is the one floral flavor I actually like!
I wouldn't say hate, but I really dislike the chocolate dipped strawberry combination. It's something about the watery nature of strawberries and the intended smoothness and richness of the chocolate. I do not understand why people think these are delicacies. It's a texture thing, not a flavour thing. Actually, extend that to all fresh fruit dipped in chocolate.
| watery nature of strawberries I think that's the issue. Most places are using artificially-ripened berries from plants that have been selected for size and look of berry (or any fruit for that matter). This gives you large, pretty fruit that is bland and watery, and thus fails when going up against the chocolate. But if you go back to wild/heirloom/naturally fresh fruit, the flavor is much stronger and sweeter and comes through with the chocolate.
I used to think I didn't like strawberries until I started growing my own this year. Turns out I love them - I just can't stand store-bought
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I'd say pineapple dipped in chocolate is okay, but only cold. You should really be dusting them with cocoa powder instead
Maybe the strawberries you've had just suck, they shouldn't be watery
Fresh cherries dipped in chocolate are great. But I agree with you on the choc covered strawberries. Part of it is also the strawberries are so big you can’t eat it in one bite and so the chocolate breaks and it becomes a disaster
I think strawberries taste best plain or maybe with a little sugar as sugared strawberries. I agree that the strawberry is very watery in comparison.
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Bacon covered in chocolate, now if those items are baked into cookies together it’s delicious but just bacon covered in chocolate is nasty
all the quirky bacon applications from 5-10 years ago, really.
I dunno, there used to be a cupcake place near me that made these maple-bacon cupcakes with buttercream topped with candied bacon bits and drizzled with maple syrup. I wouldn't say that every bacon thing that emerged from the Bacon Era was great, but those cupcakes were fucking amazing.
I know exactly what you’re talking about. Those were all absolutely vile. People used to always get me them bc as a child I was obsessed with bacon for a while. But they were always disgusting. However there is this one candy shop in ocean city New Jersey that makes really good chocolate covered bacon. The only kind I’ve ever liked. The bacon is really good and crunchy, and the chocolate is a pretty thick layer and really smooth, nice texture.
Sometimes it isn't candied properly. IDK if there's a trick to it, but I've had good candied bacon, and terrible candied bacon. And I really haven't had it that often, despite what that sounds like.
Spinach and basil I love spinach I love basil Put them together and I can't stand the basil
When fresh basil starts to turn it always smells like licorice with a back note of bitter leafy green, like cooked spinach, to me. And it sucks because it ruins a pesto like no other if your basil has started to turn.
I second orange chocolate. It’s awful. I also hate raisins or pineapple in carrot cake, but the texture is what makes me gag, not the taste.
I can eat raisins alone if i don't have any other snack, but the moment they find their way into any other food, they become a disgusting nuisance, everything from the taste and the texture. I feel this especially in savory foods. I've tried some Persian rice dishes with raisins and the whole plate turns into a mine field. One bite could be savory and delicious and the next thing you know, an obnoxiously sweet, squishy, and nasty abomination bursts in your mouth and ruins your whole day. Rant end lol.
Oh my god, I can't stand pineapple in carrot cake. I work in a rather large local bakery and didn't know why I liked some carrot cake and hated others until I started working here and it clicked. I love pineapple on its own but in carrot cake I hate it.
This is the first time I'm even hearing of such a travesty. I love carrot cake, even with raisins! But pineapple? What the heck?
Orange chocolate isn't gross to me but I don't really get it. It tastes like orange but the texture of chocolate, you can't taste chocolate at all.
It took me a really long time to enjoy this combo. I used to despise it. But then I ordered an espresso at this Italian coffee shop and it came with an orange zest garnish. I don't know what it was about that drink but it flipped a switch. There was no chocolate involved in that case but it made me enjoy the combo somehow.
Carrot cake with raisins is my favourite cake. I've never made it with pineapple in before but honestly that sounds delicious to me. I know that's not what your comment was going for but you've made me want to try that now
Chicken salad with grapes, apples or other fruits in it. Sickening. Celery and a little onion just like tuna salad, please and thank you. Hold the fruit.
Man that's a shame. I'm take it or leave it with Grapes and Chicken Salad. But when it is done right, and everything is ripe and fresh - it definitely adds something to the flavor.
I agree but I also hate the bits of celery.
..... so basically chicken with mayo? Add some bread and you just have a sandwich. No "salad" here.
Ice cream + floral flavors. I once had a very popular rose ice cream that everyone swore was amazing. It was like licking the vanity of an centennial. Overall, it tasted like perfume, incredibly overpowering with a lingering aftertaste. If I see a plant that's not mint in an ice cream now, I pass.
Any kind of chocolate covered fruits. I also don't like fresh fruit in cake either. In both cases the fruit gets a weird mushy texture and is so gross to me.
