# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![Jennshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Jennshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennshark)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2016, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-food-you-threw-away-after-one-bite/769108/81 "2016-10-21T19:31:01Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > Sounds like [somebody tried to be British](https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2011/apr/09/savoury-cake-recipes) and failed. I thought this would be a link to the _Friends_ episode wherein Rachel tries to make trifle, but doesn’t realize the recipe book pages are stuck together and adds hamburger to it. But Joey LOVED it! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Jennshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Jennshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennshark)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2016, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-food-you-threw-away-after-one-bite/769108/82 "2016-10-21T19:33:08Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > A coworker brought us in some [cotton candy grapes](http://www.grapery.biz/index.php/grapes/cotton-candy) to try. I spit the one I tried out and then apologized, but I wasn’t swallowing that awful thing. My brain tried to grasp how grapes could stick to spun sugar (then I clicked on the link). ---
**Author:** ![Noelq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noelq/32/16438_2.png) [@Noelq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noelq)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2016, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-food-you-threw-away-after-one-bite/769108/83 "2016-10-21T19:49:41Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > I hope she meant to use cinnamon or some other appropriate-for-watermelon spice! Did anyone else like it? 1. Nope. She meant to use it. 2. People were being polite. They saw my reaction, and many didn’t try it. Some folks did, and only the ones that liked spicy food enjoyed it. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2016, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-food-you-threw-away-after-one-bite/769108/84 "2016-10-21T19:55:36Z")
Earlier this year I happened to be at my sister’s place when she received a food dryer as a gift. So she experimented a bit with several types of fruit and vegetables. Every one of them turned into a shrunken, tasteless piece of rubber. After a couple bites for politeness’ sake, I passed. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2016, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-food-you-threw-away-after-one-bite/769108/85 "2016-10-21T20:02:10Z")
> [@buckgully](#): > > 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. It’s Odd, of five TJ products, three are usually better , one is about the same and the 5th is absolute crap. But they dont stop selling it.😕 Just last nite someone had a pack of menthol flavored chewing gum. In a cough drop fine, but in gum? eccch. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2016, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-food-you-threw-away-after-one-bite/769108/86 "2016-10-21T21:46:33Z")
> [@Jennshark](#): > > I thought this would be a link to the _Friends_ episode wherein Rachel tries to make trifle, but doesn’t realize the recipe book pages are stuck together and adds hamburger to it. > > But Joey LOVED it! 😃 “It tastes like FEET!” ---
**Author:** ![Nametag](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nametag/32/406_2.png) [@Nametag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nametag)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2016, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-food-you-threw-away-after-one-bite/769108/87 "2016-10-22T07:50:13Z")
> [@Jennshark](#): > > I thought this would be a link to the _Friends_ episode wherein Rachel tries to make trifle, but doesn’t realize the recipe book pages are stuck together and adds hamburger to it. > > But Joey LOVED it! 😃 > [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > “It tastes like FEET!” “What’s not to like? Custard, good. Jam, good. Meat, good!” ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2016, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-food-you-threw-away-after-one-bite/769108/88 "2016-10-22T08:06:35Z")
I’m a chef, and I work under a marvelous Executive Chef who has amazing recipes that I love love love, but … Sometimes our work requires providing a vegetarian option. So my boss has created this vegetarian risotto cake thing that, apparently, our vegetarian and vegan customers love. I decided to try it. I took one bite and _ptui_ spit it right back out, and threw the remainder in the trash. Bleh. Did. Not. Like. At. All. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2016, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-food-you-threw-away-after-one-bite/769108/89 "2016-10-22T12:43:12Z")
> [@BrotherCadfael](#): > > We were camping this weekend, and my wife tried a new freeze-dried desert… Antarctica? mmm ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2016, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-food-you-threw-away-after-one-bite/769108/90 "2016-10-22T16:03:55Z")
