# Two Great Tastes That Taste HORRIBLE Together **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 24, 2008, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-great-tastes-that-taste-horrible-together/442548 "2008-03-24T16:42:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2008, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-great-tastes-that-taste-horrible-together/442548/21 "2008-03-24T20:36:15Z")
I know I’m alone here. But for me fruit and chocolate. Chocolate, perfectly nice dessert food. Fruit, lovely. Together they’re several kinds of nasty. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2008, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-great-tastes-that-taste-horrible-together/442548/22 "2008-03-24T20:40:00Z")
I didn’t realize this would be so god-awful until I tried it. Came back to my desk with a styrofoam cup filled with hot fresh brewed coffee. We were out of sugar packets but I do like my coffee on the sweet side. We did however have a large jar filled with Jolly Rancher candies. Sugar is sugar right? I put in two watermelon flavored candies which disolved fairly well from the heat. Tried a sip… Absolutely retchid! Grotesque! Not even a sweet form of gross. It was a bitter foul taste worse than most oral medications. Don’t ever try it. ---
**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:** [March 24, 2008, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-great-tastes-that-taste-horrible-together/442548/23 "2008-03-24T21:38:43Z")
Beer and Orange Juice. The poor man’s mimosa. > [@amareth](#): > > know I’m alone here. But for me fruit and chocolate. > > Chocolate, perfectly nice dessert food. Fruit, lovely. Together they’re several kinds of nasty. I’ve posted many times that chocolate belongs in the candy dish and not the fruit bowl. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2008, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-great-tastes-that-taste-horrible-together/442548/24 "2008-03-24T21:51:04Z")
[QUOTE=Hampshire] I put in two watermelon flavored candies which disolved fairly well from the heat. [/QUOTE] This reminds me of when, as a kid, I tried to dissolve Pixie Stix to make Koolaid. ---
**Author:** ![fusoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@fusoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fusoya)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2008, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-great-tastes-that-taste-horrible-together/442548/25 "2008-03-24T22:07:53Z")
One thing I’ve learned the hard way is NEVER mix cream cheese and mayonnaise. While both are great on bread, combining the two is a quick and easy way to get an upset stomach. Infact, just thinking about the combination makes me feel sick…I’ll be right back… ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2008, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-great-tastes-that-taste-horrible-together/442548/26 "2008-03-24T22:58:21Z")
[QUOTE=Cluricaun] Circus peanuts and ahi tuna. [/QUOTE] \*\*Alice \*\*asked for \*two \*great tastes. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2008, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-great-tastes-that-taste-horrible-together/442548/27 "2008-03-24T23:19:57Z")
I have a friend who’s somewhat of an idiot savant when it comes to food. She could come over and make a delicious meal with whatever was left in my cabinets, which was usually things that no self-respecting rat would touch. That said, she once tried a combination of two or my favorite foods, and it didn’t work **AT ALL!** Never try covering raw garlic in chocolate. Ever. ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2008, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-great-tastes-that-taste-horrible-together/442548/28 "2008-03-24T23:50:45Z")
A few: -peppermint and beer -peppermint and wine -chicken livers and vanilla ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2008, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-great-tastes-that-taste-horrible-together/442548/29 "2008-03-25T00:00:56Z")
[QUOTE=Annie-Xmas] Beer and Orange Juice. The poor man’s mimosa. I’ve posted many times that chocolate belongs in the candy dish and not the fruit bowl. [/QUOTE] Orange is ok in chocolate bar. But Black Forest Cake is one of the nastiest things ever. Don’t know why, because I like the cherries and the chocolate. Just not together. And chocolate- covered cherries are hideous, which that white goo isn’t helping a bit. ---
**Author:** ![Satellite\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Satellite\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satellite_Guy)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2008, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-great-tastes-that-taste-horrible-together/442548/30 "2008-03-25T03:24:07Z")
[QUOTE=fusoya] One thing I’ve learned the hard way is NEVER mix cream cheese and mayonnaise. While both are great on bread, combining the two is a quick and easy way to get an upset stomach. Infact, just thinking about the combination makes me feel sick…I’ll be right back… [/QUOTE] With the right fixin’s, that combination is good – my favorite shrimp dip is (from memory here): -1 cup mayo -1 cup cream cheese -2 tbsp ketchup -1 tbsp what’sthishere sauce (worcestershire) -1 small can of shrimp (I crush them with a fork) -1 shake of garlic powder -s&p to taste great with chips! [/hijack] S^G ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2008, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-great-tastes-that-taste-horrible-together/442548/31 "2008-03-25T03:34:31Z")
