# Last food you threw away after one bite? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 20, 2016, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-food-you-threw-away-after-one-bite/769108 "2016-10-20T08:12:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2016, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-food-you-threw-away-after-one-bite/769108/61 "2016-10-21T00:59:55Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > When I was a kid, we were at a wedding reception buffet. My grandmother, who was very observant and kosher, tried what she thought was tuna salad. As soon as she put it into her mouth, she knew it was ham salad. I’ve never seen a fat old lady sprint to the ladies’ room so fast! We all cracked up. A miss-spent youth? Clearly, she knows what ham tastes like. One of my brothers friends was brought up vegitarian. At university, someone offered him chicken soup. Not wanting to be a special snowflake, he accepted, just quitly pushing the obvious chicken chunks to the side of his bowl. Until someone asked him -“Hey, why aren’t you eating the mushrooms?”… ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2016, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-food-you-threw-away-after-one-bite/769108/62 "2016-10-21T01:33:34Z")
> [@Dervorin](#): > > A friend of mine invited me to a wine-throwing-away party, where bottles of wine discovered in her attic were being sampled before she moved house. Some of them were amazingly disgusting - a few didn’t even make it into my mouth because just the smell was so awful, but most of them made it to one sip before being spat back and tossed. We had great fun tipping bad old wine down the sink. I think the key phrase here is “in her attic”. Wine kept for years in a hot-temperature environment, and as an added feature (depending on where you live) possibly an environment that not only has hot temperatures in the summer, but wildly varying temperatures through different days and seasons. What could possibly go wrong? Personally, I would have taken those wines to a haz-mat disposal center! ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2016, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-food-you-threw-away-after-one-bite/769108/63 "2016-10-21T02:16:52Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > The Secret Flavor Doritos a few years back. It turned out the secret flavor was Mt Dew. It would have been disgustingly sour, except that the sour flavor was masked by even more disgusting sweetness. Neither of which flavors has any business on a corn chip in the first place. > > Though, technically, I didn’t throw them out. I brought them in to the office with a warning label, and I gather that some of the other grad students ate them. They did a similar thing a few years ago, dubbed something like “X-13” and those were cheeseburger pickle flavored, with emphasis on the pickle. They didn’t stay on the market very long. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2016, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-food-you-threw-away-after-one-bite/769108/64 "2016-10-21T02:18:52Z")
> [@even\_sven](#): > > I bought a cookie at a food court the other day and it was completely inedible. I’m not sure how you go so wrong with a chocolate chip cookie, but they completely missed the mark. About 10 years ago, the local Girl Scout council was included in the test marketing of a sugar-free brownie. 😕 It was every bit as delicious as it sounded. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2016, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-food-you-threw-away-after-one-bite/769108/65 "2016-10-21T02:20:48Z")
> [@Noelq](#): > > Potluck at work. > > A lady brought in a very nice looking fruit salad. > > Took a piece, and spit it out. > > She greatly enjoys her spices, and she coated the watermelon pieces with ground red pepper/paprika. > > I thought I was going to die. I hope she meant to use cinnamon or some other appropriate-for-watermelon spice! Did anyone else like it? ---
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2016, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-food-you-threw-away-after-one-bite/769108/66 "2016-10-21T02:28:28Z")
I should have expected that falafal made in a chain “Greek” restaurant in Texas would not be good. Reminds me of when my husband was in South Dakota and ordered a burrito in a “Mexican” restaurant. Waitress asked him if he wanted white gravy or brown gravy. ---
**Author:** ![Omega\_Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7c8e57/32.png) [@Omega\_Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omega_Glory)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2016, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-food-you-threw-away-after-one-bite/769108/67 "2016-10-21T02:34:33Z")
A jar of coconut cream. I was expecting a possibly sweet coconut flavor, but it tasted like salty grease. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2016, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-food-you-threw-away-after-one-bite/769108/68 "2016-10-21T04:14:36Z")
I didn’t even get her name, but… Oh? \*Food? \* Nevermind. ---
**Author:** ![LC\_Strawhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e19adc/32.png) [@LC\_Strawhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LC_Strawhouse)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2016, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-food-you-threw-away-after-one-bite/769108/69 "2016-10-21T04:24:30Z")
I accidentally ordered the non-alcoholic variety of Beck’s beer (the weird look from the bartender should have tipped me off). Holy Toledo, was it terrible. After one swallow I dumped the rest down the bathroom sink. ---
**Author:** ![Balthisar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/balthisar/32/2825_2.png) [@Balthisar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balthisar)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2016, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-food-you-threw-away-after-one-bite/769108/70 "2016-10-21T12:00:41Z")
> [@Mijin](#): > > I recently went on a company lunch where the other attendees kept ordering dishes because it was on the company dime (BTW this is China, and all the dishes are shared). At the end, everyone was stuffed, and the table was still packed with full dishes; you couldn’t fit another plate. I was still thinking about the appalling waste days later. It’s not just when you’re in the company’s dime. Go out with any middle class Chinese. They will always order twice as much as everyone can eat. When you go to any company new year party, the same thing. The company _could_ save money, but they don’t even try to negotiate this; there’s just too much to eat (but never enough red wine). I’ve never had to spit out food in China, but I’m always very careful to ask what it is and express my allergy concerns if necessary or convenient. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2016, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-food-you-threw-away-after-one-bite/769108/71 "2016-10-21T13:32:44Z")
