# "Does this taste funny to you?" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 13, 2009, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-taste-funny-to-you/513709 "2009-10-13T22:04:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![hellpaso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecae2f/32.png) [@hellpaso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hellpaso)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-taste-funny-to-you/513709/41 "2009-10-15T15:19:41Z")
I can’t stand hot tea or iced coffee. They make me want to retch–I’m ok with iced tea or hot coffee, though. Of course I hate the demon’s herb, cilantro. But I do love limburger cheese. ---
**Author:** ![Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/angel_of_the_lord/32/2949_2.png) [@Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angel_of_the_Lord)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-taste-funny-to-you/513709/42 "2009-10-15T16:17:22Z")
Same thing on the red and yellow bell peppers. I’ll eat the green ones, though; it’s just the more ripened ones that bother me. There’s a very distinctive taste to them that I find off-putting. The worst is when someone decides to mix them in with vegetables; that taste permeates every other vegetable in the mix, and so they all taste like crap. Petrochemical is a good way to put it, **Left Hand of Dorkness**. It’s not a capsacin problem, 'cause I like spicy peppers. . .though, to be fair, I almost always use the dried versions. I also don’t get the love of tomatoes. Raw tomatoes taste like stomach acid to me. I can’t imagine liking them. A little cooking kills the taste, though. Also, iced tea makes me feel barfy. ---
**Author:** ![SSgtBaloo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@SSgtBaloo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SSgtBaloo)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-taste-funny-to-you/513709/43 "2009-10-15T18:08:43Z")
> [@Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](#): > > Also, iced tea makes me feel barfy. Don’t feel Barfy! It makes the Family Circus sad. ☹ Why, yes, I _am_ going to hell for that. Let me get the door for you. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Taber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ac91a4/32.png) [@Taber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taber)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-taste-funny-to-you/513709/44 "2009-10-15T18:44:01Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > Cheese. Unless it’s really bland, texture only cheese like the kind you find on pizza. I’m talking about the kinds of cheese that stand out as ingredients, be it warm goat cheese on salad, or the pre-desert cheese platter. > I mean… don’t any of you people notice it smells like a fart and tastes about the same ? Why, and how, do you people eat that stuff ? I’m at a loss here. Surely as a species we’re long past the socio-economical stage where \*not \*eating the rotten milk left over from last January was wasteful. I thought I was the only one who thought this. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-taste-funny-to-you/513709/45 "2009-10-15T19:04:52Z")
I don’t exactly dislike celery, but I find I have to reduce the amount I use by at least two thirds. It overpowers everything else. Same with cilantro, but even more. I also can’t stand tuna fish, but that is because my mother made that horrid casserole with the crushed potato chips on top about fourteen times a month when I was growing up. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![gang\_green](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f07891/32.png) [@gang\_green](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gang_green)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-taste-funny-to-you/513709/46 "2009-10-15T19:24:06Z")
Pecans. They taste like fuzzy paper. I’m allergic to them, which might contribute to this, but I don’t have the same taste reaction to other tree nuts, and I’m allergic to them all. We had pecan trees when I was growing up. Everyone else would eat handsful of pecans, I couldn’t understand the appeal at all. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Woodhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@Miss\_Woodhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Woodhouse)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-taste-funny-to-you/513709/47 "2009-10-15T19:37:38Z")
Lots of things taste funny to me. Broccoli, cabbage, brussle sprouts, etc. All those type of greens are just too horrible to eat. They smell awful cooking as well. I also can’t eat fruit pulp. I love the flavor of orange juice, it’s one of my favorite things, but an actual orange is a horrible bitter mass of indigestible food. Same goes for strawberries, cherries, etc. I can eat watermelon, bananas, and apples without issue, but I dislike nearly all fruits when eaten as whole fruit whether raw or cooked (no fruit is acceptable cooked.) seafood is also on my do not eat list. I don’t understand how anybody can eat it. Yes, I’ve tried “good” seafood, stuff close to the coast, stuff that cost $50/plate, stuff other people raved over. It’s nasty. I’ll let you guys have mine. I decided a long time ago I was a super taster. It doesn’t explain every one of my picky choices, but it does help me feel like I’m not really a weirdo. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-taste-funny-to-you/513709/48 "2009-10-15T19:43:06Z")
