# Tasteless or nearly tasteless foods **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 9, 2011, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tasteless-or-nearly-tasteless-foods/595705 "2011-09-09T07:49:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![tadtooornamental](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@tadtooornamental](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tadtooornamental)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tasteless-or-nearly-tasteless-foods/595705/101 "2011-09-27T21:56:32Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > I wonder, do all you non-paprika tasting people, like me, like to eat really spicy food? None at all really, I can’t handle spicy. If it tasted even mildly hot to me, or caused that burning kind of feel, I would just eat around it. But I get nothing. Except an extra red tongue. ---
**Author:** ![phantom\_lamb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5f9b8f/32.png) [@phantom\_lamb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phantom_lamb)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2011, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tasteless-or-nearly-tasteless-foods/595705/102 "2011-09-28T09:58:16Z")
> [@hogarth](#): > > But speaking of decorative but tasteless fruits, I nominate [the dragon fruit](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitaya). It has a teensy bit of sweet flavour, a teensy bit of radish-y flavour, and not much else. Looks great, though. > [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > I’ve always had a hankerin’ to try fresh mozzarella. I bought some recently - it came in a tub and each mozz was sphere-shaped - and was supremely disappointed. It tasted like nothing. (I suspect I should seek out another sample from a different source). Agree with dragon fruit and fresh mozzarella. I register hardly any taste. ---
**Author:** ![El\_DeLuxo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_deluxo/32/9043_2.png) [@El\_DeLuxo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_DeLuxo)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2011, 9:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tasteless-or-nearly-tasteless-foods/595705/103 "2011-09-29T09:35:48Z")
_Chapulines_ – toasted grasshoppers. In Oaxaca, there are old ladies selling them nearly everywhere you turn, from wee ones the size of wheat grains all the way up to big scary ones an inch or so long – and they all taste of nothing other than chili powder and the grease they were cooked in. It’s like eating puffed rice with a light sprinkling of chili. ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2011, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tasteless-or-nearly-tasteless-foods/595705/104 "2011-09-29T18:08:02Z")
Chayote squash-popular in Mexico, tastes like dish water. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2011, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tasteless-or-nearly-tasteless-foods/595705/105 "2011-09-29T18:48:58Z")
> [@ralph124c](#): > > Chayote squash-popular in Mexico, tastes like dish water. My wife juliennes it and stir-fries it with soy sauce. So I assumed it tasted like soy sauce. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_Not\_Appearing\_on\_This\_Site](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7cd45c/32.png) [@Sir\_Not\_Appearing\_on\_This\_Site](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Not_Appearing_on_This_Site)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2011, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tasteless-or-nearly-tasteless-foods/595705/106 "2011-09-29T21:53:20Z")
My vote goes for Watermelon. I like things that are watermelon flavored, but personally, any time I have eaten it, I taste nothing. Simply water. ---
**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:** [September 29, 2011, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tasteless-or-nearly-tasteless-foods/595705/107 "2011-09-29T21:56:53Z")
Watermelon definitely has a flavor, one I don’t like. I Aldo can’t stand the smell of watermelon-flavored things, like chewing gum. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tasteless-or-nearly-tasteless-foods/595705/108 "2011-09-30T06:33:28Z")
> [@ralph124c](#): > > Chayote squash-popular in Mexico, tastes like dish water. How do you know?😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2011, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tasteless-or-nearly-tasteless-foods/595705/109 "2011-10-01T01:11:00Z")
Eggplant ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2011, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tasteless-or-nearly-tasteless-foods/595705/110 "2011-10-01T01:15:44Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > Avocado. I can’t see the appeal. It tastes like a lot of squishy nothing. I have that same opinion of eggplant. People always say “oh, but if you do so-and-so and blah-blah to it. . .” If I have to do all of that, then it isn’t worth eating. And it has a mushy consistency that I don’t like. I do like avocado, though, but it’s a temperamental vegetable that has to be just the right ripeness. Actually, a lot of things are fairly tasteless, but provide a medium for something good: potatoes, white bread, hamburger buns, biscuits. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2011, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tasteless-or-nearly-tasteless-foods/595705/111 "2011-10-01T10:55:22Z")
