Yeah. Everyone at work agreed that key lime was the most probable answer to the Doritos “mystery,” but the website for the chips said it was Mountain Dew.
Amazing!! 
This might not be of much note to those who didn’t have this in their childhood, but for anyone who watched the '80s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon-- anyone ever get up the nerve to try some of the absurd pizza toppings they would eat on the show? (Cowabunga! A peanut butter and salmon pizza!)
Juicy Pear Jelly Belly. In those happy looking little boxes of assorted flavors lurks these abortions of confectionary arts. Grody to the max, man!
Lime flavored Fritos. Bitter, heavy greasy curled corn chips. Bleah. Does not enhance Frito Pie.
The wasabi anchovies were found in an oriental grocery store. They were given as a gift to me, so I can’t tell you which one.
So that’s what those things are supposed to be… I was just coming in here to warn folks about them. I was at the grocery store the other day and they were on sale, so I figured, what the heck, I’m up for a bit of adventure in my food. They’re sure to be something crunchy and salty; how bad can they be?
Pretty darn bad, let me tell you. The sweetness would be overpowering, if it weren’t itself overpowered by the citric acid. I should have checked the ingredients before I bought them… Bad enough that the third ingredient is sugar, but so are the fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth.
When I was about 8 or so (1975) my stepmother, who was an executive assistant at the local (Atlanta) Kraft factory, was given boxes of “surplus” peanut butter product that probably sounded great on proposal but utterly failed on execution.
The thing with this peanut butter line is that they were flavored peanut butters: chocolate, banana, coconut, etc. Now I LOVE peanut butter, as long as it’s Jif Creamy, and having this stuff in my home was painful because we were told that we weren’t going to get any more peanut butter until all the Kraft crap was eaten. And they meant it.
1.5 years later my parents divorced and I got my peanut butter back again! Happy days!
So I don’t know if it’s the worst “experimental flavor” ever in the history of mankind, but Kraft Foods did make it possible for one child to celebrate his parents divorce because that meant the kid could stop eating their failed craptacular peanut butter.
I made the same mistake. It tasted like lager with a liberal dollop of Pine-Sol®. I drank maybe three swallows of the stuff and was ill for two days. It was an Anchor Steam holiday brew flavored with spruce, IIRC. In any case, while a piney flavor works for gin and retsina, it is an obscenity in beer.
Marmite crisps - yuk!
I haven’t had the pleasure, myself—although I have spotted Green Tea and Avacado flavors at the local Asia Mart—but some of the world’s most frightening ice cream flavors seem to come from Japan.
I can only assume that Charcoal flavored ice cream was invented to feed to children who’ve swallowed bleach, or possibly arsenic.
I can offer no explaination for whale, horse, or goat (with milk and meat) flavored treats. Aside from the fact that God apparently exists, but he is a blind, mad, idiot creature who must be lulled to slumber by the insane piping of wailed sorrow.
Oh, dude. Here’s how you do it:
-1 can tuna
-Liberal sprinkling of curry powder
-Liberal douse of olive oil
-Sriracha sauce (or other red chilli sauce) to taste
-Pinch of salt
-1 crushed clove garlic
Mix it all together into a spicy oily salad. Eat it plain on a sandwich. Or make it into a tuna melt. Or–this is where faith comes into play–eat it on toasted bread with a bit of peanut butter. Goddamn, it’s good!
This recipe courtesy of Skylight Exchange, in Chapel Hill, NC.
Daniel
Some of those don’t sound all that bad, actually. And I’ve had green tea ice cream, and thought it was pretty good (even though I’m not a big fan of green tea itself).
I read a review of this stuff in an old issue if Ben Is Dead that gave pretty much the same reaction that you gave. It also said something like “In every household in America, there was a jar of Koogle with a single spoonful taken out, and never touched again.”
I can’t imagine anyone wanting to be caught dead in that t-shirt. Gah!!!
Damn, I’m no foogle but that t-shirt is the the shizzoogle!
I actually wanted one when I saw it. I was kinda thinking of how I could recreate the font and market something similar.
Do the boogaloogle!
How do you doogle?
Oh, and old bay flavored chips aren’t that great. I tried to get through a small bag of them but gave them to the seagulls.
Not by themselves, no. You should have bought a dip for 'em, I think they’re great with clam dip.
Ha! I scoff at your salted licorice. I have eaten salted licorice and, while I did not have any desire to to repeat the experience, finished the morsel and said, Huh. Salt and licorice; not my cuppa. Saladitos on the other hand are badly mistranslated. Salted plums, my ass; more like a lump o’ salt with plum added. Why it’s added is beyond me, 'cause you certainly can’t taste any plumness, only salt. Maybe it’s because the pit makes the bolus hang together as it flies through the air after being forcibly spat.
Holy frobozzle! This thread has been threadspotted ™! The Honour!
Now, for those who have been to Japan…
What is your opinion of Natto and Umeboshi…?
Just my 2 eurocent!
I grew up in Tucson and I saw people eat these all the time. I never had the desire to try one, though. The concept was disgusting enough.
…I don’t think those would count as experimental flavors. Unless it was something like “NEW Doritos’ Natto, BBQ and Toejam 3D Xtreme Corn Crunchies”.
I miss Wasabi Funyuns, those were tasty, and kept the cat away from me.