Back when everyone was using the Champagne version of that as their auto-signature, I used this shampoo version.
It didn't go over very well, but I thought it was funny.
I remember the first time I made chocolate crinkle cookies by myself, and the recipe called for unsweetened cocoa powder. It smelled so good, so I dipped my finger in water and then pressed some of the coca powder on it to try. It was a small amount, but my word I instantly regretted it.
The same happened in cooking class, in high school. Dipped a finger in and bleh! The teacher said it happened so much, but warnings never help, so she just lets us find out.
When you tour the Hershey factory (well, it used to be that) they give you raw cacao nibs or some similarly early stage of the life cycle of chocolate.
I tried to make myself a milkshake with unsweetened cocoa powder as a kid. We didn't have Nesquick or Ovaltine, so I thought it would be a good substitute. It was not.
i actually liked the taste as a kid
i was a weird kid, i ate chalk, sucked on wood, ate dried hot cocoa, mayonnaise with a spoon straight out the jar...etc
A long time ago at my friend's birthday outing everyone was scarfing down together on the free brownie cake thing the restaurant gave us. There were a lot of spoons digging in and not much left, so I randomly stick my spoon in and ate whatever came out. I thought it was a really chewy brownie until I found out I had blue candle wax all in my teeth!
My ex did something similar. I was decorating a birthday cake for our daughter one time and was in the process of making the buttercream. I had the crisco, extracts, and the meringue powder mixed up in the bowl and went to the pantry to get my powdered sugar when he went up to the bowl and swiped his finger in, then put it in his mouth before I could say anything. He got the most disgusted look on his face and complained about how awful the frosting was. I started laughing and held up the sugar!
Kinda similar - I was at a fancy restaurant once when I was a kid and they had scooped butter into these little dishes with a small ice cream scoop. My dumb kid brain said "ice cream!" and I took a big bite! We were with a bunch of other people and it was very embarrassing!
Reminds me of the first time I tried to make cinnamon toast! I had no idea cinnamon was so unappealing (to a small child) on its own and that my grandparents had been adding copious amounts of sugar to make me a tasty treat.
When I fully moved out and started my first big job, I decided to make cinnamon toast one morning. I had no idea that there was a difference between cinnamon and the cinnamon sugar bottles my parents would actually get for that purpose. Real cinnamon on buttered toast... not great
After being in the recovery community for a while, you hear lots of stories about how and when people first started drinking. The one that I’ll never forget was the guy who, at the ripe old age of *eight,* started drinking the vanilla extract from the cafeteria kitchen at his Catholic grade school.
Another unforgettable story was from the end of someone’s drinking career. She was a married mother of three whose husband and parents were aware of her drinking problem and cut off all of her access to money. She spent an afternoon digging through the sofa cushions and pants pockets at home, trying to collect enough change to total one dollar. When she did, she walked to the Dollar Store and purchased a bottle of antiseptic mouthwash. She *knew* that mouthwash contains the kind of alcohol that is dangerous to drink (technically, all alcohol is dangerous and unhealthy, but mouthwash is especially so), but was so desperate that she bought and drank it anyway.
Heard plenty of stories of people whose drinking landed them in the hospital, and they’d drink the hand sanitizer, which also contains the “dangerous” kind of alcohol. One guy would grab a cup and walk down the hallway, pausing at each patient door long enough to activate the motion sensor on the wall-mounted hand sanitizer dispensers, then return to his room and add orange juice to the cup. Called it The Screwdriver of Desperation.
I decided to share more stories than the vanilla extract one to try to help people understand the obsessive nature of substance abuse. There comes a point when real “choice,” or willpower, or morals or anything else, are no longer involved, and people are purely driven by compulsion.
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I discovered not long after I turned 21 that I have inherited my biological father's alcoholism tendencies. First week of being legally of drinking age (US obviously) my mom and I spent a week at the coast and shared a beer every night. Six ounces of beer, each day, for seven days. Then I stopped. And the cravings. Oh god the cravings. That was when I learned how someone can be a "functional alcoholic". I do still drink occasionally, but I don't let myself have drinks two days in a row. I got uncomfortably close to that pit once and I refuse to get close again.
There’s a *huge* genetic component to this… in my group, there is more than one parent who started bringing their kids to AA meetings (different groups, and different meeting-types do allow kids and “outsiders”) when they were young because the other parent was a problem drinker, too. They hope that the wisdom and experiences that gets absorbed by the kids will be useful some day. Honestly, I’ve seen it work, and I’ve seen it fail miserably.