Coffee + tea = undrinkable swill. ETA: Lipton orange pekoe, before anyone comes back and tells me that they accidentally mixed Sumatra blend and blueberry mist in the Flavia machine at work, and it tasted _marbelous_. ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2008, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-great-tastes-that-taste-horrible-together/442548/32 "2008-03-25T03:49:54Z")
[QUOTE=fusoya] One thing I’ve learned the hard way is NEVER mix cream cheese and mayonnaise. While both are great on bread, combining the two is a quick and easy way to get an upset stomach. Infact, just thinking about the combination makes me feel sick…I’ll be right back… [/QUOTE] I make an amazing hot spinach dip using cream cheese (or lower-fat neufchatel cheese), sour cream, and either low-fat mayonnaise or Miracle Whip (I actually prefer the latter), with parmesan cheese and lots of garlic and red pepper flakes. Spinach too, of course. It’s on the heavy side, but comes out delicious. ---
**Author:** ![Tikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5daacb/32.png) [@Tikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tikki)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2008, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-great-tastes-that-taste-horrible-together/442548/33 "2008-03-25T04:01:03Z")
[QUOTE=AHunter3] Here’s an odd one: cranberrry sauce and plain old ice water. [/QUOTE] I came in here to say cranberry sauce and milk. Of course, it’s been years since I thought of milk as a “great taste.” ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2008, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-great-tastes-that-taste-horrible-together/442548/34 "2008-03-25T04:15:54Z")
Beer and Oreo cookies … just don’t. ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2008, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-great-tastes-that-taste-horrible-together/442548/35 "2008-03-25T04:22:52Z")
Skittle Brau. ---
**Author:** ![Neidhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Neidhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neidhart)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2008, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-great-tastes-that-taste-horrible-together/442548/36 "2008-03-25T11:15:35Z")
Chocolate-covered steak. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2008, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-great-tastes-that-taste-horrible-together/442548/37 "2008-03-25T11:38:10Z")
This morning on the radio (WROR out of Boston), one of the hosts remarked that he’d had Italian food heavily laced with garlic salt, then had a chocolate bunny for dessert, and the taste was AWFUL! He needed a whole Cadbury Egg to get the taste out. ---
**Author:** ![Terrorcotta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dbc845/32.png) [@Terrorcotta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrorcotta)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2008, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-great-tastes-that-taste-horrible-together/442548/38 "2008-03-25T11:53:33Z")
Raw onion slices on a peaut-butter sandwich. My mom used to make them and tell me the flavor was a totally differnt flavor. Weird…just…weird… ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2008, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-great-tastes-that-taste-horrible-together/442548/39 "2008-03-25T11:57:58Z")
Onion bagel and cream cheese is good. Onion bagel and strawberry jam is horrible. ---
**Author:** ![Student\_Driver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3da27b/32.png) [@Student\_Driver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Student_Driver)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2008, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-great-tastes-that-taste-horrible-together/442548/40 "2008-03-25T12:01:17Z")
[QUOTE=brownie55] Bolding mine. A mojito is traditionally made of five ingredients: rum, sugar (traditionally sugar cane juice), lime, carbonated water and mint. From [Wiki’s mojito page.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojito) So why not have mint in the gum? [/QUOTE] Ah, thanks, I thought mojitos were just lime flavored. Now that I know they’re minty, too, I know to not try one. (Citrus and lime. Ew. Too much like a cough drop.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-great-tastes-that-taste-horrible-together/442548.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-great-tastes-that-taste-horrible-together/442548.md?page=3)