Sometimes you grab a new snack off the store shelf because no matter good those spicy nacho doritos are, eventually you’re sick and tired of them. And that’s how you end up with Takis.
We had to throw out the nearly full bag. My nose and forehead is breaking out into cold sweat just remembering that sharp vinegar and hit of fake lime flavour. Ugh!
Another recent and memorable <fail> was a box of bacon flavoured Ritz.
I should have known. I’ve no excuse.
My son adores those. It’s the whole “X-treme” thing aimed at teen-aged boys, I think.
Takis are terrible. Didn’t stop me from eating the whole bag last time I got some, though.
They used to make cheeseburger Doritos, which I thought were heavenly. Then they put out another flavor in the same color bag (the mystery black Doritos bag) and I didn’t pay attention that they were not the divine flavor. They tasted like Doritos with crushed lime Froot Loops on them. I think they were supposed to be margarita flavor.
I still have nightmares.
Chased down with a giant can of Monster, no doubt. :rolleyes:
A coworker saw my coffee cup and a 24 oz. can of monster on my desk. She asked if I was ‘double-fisting coffee and an energy drink’. I told her I’d run out of coffee, so I only had the Monster.
I love Triscuits, so I snapped up Brown Rice Triscuits when they first came out.
The taste was wrong, the texture was wrong, it was too crumbly and it turned to mush in my mouth. On the plus side, it sort of looked like a picture of a Triscuit on the front of the box if you didn’t get too close.
On a road trip, I picked up a package of some kind of pemmican, as I wanted beef jerkey but didn’t want to have to fight with it that much; the pemmican was soft. Turns out it smells just awful, and as soon as I started eating it, everybody in the car was about ready to throw me out the window, and I was driving.
Problem was, I have no sense of smell, and the stuff tasted great.
I saved it until after the trip, and I still had to go outside to eat it.
I’m sensing a theme here. I’m going to nominate lime Wheat Thins.
Someone on the SDMB made a thread about how amazing dill Wheat Thins were, so next time I was at the store I checked out the Wheat Thins section. There were, like, 20 different kinds! But none of them were dill 
But since I spent so much time looking, I decided I needed to choose a flavor and I chose “lime” because I generally like lime stuff.
I don’t like lime Wheat Thins, tho. They were like…Kool Aid + salt + garlic powder or something. Possibly amazing with guacamole but I had none of that around.
I tried to get people to eat them at a family party but no one went for them. I “accidentally” sent them home with my cousin.
I’ve been on this quest as well every since. 
Yep. He’s 6’3" at 15, and still growing, though, so I don’t think it’s stunted him much.
Yeah, I’ve got one same age and about same size and eating habits.
I love Triscuits too, but all the variant-flavors I’ve tried were disappointing.
Cappuccino Lays are pretty horrible. We have a bag and a half in the snack cupboard at church, we’d have to pretty desperate to put them out again…
I love steamed edamame, I love roasted nuts. Roasted edamame is like eating dry, dedicated wood.
I saw those in the store. I immediately decided that cappuccino-flavored potato chips did not sound like something I wanted to inflict on my taste buds.
Agreed. I like many things that sound really weird, but I have my limits.
Hm, someone gave me a shrimp puff or cracker or some such garbage. I love fresh shrimp. Dried shrimp tastes like it has been dead and baking on a seashore for a month. Barf. Any dried aquatic life form has the same problem for me. Major barf city. I will never ever ever do dried aquatic life form, I am even iffy on canned crap. Anything other than absolutely fresh or frozen accentuates the rotting lifeform whang. If a fish is overly oily, I have the same issue - mackeral, sardines, sprats. Blargh.
Bugs. I know they are eaten by people all over the world, but I have an absolute vomit reaction to bugs. No, never, not ever. Not spiders, not scorpions, not grubs, not maggots, not anything. Yes, I know shrimp are effectively underwater bugs, just shut the fuck up.
Goat cheese. Someone gave me goat cheese on one of those artisanal whole grain colon blow crackers. Loved the crackers, however I am hyper sensitive to the acid that typifies goat flavor, and it smells and tastes like goat urine. You know how uncut male goats have a stench? That is what goat products smell and taste like to me.
One of those super secret try me flavored chips in the black bag. No idea what the fuck they thought the flavor was going to be, but battery acid sprang to mind. Acrid, sharp, nasty.
This is one of the positives of being old and set in your ways. You do feel obligated to try weird snack foods.
That was Mountain Dew flavor, and what I came in here to mention. My original thread about them. I believe these are what aruvqan mentions, as well.
Rockaletas, a chili-powder and fruit lollipop. I know chili powder candies (and chili powder on fruit) are popular in Mexico, but I couldn’t stand these.
Eclipse Gum had a discontinued mint flavor that had cardamom, apparently for fresh breath. Tasted nasty. I’d almost rather have a Sen Sen.