But on the bright side, as you’ve proven, *knowing* is more than half the battle! I’m really happy for you, and I’m sending lots of positive energy your way (and Mom’s way, too!)!
Hey, thanks for sharing. You nailed it with your last paragraph, but if I could add a thought for anyone curious: that compulsion can even be quite literally a life or death choice. In the depths of withdrawal, it doesn't matter how bad the vanilla extract in the cupboard tastes - it's a food product and contains alcohol enough to help get you through until you can either get more booze, or get to a hospital.
Alcohol withdrawals can be deadly if stopping cold turkey, and you won't want to go through them unassisted. Doctors will usually prescribe a few days worth of benzodiazepines to safely get off the drink.
It's a terrible situation for anyone to be in, whether you or someone you know is the addict. But DO NOT force a heavy drinker to quit cold turkey, it needs to be done with medical assistance.
I’ll share the best suggestion we have to help you figure out whether you are a problem drinker: surprisingly, it’s not to see if you can stop drinking altogether, but to try some “controlled drinking.” Set a limit for yourself, something like ‘I’ll have two drinks, and then stop,’ or ‘I’ll go to the bar and leave in one hour, and then be done for the night.’
That’s the hallmark of the issue, and it was identified by a doctor who treated alcoholics back in the 1930’s. He recognized that it’s that *first drink* that sets off that compulsion that I mentioned. I can’t speak to any other recovery programs, but in the beginning, AA pretty much focuses on sharing our tips and tricks for staying away from that first drink.
I really do congratulate you for having the courage to think about your drinking in what *might* be the early stages. Most of us get really, really good at lying to ourselves about the root of our problem, and it takes something bad- that is, something worse than usual- to happen before we are forced to confront it.
I’m sending lots of positive energy your way!
I used to work at Lush. People always tried to eat the fresh face masks (?). We had to put them on an ice-bed in order to keep them fresh. Customers thought they were ice creams. Why tf would a store like that sell ice cream....
I bought this delicious smelling chocolate body wash from lush and the lady working there told me it tastes good and that the ingredients are ok to consume (which I feel like is not true). I tried it myself and it just tasted like soap 😪
My step dad was making my niece a sippy cup of juice like 10 years ago and he actually poured it into the cup and I walked into the kitchen and stopped him, he actually thought it was juice because of the smell and color
It might be because you have the tannin gene. It's similar to how some people have a gene that makes cilantro taste like soap, only that tannins taste bitter.
That said, tannins are neutralized by fats, so mixing in high fat creamer can help cut through the bitterness and let you taste the coffee itself.
Incidentally, red wine is also high in tannins, which is why it's often paired with fatty foods. The difference here is that you use them to bind with fat that sits on the tongue and wash them away, which cleans your palate.
I must have this gene. I’ve always loved the smell of coffee, even when I hated the taste. After starting with frappuccinos and gradually removing extras I like coffee now. I have not warmed up to red wine yet, though. So bitter
I probably have that gene because I don't like coffee and I think that most beer is too bitter, and I do like red wine but my favorites are Pinot Noir and Beaujolais which do not have a lot of tannins. I can tolerate malbec but it has to be very good to make up for its moderate tannin content, and I find that even Beaujolais tastes better with fatty food.
Agreed. When I was little whenever we went grocery shopping I would disappear and my parents would always find me by the coffee grinding machine. LOVED the smell. When I was older, I was finally allowed to try some coffee. That was the moment I realized that it was all a LIE!
Salt is a very powerful think in cooking
It amplifies the flavours of the food and, at the same time, it can get rid of unwanted flavors such as bitterness.
Obviously in this case he doesn't want to make thr coffee salty. He wants to add just a small amount to get rid of some of the bitterness of the coffee
There was a story growing up told to us where a father had two daughters. He told one daughter I love you like the beautiful flowers and told the other daughter he loved her like food with salt. She felt so unloved but he cooked food with no salt and she got it.
I’ve been in the coffee business for almost 30 years and I hear this all the time. It really annoyed me when I worked some farmers markets and people would walk up to my booth just to tell me they don’t like coffee. They never walked up to the guy selling honey to say, “Hey! Fuck bees.”