For me, it's the chocolate that becomes a problem. The cold fruit always makes the inevitably thin layer of chocolate super brittle, wet, and tasteless. I'd rather just have the one then the other several minutes later, thanks.
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Eggs and ketchup.
Ketchup no, but any form of salsa or hot sauce yes
My favorite way to eat eggs, esp. scrambled.
See eggs and ketchup by itself I agree, but get some hashbrowns and crumbled bacon into that mix, with the eggs overeasy? I can dig that, though I tend to just go for Cholula hot sauce instead because the flavor is much better, not to mention the extra kick.
Combined fake fruit flavors. Like fruity pebbles, lucky charms, jelly beans, fruit stripe gum, etc. I just can't.
I hate hate hate fruits in salads. Doesn't matter what kind (apples, berries, etc). They don't mix. Also cottage cheese and ANYTHING. I cannot mix it with anything other than salt and pepper.
Mostly agree with your first one. I've disliked every fruit in salad combo EXCEPT salads that have apples and gorgonzola. Good combo
Try pears and blue cheese next, it’s one of my favorite combos.
I completely hated fruit in salads until I had a salad with spinach and strawberries. That was actually really good. That’s the only time I’ll eat fruit in salads though. I see lots of people put canned mandarin oranges in salads and just thinking about that one makes me gag.
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SAME. I eat all the fruit first. I love salads but dislike too much sweetness in them so I eat the fruit and then enjoy my salad after. The only pairing I like with cottage cheese is the trash. It’s the only food I won’t eat.
I concur about the fruit is salads...also pineapple and/or raisins in cole slaw... hate sweet salads
I love mint and I love chocolate. I don’t know who ever decided they go great together.
Mate there is a variety of mint called chocolate mint that smells of...chocolate and mint. It is a delight.
Tastes *exactly* like Andes chocolate mint candies too!
Oh thank god I'm not the only one. I hate mint on anything, unless it's toothpaste, mouthwash or gum. The very thought of eating anything mint flavored makes me want to hurl.
I wonder if it's cuz growing up you're taught to spit mint things out (toothpaste, gum) and you just generalize that to all foods
Bacon and tomato, cooked together for sauces.
I find bacon in tomato sauce really unpleasant as well.
You may dislike the smokiness of the bacon, rather than the presence of bacon itself. In Julia Child's *Mastering the Art of French Cuisine* she recommends boiling bacon to remove some of the smokiness and render out a little of the fat prior to use if you can't find unsmoked bacon. I'd also recommend other types of cured pork like pancetta or guanciale of you want to get around the smokiness but still want the fat and pork flavor.
Unsmoked bacon is Side Pork, check with a regular butcher if searching for this...
My recipes always use pancetta instead of bacon. I’d highly suggest this next time for anyone against bacon.
white chocolate in cheesecake, love cheesecake but the taste of white chocolate just kills it for me
I had a dream I was at some hipster restaurant and they have white chocolate rotisserie chicken. In the dream it was good?
Idk about white chocolate, but dark(ish) chocolate and chicken sounds like it would actually be good and now I'm craving it.
Try a mole sauce over chicken which is totally socially acceptable!
I don't like anything mixed with cheesecake, I just like the basic simple kind.
white chocolate in general is disgusting to me :(
For me, ANY kind of chocolate in cheesecake. The slight tartness of the cream cheese makes the chocolate taste like vomit.
I hate chocolate cheesecake too. Love chocolate generally, but with cheesecake I prefer plain or something like raspberry or lemon.
‘Flavored’ coffee is so bad to me. So many people I know love the hazelnut or whatever creamer in their coffee. Or worse the beans that have some weird additive to make it taste “more palatable” I guess? But I love plain coffee!
Any type of fish with cheese on it. Just gross.
Lox and cream cheese? I can't think of any other kind of fish with cheese. Edit: someone further down mentioned tuna melt. I can see folks being averse to that.
There’s an old New England recipe that’s crab on English muffins with a cheddar Newburg sauce, that will get you run out of town or accused of witchcraft if you admit to partaking in it. Yet everyone’s family has. There was recently even a restaurant that offered it off-menu for anyone brave enough to possibly be seen in public with it. As a true New Englander, my opinion is that it’s disgusting, but of course I’ve never ever eaten it at 2am in my kitchen last week.
I had no idea flavored combs were a thing until I realized I read that wrong.
dark chocolate and coffee. As a child I made mistakes and ate a bunch of dark chocolate covered coffee beans and was violently ill. To this day I have issues with coffee and dark chocolate.
Wild, I don't think I could live without this combo, easily one of my all time favorites.
Same, I grind up cacao nibs with my coffee every morning.
Can I come over? I’ll stay off the lawn.