> [@jtur88](#): > > It’s been decades. I never, as a matter or principle, buy anything I won’t eat, and I am very diligent about making sure leftovers get eaten. I take my trash out about once a week or two, there is never food in it. I eat apple cores and banana peels. My trash might contain chicken bones, corn cobs, onion skins. You eat banana peels? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2016, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-food-you-threw-away-after-one-bite/769108/91 "2016-10-22T16:22:30Z")
My wife loves cotton candy grapes. I’m a fan of Taco Bell, but when I tried one of their breakfast tacos I pitched it after one bite. Ugh. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2016, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-food-you-threw-away-after-one-bite/769108/92 "2016-10-22T17:37:54Z")
> [@jnglmassiv](#): > > 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. Is this supposed to rhyme? And how about we all wrap up our garbage and send it to **jtur88**? Why let it go to waste? No chicken bones or corn cobs, please. ---
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2016, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-food-you-threw-away-after-one-bite/769108/93 "2016-10-22T20:08:32Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > Is this supposed to rhyme? Heh, yea. I’m…Um, I’m not very good at it. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2016, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-food-you-threw-away-after-one-bite/769108/94 "2016-10-23T04:16:24Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > And how about we all wrap up our garbage and send it to **jtur88**? Why let it go to waste? No chicken bones or corn cobs, please. Of course not - I use the bones for broth, and make toys for my parrots out of corn cobs. ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2016, 8:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-food-you-threw-away-after-one-bite/769108/95 "2016-10-23T08:40:29Z")
> [@jtur88](#): > > Food waste is an American phenomenon. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2016, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-food-you-threw-away-after-one-bite/769108/96 "2016-10-23T12:53:52Z")
> [@jtur88](#): > > It’s been 20 years now since I’ve been there, but in my experience, nothing got thrown away in China. Kids sitting on the street refilling Bic lighters and reselling them. . A restroom in a rural Chinese bus waystation, with hogs on the other side of a wall, eating the shit directly from a trough under the wall. Rural villages with a communal toilet, with a tray underneath to collect what the next day would be fertilizer for the fields. The Chinese people produce a half a million tons of human shit per day, and recycled as much as they could. (But probably somewhat different now in the new China.) You seriously want us to emulate this? I’m surprised you don’t line up at the hogs’ trough, awaiting your next meal. > [@](#): > > Food waste is an American phenomenon. I’m happy that our American abundance enables us to neither eat banana peels nor recycle our shit. ---
**Author:** ![Cheerful\_Pessimist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Cheerful\_Pessimist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheerful_Pessimist)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2016, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-food-you-threw-away-after-one-bite/769108/97 "2016-10-23T16:42:27Z")
Just this past week, at the Milan airport awaiting a 5-hour-delayed flight back to JFK, the airline was kind enough to give us a meal voucher. Unfortunately, the voucher was good for only ONE item on the menu – gnocchi in basil sauce. Would not have been my first (or second, or third…) choice, but okay. It was like eating little balls of green phlegm. I swallowed two, and the third attempt brought about an intense gag reflex before it reached my mouth. I don’t think I can eat gnocchi ever again. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2016, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-food-you-threw-away-after-one-bite/769108/98 "2016-10-23T16:46:36Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally Posted by\*\* jtur88\*\* > Food waste is an American phenomenon. Forcing myself to east something I’m not enjoying is not a better use for the food than throwing it away. It’s gone in both scenarios. In one, however, I’m having a very unpleasant experience. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2016, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-food-you-threw-away-after-one-bite/769108/99 "2016-10-23T17:22:25Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > I’m happy that our American abundance enables us to neither eat banana peels nor recycle our shit. We do recycle our shit. What do you think a wastewater treatment plant does? I know where you’re coming from. 😃 Several years ago, some neighbor kids told me, “Did you know that the water you drink is recycled toilet water?” I replied that I did, and pointed to the creek that runs through our neighborhood and told them, “Dinosaurs drank some of that water.” They loved that. ---
**Author:** ![Whatever4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@Whatever4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whatever4)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2016, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-food-you-threw-away-after-one-bite/769108/100 "2016-10-25T03:33:04Z")
Potato sausage. I can’t even look at that part of the meat case without shuddering. :eek: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-food-you-threw-away-after-one-bite/769108.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-food-you-threw-away-after-one-bite/769108.md?page=6)