I like canned tuna, even right out of the can. Everybody says albacore is better, but I don’t like it. Now and then, I’ll have a nibble of somebody’s beautiful, thick tuna steak, and I’m disappointed. John Hodgeman has a great line about oysters that starts out, “If you’re going to eat something that tastes like snot…” Yeah, you can have my share. ---
**Author:** ![MrSquishy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9e5f3/32.png) [@MrSquishy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrSquishy)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-taste-funny-to-you/513709/49 "2009-10-15T19:45:00Z")
I can’t stand celery. But even worse are beets. Doesn’t anybody else think they taste exactly like dirt? Sweet, pickled dirt. ---
**Author:** ![silvermist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@silvermist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silvermist)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-taste-funny-to-you/513709/50 "2009-10-15T20:16:50Z")
> [@freckafree](#): > > Commercial cake icing gives me not so much an unpleasant taste as an unpleasant sensation on the roof of my mouth. I don’t know how to describe it. Kind of a “skin-crawling” sensation. I’m not a huge cake fan, but sometimes, when cake is served, I think, “Mmmmmm! Cake!” And then I take a bite and get that weird crawly sensation. > > I wish I could go back in time and taste Mom’s buttercream icing so I could figure out if the sensation is something that has developed with age or something related to ingredients. They don’t make icings like they used to. They use shortening in frosting now that is very bad for you. I make my own, using butter or margarine. I don’t know if it’s any healthier but it tastes a lot better and doesn’t coat my mouth. There is probably much less in it too. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-taste-funny-to-you/513709/51 "2009-10-15T20:17:57Z")
> [@Rack-a-Bones](#): > > Two come to mind right off: olives and cashews. > > Black olives cooked on a pizza I’m ok with but those raw olives they like to cut up and put in salads (Greek, starts with a K) are way to overpowering to me. Even just a few of them can ruin a whole dish of salad for me. > > Cashews just never taste quite right or feel quite right to me. I can’t explain it any better than that. I’m always greeted by astounded looks when I tell people I don’t like cashews. The olives are Kalamata, and I love them. Black olives such as are sliced onto pizza are an abomination unto Og. They taste metallic and disgusting. And I like cashews too. Clearly you and I are not twins separated at birth 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-taste-funny-to-you/513709/52 "2009-10-15T20:21:17Z")
Mushrooms. They just seem to taste of… decay. Which makes sense, given that essentially that’s what they are. Pure, unadulterated NASTY. “Sour” candies (e.g. Warheads, Sour Skittles, Sour Gummi Worms). Those are the one sweet I cannot eat. I mean, literally. They are agonizing in my mouth. If one of the kids has a bag of Sour Skittles, I’ll grab a handful… then wash them under running water, at which time I can pop 'em into my mouth and enjoy the sweet chemically yumminess. I don’t understand the concept. It’s sort of like taking a filet mignon and marinating it in kerosene - starting with something perfectly edible and adding poison. ---
**Author:** ![Proudest\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/proudest_monkey/32/13257_2.png) [@Proudest\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Proudest_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-taste-funny-to-you/513709/53 "2009-10-15T22:09:45Z")
> [@Mama\_Zappa](#): > > Mushrooms. They just seem to taste of… decay. Which makes sense, given that essentially that’s what they are. Pure, unadulterated NASTY. At the risk of TMI, the smell of mushrooms cooking always puts the taste of semen in my mouth. I’m okay with the taste and texture of the occasional mushroom in my food, but cooking them makes me feel like I’m delivering an oral happy ending. Which I’m happy to do for my husband, but not for a pan full of fungi. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-taste-funny-to-you/513709/54 "2009-10-15T22:31:34Z")