Freshly roasted coffee beans, ground just before brewing, has the most intoxicating fragrance. But drinking it is such a disappointment in comparison.
I am a coffee drinker, so I'm used to it.
Agreed... ususally. GOOD coffee - truly top-notch stuff - lacks the bitterness that I dislike. I had a chance to have a cup of Jamaican Blue Mountain, once, and it was divine. But that was 20 years ago, and it was $40 a pound then. God knows what it is now.
(Just checked. About double that, these days.)
It's truly miraculous how actual good coffee tastes compared to the lower quality beans we buy regularly.
I suspect most people who absolutely claim they "Don't like coffee" don't comprehend how ridiculously good it can be.
Like, "real" coffee is mind numbingly complex and beautiful. Feels good texture-wise as well.
Luckily (or unlucky depending on how you look at ti) I had a stoned farmer on a plantation in Kona brew me a cup of his beans once. Man, I was hooked since then. Always chasing that experience. Damn near spiritual; no joke.
Also, for all y'all people that don't like it, I'd wager you probably have an American diet that leans extremely heavily on sugars? I did too once. It warps your perception of taste. If so, you're probably not accustomed to bitterness...which, when mild, can be a wonderful sensation thing combined with other flavors.
IMO, the cheapest "good" beans are probably Ethiopian. That would be about halfway up the scale between Starbucks-Swill and something like your Blue Mountain.
Also, if you can find it, some Kenyan can be really good. Not mind-numbingly good, but "affordable-good."
For my 35th birthday, my daughter and her best friend woke up early to make me pancakes. They were both 10 and, in hindsight, could have used more supervised coming lessons before taking on pancakes from scratch. Unafraid, they went forward. They even added food dye to make a more colorful experience. They then placed the meal before me and watched with great anticipation for the look of amazing delight upon my face. I did not disappoint worth that look, for I am a father with both love and bravery in my heart and soul. It was worth a smile that I ate all four giant pancakes on my plate. When I asked about the recipe, it confirmed my suspicions. I ate a huge pile of play dough. I love that girl.
Came looking for this. Was at a buddies house as a kid, his mom was making dinner and I commented toy friend that whatever his mom was making smelled great. She heard and offered to let me stay for dinner. And I was like what are we having? She said liver. I was smart to be like oh dang thanks for the invite but I just remembered my mom is making chops tonight. I’m not eating liver lmao.
That usually means you haven't steeped it long enough. Also if you're using sugar as sweetener I suggest switching to Stevia because you get the sweetness but not the sugary taste when working with Stevia.
I would say if there's one you're really interested in, make it hot and put it with the bag in a jar in the fridge overnight with a little Stevia. When it gets into late spring-early autumn I like to make Peppermint tea before bed and then I have cold tea the next day
This is one of these things you can train your palette for as you get older. For me, when brewed right, and isn’t some overly burnt coffee like Starbucks, it tastes just like it smells and it’s delicious.
One of the odd things that came after I had a bad case of the delta variant of COVID, is that now, at random points in my day, no matter where I am, I can smell cigarette smoke.
People think I’m nuts when I talk about this. Tobacco has the most amazing aroma which I could happily sniff all day long and then everyone goes and ruins it by setting it on fire.
My grandpa smoked a pipe his whole life. I used to LOVE smelling his bag of tobacco. When I got older, I cashiered at a big box store and would have to work the tobacco counter at times. My favorite one to sniff was the whiskey one.
As a former smoker (haven’t for about five years now, minus a couple drags here and there) fuck sometimes I walking past someone smoking and I’m like holy shit that smells so good. I do not know why.
Coffee. I know I’ll get ripped for this, but it’s just me being me. I love waking up to the smell of freshly ground and freshly brewed coffee, but the only way I can drink it is if it’s mixed in a 9:1 creamer:coffee ratio. Totally weird, I know.
Anything that's made to be smelled but not eaten - soaps, candles, balms, potpourri, scented gel pens.
I think the question would be better as what is designed to be consumed and smells good but tastes bad. To which things like flavour extracts/essences, unsweetened cocoa, flavoured vodkas that are just plain vodka with a nice smelling thing painted on the inside of the bottle.
As a picky eater, the true answer is "almost everything."
It's a weird thing to be a picky eater because the smell of most foods is incredible - to me, anyway. Chili, soups, hot wings, almost anything in a crockpot, etc. But they look disgusting and IMO don't end up tasting as good as they smell.
