The Best And Worst Thing You've Ever Tasted (THING! Not specifically food...)

[jurinova]

I feel like I keep finding new flavours I love and hate constantly, so it's hard to pick only a few but I'll try...

One of the best things I've ever eaten was my grandmother's homemade karelian stew. We had it every Christmas and it was just so full of flavour. The beef wasn't even the best part because the broth was so delicious. Absolutely amazing. Unfortunately my grandma passed away some years ago and it's a flavour that will forever remain in my memories. I'm a vegetarian these days, and it's the only meat dish I miss.

Generally though, when it comes to specific flavours I absolutely love blue cheese. But not just any blue cheese, it has to be a specific brand because it has a softer flavour than the others. Some of the cheapest blue cheese also tastes like what sock sweat smells like and that's not what I want at all, no sir!

Recently I've been absolutely loathing cilantro. Or coriander... Wait, which is it? Anyways, I seem to pick up if there's even the smallest amount of it and it ruins the whole meal for me.

The absolutely worst taste was this stomach medicine I had to take once. It was in liquid form and it was vile. Absolutely horrible. I feel like it was really evil to have a stomach medicine taste so bad because it just made me want to throw up.

(On a sidenote, I once got strawberry flavoured sedative at a hospital and they gave it to me in a pink syringe with cartoon characters on it. I was an adult already but I now consider that the best medicine I've ever gotten. Adult sedatives should also be strawberry flavoured.)

[Scarlet_Cryptid]

Recently I've been absolutely loathing cilantro. Or coriander... Wait, which is it?

Same plant. Cilantro, however, refers to the leaves, and coriander is the seeds.

[DanielRKM]

Does cilantro taste like soap to you?

[jurinova]

Honestly, I'm not sure if that's how I'd describe it. For me coriander has a dull and disturbing taste for sure but difficult to describe. It kinda makes all food taste like it's starting to go bad. I am aware that for some people it tastes like soap because of genetics, but I haven't had problems with coriander until recently. It could be that I just haven't eaten much of it before and only now discovered that I am one of the unlucky ones.

[BLTX]

Well at least you didn't actually lick it.

[BarBarKetrab]

One of the best things I've ever tasted was this Mexican sweet potato soup that I've eaten a few times (among other things, of course).

The worst was probably that one time 7 year old me thought it would be a genius idea to spice up a leaf of cabbage with a teaspoon of sugar.
"It's gonna be just like salt!" I thought.

[smolcat]

The best thing i have ever tasted is the Choco éclair I bought from the café under Eiffel tower that one time I went to Paris. I still remember its taste and how the entire thing just melted in my mouth. I hope I can go back there one day
The worst thing I ever tasted is liquid dish washing soap mixed with water and i actually swallowed one gulp of it My mom asked the maid to wash my water bottle along with the other dishes so she put the dish soap and water inside the bottle but unfortunately forgot about it, and then after she went home and I came back from my extra lessons all quenched up, I gulped down that water from the nearest bottle i could find. I really felt like bringing my insides out and washing them like a utensil.

[BLTX]

I washed a glass before pouring in Ginger Ale a few weeks back, but didn't wash the soap out as well as I thought I did. I just threw it out in the sink.

[AnonymousHouseCat]

oh no! D: Yeah, luckily the stir fry didn’t take very long, so there wasn’t enough time for the rice turn fully black/set the apt on fire haha

[AnonymousHouseCat]

I am convinced one of my friends is a supertaster! She has a SUPER long list of foods she won’t eat, I have seen her turn bright red from black pepper (she says it’s too spicy) and she eats mostly bland foods. Once she told me to try this cake with no frosting that she said was “delicious,” but to me just tasted like slightly sweet bread… Also that is an amazing description of the mouthwash XD.

[BLTX]

I also have a very long list of foods I won't eat, but I'm pretty sure it has to do with me not being able to smell. Also I don't like cake frosting that much. Like on the side of cake it's fine, but whenever there's a big glob at the end, or ANY cup cake, I always leave it.

[Stargazer31]

I personally hate soft cheeses, especially cream cheese. I don't like the texture, and the taste doesn't appeal to me at all.

[BLTX]

I LOVE cream cheese! REALLY good on a bagel! Also smerican cheese on a nice burger.

[Kelheor]

I say cilantro tastes/smells like cockroaches I don't even know why, that's just how I feel
Hated cilantro until recently just to find out it goes fantastic in some dishes, like poke. Great combo with gomadare and rice.

[BLTX]

Serious question, do coackroaches ACTUALLY have a smell to them? I mean alive ones, of course.

[Kelheor]

No idea! I lived in China for a few years, but it was too far north for cockroaches cuisine, and I am not sure I ever smelled the living ones.
Although there was an episode in my life when I was in a hospital for long (I was 7 y.o.), me and other kids made traps for cockroaches with some leftover medicine and orange peels or something. After some time we found white discolored cockroaches in those little medicine bottle traps (apparently, that's not something special,but at the time it was). I think cilantro triggers something in my brain from this time

[BLTX]

Wow, to cruel to tea lovers AND cockroaches I see...

[silverraven0]

Man, people in my family loves leek, cilantro and all of it's family. I can't stand the raw tase it gave me when I bite into it. It just tase absolutely weird.

[silverraven0]

Im the cockroach killer in my family (i haven't killed any for years now. Mostly i just shoo them away with broom to the outside) and sometimes when you kill them with sandals, their guts spilled and some smell, well, like a f*cking decomposed corpse. Never smelled anything when they're intact.

[BLTX]

Thanks! I was just curious!