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?”…
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!
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.
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:
I hope she meant to use cinnamon or some other appropriate-for-watermelon spice! Did anyone else like it?
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.
A jar of coconut cream. I was expecting a possibly sweet coconut flavor, but it tasted like salty grease.
I didn’t even get her name, but…
Oh? *Food? *
Nevermind.
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.
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. 
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.
Watermelon with chili powder (and often lime) is a pretty established thing.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.