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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.

Cilantro toothpaste. I like the other flavours this company has but this one is awful.

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 :-(

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.

Old bay flavored beer. I mean, crabs with beer tastes good, so how bad could it be? Very.

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.

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.

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.

I didn't actually try an of these. Found them in a random store near the beach in Florida

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.

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.

basil ice-cream at Wagamamas it was gross

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!"

I've had a few of the Jones Soda holiday packs, where they would make the tastes of various winter holidays into sodas. Cranberry sauce soda was ok. Turkey soda, not so much. However, the worst was Christmas Garland, which tasted like Pine-sol.

Grilled cheese and tomato soup flavored cheese curls. It was pretty spot on.

Marshmallow and chips. Dry they were okay, I could separate the flavours, but with gravy added the flavour of the marshmallows mixed in with the gravy and chips and the whole lot tasted horrible.

A few years ago Brachs candy I think it was made Thanksgiving dinner flavored Candy Corn. They had turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce, greenbean, apple pie, and gravy candy corns mixed in a bag. The cranberry apple pie were great but the stuffing tasted like vomit. Everything else was just meh. I never bought a bag again.

A lot of the recent Coca-Cola flavors like the space one have been weird as fuck and sit in a vague middle point between "okay" and "absolutely disgusting." And I mean that in a way that has you questioning whether it's alright or gross.

One of those Harry Potter jelly beans that tastes like snot.

This might not seem weird to many buy as a north american I had never encountered anything like it.

Shiso spice on rice.

It was a completely foreign flavor to me; like nothing I'd ever tasted before. Not a single thing in the north american diet is remotely close to what it tastes like. I saw there awestruck for a moment.

Its incredible. I was instantly hooked.

Tuna melt with peanut butter. It was really good and I've never had it again.

I used to work at Starbucks and we'd make weird shit out of curiosity. The best one was uncut cold brew coffee and their strawberry refresher base. Uncut cold brew and lemonade wasn't terrible but way too acidic for my liking.

I had a Spicy Maine root soda last night. It was truly awful.

Thing with the weirdest flavor, or flavor of the weirdest thing?

Thing with the weirdest flavor: Durian. Fucking gross. Ate it by accident (was in a dish I ordered). It tasted exactly like papaya or mango soaked in mop bucket water for 2 days.

Flavor of the weirdest thing: Probably Escargot. That was garlic and snail flavored.

Stinky tofu. Smelled like literal shit, tasted like literal shit.

Not so weird to me or most Cubans, but prolly to the rest of the world: malta with a spoonful or two of sweetened and condensed milk. Pour the malta into a glass, then add the milk and stir until evenly mixed. Drink. If you're not used to the flavor of malta, this combo may be too much to start off with.

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Garlic ice cream?

Oyster flavored ice cream. First surprise was that it actually tasted like oysters, second was that it was actually good as a ice cream. I wouldn't mix it with more "normal" flavors though

Beer flavored peanuts. It tasted like a beer burp. It was, different...

Smash! It's bugel chips coated in chocolate. Very good, but i can't by it cause I'd eat the whole bag and get sick.