My roommate knows of my love of bacon so he bought me a bag of maple bacon candy. Couldn’t finish the first one. Vile. It tasted more like Bacos in hardened pancake syrup. Also some guacamole dip sold in the dairy section with sour cream. One bite and I was ready to pitch it but my daughter liked it. I thought it tasted more like vinegar and sour cream than anything. ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2016, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-food-you-threw-away-after-one-bite/769108/72 "2016-10-21T13:49:49Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > I hope she meant to use cinnamon or some other appropriate-for-watermelon spice! Did anyone else like it? Watermelon with chili powder (and often lime) is a pretty established thing. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2016, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-food-you-threw-away-after-one-bite/769108/73 "2016-10-21T15:31:37Z")
> [@jtur88](#): > > My trash might contain chicken bones, corn cobs, You throw away the corn cob instead of eating it? That is so very wasteful. The cob is the most fibrous and healthy part of the corn cob. ---
**Author:** ![ThisSpaceForRent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thisspaceforrent/32/345_2.png) [@ThisSpaceForRent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisSpaceForRent)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2016, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-food-you-threw-away-after-one-bite/769108/74 "2016-10-21T16:02:26Z")
Once, visiting Niagra Falls on the way home from Toronto CA we stopped at a huge penny candy shop. My friend bought some "double salted licorice "… Holy fucking mother of DOG that stuff was nasty, he loved it. A few weeks ago another friend and I were tasting some of the new “adult” root beers. Some were not bad, even a couple were pretty darn good, but one in particular, came in a 16 oz white can, was putrid, I couldn’t even finish a 5 oz sample. One more…beef tendon salad…and I honestly eat just about anything. ---
**Author:** ![sciurophobic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cab0a1/32.png) [@sciurophobic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sciurophobic)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2016, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-food-you-threw-away-after-one-bite/769108/75 "2016-10-21T16:32:45Z")
My wife once bought durian wafer cookies thinking we could find out what it tasted like without the legendary putrid smell. We were wrong. It still had the smell. We threw them out even before the first bite. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2016, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-food-you-threw-away-after-one-bite/769108/76 "2016-10-21T17:14:00Z")
Some _madalenas_ (cousins to cupcakes) just this morning; they were past the expiration date, but nothing a bit of milk couldn’t cure except that they tasted like the plastic wrapper. I can’t remember when was the previous time. ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2016, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-food-you-threw-away-after-one-bite/769108/77 "2016-10-21T17:50:11Z")
My wife made chicken liver for dinner once, a couple years ago. I tried one bite, couldn’t even finish chewing it, and spit it into the sink. That was the one and only time she ever made that dish. She’d been cooking from a great recipe book she’d found and figured, since all the other recipes were so good maybe the chicken livers would be, too. Blah. ---
**Author:** ![buckgully](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eb9ed0/32.png) [@buckgully](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buckgully)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2016, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-food-you-threw-away-after-one-bite/769108/78 "2016-10-21T18:06:41Z")
Last night I opened a bag of Trader Joe’s Cocoa Drizzled Kettle Corn and popped one in my mouth. Then I spit it out and threw away the rest of the bag. It tasted like latex paint. Not a paint-like flavor top note, more like it wasn’t popcorn, it was partially dried interior house paint molded into popcornesque shapes. Later my wife came home and asked if I’d been painting. ---
**Author:** ![BeeGee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5a626/32.png) [@BeeGee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeeGee)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2016, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-food-you-threw-away-after-one-bite/769108/79 "2016-10-21T18:39:50Z")
> [@cmkeller](#): > > Bee Gee: > > OK, I got it now - the bad brand was “Jaffa Salads” guacamole, and looking at their ingredients list and comparing it to a better brand, I’m guessing that the real culprit is their use of lemon juice instead of lime juice. Other possible candidates are poblano and tomatillo, which they include but the other does not. But I definitely think it’s the sourness of the lemon that made me dislike it. Poblano, lemon, and tomatillo would all make it different tasting to me. I suspect the tomatillo could be the culprit. I’ll steer clear. thanks. melon and chli powder are pretty common here. In fact you can get a paleta (popsicle) that’s cucumber, watermelon, lime, and chili. Yummy and perfect on a hot day. ---
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2016, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-food-you-threw-away-after-one-bite/769108/80 "2016-10-21T19:23:55Z")
I couldn’t think of anything but someone upthread mentioned coffee. As I get older, I find my adversity toward sweets accelerating. A few years ago, I had to set off on a couple hours long roadtrip for work. First stop: Dunkin Donuts for a coffee with skim. I was miles away before it was cool enough to try. You guessed it; they heavily sugared the coffee. Dumped it and pulled over for a new one. > [@Peremensoe](#): > > Watermelon with chili powder (and often lime) is a pretty established thing. I’ve never had melon with chile powder but there are salads with watermelon, mint, feta cheese and fresh jalapeno in a lime dressing. I’m not a big fan of watermelon but the other savory items mellow the sweetness. Apple, pineapple, mango & jicama with salt, ground chile and lime (salsa en polvo aka Tajin) are pretty common, too. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-food-you-threw-away-after-one-bite/769108.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-food-you-threw-away-after-one-bite/769108.md?page=5)