So what’s wrong with Root Beer? I love it. I’m a root beer connoisseur.
stewed okra & tomatoes – the epitome of slime
the liquid antacid I had to gulp before my last two operations. Oh my gosh–I never tasted anything nastier in my entire life!!!
Penicillin (apologies for spelling, I’m suffering from extreme fatigue).
And… Did anyone ever have to try one of those dental tablets that has red dye that sticks to plaque? In the sixth grade, some dental hygenist did s demonstration for my class. She had us all go brush our teeth, then chew a tablet. The red dye would show up most noticeably on plaque to show us where we weren’t brushing properly.
I sat on the school bus on the way home with a slack jaw, foaming at the mouth, and spitting into a handful of paper towels. I was violently ill from the extremely bitter taste. No one else seemed to have such and extreme response, so perhaps it was an allergic reaction.
I distinctly remember it tasting like perfume (those of you who have kissed the neck of someone wearing an expensive fragrance will know what I mean.)
I thought I would die!
Mint ice cream with a chutney-garlic glaise sprinkled with anchovies and white peppercorns.
moxie!
I made this soup that sounded very good by the looks of the recipie. It was a cold cucumber-cheese soup. wanna know what it tasted like? TMI warning ahead…
you really wanna know? well ok then… it tasted exactly like…
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semen. enough said
In Hunter S. Thompson’s “The Curse of Lono” there’s this bit where an injured Ralph Steadman eats a bag of valerian root and gets utterly twisted. As I was an adventurous* lad, I thought “That’s for ME!” and skipped down to my local Food Co-op where they sold the vile stuff in bulk.
Do not do this.
*stupid
oh, second the valerian root. I used to take an extract of it for insomnia. decided i’d rather not sleep.
also, syrup of ipeacac. The taste alone almost made me vomit. Then a half hour later i puked my self dry. couldn’t even give a urine sample at the hospital that night. my stomach was sore the next day from all the heaving.
Good point on the valerian root. I don’t even keep it in my medicine cabinet, because that’s in the kitchen, and I don’t want the smell from the (sealed) bottle of (sealed) capsules to get into my food.
Nasty stuff. It actually smells worse than it tastes, though the taste is bad enough.
Dextromethorphan Hydrobromide. This is the active ingredient in Vicks 44 and Robo. It’s a dissociative, quite similar to PCP, with a side-effect of suppressing your cough.
I drank a whole bottle of Vicks 44 a few years ago out of raw curiosity. I tried mixing it with Coca-Cola. One can: one bottle - no dice, still tasted like cough medicine. Transfer to a pitcher and mix a second can of Coke: no change in the flavor whatsoever. Increase Coke:Vicks ratio to 3:1… in defiance of all that I learned in chemistry, algebra II, and biology, the flavor was as if I’d increased the amount of cough syrup to 40 fluid oz…
Jaegermeister, btw, is also pretty high on my list of never-again.
Siphoning diesel fuel from one container to another and starting the process by sucking on the hose is definitely a BAD IDEA!!
Just inhaling the fumes will get that stuff into your lungs where you will burp it and taste the results for many days. Everything you eat tastes like diesel, and nothing known to man except time will neutralize it. Truly a nasty experience.
Two things forced on me by fellow drunkards years ago as ‘brilliant’ cold cures:
Uzo and hot milk.
Navy rum and Bovril.
…'scuse me…
Ulp…
In defense of: [ul][li]Spinich (Hated by Merrin)[/li]I love spinach as long as it’s drained well enough so green water doesn’t cover the plate.[li]Robitussin (Despised by dead0man)[/li]You really think Pepto is better? I always thought the way it cured most peoples runs was via emptying their entire digestive tract after vomiting it’s alien pinkness up.[li]Tab (Listed by DMark)[/li]My fave non-alcoholic beverage, Drink at least 16 cans a day…but admit it’s more of an addiction than a passion[/ul]
From the “No, peanut butter is not an injectible hallucinogen” files:
Glad it was raw curiousity and not a drink recipe from Kitty Dukakis’ new book.
Worst taste “buds” experience:
A cigarette partially disolved in a can of beer…Insta-puke
Runner up: (Speaking of beer); Berliner weiss. Who’s the rocket scientist who decided to mix raspberry sauce with weissbeir?