Not necessarily the worst, but the weirdest.
For me, it’s Sprite Green Tea. Hey, I like Sprite. I like green tea, too. But mixing the two flavors together is the oddest damn thing I’ve ever tasted.
Fresh Lake Erie Mayflies in their mating transformation. Highly concentrated chlorophyl. Very green tasting buggers. Somewhere between Seaweed and Romaine, witrh a bit of lemon.
I’m not a big fan of that drink, either. I told my wife that it tasted like a wet, moldy bathroom placemat (or, rather, what I imagine one would taste like). That was my first and last Green Tea Sprite.
ETA: I’m also not a very big fan of Pineapple Beer:
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Blech.
One time I put nacho cheese powder on popcorn, without noticing that it was sweet popcorn.
Disgusting. In all my travels, that is the weirdest and most unsettling thing I’ve ever eaten.
There was a pepsi adzuki bean flavour out in Japan last summer. It tasted like bean burps.
I wont be surprised if this thread turns out to have quite a few Asia expats chiming in. The stuff they come up with out here is just ridiculous. Blueberry flavored potato chips with wasabi powder? Who could possibly have thought that would be a good idea???
I’ll throw caviar-flavored potato chips into the mix. You can almost see why the manufacturers thought it might be a good idea for the Russian market. But buy a bag of them, and you realize very quickly that all your instincts are right, and that any form of fish-flavored chips just seems very, very wrong.
I think I’m gonna have to go with capers.
Skyy pineapple infused vodka. I saw it at a bar this weekend, so I tried it on the rocks. Unusual taste. So I had another. And another.
I remember it tasted “interesting” but I do not remember exactly why.
Olive oil gelato. Weird weird weird, and bizarrely delicious.
Jeni’s Sweet Basil ice cream. Unfortunately no longer made.
I once made chocolate chip cookies, and put them, fresh and hot from the oven, on the wooden cutting board. This created onion/garlic flavored chocolate chip cookies. It wasn’t as disgusting as you might think, but it was decidedly odd.
Basil ice (mot ice-cream) is an easy to make dessert that is the most beautiful green color. I’ve made it a few times and always get compliments.
Try spreading lime marmalade onto freshly toasted onion bagels.
That is a truly weird flavor combo.
I had a cold at the time and couldn’t smell, so I didn’t spit it out right away like my classmates. Tasted like Tums. I listened bemusedly to my professor’s lesson about culturally conditioned flavor preferences. Smug, too, because I didn’t have a silly disgusted look on my face.
Then in the middle of class, my nose cleared up.
(Hack/Cough/Retch/OMGWTFmakeitstop!)
Not a smell you want following you from inside your mouth.
I was at an Indian restaurant in Las Vegas (Gaylord’s at the Rio) a few years ago. As part of my appetizer, I received a small dish of what they called mint chutney. It looked disgusting. Kind of like a pea and phlegm smoothy but it had a wonderful, indescribable flavor. I could barely even taste the mint. The flavors were complex, overlapping and very delicate. I wish I had more
Marmite.
Tomato jam.
It tastes way better than you’d expect.
Durian. 'Nuff said.
Durian is a little funny-tasting, all right.
I once had a beer that had a distinct aftertaste of meat. Very odd.
The most noteworthy one I can think of is Thrills gum. Who came up with the great idea of making a soap-flavoured gum? And yet I’ve willingly chewed it on several occasions…