And shrimp.
I get stone-ground yellow grits, not the instant white ones (“No self-respectin’ Southerner uses INSTANT grits!” My Cousin Vinny), and they are nice and flavorful even without the cheese. And shrimp.
I don’t know if it’s because I haven’t had any good ones or what, but I can’t remember the last time I had honeydew melon that tasted like anything but juicy crunchy nothing.
As a gardener, I have tasted foods fresh from the plant: strawberries, cherry tomatoes, green onions. Delicious! One of my customers had a peach tree bearing fruit that looked a sickly green in the summertime. But the peaches were sweet and juicy. 
I once tried pizza made by people from India. Despite the lack of meat it was pretty good!
If honeydew is crunchy, it’s not ripe. And there’s nothing more tasteless than an unripe melon.
I second your first; and second your second in a very secondy way. Dragon fruit taste like wet solid air. I found Star fruit much the same. Great names, shame about the taste(lessness).
I dunno about the dragon fruit, but I’ve had star fruit picked from the tree in Israel, and it was still tasted like it was really trying to be something and fell straight to sleep on its face.
Do lima beans have flavor? I only tried them once, and couldn’t stand the texture.
Water chestnuts. They’re crunchy, but tasteless.
Bamboo shoots
The winner has to be rice cakes. The taste does not justify the effort of chewing them.
Puffed Rice cereal gets pretty close, but you eat them with milk and sugar.
I take popcorn and put in a glad bowl and pop it in the microwave with nothing added. It doesn’t have much taste. Sometimes I will sprinkle salt on it or spray Parkay buttery spray on it to give it some flavor.
Wait a minute? You are supposed to eat rice cakes !? I thought they were biodegradable packing material.
I’ve only had tofu once and it was completely forgettable.
Celery, potatoes, and rice all have wonderful subtle flavor. But the “genius” who invented them needs his/her ass kicked. The most bland, worthless foodstuff on this planet.
So-called flavored rice cakes are the worst.
I would add to the “crunchy but tasteless” category-macadamia nuts-lots of crunch, zero taste.
That should read “But the “genius” who invented rice cakes needs his/her ass kicked.” :smack:
I was gonna say…there’s a place for bland food, after all…Our local news anchor for years has been blatting on about the wonders of rice cakes, including putting them in the kids lunch, whenever there was a news story about obesity/healthy snacks. OK, fair enough, but she just harped on it forever, and I finally lost patience and wrote to her to STFU about the damn rice cakes, already.
How paradoxical. How do you remember that it was completely forgettable?
You have to put salt on it or it tastes like nothing.
Well I remember thinking, “it’s tofu! All my vegan friends love this so it’s probably going to have some great flavor, like portabellos.” But it didn’t taste like anything at all, and in fact had a skeevy texture, so in my mind… Er…
African staple grains (fufu and it’s various incarnations) is extremely tasteless and has a paste-like texture. You tend to get served football sized portions, and it can be tough to get down. It’s just a huge mass of carbs.
I tend to like very flavorful foods, but oddly I also really like bland foods. I love water crackers, matzah and rice cakes. Mmmm.
Scotts porridge oats as made by my mother-in-law.
She’s a true Scot and makes it with water and the barest hint of salt (she’s cut down for health reasons!). You can add half-fat milk at the table but go for more than a tablespoonful and you’ll get the look. Reach for the sugar and she’ll stab you with a fork.
It’s only this way with the Religion that is Porridge, other than that she’s a pretty good cook and not too puritan.
The wife has gone all wishy washy liberal and makes it with milk
When I worked ex-pat in Angola there was funge. Funge is a cooked paste of manioc flour with the consistency and taste of wall paper paste. It is okay with gravy but I think I prefer the mother-in-laws porridge.
I agree-why people go gaga over buffala mozzarella is beyond me-it tastes like caulking compound. The sliced tomato and basil are mch better.