Was it good?

  • Rimu@piefed.socialEnglish
    45·
    6 months ago

    Durian.

    Texture of banana but with a huge seed. Tastes like a strange combination of rotten eggs, whipped cream, vanilla ice cream, diced garlic, onions, cheese, and… caramel?

    It’s fucked. Never again.

    • DeconceptualistEnglish
      22·
      6 months ago

      There are lots of varieties of Durian that bring out all those flavors (and possibly more) to various degrees. Supposedly some of them can be good if you acclimate and enjoy funky fruit.

      The small dehydrated piece a friend brought me from Vietnam recently had tasted like if you went to a pizza joint and mixed the little containers of garlic butter and bleu cheese sauce, then added some pineapple and gasoline and a hint of vanilla custard for good measure. It was extremely weird and mostly reminded me of garbage. And for the rest of the day, the smallest burp brought back its vile ghost.

      • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip
        1·
        6 months ago

        I’ve only had it once and I don’t know what variety it was, but despite the smell it just tasted kinda like a honeydew. There was no bitterness or anything

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
      13·
      6 months ago

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durian

      The unusual flavour and odour of the fruit have prompted many people to express diverse and passionate views ranging from deep appreciation to intense disgust. Writing in 1856, the British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace provided a much-quoted description of the flavour of the durian:

      The five cells are silky-white within, and are filled with a mass of firm, cream-coloured pulp, containing about three seeds each. This pulp is the edible part, and its consistence and flavour are indescribable. A rich custard highly flavoured with almonds gives the best general idea of it, but there are occasional wafts of flavour that call to mind cream-cheese, onion-sauce, sherry-wine, and other incongruous dishes. Then there is a rich glutinous smoothness in the pulp which nothing else possesses, but which adds to its delicacy. It is neither acidic nor sweet nor juicy; yet it wants neither of these qualities, for it is in itself perfect. It produces no nausea or other bad effect, and the more you eat of it the less you feel inclined to stop. In fact, to eat Durians is a new sensation worth a voyage to the East to experience. … as producing a food of the most exquisite flavour it is unsurpassed.[a]

      Wallace described himself as being at first reluctant to try it because of the aroma, “but in Borneo I found a ripe fruit on the ground, and, eating it out of doors, I at once became a confirmed Durian eater”. He cited one traveller from 1599:[b] “it is of such an excellent taste that it surpasses in flavour all other fruits of the world, according to those who have tasted it.” He cites another writer: “To those not used to it, it seems at first to smell like rotten onions, but immediately after they have tasted it they prefer it to all other food. The natives give it honourable titles, exalt it, and make verses on it.”

      While Wallace cautions that “the smell of the ripe fruit is certainly at first disagreeable”, later descriptions by Westerners are more graphic in detail. Novelist Anthony Burgess writes that eating durian is “like eating sweet raspberry blancmange in the lavatory”. Travel and food writer Richard Sterling says:

      its odor is best described as pig-excrement, turpentine and onions, garnished with a gym sock. It can be smelled from yards away. Despite its great local popularity, the raw fruit is forbidden from some establishments such as hotels, subways and airports, including public transportation in Southeast Asia.

      Other comparisons have been made with the civet, sewage, stale vomit, skunk spray and used surgical swabs.

      • niktemadur@lemmy.world
        4·
        6 months ago

        This is the most fun I’ve had reading text so far today, it’s like I was transported to another time and place without leaving the comfort of my own couch.

      • /home/pineapplelover
        3·
        6 months ago

        Durian is amazing if you’ve had it when you were younger. So if you got a young one, train them to try out new foods, fruits, vegetables, then they won’t be picky eaters. I had durian when I was younger and love the shit out of it. Those who aren’t, are likely to be disgusted by it.

        • mojofrododojo@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          6 months ago

          the smell is fucking epic. I was sad that I smelled it before trying durian ice cream, I think it’s ruined it for me.

          • /home/pineapplelover
            1·
            6 months ago

            Why is it ruined for you? I’ve had durian before durian ice cream and they are both really good.

            • mojofrododojo@lemmy.worldEnglish
              3·
              6 months ago

              the smell of durian makes me ill. Durian ice cream doesn’t have the smell, but the flavor profile still makes me think of the smell lol I guess stupid brain sensory issues

      • niktemadur@lemmy.world
        1·
        6 months ago

        Now I’m visualizing a shadowy figure in a trenchcoat in Ho Chi Minh City, beckoning curious tourists from an alleyway…

        “Psst… hey buddy… yeah you… want to buy some durian?”