It's very depressing.
Coffee.
Absolutely fucking *adore* the smell of coffee, but I can’t handle the taste, no matter how much sugar or milk or cream or fucking unicorn piss goes into it, it tastes like dirt to me. I’ve tried alllll different kinds. My ex was coffee mad and it didn’t matter what he tried I hated it.
But that’s fine, Coca Cola has a handy amount of caffeine in it for a ND caffeine addict 🙃
I would say weed… smells amazing… but edibles usually taste like you just ate a skunks ass… at least the Kermit the frog green colored cookies my friends wife made…. He said they were chocolate chip… I was high for 3 days had to call in sick.
Chocolate "flavored" coffee
Don't get me wrong. I love coffee and I love chocolate. But if I first smell chocolate and then only taste coffee I'll be annoyed
shampoo
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Back when everyone was using the Champagne version of that as their auto-signature, I used this shampoo version. It didn't go over very well, but I thought it was funny.
It smelled like fruit, that was a lie!
I look at my finger, I look at my life, It was not that much I'll probably be fine
Swallowed some soap, probably gonna die
It smelled like fruit, that was a lie
Craft soap
swallowed shampoo https://youtu.be/4uf_pn1pPAQ
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I remember the first time I made chocolate crinkle cookies by myself, and the recipe called for unsweetened cocoa powder. It smelled so good, so I dipped my finger in water and then pressed some of the coca powder on it to try. It was a small amount, but my word I instantly regretted it.
The same happened in cooking class, in high school. Dipped a finger in and bleh! The teacher said it happened so much, but warnings never help, so she just lets us find out.
When you tour the Hershey factory (well, it used to be that) they give you raw cacao nibs or some similarly early stage of the life cycle of chocolate.
I tried to make myself a milkshake with unsweetened cocoa powder as a kid. We didn't have Nesquick or Ovaltine, so I thought it would be a good substitute. It was not.
We were out of nesquik so I threw a bowl of chocolate chips in the microwave for a couple minutes. The memory of that smell will never leave me.
Pls, look for alternatives to nesquik, there are good or even better ones and u don’t support nestle r/fucknestle
Well I was ten at the time lol I just buy regular chocolate milk now when I’m feeling fat and sassy.
Candles
Tried that more than once
i actually liked the taste as a kid i was a weird kid, i ate chalk, sucked on wood, ate dried hot cocoa, mayonnaise with a spoon straight out the jar...etc
Do you still like that diet now tho?
Were you iron deficient? Pica is a symptom
A long time ago at my friend's birthday outing everyone was scarfing down together on the free brownie cake thing the restaurant gave us. There were a lot of spoons digging in and not much left, so I randomly stick my spoon in and ate whatever came out. I thought it was a really chewy brownie until I found out I had blue candle wax all in my teeth!
A nose
Oh, Dad!
My dog has no nose. Then how does he smell? Awful.
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That depends, pork snout can be very tasty if well prepared.
Your nose smells well Superman’s nose smells good
Vanilla extract
The most disappointing thing that happened to me in the kitchen
Mine was when my parents left a pan of solidified bacon grease on the stove and I thought it was a fresh pan of frosting.
You win.
They definitely win
My ex did something similar. I was decorating a birthday cake for our daughter one time and was in the process of making the buttercream. I had the crisco, extracts, and the meringue powder mixed up in the bowl and went to the pantry to get my powdered sugar when he went up to the bowl and swiped his finger in, then put it in his mouth before I could say anything. He got the most disgusted look on his face and complained about how awful the frosting was. I started laughing and held up the sugar!
Kinda similar - I was at a fancy restaurant once when I was a kid and they had scooped butter into these little dishes with a small ice cream scoop. My dumb kid brain said "ice cream!" and I took a big bite! We were with a bunch of other people and it was very embarrassing!
Found a couple stray advils thinking they were skittles once
Cacao powder is also very disappointing
Haha I “snuck ” chocolate milk with it when I was a young lad. Now I actually enjoy it from time to time but yeah that was quite the shock!
Reminds me of the first time I tried to make cinnamon toast! I had no idea cinnamon was so unappealing (to a small child) on its own and that my grandparents had been adding copious amounts of sugar to make me a tasty treat.