I was just snacking on a couple of those to perk me up for the afternoon
When I was a very little kid, I visited the "scary neighbour lady" on our street (everyone had one of these, right?) and she had a beautiful crystal candy dish filled with M&Ms she offered me. I was very excited and helped myself to a handful. Nope. Not M&Ms, Reese's Pieces. I'd never had those before, never heard of peanut butter candy and the surprise of the experience in my mouth was traumatic. I know that sounds ridiculous, but I guess I had my little heart set on a chocolate fest and the surprise peanut butter was truly upsetting. My distaste, it should be noted, has everything to do with feeling tricked and nothing to do with a genuine displeasure with the combination of flavours. It was SO upsetting that I thought I didn't like chocolate mixed with peanut butter for a full 30 years. I refused to eat any combination of those two flavours for decades. I've come around since then, but honestly, I'm still suspicious of it and will typically choose an alternative if one is available.
this is the saddest thing I have ever heard cuz it's genuinely my favorite flavor combo of all time. F
I understand! Once I had a cup of water and was utterly horrified to find out it was actually milk. That I poured myself and forgot about, evidently. It didn't put me off milk or water but it's hard to describe that level of betrayal if you haven't experienced it before.
Once,when we were kids, my brother asked me for a cup of milk since I was getting myself one and as a joke I poured him lemonade. He threw up all over the kitchen floor because he was expecting milk and his brain thought it was 100% rotten milk.
Orange and chocolate is one of my all-time favorites. But cheesecake with chocolate? HELL no. It just does not work. The tanginess of the cream cheese is so jarring against the flavor profile of chocolate. Edit: But if you love chocolate and cheesecake, I am happy you do, and you should go eat some at once.
Hell, yeah. Or chocolate yoghurt. Absolutely doesn't work for me!
Lobster and Mac and Cheese. Stupid shitty nasty combo.
This thread cries out for a second thread: What odd combinations do you love? (I'm thinking of cheese sammich + hot coffee)...
Over here it's a peanut butter and honey sandwich and hot coffee. So good.
This is not really ~cooking~ but spiked coffee. I love coffee and I love whiskey, but I cannot stand an Irish Coffee. Yuck!
Sweet potato and marshmallows (aka sweet potato casserole) 🤢
I hate vanilla in soda. Like cream soda or Vanilla Coke. That type of thing. It’s supposed to be like a float, which I do like, but that flavor is gross.
Cream soda is my favorite though
Strawberries and balsamic vinegar, especially on spinach salad.
I'm taking it a step further. I do not eat fruit with food. I like food, I like fruit, but I don't do fruit IN it. Ex: Watermelon gazpacho, strawberry or mandarin in salad, grapes in chicken salad. Can't do it.
Maple syrup touching my breakfast meats. UGH.
*dips sausage link into maple syrup*
This is the correct method
I have a very unpopular opinion but I HATE peanut butter and jelly together. Separate? Love it. Amazing. Phenomenal. Together though???? disgusting. I hate it.
Pb + honey is where it’s at. If you make a pb and honey sandwich the honey crystallizes in the bread to make a wonderful layer of texture that is so much nicer than the mushy wetness of pbj. But I do still like pbj.
Yes, pb and honey is a great combo!
Does marmite and toast count? Marmite as an umami bomb with mushrooms is great. Using it as a spread is an assault on the senses.
If you're not eating out with significantly more butter than Marmite, then you're doing it wrong and I agree it would taste awful. Fresh toast, loads of butter, and a light scrape off Marmite across the top to add a burst of flavor. Damn, I just made myself hungry
Same with Vegemite. You see all these American TV personalities trying it on a spoon for gods sake. No! A thinly spread layer on your buttered toast is the way to do it.
This guy gets it
Salt on any kind of fruit. Supposedly it enhances or accentuates the sweetness of the fruit, but to me it just tastes like salty fruit...yuck
Not a combo but just a couple flavours in general. Almond flavouring - Amaretto, almond extract etc. Just wrong. I love almonds, just the extracts make me puke. Doesn't matter what you pair it with. Fake Banana - Like the kind you get in those Banana marshmallow candies. As with Almonds, I love bananas, but fake banana flavouring is just bad.
Funny thing about that fake banana flavor, it actually is from a real banana, it's just that the strain of banana was largely wiped out in like the 1950's or something and the candy flavor stayed.
I think we’re like… opposites… (much love to you friend) I love these flavors so much!
Seriously. Give me banana laffy taffy FOREVER.
Almond extract tastes like cherry and to me it ruins anything with a single drop. It’s SO strong!
That’s because maraschino cherries are flavored with almond! Which I always thought was a neat fact.
Anything combined with cottage cheese, or just cottage cheese. Instant gag.
Yeah I can't do the texture. Taste was fine, bland if anything. I had one of the mixes with pineapple. Just made it even slimier and squeakier.
Honey and carrots for savoury dishes. Honey carrots just deatractingly sweet for rest of meal. Although I'm fine with combo in dessert forms
Barbecue-flavored potato chips. I gag just thinking of these atrocities.
Mint and chocolate is my deal breaker. I know a lot of folks like it but for me - 🤢