    • anon6789@lemmy.world
      3·
      6 months ago

      I thought it was so good and bad at the same time. (But I feel the bad lasts longer!). I’ve had candy, wafers, and dried forms. The worst has always been that it makes me burp and it tastes like a restaurant dumpster smells.

      It’s like in a movie when someone’s mind is fed ask the knowledge in the universe until they’re overwhelmed and turn to dust or explode, but for taste buds.

    • Interstellar_1@pawb.socialOP
      1·
      6 months ago

      That does sound really weird. They really have bacon flavoured everything in some sense and it’s always a weird flavour

  • MummifiedClient5000@feddit.dkEnglish
    15·
    6 months ago

    Probably the garlic ice cream in garlic restaurant Balthasar in Tallinn.

    8/10. Would eat again. Sadly it looks like the place closed down, probably during covid-19 :-(

    • Doubletwist@lemmy.world
      2·
      6 months ago

      I had garlic ice cream at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in California. Everyone leaving the free sample line had the exact same expression on their face as they tried the first taste:

      Slightly scrunched up have with an expression that said, “I was really expecting this to be horrible but it’s not bad. Not great, but not bad.”

  • Thorny_Insight
    14·
    6 months ago

    Salty liquorice ice cream, probably.

    It’s not a weird taste to me but I’d imagine the vast majority of non-Finnish people would absolutely hate it.

  • LifeOfChance@lemmy.world
    11·
    6 months ago

    Broom flavored soda. Buddy of mine made homemade sodas and did fun experiments and one went wrong so he called it broom soda because that’s exactly how it tasted. He added to much sugar somewhere and it partial melted and had this weird texture that mimicked sand. It’s such a weird drink to describe.

    4/10 fun to laugh about but not to try more than a swig.

    • Dasus@lemmy.world
      1·
      6 months ago

      Here in Finland some product developers have a weird obsession over adding the taste of salty liquorice to everything.

      So naturally there are also sodas and other products which taste of salty liquorice. And a whole bunch of combinations to things like “cinnamon bun + salty liquorice” like wtf who would ever enjoy that

  • RBWells@lemmy.world
    11·
    6 months ago

    I saw a recipe on.Bon Appetit for an orange juice and coffee drink, my initial impression was “no way” but I modified it a little and really liked it.

    Cold brew, fresh squeezed orange juice, and Topo Chico fizzy water, poured over ice.

    I also like the salad that is fennel, oranges and olives and onions, and also the Mexican fruit salad that’s pineapple, mango, jicama, onion, with citrus juice dressing and cotija sharp crumbled cheese.

    I think that’s it for combinations that sound awful to me but taste good to me.

      • RBWells@lemmy.world
        1·
        6 months ago

        I like Campari in orange juice quite a lot, and love it in grapefruit based cocktails. Siesta with 2x the Campari is actually so good after the first sip to calibrate. In coffee though? Seems like it would amplify the unpleasant flavors in both.

  • Skanky@lemmy.world
    122·
    6 months ago

    If you want to try a very divisive cocktail, you need to go no further than the classic Negroni. I absolutely love them, but they are not for everyone. Extremely bitter and astringent - you certainly don’t gulp this one down. To me, it’s the most “adult” of adult alcoholic beverages. You either love or or despise it.

    Wanna try it?

    Equal parts:

    • Gin.
    • Campari.
    • Sweet Vermouth.
      • RBWells@lemmy.world
        32·
        6 months ago

        I hate the negroni. Don’t understand it, it’s way too sweet, way too bitter, but mostly just sickeningly sweet. Like if it was dumped into a glass of soda water or lemon water it would probably be ok.

        Absinthe I think is just divisive because licorice/anise flavor is polarizing. I like it in cocktails, like Sambucca too. I love licorice flavors in general though.

  • Pope-King Joe@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    6 months ago

    I had that Kraft Mac and Cheese ice cream. It was very strange. It was also better tasting than it had any right to be.

    That being said… I don’t want any more of it.

  • Akasazh@feddit.nl
    101·
    6 months ago

    I used to work in a bar. Somebody ordered a Malibu (coconut liqueur) with tonic water. I tasted some out of curiosity. It was weird, but not in a good way.

  • Waldowal@lemmy.world
    7·
    6 months ago

    Just recently: Dunkin Spiked Coffee

    I love coffee, so I had high hopes for this being really good. It tasted like someone mixed sugar, red wine, and coffee. Horrible. Tangy. Oddly sweet. Just weird. I can’t imagine a boardroom of people at Dunkin tasted this crap and said “ship it!”