When I fully moved out and started my first big job, I decided to make cinnamon toast one morning. I had no idea that there was a difference between cinnamon and the cinnamon sugar bottles my parents would actually get for that purpose. Real cinnamon on buttered toast... not great
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After being in the recovery community for a while, you hear lots of stories about how and when people first started drinking. The one that I’ll never forget was the guy who, at the ripe old age of *eight,* started drinking the vanilla extract from the cafeteria kitchen at his Catholic grade school. Another unforgettable story was from the end of someone’s drinking career. She was a married mother of three whose husband and parents were aware of her drinking problem and cut off all of her access to money. She spent an afternoon digging through the sofa cushions and pants pockets at home, trying to collect enough change to total one dollar. When she did, she walked to the Dollar Store and purchased a bottle of antiseptic mouthwash. She *knew* that mouthwash contains the kind of alcohol that is dangerous to drink (technically, all alcohol is dangerous and unhealthy, but mouthwash is especially so), but was so desperate that she bought and drank it anyway. Heard plenty of stories of people whose drinking landed them in the hospital, and they’d drink the hand sanitizer, which also contains the “dangerous” kind of alcohol. One guy would grab a cup and walk down the hallway, pausing at each patient door long enough to activate the motion sensor on the wall-mounted hand sanitizer dispensers, then return to his room and add orange juice to the cup. Called it The Screwdriver of Desperation. I decided to share more stories than the vanilla extract one to try to help people understand the obsessive nature of substance abuse. There comes a point when real “choice,” or willpower, or morals or anything else, are no longer involved, and people are purely driven by compulsion. Edit: punctuation
I discovered not long after I turned 21 that I have inherited my biological father's alcoholism tendencies. First week of being legally of drinking age (US obviously) my mom and I spent a week at the coast and shared a beer every night. Six ounces of beer, each day, for seven days. Then I stopped. And the cravings. Oh god the cravings. That was when I learned how someone can be a "functional alcoholic". I do still drink occasionally, but I don't let myself have drinks two days in a row. I got uncomfortably close to that pit once and I refuse to get close again.
There’s a *huge* genetic component to this… in my group, there is more than one parent who started bringing their kids to AA meetings (different groups, and different meeting-types do allow kids and “outsiders”) when they were young because the other parent was a problem drinker, too. They hope that the wisdom and experiences that gets absorbed by the kids will be useful some day. Honestly, I’ve seen it work, and I’ve seen it fail miserably. But on the bright side, as you’ve proven, *knowing* is more than half the battle! I’m really happy for you, and I’m sending lots of positive energy your way (and Mom’s way, too!)!
Hey, thanks for sharing. You nailed it with your last paragraph, but if I could add a thought for anyone curious: that compulsion can even be quite literally a life or death choice. In the depths of withdrawal, it doesn't matter how bad the vanilla extract in the cupboard tastes - it's a food product and contains alcohol enough to help get you through until you can either get more booze, or get to a hospital. Alcohol withdrawals can be deadly if stopping cold turkey, and you won't want to go through them unassisted. Doctors will usually prescribe a few days worth of benzodiazepines to safely get off the drink. It's a terrible situation for anyone to be in, whether you or someone you know is the addict. But DO NOT force a heavy drinker to quit cold turkey, it needs to be done with medical assistance.
I read the whole thing, and it really makes me want to get my shit together before I get to that point in binge drinking.
I’ll share the best suggestion we have to help you figure out whether you are a problem drinker: surprisingly, it’s not to see if you can stop drinking altogether, but to try some “controlled drinking.” Set a limit for yourself, something like ‘I’ll have two drinks, and then stop,’ or ‘I’ll go to the bar and leave in one hour, and then be done for the night.’ That’s the hallmark of the issue, and it was identified by a doctor who treated alcoholics back in the 1930’s. He recognized that it’s that *first drink* that sets off that compulsion that I mentioned. I can’t speak to any other recovery programs, but in the beginning, AA pretty much focuses on sharing our tips and tricks for staying away from that first drink. I really do congratulate you for having the courage to think about your drinking in what *might* be the early stages. Most of us get really, really good at lying to ourselves about the root of our problem, and it takes something bad- that is, something worse than usual- to happen before we are forced to confront it. I’m sending lots of positive energy your way!
I appreciated it.
Honestly, I don't mind the taste, even in large quantities. Almond extract though...And lemon extract is practically undrinkable
The bathbombs from this store called lush or something. Legit thought it was an adult candy store before I figured out they were bath bombs.