> [@Proudest\_Monkey](#): > > At the risk of TMI, the smell of mushrooms cooking always puts the taste of semen in my mouth. I’m okay with the taste and texture of the occasional mushroom in my food, but cooking them makes me feel like I’m delivering an oral happy ending. Which I’m happy to do for my husband, but not for a pan full of fungi. I think everyone might be on to something. One of the things that gives semen its distinctive odor is Putrescine and Cadaverine, which are also ingredients in the odor of decay (surprising, given their names :)) So having mushrooms that taste like both is probably no surprise, considering what mushrooms feed on (and thankfully I don’ t like mushrooms because I hadn’t noticed the similarity between them and “essence of seed” until now, but it is there now that you mention it.) ---
**Author:** ![Proudest\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/proudest_monkey/32/13257_2.png) [@Proudest\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Proudest_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-taste-funny-to-you/513709/55 "2009-10-15T22:45:08Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > One of the things that gives semen its distinctive odor is Putrescine and Cadaverine You just never know what you’re going to learn on the Dope! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-taste-funny-to-you/513709/56 "2009-10-15T23:22:59Z")
> [@AskNott](#): > > John Hodgeman has a great line about oysters that starts out, “If you’re going to eat something that tastes like snot…” Yeah, you can have my share. A friend of mine recently bet her boyfriend $20 that if you Googled “boogers of the sea,” the first hit would be oysters. Turned out she was wrong–it was a Japanese candy shaped like otter boogers–but it was a good guess. ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Skeezix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/aca169/32.png) [@Red\_Skeezix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Skeezix)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2009, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-taste-funny-to-you/513709/57 "2009-10-16T04:46:05Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > Cilantro, which tastes like soap to me. That’s genetic, though, apparently – there is a small but not insignificant minority of people who have the same reaction. Came in to say exactly this. In fact it reminds me distinctly of the dial handsoap i had to ingest as a child for using dirty words. ---
**Author:** ![Blackberry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecd19e/32.png) [@Blackberry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackberry)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2009, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-taste-funny-to-you/513709/58 "2009-10-16T08:58:53Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > Mushrooms. Now, I mostly dislike them because of their sliminess which is omnipresent. But most of them also have an aftertaste vaguely chlorine-y taste. Crisp and chemically and located firmly in the back of my mouth or my nostrils (like much of what we “taste”, but I do not have even the illusion in this instance that the chloriney taste is coming from my mouth.) > > I also think that olives always taste far to unnaturally salty to me. Maybe they always do have lots of salt added. Who knows, for by now I’m not trying one to find out different. I also hate mushrooms and olives. As a vegetarian, that pretty much leaves me nearly starving to death, because they ALWAYS put mushroom especially in vegetarian food. It makes me crazy. I do like Gardenburgers though, or which the first ingredient is mushrooms. But I wouldn’t eat one plain or anything. They’re good on a bun with tomatoes, lettuce, cheese, onions and honey mustard. ---
**Author:** ![hellpaso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecae2f/32.png) [@hellpaso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hellpaso)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2009, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-taste-funny-to-you/513709/59 "2009-10-16T16:28:23Z")
I might as well go ahead and confess. This has made me the subject of derision for most of my life. I don’t like chocolate.:eek: ---
**Author:** ![Leiko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Leiko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leiko)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2009, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-taste-funny-to-you/513709/60 "2009-10-16T18:30:58Z")
I love the sprouts that come with pad thai and pho and such. But those skinny ones on vegetarian sandwiches and salad bars and such? Disgusting spicy dirt. Why would anyone eat them? > [@An\_Arky](#): > > White pepper smells like barnyard muck to me (my folks had cattle, I know the smell all too well). You know what’s weird? My family raises cattle, so you’d think my mom- who hates white pepper- would have the same point of comparison, but she insists that white pepper smells like a baby’s diaper, not cow dung. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-taste-funny-to-you/513709.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-taste-funny-to-you/513709.md?page=4)