# Really Horrible Experimental Flavors **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 2, 2008, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-horrible-experimental-flavors/455104 "2008-07-02T21:45:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-horrible-experimental-flavors/455104/21 "2008-07-03T03:08:42Z")
[QUOTE=Bosstone] Ginger flavored Altoids. Are they still in production? Pretty sure I haven’t seen any around lately. [/QUOTE] I loved those! ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-horrible-experimental-flavors/455104/22 "2008-07-03T03:11:23Z")
[QUOTE=Tom Tildrum] Asian grocery stores often have soft drinks in flavors that would be quite unusual in American culture. I could not finish the artichoke soda. [/QUOTE] In high school my fried could not resist trying the Grass Jelly soda. He said it tasted like motor oil. ---
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-horrible-experimental-flavors/455104/23 "2008-07-03T03:20:33Z")
[QUOTE=Bosstone] Ginger flavored Altoids. Are they still in production? Pretty sure I haven’t seen any around lately. [/QUOTE] Yup, they’re around. And you’re wrong. Ginger Altoids are the food of the Gods. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-horrible-experimental-flavors/455104/24 "2008-07-03T03:55:47Z")
[QUOTE=Bosstone] Ginger flavored Altoids. Are they still in production? Pretty sure I haven’t seen any around lately. [/QUOTE] I love those things, and I think you can still find them around. Good stuff. I once sampled salted licorice. I was able to get it onto my tongue and hold it for a few seconds before the phrase “Satan’s Salted Asshole” worked its way into my mind. I spat it out without taking one bite. The same shop was selling double-salted licorice, which I do believe is what would come out of Satan’s salted asshole. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Nader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-horrible-experimental-flavors/455104/25 "2008-07-03T06:42:55Z")
[QUOTE=Doug Bowe] They seem to be okay in Australia. [/QUOTE] That country where they have the pink MUSK flavour life-savers? ---
**Author:** ![meenie7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7993a0/32.png) [@meenie7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meenie7)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-horrible-experimental-flavors/455104/26 "2008-07-03T06:48:45Z")
[QUOTE=Derleth] I once sampled salted licorice. I was able to get it onto my tongue and hold it for a few seconds before the phrase “Satan’s Salted Asshole” worked its way into my mind. I spat it out without taking one bite. The same shop was selling double-salted licorice, which I do believe is what would come out of Satan’s salted asshole. [/QUOTE] Hee! I…am not a fan, either. I have a Swedish co-worker who grew up with salty licorice and loves it, but I can’t get behind that. On the other hand, I love love love sweet licorice, which seems itself to be a rare taste to love in the U.S. ---
**Author:** ![Mosier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ea924/32.png) [@Mosier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mosier)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-horrible-experimental-flavors/455104/27 "2008-07-03T06:57:11Z")
[Hufu.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hufu) The healthy alternative for cannibals who want to quit. ---
**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:** [July 3, 2008, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-horrible-experimental-flavors/455104/28 "2008-07-03T07:04:32Z")
Anchovy crunch ice cream. ---
**Author:** ![singular1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@singular1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/singular1)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-horrible-experimental-flavors/455104/29 "2008-07-03T11:36:18Z")
I was in Japan for work for two weeks in '86. Every day on the way home my two co-workers and I stopped at an ice cream store for a cone. Every day we laughed at the Spinach Ice Cream. Our last day there I bought a small cone. It was pistachio green soft swirl. It did not taste like spinach. It did not taste like ice cream. It tasted like home-made bile. But by Og, I tasted it! ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-horrible-experimental-flavors/455104/30 "2008-07-03T12:12:37Z")
> [@](#): > > Ginger flavored Altoids. Are they still in production? Pretty sure I haven’t seen any around lately. I love ginger Altoids but they’re incredibly hard to find. I knew one convenience store in northern Vermont that carries them so I’d stock up whenever I was in that area. Then a few months back I happened to stop in a local drug store that was about five blocks from where I live and they had a whole rack of them. On sale. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-horrible-experimental-flavors/455104/31 "2008-07-03T12:16:38Z")