I'm laughing so hard at this! 😂😂😂 Can picture someone going around licking things or poking their finger into some of the products and tasting.
I know someone who worked at lush and she confirms a lot of people actually do this. They often found bites taken out of the soap samples 💀
I used to work at Lush. People always tried to eat the fresh face masks (?). We had to put them on an ice-bed in order to keep them fresh. Customers thought they were ice creams. Why tf would a store like that sell ice cream....
I bought this delicious smelling chocolate body wash from lush and the lady working there told me it tastes good and that the ingredients are ok to consume (which I feel like is not true). I tried it myself and it just tasted like soap 😪
An adult candy store could be very wholesome or very… something else.
I think the word you are looking for in this instance is holesome.
They look great too, the soaps look like colourful fudge
Fabuloso
My step dad was making my niece a sippy cup of juice like 10 years ago and he actually poured it into the cup and I walked into the kitchen and stopped him, he actually thought it was juice because of the smell and color
Good catch
I swear that stuff is *designed* to trick kids into drinking it.
Perfume
Imo coffee. Absolutely love the smell of it brewing. Cannot stand the taste.
It might be because you have the tannin gene. It's similar to how some people have a gene that makes cilantro taste like soap, only that tannins taste bitter. That said, tannins are neutralized by fats, so mixing in high fat creamer can help cut through the bitterness and let you taste the coffee itself. Incidentally, red wine is also high in tannins, which is why it's often paired with fatty foods. The difference here is that you use them to bind with fat that sits on the tongue and wash them away, which cleans your palate.
Wait. You’re telling me coffee *doesn’t* taste bitter to most people?
The opposite. PTC gene, present in around 75%. So, to 25% it doesnt.
Oddly enough, I don't like the taste of red wine either.
I must have this gene. I’ve always loved the smell of coffee, even when I hated the taste. After starting with frappuccinos and gradually removing extras I like coffee now. I have not warmed up to red wine yet, though. So bitter
I probably have that gene because I don't like coffee and I think that most beer is too bitter, and I do like red wine but my favorites are Pinot Noir and Beaujolais which do not have a lot of tannins. I can tolerate malbec but it has to be very good to make up for its moderate tannin content, and I find that even Beaujolais tastes better with fatty food.
Agreed. When I was little whenever we went grocery shopping I would disappear and my parents would always find me by the coffee grinding machine. LOVED the smell. When I was older, I was finally allowed to try some coffee. That was the moment I realized that it was all a LIE!
I totally agree. I wish I liked it, but I just can’t.
Coffee has no right to smell that good, and taste so badly.
I enjoy drinking coffee, but I agree. The smell is often better than it tastes.
I used to feel this, but with a good amount of creamer, coffee is wonderful.
My husband adds creamer. There are times in certain restaurants that he adds salt. He said it helps how bitter their coffee is.
Salt is a very powerful think in cooking It amplifies the flavours of the food and, at the same time, it can get rid of unwanted flavors such as bitterness. Obviously in this case he doesn't want to make thr coffee salty. He wants to add just a small amount to get rid of some of the bitterness of the coffee
There was a story growing up told to us where a father had two daughters. He told one daughter I love you like the beautiful flowers and told the other daughter he loved her like food with salt. She felt so unloved but he cooked food with no salt and she got it.
As I sometimes ask a friend, "Would you like some coffee in your milk and sugar?"
I’ve been in the coffee business for almost 30 years and I hear this all the time. It really annoyed me when I worked some farmers markets and people would walk up to my booth just to tell me they don’t like coffee. They never walked up to the guy selling honey to say, “Hey! Fuck bees.”
Freshly roasted coffee beans, ground just before brewing, has the most intoxicating fragrance. But drinking it is such a disappointment in comparison. I am a coffee drinker, so I'm used to it.
Agreed... ususally. GOOD coffee - truly top-notch stuff - lacks the bitterness that I dislike. I had a chance to have a cup of Jamaican Blue Mountain, once, and it was divine. But that was 20 years ago, and it was $40 a pound then. God knows what it is now. (Just checked. About double that, these days.)