Not sure if anyone has mentioned this yet… Yeah, plain matzoh is dry and tasteless, BUT… Try Egg matzoh, if you can find it in the store. Has a modicum of flavor, and isn’t so dry. Much more palatable when eaten plain. Not sure if it’s kosher for Passover, though. OR: Better than peanut butter, try haroset or charoset (English spelling varies). Mixture of chopped nuts, apples or other fruit, cinnamon, wine, other goodies, to put on your plain matzoh. Yum! For the little kiddies, this is what makes the whole seder worthwhile! See [Charoset - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charoset) # – Senegoid ---
**Author:** ![Melysnl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/76d3ee/32.png) [@Melysnl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melysnl)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2011, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tasteless-or-nearly-tasteless-foods/595705/112 "2011-10-03T05:17:41Z")
Cucumbers, celery, white bread and rice are all pretty tasteless. Eggs that aren’t made with tomatoes, salsa, hot sauce or soy cheese. ---
**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 3, 2011, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tasteless-or-nearly-tasteless-foods/595705/113 "2011-10-03T05:43:14Z")
According to my taste buds, the only food with no taste is white rice. ---
**Author:** ![amanset](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8dc957/32.png) [@amanset](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amanset)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2011, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tasteless-or-nearly-tasteless-foods/595705/114 "2011-10-03T05:43:50Z")
Totally agree on the rice cakes, you absolutely have to have the flavoured versions of those. Unfortunately the flavoured ones often seem to be flavoured with unhealthy stuff, like the pizza flavour ones that my local supermarket sells. I find the discussion about strawberries interesting. Swedes, almost to a man, insist that Swedish strawberries are the best in the world and scoff at the idea of eating foreign ones. Now I wonder if the foreign strawberries are either suffering on the trip up here or we just get sent the crap ones anyway, meaning Swedish ones are going to taste better than the other stuff in supermarkets. I’ve no idea myself, since turning diabetic in 1993 my ability to eat really sweet/sharp things has diminished drastically. As such, I can’t stand strawberries. Oh and my mum made something with marrow once when I was a kid. At the request of the entire family the experiment was never repeated. A tasteless mush. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2011, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tasteless-or-nearly-tasteless-foods/595705/115 "2011-10-03T11:04:44Z")
See the main reason I like table water crackers and rice cakes _is_ because they have essentially no flavor. I use them as a base for other flavors. One favorite for table water crackers is a thin slice of an aged cheddar, a schmear of chutney and a slice of apple. I could go through a platter of them, but unfortuantely being diabetic I can’t ☹ but they are an extremely popular hors d’oeuvre around here. My goddaughters swear by rice cakes with peanut butter, honey and alfalfa sprouts. That is one of their favorite afternoon snacks. I hate peanut butter, but rice cakes with nutella is quite good. Nutella on rice cakes is also a great firecracker. ---
**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 3, 2011, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tasteless-or-nearly-tasteless-foods/595705/116 "2011-10-03T13:34:49Z")
firecracker? ---
**Author:** ![BetsQ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/fbc32d/32.png) [@BetsQ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BetsQ)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2011, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tasteless-or-nearly-tasteless-foods/595705/117 "2011-10-03T15:50:08Z")
Huh. I’ve never thought of all these foods as being tasteless. I’ll agree with water chestnuts as being tasteless, and possibly tofu. I like both of them, though, as well as most of the other bland foods mentioned here. I actually am not hugely fond of celery because I find the taste to be so strong. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2011, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tasteless-or-nearly-tasteless-foods/595705/118 "2011-10-03T18:42:09Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > firecracker? I do medical marijuana and I prefer not to smoke, edibles have a longer uptake and longer more gentle action. Firecrackers are marijuana added to something such as peanut butter spread on a cracker and baked. I happen to hate peanut butter but nutella is a good substitute. ---
**Author:** ![Jamicat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c67d28/32.png) [@Jamicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jamicat)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2011, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tasteless-or-nearly-tasteless-foods/595705/119 "2011-10-03T19:05:01Z")
I just had a Watermelon the red part tastes sweet and watery the whitey part is just water flavor, taste nothing like a jolly rancher. Matzo taste of cardboard with butter on it. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2011, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tasteless-or-nearly-tasteless-foods/595705/120 "2011-10-03T19:19:19Z")
Dead babies are pretty tasteless… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tasteless-or-nearly-tasteless-foods/595705.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tasteless-or-nearly-tasteless-foods/595705.md?page=7)