[Dr. Brown’s Cel-Ray Soda](http://www.sodapopstop.com/products/detail.cfm?link=67) - celery flavored soda. It’s actually not bad. Kind of a mildly sweet carbonated vegetable juice. ---
**Author:** ![slaphead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@slaphead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slaphead)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-horrible-experimental-flavors/455104/32 "2008-07-03T12:22:59Z")
[QUOTE=meenie7] Hee! I…am not a fan, either. I have a Swedish co-worker who grew up with salty licorice and loves it, but I can’t get behind that. On the other hand, I love love love sweet licorice, which seems itself to be a rare taste to love in the U.S. [/QUOTE] What are your thoughts about [ammonium chloride and pepper](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkinpippuri) liquorice? I quite like it, but the best thing about them is that you can have a bag in your desk and offer it to unsuspecting colleagues. Lots of interesting facial expressions… ---
**Author:** ![Future\_Londonite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9dc877/32.png) [@Future\_Londonite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Future_Londonite)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-horrible-experimental-flavors/455104/33 "2008-07-03T12:24:46Z")
[QUOTE=Derleth] I once sampled salted licorice. I was able to get it onto my tongue and hold it for a few seconds before the phrase “Satan’s Salted Asshole” worked its way into my mind. I spat it out without taking one bite. The same shop was selling double-salted licorice, which I do believe is what would come out of Satan’s salted asshole. [/QUOTE] INFADEL…salted and especialy double-salted licorice is the food of the Gods (or at least whatever God takes care of the Netherlands). I sure love my self a good handfull of double-salted licorice (seeing that DZ printed on those delicious black discs makes me squeel with anticipation). ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-horrible-experimental-flavors/455104/34 "2008-07-03T13:37:21Z")
[QUOTE=meenie7] Hee! I…am not a fan, either. I have a Swedish co-worker who grew up with salty licorice and loves it, but I can’t get behind that. On the other hand, I love love love sweet licorice, which seems itself to be a rare taste to love in the U.S. [/QUOTE] When I was about 15 I went on a school trip to Norway. I bought a big bag of what I thought was sugar-coated sweets. It was actually salted _fish_-flavoured jellies. No wonder the suicide rate is so high up there. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-horrible-experimental-flavors/455104/35 "2008-07-03T13:41:47Z")
One Xmas Ben & Jerry came out with “Sugar Plum Ice Cream.” Plum ice cream with a carmel ribbon. It was their worst selling flavor of all time. I hosted a “B&J Ice Cream Party” for the local children, and even they wouldn’t touch it. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-horrible-experimental-flavors/455104/36 "2008-07-03T13:46:22Z")
[Candy Addict » Candy Review: Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans (just the gross ones)](http://candyaddict.com/blog/2005/11/26/review-bertie-botts-every-flavor-beans-just-the-gross-ones/) These jelly beans come in earwax, dirt,booger ,worm ,pepper etc, Every year or so I get a bag just for kicks. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-horrible-experimental-flavors/455104/37 "2008-07-03T15:59:36Z")
[QUOTE=Hazle Weatherfield] BLoody Mary flavored Jelly Bellies [/QUOTE] Pizza flavored Jelly Bellies. They live on as Bertie Bott’s “vomit” flavor. ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-horrible-experimental-flavors/455104/38 "2008-07-03T16:22:02Z")
[QUOTE=Derleth] I love those things, and I think you can still find them around. Good stuff. I once sampled salted licorice. I was able to get it onto my tongue and hold it for a few seconds before the phrase “Satan’s Salted Asshole” worked its way into my mind. I spat it out without taking one bite. The same shop was selling double-salted licorice, which I do believe is what would come out of Satan’s salted asshole. [/QUOTE] [Dubbel Zout](http://www.bad-candy.com/candies/dubbelzout/) is very, very bad salted licorice. But I have had very good salted licorice. Dubbel Zout is compressed into a lozenge - horrible. But pieces of normal licorice with salt **on the surface** is very nice, IMHO. Joe ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-horrible-experimental-flavors/455104/39 "2008-07-03T16:22:08Z")
[QUOTE=Student Driver] Everyone at work is still pissed at me for making them try Mountain-Dew-flavored Doritos (posted about that here a few weeks ago). [/quote] Are these the ones I tried and thought were key lime flavor? -FrL- ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-horrible-experimental-flavors/455104/40 "2008-07-03T16:24:05Z")
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