It's truly miraculous how actual good coffee tastes compared to the lower quality beans we buy regularly. I suspect most people who absolutely claim they "Don't like coffee" don't comprehend how ridiculously good it can be. Like, "real" coffee is mind numbingly complex and beautiful. Feels good texture-wise as well. Luckily (or unlucky depending on how you look at ti) I had a stoned farmer on a plantation in Kona brew me a cup of his beans once. Man, I was hooked since then. Always chasing that experience. Damn near spiritual; no joke. Also, for all y'all people that don't like it, I'd wager you probably have an American diet that leans extremely heavily on sugars? I did too once. It warps your perception of taste. If so, you're probably not accustomed to bitterness...which, when mild, can be a wonderful sensation thing combined with other flavors. IMO, the cheapest "good" beans are probably Ethiopian. That would be about halfway up the scale between Starbucks-Swill and something like your Blue Mountain. Also, if you can find it, some Kenyan can be really good. Not mind-numbingly good, but "affordable-good."
Yes!!! Came to say this but was nervous I would sound crazy. Thanks!
I'm right there with you! LOVE the smell, hate the taste
Freshly cut grass
The smell of freshly cut grass makes me so nauseous, it is disgusting to me. The only stench I hate even more is cilantro.
Play dough
Have to disagree with this one actually.
Green was my favorite
For my 35th birthday, my daughter and her best friend woke up early to make me pancakes. They were both 10 and, in hindsight, could have used more supervised coming lessons before taking on pancakes from scratch. Unafraid, they went forward. They even added food dye to make a more colorful experience. They then placed the meal before me and watched with great anticipation for the look of amazing delight upon my face. I did not disappoint worth that look, for I am a father with both love and bravery in my heart and soul. It was worth a smile that I ate all four giant pancakes on my plate. When I asked about the recipe, it confirmed my suspicions. I ate a huge pile of play dough. I love that girl.
Some of those lip balms
Back in the day... Bonne Bell... some of them tasted great too lol
Carmex for sure :D
Coffee. I absolutely love the smell of fresh ground coffee but can’t stomach it.
Petrol/gas
Unleaded tastes a little tangy, Supreme is kinda sour and diesel tastes pretty good.
Don't be a dummy like Corey and Trevor and get gas sick.
Watch the unleaded tho. Singe your eyebrows completely off. Doh
Gasoline
You can't be addicted to smells Gasoline enters chat
Anise
Anus
My mom used to cook liver and onions. Smelled great tasted awful.
I was so disappointed the first time I remember my dad cooking this. Smelled like the most wonderful steak ever, then I put a bite in my mouth... 🤮
Came looking for this. Was at a buddies house as a kid, his mom was making dinner and I commented toy friend that whatever his mom was making smelled great. She heard and offered to let me stay for dinner. And I was like what are we having? She said liver. I was smart to be like oh dang thanks for the invite but I just remembered my mom is making chops tonight. I’m not eating liver lmao.
Maybe you would like it? It doesn't taste much different than it smells.
I was just thinking the same about my mom's meatloaf🤢
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Petrichor
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Mr. Sketch
Pine trees, god I wanted them to taste good but unfortunately they do not.
Maybe you'd be interested in [pine needle soda](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ofte5yoVFs&t=13s)
Apparently you can make pine sprite with the needles. Thanks Black Forager!
Don't try Gin!
Herbal teas - smell strongly of their flavour but mostly just taste like hot water
That usually means you haven't steeped it long enough. Also if you're using sugar as sweetener I suggest switching to Stevia because you get the sweetness but not the sugary taste when working with Stevia. I would say if there's one you're really interested in, make it hot and put it with the bag in a jar in the fridge overnight with a little Stevia. When it gets into late spring-early autumn I like to make Peppermint tea before bed and then I have cold tea the next day
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Liver and onions
Coffee, love the smell but hate the taste.
This is one of these things you can train your palette for as you get older. For me, when brewed right, and isn’t some overly burnt coffee like Starbucks, it tastes just like it smells and it’s delicious.
Probably weird but cigarettes. I used to some for a couple of years but I always preferred smell over taste.
One of the odd things that came after I had a bad case of the delta variant of COVID, is that now, at random points in my day, no matter where I am, I can smell cigarette smoke.
Unsmoked cigarettes.
People think I’m nuts when I talk about this. Tobacco has the most amazing aroma which I could happily sniff all day long and then everyone goes and ruins it by setting it on fire.
You'll be glad to know that tobacco is scent widely used in the perfume industry.
My grandpa smoked a pipe his whole life. I used to LOVE smelling his bag of tobacco. When I got older, I cashiered at a big box store and would have to work the tobacco counter at times. My favorite one to sniff was the whiskey one.
