Worst Tastes: Tabasco & Baking Soda/Popcorn Butter

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Discussion Overview

The discussion centers around participants sharing their experiences with the worst tastes they have encountered, exploring various food combinations and individual flavors that are deemed unpleasant. The scope includes personal anecdotes, culinary experiences, and reactions to specific food items and combinations.

Discussion Character

  • Exploratory
  • Debate/contested

Main Points Raised

  • One participant describes a negative experience with Tabasco in coffee, suggesting a chemical reaction that resulted in an unpleasant taste.
  • Another participant shares that baking soda combined with popcorn butter flavoring tasted like vomit.
  • Multiple participants mention earwax as a particularly bad taste, with one humorously questioning the source.
  • A participant recounts a bad experience with sea urchin sushi, contrasting it with another's positive experience, leading to a discussion about the importance of freshness and origin.
  • One participant expresses a strong aversion to aluminum foil, describing a visceral reaction to its taste.
  • Several participants share their distaste for specific food items, such as cilantro, capers, and hominy, with varying degrees of agreement on their unpleasantness.
  • One participant mentions a bitter metallic taste from an alkaloid during a biology survey, indicating a strong reaction to the flavor.
  • Another participant discusses the artificial compound diacetyl, linking it to bad tasting experiences and its presence in certain foods.
  • Some participants share combinations of flavors that did not work well together, such as orange Tang with vodka and strawberry-banana with garlic chicken.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

Participants express a range of opinions on various tastes, with some agreeing on specific unpleasant flavors while others share conflicting experiences, particularly regarding sushi and certain food combinations. The discussion remains unresolved with no consensus on the worst tastes.

Contextual Notes

Participants' experiences are subjective and may depend on personal taste preferences, cultural backgrounds, and individual reactions to specific foods. Some claims about food safety and health hazards are mentioned but not verified within the discussion.

  • #91
jimmysnyder said:
The taste of my own words can be bitter at times. Vurp is pretty bad too, especially if it has been in my nose. In Japan they have a treat called Natto, a kind of fermented soy bean. I couldn't stand it at first, but my wife made me feed to to my toddler daughter. She wasn't having it so I would do what all stupid parents do, take a taste and say "yummy". My daughter was never fooled by any of this, but I came to enjoy the taste of it.

That's the only ref to "Natto" I could find in PF. I think that a lot of people should be going to like Natto, me including, because it seems to have very strong medical benifits. It dissolved blood clogs and therefore may prevent strokes and heart attacks.

Dr. Hiroyuki Sumi, discovered Nattokinase, an enzyme produced by the natto bacterea, there seem also beneficial effects for other diseases. See this scholar google search:

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=natto+Hiroyuki+Sumi&hl=en&lr=&btnG=search

The smell of Natto is mainly amonia it seems, which can be neutralized by some acid, (vinegar). it could be an idea for salad, every day :-P
 
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  • #92
Toad in the hole.
 
  • #93
wolram said:
Toad in the hole.
You have to get the right species of toad.
 
  • #94
mgb_phys said:
You have to get the right species of toad.

That would have to be the Colorado River Toad. The Church of the Toad of Light uses their poison secretions to induce a hallucinogenic effect. It tastes like 5-MeO-DMT. Nasty stuff.
 
  • #95
Depends where the hole is.
 
  • #96
Toad in the hole.
I likes me toad Ala mode.

Chocolate.

I am a chocoholic (Ha! chocoholic is an actual word on this forum! No spelling mistake underline! :smile:) One day, when I was very young and stupid (the difference being I was young then), I couldn't find any candy in the house. I searched in the closets (behind the hats), in the pots and pans cabinet (in the double boiler, of course), in the freezer (behind the beans)...okay I admit I had a problem, but I am working through it. Anyway, I couldn't find any candy, but I did find a block of baker's cooking chocolate...

Worse-tasting-God-awful-stuff I ever stuck in my mouth on purpose! It was pucker-up-your-lips-till-your-face-disappears bitter and dry... and my second bite was no better (I know I know, but it was chocolate...I told you I had a problem).
 
  • #97
I Love Baker's Cooking Chocolate!
 
  • #98
I *love* Baker's unsweetened chocolate! The trick is that you have to shave off tiny bits with your teeth, it'll take several hours to make a sizeable dent in a cube of it, but talk about a dark chocolate rush. :approve:
 
  • #99
Artman said:
and my second bite was no better.
:smile: Reminds me of the restaurant review: The food is awful and the portions are too small.
 
  • #100
Evo said:
I *love* Baker's unsweetened chocolate! The trick is that you have to shave off tiny bits with your teeth, it'll take several hours to make a sizeable dent in a cube of it, but talk about a dark chocolate rush. :approve:
Couldn't find any candy in the double boiler, or behind the hats either, ehh?

The only thing I've ever eaten more bitter than Baker's Unsweetened Chocolate is a persimmon. Initiation by the seniors to the freshman getting onto my high school bus was to eat a persimmon, or drop pants. In 'hindsight' (heh, heh) a nice dairyaireing would have been preferable to chomping on that nasty little thing. That taste stayed with me till...gosh, I can still taste that thing!
 
  • #101
Evo said:
Depends where the hole is.


LOL.
 
  • #102
Evo said:
I *love* Baker's unsweetened chocolate! The trick is that you have to shave off tiny bits with your teeth, it'll take several hours to make a sizeable dent in a cube of it, but talk about a dark chocolate rush. :approve:

I used to just take big bites! I always liked the stuff; though the first time I took a bite it was quite a surprise.
 
  • #103
Octopussy is the worst tasting thing it is 8 times to fishy.