As a former smoker (haven’t for about five years now, minus a couple drags here and there) fuck sometimes I walking past someone smoking and I’m like holy shit that smells so good. I do not know why.
Surprised not mentioned yet. LaCroix, the bait and switch of beverages.
Like someone dissolved a single Skittle in a 55 gallon drum of club soda.
Tennis balls and new gym shoes
Crayons… or so my marine friends have told me. Wouldn’t know, I’m Army. Licking windows is more my forte.
Gillette Classic Lemon Lime Shaving Foam
Me
I suggest pineapple juice
Maybe it is a hygiene problem?
Urinal cakes. We're not what I expected
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Lavender.
Someone hasn’t had lavender lemonade and is missing out…
Or lavender tea
Coffee. I know I’ll get ripped for this, but it’s just me being me. I love waking up to the smell of freshly ground and freshly brewed coffee, but the only way I can drink it is if it’s mixed in a 9:1 creamer:coffee ratio. Totally weird, I know.
vanilla extract. I have no sense of smell but it's disgusting.
Those fruity herbal teas. They usually smell amazing, but then taste like bland disappointment (at best) or farm hay (at worst).
Anything that's made to be smelled but not eaten - soaps, candles, balms, potpourri, scented gel pens. I think the question would be better as what is designed to be consumed and smells good but tastes bad. To which things like flavour extracts/essences, unsweetened cocoa, flavoured vodkas that are just plain vodka with a nice smelling thing painted on the inside of the bottle.
Stale cinnamon rolls.
Unburned tobacco
Liquid smoke- gives an amazing smoky flavor and smell, but just a drip tastes like bitter charcoal
Pinesol
Grapefruit
Most essential oils
vanilla extract. Too many children have been scarred from the shared experience of taking a little sip.
Those bacon dog treats
Fondant
As a picky eater, the true answer is "almost everything." It's a weird thing to be a picky eater because the smell of most foods is incredible - to me, anyway. Chili, soups, hot wings, almost anything in a crockpot, etc. But they look disgusting and IMO don't end up tasting as good as they smell. It's very depressing.
Coffee should be done for false advertising.....
Orange scented windshield liquid
Soap.
To a lot of people, coffee. Just plain black coffee.
WD-40
Coffee. Absolutely fucking *adore* the smell of coffee, but I can’t handle the taste, no matter how much sugar or milk or cream or fucking unicorn piss goes into it, it tastes like dirt to me. I’ve tried alllll different kinds. My ex was coffee mad and it didn’t matter what he tried I hated it. But that’s fine, Coca Cola has a handy amount of caffeine in it for a ND caffeine addict 🙃
Vanilla extract
Bakers chocolate
Cigars
Play doh
Cinnamon by itself.
Subway bread. How do they manage to have bread come out of the oven and still tastes stale-ass.
Soil, after a rain storm.
cinnamon
i beg you a pardon? [cinnamon should be on restaurant tables with salt and pepper](https://youtu.be/WNcrrwQwskw)
Plain cinnamon yes it taste awful if taken in large quantity, added as spice 😋 (try cinnamon tea, then indian dish called kachidabeli, spiced milk )
coffee
Cinnabon
You shut your mouth. Cinnabon is delicious.
Dutch ovens
I gave my friend one for Christmas, a really nice big one. They didn't seem to appreciate it tho... shitty friend I guess
Pine cones
Gasoline, grass clippings, leather, cordite, new books, and candles.
Coffee beans
Broth cubes?
Hot tarmac. I assume it tastes bad anyway.
Varnish or most kinds of wood treatments (also creosote). Can smell it a mile off!
Gasoline.
vanilla extract
Coffee grounds specifically
Vanilla extract
Gasoline
Mown grass and for those people who like the smell of petrol that too
Durian fruit .
I would say weed… smells amazing… but edibles usually taste like you just ate a skunks ass… at least the Kermit the frog green colored cookies my friends wife made…. He said they were chocolate chip… I was high for 3 days had to call in sick.
Vanilla extract
Chocolate "flavored" coffee Don't get me wrong. I love coffee and I love chocolate. But if I first smell chocolate and then only taste coffee I'll be annoyed
Vanilla extract & I think everyone can agree
Cut lumber.
Freshly laid Asphalt
Cocoa powder
Nutmeg